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More Retailers Are Checking Into Hotels In Search Of Innovation

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Sure, that might be a relatively brief stunt, but the hotel-retail trend has deeper pull than that, as documented recently by the Washington Post. Luxury fitness brand Equinox is set next month to open its first hotel in New York City, “with more on the horizon in Seattle, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Santa Clara, Calif.,”

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Uber and Lyft Drivers Could Gain Access to Digital Ad Revenue

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It launched out of beta in December 2018, and in the intervening months, it’s garnered support from brands like Brex, Segment, Caviar, Zumper, and others.”. Payments and income for gig works are coming under increased focused, the PYMNTS The Gig Economy Index has documented. Digital Screens. In Q3 2018, 35.6 an hour on average”.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

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Qumrum allows banks to actually document customer interactions online. Kofax can do background search of other documents to help verify bank customer identities. Houston Frost (SVP, Prepaid Products). Simon Scheurer (CTO). Nicola Cowburn (CMO). Patrick Barnert (CEO). Good job. ^WM. 12:32 pm Payment Data Systems – [link].