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Technology is the new norm for restaurant customers worldwide — especially if those customers happen to live in Asia or the Middle East. In another restaurant technology survey of U.S. consumers , 79 percent agreed that restaurant technology improves their guest experience. Customers want convenience. While the U.S.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has filed for a preliminary injunction against DoorDash, which would require the delivery service to reclassify its workers as employees, not independent contractors. Faced with the prospect of classifying its drivers as employees rather than independent contractors, Uber Technologies Inc.

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In the first two blogs in this series, Getting Started On Embedded Finance and Embedded Finance: Bolstering Brand Experiences, we defined embedded finance and looked at the goals and strategies that firms should take at the outset of their modern embedded finance journey, as well as how and why firms should consider getting embedded banking.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

the San Francisco blockchain startup, has been bought by Lightyear Corp., ” Blockchain is the technology that underpins the cryptocurrency market. The new company will have a staff of 60 and will be headquartered in San Francisco, with another office in New York City.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

To bolster its subscription business, San-Francisco-based Recurly has notched $19.5 The subscription commerce market is undergoing a dramatic shift as consumer purchasing behaviors are quickly evolving to expect flexible, pay-as-you-go models from their favorite brands,” CEO Dan Burkhart said in a statement per the outlet. “The

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

The company currently has offices in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco and Las Vegas. The combination of DraftKings’ leading and trusted brand, deep focus on customer experience and data science expertise and SBTech’s highly innovative and proven technology platform creates a vertically-integrated powerhouse,” Robins said. “I

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

The company currently has offices in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco and Las Vegas. The combination of DraftKings’ leading and trusted brand, deep focus on customer experience and data science expertise and SBTech’s highly innovative and proven technology platform creates a vertically-integrated powerhouse,” Robins said. “I

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Isn’t Only for Big Brands. The technology, similar to that of Amazon Go stores, uses computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to identify what customers take from the shelves. Zippin, a cashierless convenience store, launched last year, also in San Francisco, with the goal of reducing typically long lines.

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JULY 30, 2020

The Salt Lake City payment processing platform has joined with Plaid, a Visa subsidiary based in San Francisco, that builds financial technology platforms to connect bank accounts and initiate automated clearing house (ACH) transfers. Plaid is connected to more than 11,000 financial institutions.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Four temporary pop-ups have opened and are opening in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and in the Las Angeles suburb Santa Anita, CNBC reports. The rise of new 5G mobile network technology also promise to spark new deployments of virtual reality in the retail space. and Europe by 2022. VR is expected to generate $1.8

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MAY 27, 2020

Stripe, a technology company that allows businesses to make and receive online payments, has launched in five more European countries, the San Francisco firm announced Wednesday (May 27). In addition, Stripe announced a partnership with JCB, Japan’s only international payment brand.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

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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JANUARY 22, 2020

A startup in San Francisco called the Real Items Foundation has developed a plugin for Shopify that will use blockchain technology to make sure items being sold on the site are authentic, according to a report by Cointelegraph. It lets brands create their own non-fungible tokens (NFT) that are tied to actual physical items.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In the age of Amazon, achieving success in this market takes dozens of fulfillment centers, advanced logistics and sophisticated enterprise technology. This includes new entrepreneurial businesses like TushBaby , large CPG brands like Bulletproof 360 and top Walmart sellers like Enviro-Log.”.

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Extend , a technology platform that allows businesses to offer product warranties has raised $260M in a Series C with participation from SoftBank Group, Meritech Capital Partners, GreatPoint Ventures, and PayPal Ventures, among others. How’s the company performing?

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

Media company Hearst has put together a team of 10 people that is tasked with staying on top of cutting-edge technology, including voice-activated devices from the likes of Amazon and Google, and creating products and services around them. Last week, the new group rolled out an Amazon Echo skill for its Good Housekeeping brand.

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We’ll also be expanding our engineering team and doubling down on R&D, to showcase the breadth and possibilities of our location technology,” wrote Glueck.

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JUNE 11, 2020

The Walmart warehouse club brand has been piloting curbside pickup at 16 clubs. Sam’s Club members have been integrating technology into their shopping habits for a while with Scan & Go , samsclub.com and in-club pickup,” said Sam’s Club Chief Operating Officer Lance de la Rosa. The brand has about 15,000 U.S.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

They gathered at Visa’s California headquarters in San Francisco for the Team Visa Summit. Visa is one of the longest-standing Olympic and Paralympic partners and Tokyo 2020 is “set to be the largest Games yet,” said Chris Curtin, chief brand and innovation marketing officer at Visa. .

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

According to sources , Julia Steyn, vice president of GM Urban Mobility and Maven, said Monday (November 12) during a presentation at the UBS Global Technology Conference in San Francisco that by mid-2019, Maven will allow non-GM branded vehicles such as Ford and Tesla on the platform.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

The space-sharing company, already famous and well-funded for the value it offers to modern, technologically proficient and often geographically separated workforces, keeps making inroads in payments and commerce — in fact, it is getting into software via the just announced acquisition of Teem , which sells office management technology.

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AUGUST 28, 2020

DoorDash , the San Francisco-based prepared food delivery service, is planning to go public by year’s end, after filing confidentially in February. Goldman Sachs is pondering a $2 billion venture and growth fund that could boost its stature in the world of technology investing and help it court bigger investors and investments.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Students, staff and faculty at George Mason University, which is in Northern Virginia, can now order food and drinks through with the help of food service company Sodexo and robotics firm Starship Technologies. The aim is to serve students, who may be open to using the technology. CPG Brands Tap Into Robotics Technology.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

San Francisco area startup Helpshift is working to revolutionize the customer support industry through an enterprise-level, app-based customer support platform. Brands in a rapidly growing mobile world needed real-time, intuitive tools in order to solve user problems in-app, in real time,” he said. “My

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

To help bring these options to more consumers, retailers and technology companies decided to join forces. It launched the expansion into San Francisco in January, with plans to extend the service into New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Chicago.

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MARCH 11, 2020

The advance of Amazon’s cashierless technology is not a new story to the retail beat as of 2020. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year.

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JULY 31, 2019

Facebook has reached out to Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Disney and Amazon about putting their services on a brand new streaming device the social media company is planning on releasing, according to reports. The product is going by the code name Catalina, with plans for a fall release.

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JULY 22, 2019

Much of the excitement surrounding automated retail — aka cashierless retail — has been driven by Amazon Go, but the enthusiasm for “just-walk-out” technology has been tempered by the stores’ limited locations. French retail giant Carrefour SA has also been testing camera and image-recognition technology in grocery stores.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Smart home products simplify life — but the technology can sometimes be confusing or intimidating. According to a Lowe’s blog post on the subject, the Smart Home shops will include thermostats, cameras, lighting, speakers and more from brands like Google, Sonos, GE, Nest, Iris, Samsung and Ring.

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Many innovators end up in the business of commerce or technology because they are trying to solve a problem — usually their own. The pants in question were patchwork jeans, and purchased in a San Francisco vintage shop while Irish-national Kelly was on a world tour — a tour which included a final stop at Burning Man.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Imgur , the community-powered entertainment platform, has announced a $20 million investment from Coil , the San Francisco-based startup designed to help creators monetize content and provide a premium experience to consumers. The theft targeted bitcoin tokens, impacting at least 4,000 victims in 12 countries.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

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. Trade Coffee finds its origins from roasters who wanted to expand their brand and their reach.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For Chennai, India-based women’s fashion brand eShakti – to take one recent example – making it easier for customers to rectify fashion purchase errors (or avoid them in the first place) is a good start. Customers on Walmart.com can access styles from brands like C&C California, Butter Super Soft, Puma and BCBG.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

For instance, upstarts like San Francisco-based Shift just reported record results on Thursday (Nov. Going forward, the company plans to invest in market expansion, branding and marketing strategy, as well as technology-enabled tools to drive efficiency.

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MARCH 23, 2016

While the eCommerce giant has managed to narrow this window to one or two days, an unlikely brand is saying that it should take no longer than an hour. Whether it was intended or not, Amazon is largely responsible for creating a culture where consumers no longer appreciate but demand their products are delivered rapidly for no extra charge.

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The digital-first shift means there are more options for smaller, direct-to-consumer brands, to find first-time customers from around the country or even the world. Here’s how some really creative D2C brands are using new tech to do that. But Sticky.io In those cases, he said, “capitalism will work.”

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