Innovation

Innovation in its modern meaning is "a new idea, creative thoughts, new imaginations in form of device or method". Innovation is often also viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, or existing market needs.

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Restaurants Race To Offer Most Efficient AI Drive-Thru Experience

Restaurants Race To Offer Most Efficient AI Drive-Thru Experience
Restaurants Race To Offer Most Efficient AI Drive-Thru Experience
June 14, 2021  |  ResTech

The automated drive-thru competition is heating up. McDonald’s recently revealed that it is trying out automated order-taking technologies at 10 drive-thru restaurants in Chicago. Customers...

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Future Apple Watches Could Monitor Body Temp, Blood Sugar
Future Apple Watches Could Monitor Body Temp, Blood Sugar
June 14, 2021  |  Apple

Apple is at work on future enhancements to the Apple Watch, including faster speeds and sensors to monitor body temperature and blood sugar, plus a...

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Virtual Pop Stars Drive $35 Billion Industry In China
Virtual Pop Stars Drive $35 Billion Industry In China
June 13, 2021  |  International

Virtual pop stars are a rising trend in the music business and have been raking in tens of billions in terms of funding, Bloomberg writes....

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Automated Underwriting Gives PayFacs, PSPs Competitive Leg Up
Automated Underwriting Gives PayFacs, PSPs Competitive Leg Up
June 11, 2021  |  Payments Innovation

Anyone who remembers the cover art from the film “The Perfect Storm” recalls a vast wave looming over a small fishing boat. That’s the image...

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Mexican Digital Payment Platform Clip Raises $250 Million
Mexican Digital Payment Platform Clip Raises $250 Million
June 10, 2021  |  Investments

Payments FinTech Clip, based in Mexico, has received $250 million from the SoftBank Latin America Fund as well as Viking Global Investors, according to a...

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Bank Branches Need To Be More Like Apple Stores
Bank Branches Need To Be More Like Apple Stores
June 10, 2021  |  Digital-First Banking

The pandemic that changed everything is probably the essential truism of the year 2021, a change that can largely be summed up with a single...

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NEW DATA: Bank-Powered Loyalty Programs Could Help US Main Street Businesses Win 139M Customers
NEW DATA: Bank-Powered Loyalty Programs Could Help US Main Street Businesses Win 139M Customers
June 10, 2021  |  SMBs

Small businesses may be the backbone of the United States economy, but one might not know it from looking at U.S. consumers’ shopping habits. Get...

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PYMNTS Data Brief: 88 Pct Of SMBs Innovated For Pandemic — And Many Are Continuing
PYMNTS Data Brief: 88 Pct Of SMBs Innovated For Pandemic — And Many Are Continuing
June 09, 2021  |  Innovation

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) took a beating from the pandemic, and things admittedly looked grim on Main Street in 2020. With COVID now in...

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Attentive Acquires Conversational B2C Text Messaging Firm Tone
Attentive Acquires Conversational B2C Text Messaging Firm Tone
June 09, 2021  |  Retail

Fresh on the heels of its $470 million March fundraise, text messaging startup Attentive announced on Wednesday (June 9) that it is acquiring Boston-based Tone,...

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