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Charles Potts: Fueling growth through innovation

Independent Banker

Demand for digital solutions continues to accelerate, making innovation an imperative for community banks looking to excel in today’s evolving market. That’s why ICBA makes innovation a priority and provides community banks with the information and tools necessary to grow and succeed in today’s competitive landscape.

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Innovation Or Annihilation: The Choice Restaurants Face As Recovery Revs Up

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But that’s not happening nationwide, according to Brian Hassan , co-founder and co-CEO of Kickfin , which works with restaurants on payment solutions, and Stephen DeSousa , CEO at Broadway Hospitality Group , which represents 14 Massachusetts and Rhode Island eateries. The experts agreed that loans from the U.S.

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Waze Introduces Contactless Payments At ExxonMobil, Shell Stations

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Waze is committed to continuing to help businesses leverage innovative technology to adapt, evolve, and engage with customers,” said Andrew Kandel, Waze U.S. country manager, in a statement. Founded in 2007, Waze said it had 130 million monthly users as of February 2020. Pichai also faced tough questions from U.S.

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Union Savings Bank’s tech touch

Independent Banker

(L-R): Union Savings Bank’s executive vice president, Rick Judd; vice president of digital channels Chris Barlow; and director of USB Innovation Center Peter Scotch at USB’s historical Main Street Danbury, Conn., Continuing to innovate. This is not the end of technology innovation for Union Savings Bank. Photos by Mike Yamin.

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First And Ten: Disrupting The School Sports Uniform Process With Customization

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Even school sports uniforms have been dragged into the digital age, courtesy of a Rhode Island DTC company called SquadLocker. The company took an innovative business model and serious sales momentum into the start of the year, pivoted for the pandemic and took $20 million in funding off the table. 2 spot on the Inc.

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How Big Tech Is Finally Tackling Cybersecurity

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The company has since worked to improve the AWS user interface to help better manage and control access. Amazon has also applied for a patent called “management of encrypted data storage” that describes encryption services for AWS users. Source: Cloudnosys. Microsoft is also exploring homomorphic encryption (HE). (

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Amazon To Fund Part Of Whole Foods Buy With Debt Offering

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David Cicilline, a Democrat from Rhode Island, sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee calling for a hearing on the acquisition, arguing that a monopoly has hurt wages for workers and created “gross inequality in the workplace.” In July, Bloomberg reported that U.S.