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eCommerce Grocer Weee Notches Almost $50M In Funding

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Lightspeed Ventures, iFly.vc, Silicon Valley Bank and Goodwater Capital were participants in the investment, Deal Street Asia reported. The company provides its offering in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle. Shoppers, for their part, can make orders on the WeChat mini-program, Facebook, or the Weee app.

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Zippin Raises $12M To Accelerate Cashierless Store Launches

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The company also recently introduced an autonomous concession stand in the Golden 1 Center, where the Sacramento Kings play NBA basketball. We obsess about retail operations and physical infrastructure just as much as we obsess about AI and computer vision.

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Verizon 5G Network Launch Foreshadows Mobile Commerce Changes

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The announcement from the mobile network provider serves as the latest demonstration that 5G is coming, and that retailers and payment services providers should get ready to operate in the 5G world. 5G Potential.

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Can banks have an impact on alleviating the egg shortage?

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During leaner years is often when the demand for ag loans increases , as it’s common for those full-time farmers to tap into their community bank to cover operating costs or invest is other lines of the agricultural business. The north Texas bank, which specializes in commercial lending, lent nearly $600 million.

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What’s Next For Real Estate In Amazon’s HQ2 Cities?

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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., Apologies for the cliché (some of us miss baseball already), but that’s the story with Amazon and its split decision Tuesday (Nov. 13) on its new headquarters. Citi Reaction.

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Drink Up: 50+ Wine Tech Startups In One Market Map

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We used the CB Insights database to identify over 50 wine tech startups and the 8 categories within which they operate. Chengwei Capital, DCM Ventures, Mandra Capital. Accel Partners, FirstMark Capital, New Enterprise Associates. Shenzhen Capital Group. Burda Principal Investments, e.ventures, Passion Capital.

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The Real Hunger Games: A Battle Royale In The Grocery Aisles

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The easiest possible summary is that in a post-apocalyptic future, the United States has become the Kingdom of Panem, which consists of a rich, technologically vibrant capital city ringed by 12 impoverished agrarian or industrial districts that are exploited for their resources by wealthy residents of the capitol. Weaknesses.

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