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2.7KAmazonAmazon To Create 800 New Jobs At Austin Tech Hub
Amazon announced on Thursday (March 28) that it is expanding its Austin Tech Hub, and will be creating 800 new tech jobs....
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3.3KRetailRetail Puts On Its Own Show At Coachella
Summer is coming, and that means more than just baseball (happy Opening Day!). It also means big outdoor music festivals – and...
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3.0KRetailKiosks Flourish In International Markets
Kiosks are gaining more power in retail, especially as it becomes ever more obvious that consumers are not quite ready to cut...
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3.3KRetailHow An eCommerce Interior Design Platform Furnished A DTC Brand
After styling rooms based on the tastes of their customers, online interior design platforms are branching out by offering their own direct-to-consumer...
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1.9KRetailFashionPass And Wardrobe Rentals Tailored To Influencers
With the successful launch of Rent the Runway in 2009, there have been many variations of fashion-on-demand rental services. Le Tote and...
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3.2KRetail7-Eleven Showcases Innovations In New Dallas Store
With a recently opened “lab store” in Dallas, 7-Eleven is allowing customers to test out and purchase the newest innovations from the...
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2.5KRetailGameStop Makes eSports Push
Amid efforts for reinvention in a changing environment for retail, GameStop is making a push for eSports. The moves include partnerships with...
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3.2KRetailCasper Sleep Raises $100M For Unicorn Status
Online mattress retailer Casper Sleep has joined the unicorn club after raising $100 million in funding at a $1.1 billion valuation. According...
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3.0KRetailWalgreens To Sell CBD Products In Select States
Walgreens has announced it will sell CBD products at nearly 1,500 of its stores in select states, including Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Kentucky,...
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3.6KAmazonAmazon Opens Coachella Shop With On-Site Delivery
Amazon has opened a curated store for the 2019 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the company said in a press release....
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3.5KRetailWhy Grayson Is Trying Fashion’s First-Ever DTC-Wholesale Hybrid
A good button-down shirt can be hard to find. A classic for well over a century among female shoppers, the versatile, desirable...
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3.0KToday In DataSubscribing To The Subscription Model
Across the pond, and here, too, subscriptions are big business – to the tune of one billion pounds. The model helps keep the...
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3.3KRetailWhy Restaurants Are All In On Kiosks, AI Tech
To present brands that allow them to stand out from retail competitors, merchants in the hospitality space are turning to innovations. The...
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2.7KRetailHow A Subscription Coffee eTailer Wants To Save The Planet
Eco-conscious companies are looking to combine the convenience of single-serve coffee with the quality of a specialty brew with teabag-like packaging available...
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2.8KRetailWayfair To Open First Brick-and-Mortar Store
Amid a move into brick-and-mortar retail, home furnishings company Wayfair intends to open a physical store at Massachusetts’s Natick Mall. The location...
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3.3KRetailUnilever Taps Amazon Exec To Lead Beauty Business
To lead its personal care and beauty businesses as it homes in on digital, Unilever tapped an executive who is currently working at...
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3.2KInnovationHuawei, Gentle Monster Link Up For Smart Glasses
Huawei and Gentle Monster, a sunglass and eyeglass brand from Korea, have collaborated on a line of eyeglasses that contain electronics for...
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8.2KRetailVoice Technology Makes (Sound) Waves At QSRs
Innovators are seeing the potential to shape the way consumers place their orders at quick-service restaurants (QSRs) through digital technology. Bensen AI...
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4.6KRetailWill Subscription Coffee Carry The Breakfast Wars?
Breakfast, we have been told since time immemorial, is the most important meal of the day. But it’s not because medical science...
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6.0KRetailDICK’S Sporting Goods Takes In-House Approach To Software
Instead of depending on outside vendors, DICK’S Sporting Goods is hoping to gain a competitive advantage by building its software in-house. The retailer’s...
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4.5KRetailDomino’s Slices Into The Digital Drive
Quick-service restaurants are embracing connected in-car commerce with digital technology to let commuters and other consumers place their orders on-the-go: Domino’s Pizza,...
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4.1KRetailSupreme Court Denies Zappos’ Request To Throw Out Class-Action Suit
The United States Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by online shoe company Zappos over a data breach in 2012 that compromised...
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3.9KAmazonAmazon To Roll Out Kiosks To Hawk Its Products In India
Amazon is gearing up to roll out kiosks in India that will enable consumers to purchase its hardware including its Kindle eBook...
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5.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMcDonald’s Buys AI-Personalization Company Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield, the artificial intelligence powered personalization platform operator, announced it is being acquired by fast-food chain McDonald’s. In a blog post,...
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6.8KRetailFor Retailers, Security Cameras Could Be Must-See CCTV
Retailers in the physical world are at a real disadvantage when it comes to knowing the customers in their stores, and what...
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6.2KInnovationWhy Hotels And Restaurants Struggle With POS Innovation
When it comes to implementing innovation, trying and succeeding are two different things. This is a fact that hotels and restaurants know...
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4.3KEcosystemsAs Sharing Services Face Backlash, Payments Takes A Bigger Role
Here’s some advice for your next, or first, trip to New Orleans (home of the PYMNTS Bureau of Crawfish): If you happen...
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4.0KInnovationDomino’s Offers In-Car Ordering Via Connected Cars
Drivers craving pizza while on the road will soon be able to order Domino’s right from the touchscreens in their cars, according...
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3.4KGlobal PaymentsFamilyMart Unveils Cashless App; Victoria Taps Into Mobile Transit Payments
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the acceptance of smartphone payments for transportation...
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6.8KPayment MethodsApple Debuts Apple Card, A Virtual (And Physical) Credit Card
And so a tech giant gets into the credit card game. And not just any tech giant – it’s Apple, the company...
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6.2KB2B PaymentsWEX Buys EG Group Fuel Card Biz
After posting better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings results, commercial payments firm WEX announced plans to acquire the fuel card assets of EG Group, Go...
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4.1KToday In DataHow Regulatory Concerns Are Sparking Digital Innovation
As the U.S. federal government tries to stem fraud and other losses in benefit programs, a new mobile app might just provide...
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2.4KRetail‘Kayak’ Of Food Delivery Tackles Cost, Convenience
To connect food delivery platforms with consumers looking for convenience and cost savings, eCommerce innovators are creating aggregators as price and time...
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2.9KRetailNordstrom And Why Convenience Is About More Than Speed
Nordstrom did not exactly have the brightest or merriest holiday season in 2018. The retailer was showing many of the same symptoms...
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2.5KRetailNike Receives $14.14M Fine Over Cross-Border Sales
In the latest European Union sanction related to cross-border sales, Nike received a $14.14 million — or 12.5 million euro — fine. The...
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3.5KData DiveData Dive, Better Together Edition: Worldpay, FIS, Google, eBay, PayPal, Instagram
While the competition part of the story is usually where the action is in payments and commerce – who’s ahead, who’s behind,...
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4.9KRetailWhy Brick-And-Mortar Merchants Are Tapping Into Unattended Retail
To help meet customer expectations in the digital age, retailers have to know who their shoppers are and what they want. While...
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4.0KB2B PaymentsUPS Partners With Inxeption On Blockchain eCommerce Platform
Shipping and logistics conglomerate UPS has partnered with eCommerce technology company Inxeption to allow businesses to market and distribute products on multiple online channels...
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3.8KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckThe Amazon/Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: The Siren Song of Enhanced Efficiency
Shopping in the early 20th century was not a terribly efficient experience for the consumer. Buying meat was one market, seafood another,...
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3.8KSizzle/FizzleBitcoin (And Other Crypto) Use Cases Fizzle, Bit By Bit?
Much hype and hope surrounds the adoption of cryptocurrencies — bitcoin among them as the marquee name in the space, of course...
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2.1KRetailThe On-Demand Alternative To Self-Storage
Moving belongings into storage is no easy task, requiring labor, time and space that people often don’t have. Callbox Storage co-founder and CEO...
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2.2KToday In DataThe Complicated Role Of Speed In Payments And Commerce
Faster payments is starting to make a splash in healthcare — thought as one source cautions, innovation in B2B payments is about more than...
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3.0KRetailSnowe, Simplicity And (Literally) Making Bedding Out Of Air
There is no shortage of direct-to-consumer (DTC) eCommerce firms offering luxurious, hotel-quality sheets to consumers — and doing so at a price that...
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2.7KRetailRetail Pulse: Framebridge Opens DC Store; Starbucks Hits 30,000-Location Milestone
Online brands are stepping into the world of brick-and-mortar, opening their own physical locations to help consumers experience their concepts in real...
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2.4KRetailRent The Runway Valued At $1B After Funding Round
In a round that brought in a $1 billion valuation for the company, clothing subscription service Rent the Runway notched $125 million...
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3.1KRetailBurger King Turns To Coffee Subscriptions Amid Breakfast Wars
Amid the breakfast wars, Burger King is turning to coffee subscriptions. The offering could help bring diners into its restaurants at the...
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2.7KUnattended RetailCatering To Instant Gratification With Automated Retail
Offering two-day delivery is the new standard — yet, even that isn't fast enough for consumers who want to buy products on...
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4.0KPersonnelEx-Walmart CTO Joins Pinterest
Walmart CTO Jeremy King is moving to Pinterest. According to CNBC, King will be the new head of engineering at social media...
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4.1KRetailThe Shockingly Strong Staying Power Of Home Shopping
A little under a year ago, a strange rumor began to make the rounds in the commerce ecosystem: Amazon was about to...
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5.1KLegalSan Fran Mulls Cashless Store Ban — Including Amazon Go
San Francisco is considering following in the footsteps of New Jersey and Philadelphia and banning cashless stores, including Amazon Go, according to...
