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Virtual Gaming Grows Into A Force For Tourism And Even Atlantic City

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-based Niantic , the company behind the mobile and augmented reality gaming behemoth Pokémon Go, is touting its growing role in the global tourism industry (which, as PYMNTS readers know , is undergoing its own digitally-fuel period of innovation and disruption). The gaming part of the mall will reside alongside some 200 retail stores there.

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PetSmart Continues Brick-And-Mortar Expansion With More Store Openings

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Pet goods retail chain PetSmart announced Thursday it had opened 28 new brick-and-mortar storefronts in North America during the quarter that ended Nov. This quarter, for example, we launched The Groomery by PetSmart, our innovative new store concept focusing exclusively on pet grooming services.”.

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Amazon’s Next Warehouse Will Specialize In Large Items

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One of those places is just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, though what’s stored inside won’t be hard to spot. Amazon announced on Wednesday (June 22) that it had finalized plans to open a new fulfillment center in Braselton, Georgia.

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VisaHQ Expands The Number Of Travel Destinations On the Fliggy Platform

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In a press release , VisaHQ said Fliggy has access to 580 million mobile monthly active users across Alibaba’s Chinese retail marketplaces. Those countries include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Georgia, India, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkey and Vietnam. as the biggest aviation market in the world.

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B2B eCommerce Tips The VC Scales

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An Egyptian firm landed the MENA region’s largest-ever seed round, a California company proved U.S.-based Now that Fyle has officially launched operations, the company said it would deploy the funding to focus on product innovation and global growth and to invest in sales and marketing efforts. SaaSOptics.

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How Food Delivery Platforms Can Move Beyond Big City Takeout

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It was the regional grocers … saying, ‘Hey, we got customers calling us wanting to be on Waitr. region — states such as Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Georgia. We’re really focused on that 12-state region right now and will be for the remainder of this year,” Meaux said. So, it’s now testing out grocery delivery. “It

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Finovate Fall 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

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Auto-financing is ripe for innovation. Demo: Customer Insight Dashboard for Regional Manager who can view their forward looking metrics such as customer attrition and look forward several quarters. 10:50 am Moonraft Innovation Labs – [link] – @moonraft. Built a solution called Customer Insight for banking.