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Autonomous Delivery Startup Nuro Nets $500M In Funding On $5B Valuation

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Rowe Price Associates, with participation from new investors, including Fidelity Management & Research Company and Baillie Gifford. That vehicle also made headlines for being the first one to drive on public roads in three different states: California, Texas and Arizona. The round was led by funds and accounts advised by T.

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CFPB Feb. 2016 complaint report highlights prepaid card complaints, complaints from Texas/Houston metro area consumers

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The CFPB has issued its February 2016 complaint report which highlights complaints about prepaid cards and complaints from consumers in Texas and the Houston metro area. The volume of complaints from Arizona, Delaware, and North Carolina increased by, respectively, 33, 28, and 27 percent. percent of total complaints.

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Einride Presses The Pedal On Autonomous Delivery

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The company works in partnership with fleet managers to deploy those vehicles, or sells them outright, and has clients such as supermarket chain Lidl. the grocery retailer, and Nuro, the SoftBank -backed robotics company, announced in March the launch of their autonomous grocery delivery service in Houston. For instance, Kroger Co.,

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The Great Grocery Race Shifts Into High Gear

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The players are many — but in the last year and a half, Walmart, Amazon and Kroger have managed to pull ahead in the earliest rounds of the race in terms of the breadth and depth of their enhanced offerings for consumers. And this week, all three made headlines for their ongoing efforts at advancement. Worth area this week.

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The Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: The Delivery Edition 

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Walmart is signing on to a recent trend and has announced it will be partnering with autonomous vehicle company Nuro to launch a new pilot program to test autonomous grocery delivery in the Houston market. The Nuro pilot is now Walmart’s second of the kind; the first was with Udelv to test autonomous grocery deliveries in Arizona.