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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Today In Data: Aligning Expectations In The New Year
Today In Data: Aligning Expectations In The New Year
January 07, 2019  |  Today In Data

When customers and those that fulfill their needs are in alignment, all is right with the commerce world. Unfortunately, sometimes things get a little out...

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PayPal India Sees Revenue Jump 12x
PayPal India Sees Revenue Jump 12x
January 04, 2019  |  B2B Payments

PayPal has reported a more than twelvefold boost in revenue at its Indian payments subsidiary. According to The Economic Times, revenue reached Rs 260 crore in...

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Why QSRs Like Amazon Pay
Why QSRs Like Amazon Pay
January 04, 2019  |  Payment Methods

Quick-service restaurant (QSR) managers are a conservative bunch when it comes to payments, new PYMNTS research found. It makes sense — the process of walking up...

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GE, Google Sync On Smart Home Devices
GE, Google Sync On Smart Home Devices
January 03, 2019  |  Innovation

The 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will be an interesting one, according to a report from a tech outlet, because of a showdown between Amazon’s...

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Helping QSRs Avoid Physical Retail’s Fate
Helping QSRs Avoid Physical Retail’s Fate
January 03, 2019  |  Merchant Innovation

Once upon a time — about a decade ago — there was this QSR executive who observed the rise of online retail, but figured those...

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US Commerce Dept Eyes AI Export Reg
US Commerce Dept Eyes AI Export Reg
January 02, 2019  |  Regulation

New technologies face numerous tests that go beyond whether they work. Will consumers use them for daily or near-daily tasks? Are there pragmatic business models...

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How Will CES Set The 2019 Payments And Commerce Agenda?
How Will CES Set The 2019 Payments And Commerce Agenda?
January 02, 2019  |  Innovation

Let’s move past the metaphors and low-level poetic imagery when it comes to the International Consumer Electronics Show, that annual conference and trade show better...

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Why Payments Should Stop Worrying About ‘The Next Big Thing’
Why Payments Should Stop Worrying About ‘The Next Big Thing’
January 01, 2019  |  Commentary

Gerhard Oosthuizen, CTO of Entersekt, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. I remember a conference almost a year ago. Bitcoin (and other...

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When Predictions Go Right … And Not So Right
When Predictions Go Right … And Not So Right
January 01, 2019  |  Innovation

Predicting the future is incredibly hard work. Nostradamus — routinely counted as one of history’s better prestidigitators — wrote 942 poetic quatrains of prophecy. Depending...

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