PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

” It means that, from the start, companies operating in the legal cannabis industry — including retailers, brands, distributors and more along the supply chain — can leapfrog to digital solutions like eProcurement. In California, where WAYV operates, and where the legal cannabis market is expected to reach a $5.1

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Six weeks after securing passage of the Proposition 22 ballot measure that overturned a California law requiring part-time workers to be reclassified as employees, two of its biggest backers have rolled out new fees to offset expenses related to additional worker benefits. Apply the local sales tax and the new total is $48.07.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

On the optimistic side Elliot Nassim , president of Mason Asset Management, which co-owns the University Mall in Carbondale, Illinois, says: “We have always felt that the retail industry is evolving, despite what doomsday headlines would have you believe. There are about 1,000 malls — both privately and publicly held — operating in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

As Lackey explained during the webinar, the rate is based on country-wide averages, such as fuel prices and vehicle depreciation, and is not forward-looking, but “reflects the cost from the prior year” of operating an automobile on a per-mile basis in the U.S. Different Programs. Different Programs.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Robotics and automation were areas of focus for both retailers this week as they seek to upgrade their operations in an effort to capture more consumer spend. The move comes as cities and states are passing bans on cashless retail establishments, on the argument that such retail discriminates against unbanked consumers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The FTC said it brought forward “its first case challenging a marketer’s use of fake paid reviews on an independent retail website.”. More recently, the eCommerce operator said, “Our approximation is that less than 1 percent of reviews are inauthentic” — at least, according to Sharon Chiarella, vice president of community shopping at Amazon.

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Perficient

JANUARY 7, 2021

They had to change the way they operate with new social distancing guidelines. From retail to consumer goods, online and mobile sales are up significantly. What about the tax incentives and credits? For example, some states, such as California and Massachusetts, plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by the year 2035.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Shopping for apparel online is tricky in any case, and shopping for accessories can be particularly taxing because, while one can get a fine feel for the look of a piece, the actual fit is something quite difficult to discern — as looking at an image of an object doesn’t quite tell its scale. However, stay tuned.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. It is often hard to find and search for local retailers, exacerbated by the fact that cannabis businesses are oftentimes located in undesirable areas.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The Seattle-based eCommerce operator and cloud computing provider decided to build in both Crystal City, an urban area in North Virginia near Washington, D.C., billion refundable tax credit is reportedly based on the “percentage of salaries Amazon expects to pay employees over the next decade, or $48K per job for 25K jobs.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Facebook moved to its new 430,000 square foot campus in Menlo Park, California 2015, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as “the largest open floor plan in the world,” but the company was largely removed from the city itself. What I really want to do is build the biggest brand on the planet,” Plank recently told Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

And in the wake of all those sales lies a pressing issue for merchants plying their trades online: figuring out the tax liabilities. At the same time, navigating tax policies is proving to be a complex business. tax policy at Avalara , noted that this holiday season is the second one post-Wayfair. The hard part?

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 26, 2015

She’s chief operating officer and vice president of the mortgage company, a division of Private Bank of Buckhead, in Atlanta. She’s chief operating officer and vice president of the mortgage company, a division of Private Bank of Buckhead, in Atlanta. Howard Schneider is a financial writer in California. By Howard Schneider.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

billion in assets and operates 60 retail locations, is licensed to originate reverse mortgages in most of the United States. More of the bank’s retail loan staff members also are being trained to start the reverse mortgage application process. Howard Schneider is a financial writer in California. FirstBank, which has $2.3

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

The company operates on a “one-for-one” business model, which means that it donates one pair of shoes or glasses to communities in third-world countries for every pair sold to a first-world consumer. For many socially conscious consumers, it’s not enough that a company has a great product — it should also have the right mission powering it.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. Monty Python “I’m Not Dead … Yet” Award – Goes to physical retail. Millionaire – Chris Stapleton.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Union has been a stalwart of the California marketplace since the ’50s, and this gives Andy Cecere and team a great expansion into the Golden State and also some nice wholesale banking business. Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

As we noted in this space late last year, with the Tipping Point Playbook , 35 percent of companies say their use of ePayables will increase through the next few years; as many as 61 percent say real time payments would improve payroll operations. IPO Tax Windfall: Amid dizzying IPOs — they’re up and they’re down!

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

And second, the Opportunity Fund has also seen that every dollar it lends to an SMB creates $2 in local economic activity in the form of wages, spending and tax revenues. They’ll also need operational and technical advice across a wide spectrum of subjects. Many Small Businesses Only Have Two Weeks Of Cash.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Built a workflow for the bank so the bank can approve payment and see all compliance and tax information. Silver Fusion Retail Outlet: Where Snowbirds Shop”. Integrated with major retailer API’s like Amazon, eBay, Best Buy and several other aspirational brands. operation of Russian-based company. No other app does that.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

He compared the modern bitcoin boom to the California Gold Rush of yore — but a far less useful version, because bitcoin uses a lot of resources to produce something that’s not really all that useful at the end of the day and has no value at all except for the value an international pool of speculators have assigned to it.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Solyndra intended to use the funding to dramatically expand its manufacturing facilities in Fremont, California, in a move that the company said would create approximately 3,000 new jobs. Coda’s unsold vehicles were later acquired by Mullen Technologies, an electric vehicle company based in California.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Under California state law, insurance brokers must complete a mandatory 52-hour pre-certification course to legally sell insurance in the state. Demonstrating sales is a necessity for retail startups, especially those operating in the intensely competitive food vertical. Hampton Creek busted buying its own merchandise.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

Avalara will detail the Weird and Wacky World of Sales Tax. Did you know that sales-tax in the U.S. There are over 12,000 taxing jurisdictions covering millions of taxability rule combinations. This means retailers need to be prepared to accept EMV transactions. is handled unlike any other place on the planet?

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 16, 2015

DAVO Technologies’ automated technology solution solves small-to-mid-sized merchants’ sales tax pain points. Lexmark’s Kofax brings retail banking customers a real-time, voice driven, voice response, collaborative onboarding solution in a mobile app.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A notice sent to creditors said Jawbone entered into insolvency proceedings under California law on June 19. Mobeam launched back in 2010, pitching a complex solution to a problem that most couponers didn’t know exists: Most retail scanners can’t read a barcode off a mobile device. Jawbone hired Sherwood Partners to handle the matter.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

While still in operation, Google+ is hardly anybody’s favorite social network. Enter the Nook, their attempt at staying relevant and maybe even reclaiming some of their lost market share from the online retailer. This vainglorious effort was tied to The Sharper Image, their sole retailer, a place no one associated with meat.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

Among the main stories in payments in recent months has been the increasing push to reform federal banking laws so that legal cannabis retailers can move away from their cash-based businesses and move further into the world of the digital payments. Take California as one example.

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