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RBS Citizens Shares Secret To Innovation
December 13, 2013

Todd Doherty, vice president of consumer lending operations at RBS Citizens, had a problem on his hands: His project management team and his operations team were functioning in silos, costs were overrunning, delivery times were delayed and deadlines were missed. Combined, these problems were bad,...

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How Social Motives Can Unlock Spending
December 13, 2013

St. Louis-based cafe chain Panera Bread turned more than a few heads when it revealed in 2010 that it would launch an unconventional non-profit restaurant chain called Panera Cares. These locations would do something unprecedented in the corporate world: allow consumers to set the price...

Alternative Finances
9 Mobile Money Markets
December 13, 2013

As part of our 2013 12 Days of Christmas series, we thought it would be fun to assess the process of emerging economies from the standpoint of mobile. Our North Star is Bloomberg, who ranked its top 20 emerging markets earlier this year, evaluating GDP...

Company Spotlight
Who’s Falling Behind In MPOS
December 12, 2013

The mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) market is steadily moving toward an omnichannel experience that is as much about tablets as handsets, and businesses that don’t adapt face the risk of falling behind. That’s the latest from ROAM CEO Ken Paull who spoke with Market Platform Dynamics...

Merchant Innovation
12 Retailers Innovating With Mobile
December 09, 2013

“Mobile blurs the on and offline worlds, making it possible for everything with a physical component to have an online component … Having the ability to communicate with consumers in real time during their shopping journey is something that merchants have never been able to...

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Will Tech Giants Disrupt Banking?
December 06, 2013

“Some bankers and analysts think that Google, Facebook, Amazon or the like will not fully enter a highly regulated, low-margin business such as banking. I disagree. What is more, I think banks that are not prepared for such new competitors face certain death.” This statement,...

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Report: iOS Clear Choice For Developers, But Android Has Hope
November 27, 2013

New research conducted by Artisan Mobile and released on November 27 has revealed that 77 percent of consumers will make purchases through mobile apps this holiday season. Perhaps even more importantly, 80 percent of consumers now say that they browse and buy products through smartphone...

Controversial
Pirq Pivots For Second Chance As SMB Loyalty Specialist
November 25, 2013

Fueled by buzz generated from a savvy early partnerships with Apple and Microsoft, and a loyal customer base willing to delay purchases to cash in on promotions, Kirkland, Washington-based startup Pirq enjoyed a rash of success in early 2012 as a viable competitor to Groupon...

Half Of B2Bs Lack Mobile Strategies
November 22, 2013

Businesses are turning to mobile technology to conduct product investigations and for purchasing, Internet Retailer reported on November 21. New Forrester Research cited by report found that 52 percent of businesses make purchases with tablets, with an equal number of respondents saying they buy things...