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Walmart Revs Up Second Test Program For Drone Delivery

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The latest news has Walmart launching a drone delivery operation near the company’s headquarters in Northwest Arkansas. Walmart said in a news release that the trial deliveries will use Zipline technology. Zipline will operate from a Walmart store and can service a 50-mile radius, which is about the size of the state of Connecticut.”.

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36 Hours at Fintech Meetup: Three Themes from the Las Vegas Event

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On the panel, John Spottiswood , chief operating and data officer at Jerry , recommended that businesses favor escalating the issue to humans early, then in time, expanding the bot’s ability to respond to consumers with concerns. Xero , an accounting technology provider, now offers a chatbot for small businesses.

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Amazon’s Great Infrastructure Expansion Rolls On — Now With A New Logistics IT Center

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The logistics IT center is slated for downtown Minneapolis and will reportedly create 100 new technology focused full-time positions. Amazon is always looking for the best and brightest software engineers to join our team,” said Dave Glick, VP of operations technology for Amazon.

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The Real-Time Payments Receivables Conundrum

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In 1880, he published a book titled “ The Art Of Money Getting ” to share what he had learned as an entrepreneur and local politician in the town of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he and his family lived. Inertia can be the death knell of any innovation – and in payments, it’s the proverbial showstopper.

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Amazon’s ‘Beehive’, Drone-Carrying Trains Reinforce Focus On Logistics Tech

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The patent is the latest illustration of the company’s focus on innovating heavily within fulfillment and logistics. This underwater warehouse would help the company improve the efficiency of its logistics operations and storage capacity according to the patent, saving space and manpower (or robot power).

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Mobile Checkout, Resetting Store Experiences And Fairway Market’s Fight To Stay Relevant In NYC

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Today Fairway operates 15 stores in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut tri-state area, as well as four liquor stores. Via FutureProof Retail to introduce the grocery technology, Fairway now lets shoppers use the Fairway-branded mobile checkout app to scan products with their phone cameras.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

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The old guard of American dining are switching up their games to compete: McDonald’s is adding self-serve kiosks to many of its franchises, upping the ante with mobile order technology. The company and its primary supplier, Beyond Meat, are driving a new wave of food businesses using technology to create meat substitutes.