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Purple On The Online Mattress Boom
 

Yes, online mattress sales are a thing. Increasingly so, and quickly moving toward a major disruption of the legacy industry if the numbers keep up. In a recent interview with online direct-to-consumer mattress startup Purple, CMO Alex McArthur talked to PYMNTS about innovation, expectations and why buying mattresses online isn’t as weird an idea as it used to be.

 
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Apple Investors Take Out Their iPhone Worry Beads
 

Apple's earnings per share were higher than the street expected, but revenue missed — driven down by iPhones underselling analyst expectations. CEO Tim Cook brushed it off as a blip on the road to the really big show this fall. But Apple's after hours stock price suggests investors aren't entirely sold.  Read More...

 
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Kasisto’s Bid To Build Way Smarter Bots
 

Ninety percent of bots are just plain dumb, Kasisto CEO Zor Gorelov told Karen Webster, which explains why consumers are not impressed. He also said that it doesn’t have to be that way. Gorelov is on a mission to raise the IQ bar for bots and has turned his smarter than your average bot platform to financial services as proof. Say Hi to KAI.   Read More...

 
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Yapstone And The “Accidental” Payments Platform
 

As Yapstone Founder and CEO Tom Villante tells it, their whole world changed when a sales guy called on a vacation rental company by mistake ten years ago. In this week’s episode of The Matchmaker Is In, Villante tells the story of how what began as a mistake, has grown some very strong roots in the vacation rental world. Listen in.  Read More...

 
  What's Hot Today in Retail
 
 
- Etsy Fires CEO After Losses Mount
 
- Shopify Beats On Q1 Earnings, Signals Growth To Come
 
- Starbucks Sees Uptick In Q2 Mobile Orders, Payments
 
- Retailers Say Swipe Fee Reform Will Hurt Consumers
 
- Apple Watch Ditched By Google Maps, Amazon, eBay, etc.
 
- UberEATS Launches In Mumbai, More Indian Cities To Come
 
- Survey: SMBs Failing To Leverage Social Media To Drive Foot Traffic
 
- Zillow Debuts RealEstate.com, Targeting Millennials
 
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