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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The feature is currently only available at two Amazon Go stores in Seattle, but the eCommerce giant plans to expand it to its other checkout-free stores. Fifty percent of businesses say manual processes, sluggish payments and high operating costs have made managing accounts receivable departments nerve-wracking over the last six months.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Those areas are becoming more important to Starbucks as the company seeks to drive growth by inking external relationships to drive innovation. The investment from Starbucks comes as the operator of coffee chains is opening up hundreds of locations each year in China, and hit a milestone by opening its 30,000th location in Shenzhen.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

South Korea topped Bloomberg’s 2015 Innovation Index , gaining the highest overall score across six measurements: research and development, manufacturing, high-tech companies, education, research personnel and patents. The company will also expand its R&D presence in Silicon Valley and Seattle, in addition to Shanghai and Seoul.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. billion in assets community bank with 22 branches that encircle the Seattle Sound. The bank operates thirteen branches, eleven in northern California and two in Nevada. It also operates four loan production offices, three in California and one in Oregon.

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APRIL 24, 2020

It’s a major shake-up in an already competitive market, he noted, and will likely raise the stakes in the market and act as a powerful innovation driver. For example, this week, private-equity firms Silver Lake and Apollo announced they are poised to buy a $1 billion minority stake in Seattle-based travel listing giant Expedia Group Inc.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends. ” In January 2018, Amazon launched its automated cashier-less Amazon Go store in Seattle. ” Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends. The iPhone and iPod.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

Select Investors: Tencent Holdings, Disney Accelerator, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vulcan Capital, ICONIQ Capital. Select Investors: Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Wellcome Trust, GIC, SoftBank Group, DST Global. Valuation: $12B.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

The real-time payments solution will be available for JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, PNC and Wells Fargo later this year, according to what representatives told Reuters. Bank of America announced its plans on Wednesday, following in the footsteps of U.S. Bank, who announced plans to bring real-time P2P payments to its customers on March 3.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

Forward-thinking startups and large tech companies like Facebook and Google are focused on innovation in single-family and multi-family residential construction. Now, startups and tech giants are getting in the mix, trying to fix the ways the real estate industry designs, builds, and operates. Construction industry trends.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The company announced it was effectively ceasing operations immediately and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, putting more than 1,100 people out of work overnight. In January 2019, Munchery abruptly ceased all operations, as it informed customers via email. By September 2011, Solyndra’s business model had fallen apart.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

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. Well, if all of these California test drives go according to plan, anyway. Postmates Takes San Francisco .

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation. His passion for innovation, community, culture, and clients provides a leadership template for all future GonzoBankers.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 24, 2018

The Seattle-based giant also opened its cashier-less Amazon Go store to the public in January 2018, after reported delays. In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in Seattle as an online retailer of books; in 1998, Jack Ma founded Alibaba in Hangzhou, China as an online platform to connect merchants and buyers. Notably, Amazon paid $13.7B

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CB Insights

JUNE 4, 2019

Tech innovations shaping a more sustainable fashion industry. Tech innovations shaping a more sustainable fashion industry. This innovation is being put into practice at H&M’s textile recycling facilities in Hong Kong. These biotech innovations are not as resource-intensive as conventional fibers or fabrics.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. Cafe X in San Francisco is one of the first food businesses to successfully integrate robots into its operations. Photo credit: Health. Automatic food: Cafe X.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In this review of failure, we’ve looked in our venture capital database to find the most well-funded startup companies that ultimately failed or had an undesirable exit, such as an asset sale or an acquisition for less than the total funding raised by the company. The 101 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time. Total Funding: Over $100M.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, in less than 20 years, books have shifted from being a product that used to be bought only in a physical store to one bought online 70 percent of the time and from one retailer in particular (you-know-who, in Seattle). It is exactly the blue ocean opportunity that innovators are using technology and regulatory know-how to conquer.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Globe Fintech Innovations of the Philippines, the FinTech arm of Globe Telecom and the operator of the mobile wallet GCash, has landed $175 million in additional venture funding. In a press release , Globe Fintech, known as Mynt, said Bow Wave Capital Management and other existing investors all participated in the fundraise.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. Eldercare has long been a target for technological innovation, with advocates highlighting the practical and infrastructural challenges presented by 73M baby boomers aging into their retirement years.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the internet — which there isn’t — the network is no substitute to the essential ingredient of capitalism — salespeople.”. Take retail salespeople — Stoll’s self-proclaimed cornerstones of capitalism. Stores will become obsolete. Do our computer pundits all lack common sense?”

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Read on for post-mortems on 10 of the latest startups to bite the dust. “The Those were the only metrics we tracked.

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CB Insights

APRIL 7, 2018

Lights-out manufacturing refers to factories that operate autonomously and require no human presence. Famously, the Japanese robotics maker FANUC has been operating a “lights-out” factory since 2001, where robots are building other robots completely unsupervised for nearly a month at a time.

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CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

Operations are scheduled to begin in 2018. When fully operational, the system will make one T-shirt every 22 seconds. It appears much of the heavy lifting will be done by the AI-driven robots, with human workers taking over jobs around robot maintenance and operation. We will install 21 production lines.

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