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Uber Announces Seattle Price Hike To Meet Minimum Wage Law

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Uber trips will jump 24 percent in cost starting in the new year in Seattle, with the rideshare company raising prices to accommodate a new law requiring drivers be paid the city's minimum wage, GeekWire reported. minimum wage in 2021. That means the rideshare companies will have to pay their drivers at least $0.56

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Data Dive: The Uncertain Future Edition, MoviePass, Credit Cards And Seattle Taxes

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Credit Card’s Profit Squeeze. Credit card companies, faced with an increase in costs associated with rewards and rising loan losses, have seen their profitability dip of late. The balances on credit cards have grown at a fast pace — up 7 percent year over year in the early part of 2017. Seattle Taxation Change of Heart.

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Cashierless Stores Take Seattle Grocery Cues To Asia

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Thousands of miles from Seattle, where Amazon Go opened in January , the cashierless checkout model is taking hold in other parts of the world. To purchase items at the store, consumers download an app called beePay, which connects to their credit cards or the company’s mobile payments wallet. The Marketplace of Cashierless Ideas.

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How Cashierless Checkout Can Power Brand Marketing Experiences

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Cashierless stores aren’t just for mega retailers like Amazon to sell prepared food from their kitchens or products from other producers: Beverage brands, among other companies, are getting into the action and choosing this checkout experience for stores that showcase their own products IRL (“in real life”) as a marketing tool.

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Remitly Taps Immigrant Market With New Passbook Banking Service

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Seattle global remittance startup Remitly is rolling out a new banking product created especially for immigrants, the company announced Monday (Feb. Every Remitly Passbook customer gets a Visa debit card. The new banking solution offers secure international money transfer benefits without fees. “We

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Starbucks Sweetens Loyalty Perks With Payment Options

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The Seattle-based coffee behemoth said in a Tuesday (July 21) news release that beginning this fall, customers who use the Starbucks app to order at company-operated stores will no longer have to pay for their purchases through the app in order to earn stars in the rewards program.

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Amazon India Adds Insurance, Gold To Its Offerings

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It’s the latest effort by the Seattle-based online retailer with a headquarters in Bengaluru, the center of India's high-tech industry, to intensify the competition in the mostly cash-based economy. Today, it offers a credit card and processes payments for customer bills. “We WhatsApp Pay debuted in India in 2018.

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