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Google Testing Same-Day Delivery In San Francisco

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According to the report, the service — dubbed Google Shopping Express — is being tested with a small number of consumers in San Francisco and suburbs around it. NBC News reported that national, regional and local merchants are testing Google Shopping Express with big-name retailers including Target and Walgreens.

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Farfetch Raises $250M To Grow Luxury Fashion Platform

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Tencent is a global technology company based in Shenzhen, China, and Dragoneer is an investment firm based in San Francisco. Farfetch has over 80 luxury brands on WeChat, which include Moncler, Balenciaga, Saint Laurent, Armani and Ralph Lauren. Each company will purchase $125 million of the notes. “I

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Should Unstaffed Stores Be Shelved?

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Isn’t Only for Big Brands. this seemingly high-tech format is being adopted (and adapted) by smaller, regional stores without Amazon-sized budgets. Zippin, a cashierless convenience store, launched last year, also in San Francisco, with the goal of reducing typically long lines. What’s the reality so far? In the U.S.,

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Razer Gaming Company Teams With Visa For Online Payments

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The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials. Together, Visa and Razer FinTech have the opportunity to transform the payments experience for not only the gaming community, but many of Southeast Asia’s unbanked and underserved consumers as well,” said Chris Clark, Visa’s regional president for Asia Pacific.

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WeWork Makes Its Pitch As An Innovation Enabler

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Its founders, three sisters from San Francisco, turned down Mark Cuban’s $30 million offer to buy the startup in 2015. Coffee Meets Bagel has recently set up operations in Seattle — its first office outside San Francisco — and used WeWork space for that. The company has reportedly raised $23.4

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Bitcoin Daily: Crypto ATMs Surpass 5K; Sham Site Steals $27M In Crypto

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s South West Regional Cyber Crime Unit (SW RCCU), in a joint operation with the Dutch police (Politie), Europol, Eurojust and the U.K.’s Everything from the way we operate as a team to the ways in which we partner with brands is built around this core value of giving to the community. In other news, it was announced that the U.K.’s

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Personalized Coffee-As-A-Service, Subscription-Style

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The evolution began with brands like Folgers and Maxwell House, which made ground coffee available to the masses. They also might not ask the right questions or be overwhelmed by different brands as well as value propositions. They know about different flavor profiles by region or by roast level, Lackman said, and they seek variety.