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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Grab & Fly is the latest airport convenience store to use Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology, following a Hudson Nonstop store at Chicago Midway International Airport that debuted last summer.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

To help improve the productivity of workers and enrich the customer experience, Walgreens is tapping into mobile technology as it bridges the digital and brick-and-mortar store experiences. The pharmacy chain is bringing enterprise-class handheld tablets and mobile computers from Zebra Technologies Corporation into its stores across the U.S.,

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Payments Dive

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Restaurant and retail executives that gathered in Chicago this past summer for the Networld Media Group's annual CONNECT: The Mobile CX Summit shared their thoughts with us about the hottest trends in mobile technology in this exclusive video.

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APRIL 3, 2019

Verizon has activated its 5G wireless network in Chicago and Minneapolis, the company announced on Wednesday (April 3), and it plans to roll it out to 30 more markets by the end of the year, according to a report by CNBC. The company won’t see revenue from the new network until 2021, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Chris Bernard, VP of UX and Design, CDK Global is an executive focused on design, technology and strategy based in Chicago. Chris has 15+ years as a leader applying design thinking principles to organizational change, entrepreneurship, emerging technology, digital transformation, devices, software, and technical platforms.

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BankInovation

OCTOBER 31, 2022

BMO Harris Bank Head of Technology Syed Hasan is focusing on delivering an omnichannel experience for the bank’s business customers with an eye toward digital technologies in 2023.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Volkswagen Bank, the financial services arm of the German automaker, is turning to QR code-like technology to fight threats posed by hackers. The bank, which focuses on vehicle and dealer financing, implemented the new technology with the help of OneSpan (formerly Vasco), a security and e-signature solutions company based in Chicago.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

The first version of NFT Cloud was released in a limited pilot in mid-June at the Salesforce Connections conference in Chicago. This product represents Salesforce’s initial entry into blockchain technology. Later this year, anticipated to be in October, Salesforce will make the product available to the public.

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JULY 15, 2022

Self-service banking will be a major topic at the upcoming Bank Customer Experience Summit, being held in Chicago from Aug. In fact, an entire panel, entitled "Self-service Strategies for Success," will address the technology in detail. 31 to Sept 1.

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JULY 14, 2016

That ease of use in paying for transportation has piqued the interest of other cities around the world that could soon begin using London’s technology under a new deal. The funds from the new deal will be used to invest in new transportation infrastructure and to freeze fares, said Khan.

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Payments Dive

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

At the Bank Customer Experience Summit this week in Chicago, retail authority Doug Stephens highlighted shifts in demographics, technology and media that are completely transforming the consumer landscape — and the very essence of retail banking.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

"Smart" contracts enable the Chicago-based trust bank to carry out deals without intermediaries, while archiving details on transactions that can be useful later. Experts say other banks could follow despite the complexities of cutting-edge technology and the risk of being hacked.

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MAY 26, 2020

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JULY 5, 2020

Expect to see its conventional checkout grocery stores open in Seattle, California, Chicago and Washington, D.C, Today, there are 26 locations in Seattle, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, though several are temporarily closed. the Times reported.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Score one for the Midwest: Verizon said this week (March 13) it will launch its 5G network in Chicago and Minneapolis on April 11. That’s the big picture, of course – the grand ideals that payments and commerce players are working toward via the new 5G mobile network technology. 5G Potential. cities by the end of 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

million will be reinvested in digital offerings, the Chicago-based bank said Community Banking Feature3 Feature Branch Technology/ATMs Tech Management The Economy Technology. Annual savings of $4.3

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

But there are plans to expand it across Seattle, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the company said. Dilip Kumar , Amazon’s vice president of physical retail, told the network the technology had been in the planning stages long before the pandemic. The initiative comes as shoppers continue to explore contact-free payment technology.

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JULY 3, 2019

E2open subsidiary Chicago Merger Sub acquired Amber Road, a cloud-based global trade management software provider by buying its outstanding stock and merging, said the press release. percent of outstanding shares, bought by Chicago Merger Sub, according to the press release.

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DECEMBER 2, 2018

Amazon is testing the idea of expanding its cashierless checkout technology to a larger store format, experimenting with it in Seattle in a space that is formatted to be like a big store, reported the Wall Street Journal. That could mean it will take a while before Amazon could roll out the technology to larger format stores.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The startups, including Uber Technologies Inc.’s Basically, NEXT Trucking uses digital technology to connect shippers with drivers and trucking companies (many drivers work for themselves, of course). Digital technology can help cut through all that complexity and clutter. Uber’s Move.

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

Uber Freight is rolling out to Canada after bringing its technology to European customers across the Netherlands and Germany earlier this year, the company announced in a blog post on Wednesday (Oct. Uber Freight announced last month that it was investing $200 million to “put down roots” in Chicago.

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

Uber Freight is rolling out to Canada after bringing its technology to European customers across the Netherlands and Germany earlier this year, the company announced in a blog post on Wednesday (Oct. Uber Freight announced last month that it was investing $200 million to “put down roots” in Chicago.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

MB Financial in Chicago has appointed an executive from an advanced analytics company to its board. The $19 billion-asset company said in a press release Thursday that Sunil "Sonny" Garg is the energy solutions leader at Uptake.

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JULY 27, 2020

Rush Street Interactive (RSI) said on Monday (July 27) that it will go public via a merger with dMY Technology Group , one of a new wave of special acquisition companies, or SPACs, backed by deep-pocketed investors, which hunt for tech unicorns or other promising startups to take public.

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JUNE 25, 2020

Boost Payment Solutions , a global provider of B2B payment technologies, announced a strategic collaboration with BMO Harris Bank on Thursday (June 25). The New York-based financial technology company has teamed with BMO Harris Bank to deliver integrated, automated processing for its corporate card customers.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

But Foxtrot, a small company out of Chicago, is reinventing convenience store retail and taking it uptown. It’s an ambitious business model, which so far has been limited to eight locations in Chicago, but certainly enough to prove the concept for LaVitola, who is an investment banker by trade, and his team.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

But Foxtrot, a small company out of Chicago, is reinventing convenience store retail and taking it uptown. It’s an ambitious business model, which so far has been limited to eight locations in Chicago, but certainly enough to prove the concept for LaVitola, who is an investment banker by trade, and his team.

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Perficient

JULY 30, 2020

Colleagues now engage in philathropic and social activites through technology like video calls, Microsoft Teams , and social media. This year, Perficient has been named as one of the 2020 Best and Brightest Companies to Work for In Chicago , 2020 Top Workplace in Minnesota, and a 2020 Top Workplace in Atlanta.

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MARCH 11, 2020

A Newark Airport store will start using Amazon’s Just Walk Out cashierless technology on March 16, just days after the company announced it was licensing the platform to retailers, according to reports on Wednesday (March 11). . with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Chicago-based Signature Bank is rolling out a technology platform called Finrails AP to simplify B2B payments, the company announced on Thursday (Feb. percent would like to adopt automatic order matching technologies and 22.9 Payments are facilitated using virtual Visa commercial cards, ACH and checks.

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Payments Source

JUNE 13, 2019

Financing and payment technology provider Sunbit has received $26 million in a Series B funding round through Zeev Ventures and participants Group 11 and Chicago Ventures.

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OCTOBER 4, 2020

The document was prepared by Facebook staff based on work it commissioned from lawyers at Sidley Austin, a Chicago-based law firm, and reviewed by WSJ. Other technology giants including Google , Amazon and Apple are also facing probes. There is no ‘it’s too hard’ defense,’” Wu told WSJ. Facebook declined to discuss the information.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

tech firms ARM Group and Imagination Technologies were also recently purchased by foreign investors. Chicago-based Thoma Bravo has acquired over 200 technology firms during its 40-year history. Sophos provides cybersecurity to the U.K.’s It also provides IT security to small and mid-sized businesses.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Experiences marketplace Groupon is teaming up with tours and activities technology firm Redeam to expand local and global experiences, Groupon announced on Monday (March 2). . Groupon, founded in 2008 in Chicago, is a digital marketplace where people can get discounts on things to do, see, eat and buy.

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APRIL 10, 2020

An estimated 40 percent of small businesses that rely on hourly workers have closed, according to a report in the New York Times (NYT) on Thursday (April 9), citing an analysis by University of Chicago economists. Many small businesses have also been unable to get relief loans due to bottlenecks in the system and technology hurdles.

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MAY 16, 2017

Our technology is helping to make the world a smaller, more accessible place.”. With summer coming, one of the largest travel and vacation periods in the year, Mastercard and its partners have enabled travelers to use devices to pay for public transit in popular tourist destinations, including London, New York, Chicago, Milan and St.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

McDonald’s purchased California-based voice recognition startup Apprente last year, with plans to eventually implement the technology at its U.S. Technology is pushing other payments advances in the space, with some restaurants turning to contactless tools that require them to add scan-to-pay or text-to-pay features to their platforms. .

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