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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Doug McMillon started his presentation for Walmart’s annual investor meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas by saying he wanted to “challenge your thinking about Walmart.” ” “We are getting to reimagine retail and our business … expect us to test a lot and fail a lot,” he said.

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JULY 30, 2020

Our goal is to deliver that experience while increasing innovation, speed and productivity,” she continued. Four such clinics currently exist: one in Arkansas and three in Georgia. . “Our customers want to have a seamless experience whether they’re shopping in our stores, using our app or shopping online.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The latest news has Walmart launching a drone delivery operation near the company’s headquarters in Northwest Arkansas. For the second time in the past week, the retailer has announced a pilot program to test how well drones will pick up and deliver packages.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Bright spots noted in the February Disbursements Tracker® include mobile disbursements programs at the University of Arkansas and the University of Texas in which students opt to have tuition and housing funds deposited directly into student accounts. Other innovative programs are loading tuition refunds directly onto mobile card accounts.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 18, 2017

were put in charge of Wal-Mart’s entire domestic e-commerce operation, overseeing more than 15,000 employees in Silicon Valley, Boston, Omaha, and its home office in Arkansas. Even more astonishing, Lore and his management team in Hoboken, N.J.,

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The Financial Brand

APRIL 2, 2023

Google Cloud’s former chief transformation officer is reimagining how this $26 billion-asset Arkansas bank does business. This article Arvest’s Digital Transformation Focuses on Customer Pain Points appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2017

During a panel at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president of global innovation policy and communications, warned that current state laws governing drone operations would continue to pose problems for developing drone delivery systems. Here in the U.S.,

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JANUARY 14, 2021

The pilot program will launch in the spring in Bentonville, Arkansas. That is critical as Walmart looks to hold its lead as American’s leading seller of groceries — particularly among millennial and bridge millennial consumers — in a field that is becoming more crowded with digital innovation on all sides. Tesco’s Big End To 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

That’s not to say the Arkansas-based giant is working on a specific product; it’s just opining on the idea. Walmart must have been feeling left out, because it’s announced it’s getting in on this “self-driving” fun. Walmart said it’s filed for a patent for a self-driving shopping cart.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Darrin Williams, an attorney and former Arkansas state representative, wasn’t interested when Southern Bancorp, Inc. As CEO of Southern Bancorp, Darrin Williams wants to promote relationships between community banks and CDFIs to create more prosperous communities. By Judith Sears. Name: Southern Bancorp. Assets: $2 billion.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

While Whiteside will be based in Jet ’s home state of New Jersey, Messing will work out of Walmart’s hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas. In addition, Barbara Messing will take the helm as Walmart’s chief marketing officer in August, taking the place of Tony Rogers, who has moved to Walmart’s Sam’s Club.

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MAY 2, 2016

After several years spent trying to infuse its multi-billion dollar business with more forward-thinking concepts with mixed results , last week, the retail giant announced that it will be conducting what amounts to an open call for tech innovation. Biometrics are another avenue along which Walmart may have its innovation sights set.

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MARCH 20, 2018

The pilot, according to news from CNBC — which is being tested at Walmart locations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas, Texas and Colorado — has already exceeded expectations. Consequently, the small-format shops will be unveiled at 500 Walmart locations over the course of the next two years.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Although startups based in California, New York, and Massachusetts have traditionally accounted for the majority of VC tech investment in the US, VCs are spurring other hotbeds of innovation across the country. Connecticut Innovations. Innovation Catalyst. 2018 VC Report: global funding surges 21% compared to 2017. Top Investor.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

The startup with the least funding on the list is Rhode Island’s The Innovation Scout , a SaaS platform that has raised $50K. The Innovation Scout. They include cybersecurity company StackPath ($180M) and fintech companies Opera Solutions ($122M) & Petuum ($108M). Total Equity Funding ($M). Info Assembly. California.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

Much like a finishing school for the aspiring mid-level retail manager, the first academy is set to open Friday (March 4) at a Walmart Supercenter in Carrollton, Texas, with two more opening in Arkansas by the end of the month.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Grocery delivery is coming for Walmart customers in Arkansas in a way few customers have ever seen before. The pilot is made possible by the state’s new autonomous vehicle law which made it possible for the Arkansas Highway Commissioner to give Gatika license to launch a commercial service with Walmart.

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JULY 31, 2020

40/29 TV News in Arkansas said it obtained a letter sent to an employee stating that their job would be permanently eliminated. Our goal is to deliver that experience while increasing innovation, speed and productivity. According to Bloomberg, the retailer is also reorganizing its 4,750 U.S. stores by consolidating divisions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2017

That can make cash-related innovation sometimes easy to overlook in a country that is moving forward digitally with great alacrity. Which also makes cash innovation disruptive, when targeted at a pain point that cash-centric consumers have. And while cash represents only about 14 percent of the transaction value in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

New and innovative disbursement methods are bringing change to the industry, though. Many still receive their loan funds via check or other legacy methods, however, delaying the tuition payment process, hindering their ability to buy textbooks or supplies, and giving lenders little insight into — or control over — how that money is spent.

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JUNE 5, 2017

This last-mile innovation cuts down on shipping time and costs. So far the delivery program is being tested in New Jersey and Arkansas and has received positive responses from associates and customers alike. And what could be more local than having packages delivered by a neighbor ?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

region — states such as Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Georgia. In the near future, Waitr hopes to expand up the Eastern seaboard and into the Midwest, and eventually further west. But, right now, the company is focused on the Southeastern U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2017

Though native to Nebraska, the people of Memphis, Tennessee, drink the most Kool-Aid in the nation, followed by Little Rock, Arkansas; St. Whether it’s FI’s fascination with bitcoin three years ago – which, by the way, continues with the recent news of Coinbase’s $1.6 Louis, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Jacksonville, Florida.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Over the summer, the retail giant partnered with autonomous vehicle startup Gatik AI to pilot grocery delivery from Walmart’s main warehouse in Bentonville, Arkansas. The Nuro pilot is now Walmart’s second of the kind; the first was with Udelv to test autonomous grocery deliveries in Arizona.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

The latest June count for where Walmart Pay is available is: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, and Washington, D.C. PayPal’s Consumer Support.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 15, 2017

. “This program is a great example of how we are harnessing the spirit of entrepreneurship with the power of applied innovation to bring breakthrough products and services to our clients,” FIS president and CEO Gary Norcross said. “We take two to three years of credit or debit card data.

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MAY 24, 2019

cities could compete, Walmart’s construction of a new HQ in Bentonville Arkansas has been a comparatively quiet affair. While Amazon’s search of a new HQ location at some point became like a national edition of “The Bachelor” where only U.S. But as of this week, details are starting to surface. AI Enhancement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

All of those things are precisely what Sam Walton staked the Walmart brand on 56 years ago when he opened the first store in Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart ’s strong digital growth, at 43 percent last quarter, has now propelled has now propelled Walmart to within spitting distance of the No.

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APRIL 29, 2020

This trust factor is causing firms to take slower approaches to B2B payment innovations, as these new tools are still seen as unfamiliar and untested for accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) processes. Arkansas’ laws mandate that alcohol shipments be paid for upon delivery, for example.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2020

A startup from Little Rock, Arkansas, founded by West African immigrants, tackling a huge and important problem, managing the global banking & money transfers for NGOs. HQ: Little Rock, Arkansas. Interview: 25-minutes with Innovate Arkansas (4 June 2020). AidBanc’s 3-minute Techstars pitch (7 Oct 2020).

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JUNE 7, 2019

This week was one of the latter, as Walmart hosted its investor meeting in Arkansas and Amazon decided this week’s menu of technological innovations in retail would be an all-you-can-eat buffet. 8 was created by Marc Lore, to create partnerships AI innovators and emerging tech entrepreneurs. Since its inception, Store No.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The Federal Reserve’s buildup to faster payments innovation came to a head in August when it announced FedNow , its proposed real-time payments infrastructure under the draft Payments Modernization Act of 2019. That seems like a lifetime in this business,” said Congressman French Hill of Arkansas. payments ecosystem.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

There is a possibly apocryphal story of Amazon’s early days (around 2001) where Founder Jeff Bezos was invited to Bentonville, Arkansas to discuss the possibility of Walmart purchasing his still young – and, at this point, struggling – online bookstore. Loans will range from $150 to $2,000, with terms of three, six or 12 months.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In addition to Texas, states involved in the Paxton suit include other Republican attorneys general from Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah. Over the last year, both the U.S.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

With AI biotech startups emerging, traditional pharma companies are looking to AI SaaS startups for innovative solutions. AI startup Qventus claims that Arkansas-based Mercy Hospital, which is shifting to a value-based care system, saw a 40% reduction in unnecessary lab tests in 4 months. Big pharma’s AI re-branding.

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CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

Recently, Chinese T-shirt manufacturer Tianyuan Garments Company signed a memorandum of understanding with the Arkansas government to employ 400 workers at $14/hr at its new garment factory in Little Rock, Arkansas. Rival Nike is also focusing heavily on manufacturing innovation and speed.

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