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Amazon Takes Territory In US And Beyond

PYMNTS

Oakland, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, Austin, Boston and Chicago. They’re places where the company already has a presence and where resources and infrastructure could support a technology heavyweight like Amazon. Whole Foods-branded product sales tallied $500,000 in the first week. Mexico City.

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Back To The Roots And Taking The Friction Out Of Natural Foods

PYMNTS

They can’t make your fish like each other, and they have not invented technology that will make you more able to tell if your fish is truly happy or just pacing in its bowl awaiting death. And for a small brand, Back to the Roots has made some fairly impressive progress.

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10 Early-Stage eSports Startups To Watch

CB Insights

We used the CB Insights platform to surface 10 notable, early-stage eSports startups developing technologies related to competitive gaming facilitated by electronic systems, particularly video games played on computers or consoles by professional gamers (though many do it as a hobby or pastime). Headquarters: Oakland, California.

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Wish They All Could Be California Bots

PYMNTS

And as of last week, the list got a bit longer, as California made a few great leaps toward becoming the autonomous delivery capital of the country, with two big pilots by brand-name firms scheduled for the cities and suburbs. And then there is Oakland-based Boxbot, founded by ex-Uber and Tesla engineers and backed by Toyota AI Ventures.

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The North Face, IBM And The Quiet eCommerce Game-Changer

PYMNTS

Everest sounds like a good idea and not an expensive cry for help — is the first big brand to realize that putting the power of Watson into an eCommerce application, specifically its mobile app, might just be a game-changingly good idea. And The North Face — being the pioneering sorts who think climbing Mt. This is unprecedented,” she said.

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High-Frequency Trading: Is It The New Normal?

Banking 2020

Animation aside, that would probably be Moneyball , an absorbing analysis of the moves made by Oakland As manager Billy Beane to rely more on technology-driven data than old-school scouting to put together his 2002 roster. And in fact, unlike other recent settlements, the Athena case does not include an admission of guilt.

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High-Frequency Trading: Is It The New Normal?

Banking 2020

Animation aside, that would probably be Moneyball , an absorbing analysis of the moves made by Oakland As manager Billy Beane to rely more on technology-driven data than old-school scouting to put together his 2002 roster. And in fact, unlike other recent settlements, the Athena case does not include an admission of guilt.

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