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More Retailers Are Checking Into Hotels In Search Of Innovation

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Sure, that might be a relatively brief stunt, but the hotel-retail trend has deeper pull than that, as documented recently by the Washington Post. Luxury fitness brand Equinox is set next month to open its first hotel in New York City, “with more on the horizon in Seattle, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Santa Clara, Calif.,”

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How Collectives Aim To Make Cities Into Blockchain Centers

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A group called the Austin Blockchain Collective , for instance, is looking to establish the Texas city as a hub for blockchain innovation. Factom , whose website describes the firm as a “blockchain innovations company,” is likely the oldest such company in the region and is five years old this month, according to Harris.

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Einride Presses The Pedal On Autonomous Delivery

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That report goes on to say that Udelv “will provide H-E-B with one of its Newton second-generation autonomous delivery vehicles, which are already in service in trials in the Bay Area, Arizona and Houston, providing deliveries on behalf of some of Udelv’s other clients, which include Walmart, among others.”. Grocery Battleground.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

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Qumrum allows banks to actually document customer interactions online. Kofax can do background search of other documents to help verify bank customer identities. Houston Frost (SVP, Prepaid Products). We expect to see innovations in mobile, security, analytics, customer experience, and more. ^SR. Simon Scheurer (CTO).