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How Restaurants Can Offer Digital Corporate Event Booking
 

Booking an event with a corporation doesn’t have to involve lots of paperwork and phone calls. Through platforms such as Bizly, restaurants and hotels can let corporate clients reserve their spaces online, Ron Shah, founder and CEO of Bizly, told PYMNTS in an interview.

 
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Just-In-Time Manufacturing Lowers Entry Barrier For Artisans
 

Traditionally, the cheapest way to produce something was to do so en masse. With just-in-time manufacturing used by 3-D printing facility Voodoo, businesses can produce exactly what they need, when they need it.  Read More...

 
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How Car Vending Machines Evolved From 1880s England
 

Long before towering car vending machines came to the U.S. and China, Percival Everitt invented the first coin-operating vending machine for envelopes, notepaper and postcards. Here’s how vending machines have evolved since then, and why they can be effective marketing tools for big-ticket itemsRead More...

 
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Clearing The Clutter For Consumers
 

Seamlessness is a universal preference, but friction-filled obstacles tend to find their way into all kinds of transactions. Whether the resistance is caused by meddling hackers or slow legacy systems, the job of modern FinTech is to clear the roadblocks to keep the commerce traffic flowingRead More...

 
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