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MARCH 21, 2019

The San Francisco-based fintech startup also announced it has surpassed $1 billion in bookings through its platform, which enables small businesses and freelancers to streamline processes from capturing leads and delivering proposals to sending invoices and […].

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Chicago is consistently at the forefront of innovation, from building America’s foundational transportation systems and its first skyscraper, to fostering world-class universities and research centers. Since its launch three years ago, Uber Freight now has a team of hundreds, with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, and Amsterdam.

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MARCH 11, 2020

CIBO Express Gourmet Market, owned by hospitality group OTG, is located at Newark Liberty International Airport Terminal C, with more locations to follow in Newark and at LaGuardia Airport. OTG operates 350 restaurants and shops in 10 airports, including in Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Toronto. “OTG

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Nigerian digital payments startup Paga is expanding its operations with the acquisition of Apposit , a software development startup based in Ethiopia, as reported on Wednesday (Jan. Speaking at Disrupt San Francisco , Oviosu announced Paga’s plans to expand globally. The amount paid for the acquisition was not disclosed.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

Previously operating under Token X, M10 will focus on creating a digital money solution to help global banks quickly and affordably handle international money transfers, settlements and remittances. Token will continue to be led by current CEO Todd Clyde, while Token Founder and Chief Innovation Officer Steve Kirsch will become CEO of M10.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The trucking industry generated $796 billion in revenue last year, while the global ride-hailing market was valued at just $36 billion in 2017. And since its launch in 2017, Uber Freight now has a team of hundreds, with offices in San Francisco, Chicago and Amsterdam.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Owning Kindred Systems of San Francisco and Haddington Dynamics of Las Vegas will help Ocado tackle “one of the world’s hardest challenges in robotics, the picking and packing of groceries,” the company said in a press release on Monday (Nov. Ocado , a U.K.-based Although Ocado only claims 1.7

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JANUARY 15, 2021

It’s now commercially operating in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. food delivery, boosting its market share from 29 percent to 37 percent. Postmates started trialing sidewalk delivery bots in 2017 and launched Serve in December 2018, with a commercial rollout planned in Los Angeles.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

With the brand’s proprietary digital platform and 1 million-member base in place, Fabletics said it uses deep customer insights and enhanced market data to determine the most strategic locations for its retail locations. Less is more,” Dustin Netral, SVP of operations for Fabletics, said in a press release.

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MARCH 25, 2019

New digital innovations, however, provide the promise of offering valuable customer data to merchants. These are just some of the ways that merchants are using digital innovations to better serve their customers with the help of kiosk and unattended retail technology: . Approximately one quarter — or 25.3

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JUNE 4, 2019

Lyric is not a firm looking to ask for forgiveness rather than permission when it comes to entering new markets in the way Uber and the various firms it inspired have. “We The startup is fully compliant in all 13 cities it operates in, he said. “We Washington D.C.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Several companies have stepped up this week with some innovative remote solutions. “Operating a storefront in a major city like San Francisco isn’t cheap. The first is Perfect. Retailers can visit the company’s partner page to start the pilot.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Coca-Cola’s supply chain operations are run by an IT firm called Coke One North America (CONA), and the company recently had such a successful run with blockchain software provider SAP that it’s going to expand the program from two to 70 manufacturers, according to reports. . Those manufacturers deliver about 160,000 bottles a day.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

The San Francisco-based Credible Labs gives Fox a footing in personal lending as it seeks new investments following the $71 billion sale of its entertainment assets to Disney in 2018. mortgage market, as well as student and personal loans. The market has grown 88 percent year over year, and it’s worth a total of $1 billion.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

The company currently operates in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, with expansion plans to enter other new markets in the first quarter of 2018. He added that the company operates its own sorting facility and distributes items for delivery that are picked up by drivers. Monday (Dec.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

So far, the results have been mixed; in China, the market appears to be deflating, while in the U.K. Farmhouse Market , a much smaller player in Minnesota, shows how automated retail can be adapted outside of big cities and tech hubs. Notably, the store now takes cash since San Francisco banned cashless businesses. “We

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

The company operates a business verification platform allowing corporate customers, including B2B buyers and suppliers, to verify their business partners and mitigate risk. Detected operates a platform that uses data points to confirm a business's identity, location and other metrics that are continually updated.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

The firm said it plans to focus on scaling up and product innovation, building out its staff, and strengthening marketing initiatives. The firm, based in South Africa, said it will use the funding to scale operations across Southern Africa, the U.S. Flutterwave. million euros (nearly $75 million) in fresh funding for the firm.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Location-based virtual reality (VR) startup The Void is partnering with mall operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) to open 25 new entertainment outposts in the U.S. Four temporary pop-ups have opened and are opening in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and in the Las Angeles suburb Santa Anita, CNBC reports.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

In other news, the SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) announced that it is joining forces with the Swiss National Bank (SNB) on a proof of concept to look into how digital central bank money could be used in the settlement of tokenized assets between market participants. “As We are starting to see more demand pick up in the market,” Lim said.

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MAY 15, 2017

The Vancouver, British Columbia–based company already operates a store in the Windy City, at Water Tower Place. And there are plans to open three to four new stores during the remainder of its fiscal year, including the repositioning of an existing San Francisco location into a flagship on Market Street.

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APRIL 14, 2020

“Some industry analysts have predicted that robotics in retail will be involved in more than three-quarters of logistics operations, with McKinsey estimating that autonomous vehicles will make up 80 percent of deliveries by 2025.”. It is also rising on the sales floor. COVID-19 would certainly fill the bill.

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MARCH 1, 2019

Linking financial institutions and corporates with its Banking-as-a-Service platform, ONPEX enables FIs to deploy cloud-based account and payment technology to digitize operations and enhance their cross-border corporate payment offerings. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

Currently available in 10 retail markets — including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York City and San Francisco, among others — Chain Store Age reports the new feature will “transform what is considered a time-consuming, even frustrating, process.”

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JUNE 11, 2020

“Sam’s Club members have been integrating technology into their shopping habits for a while with Scan & Go , samsclub.com and in-club pickup,” said Sam’s Club Chief Operating Officer Lance de la Rosa. “As locations, around 60 percent of which are company-operated. The brand has about 15,000 U.S.

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JUNE 29, 2016

In a world where sunshine in the news is in something of short supply, the good folks at Thrive Market can add good news for those in need of some to report to the list of things they deliver. You can’t eat it, but after the week the world’s markets have been having, reporting numbers in black ink is pretty delicious.

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MAY 15, 2019

The company is far from the only delivery aggregator in the game and they aren’t the best-known – DoorDash, Grubhub, Postmates and Uber Eats all have bigger public profiles, and three-quarters of them were founded and are headquartered in San Francisco, the U.S. in San Diego. city where tech buzz is built most of the time.

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JUNE 10, 2019

The digital age is nothing if not an ongoing revolution in communication – which, of course, powers innovation in payments, commerce and business operations. The language that works in Denver is different from the language that works in New York or London or San Francisco,” Harris said.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

The rideshare giant introduced the experiment — called Uber Moments — in an email sent to its San Francisco customers, explaining that they can book an experience for the next month, scheduled until Nov.17. What we want to be as a company is the operating system for your daily life,” he said at the time.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

The rideshare giant introduced the experiment — called Uber Moments — in an email sent to its San Francisco customers, explaining that they can book an experience for the next month, scheduled until Nov.17. What we want to be as a company is the operating system for your daily life,” he said at the time.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

A test site in San Francisco will be constructed; the goal is to open in early 2020, CNBC said. It has 450 charging stations currently in operation, according to the company’s website. The idea is to build facilities where self-driving electric vehicles can recharge without human intervention.

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JULY 29, 2020

The San Francisco company just raised $60 million in venture funding that the firm plans to use to boost production to meet surging demand as consumer fitness relocates from gyms to people’s living rooms. We’ve been able to connect instructors and participants in different global markets around the world.

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MARCH 25, 2020

The March 2020 Order To Eat Tracker® , a PYMNTS and Paytronix collaboration, is packed with innovation news bringing an early thaw to Q1. To maximize customer value one order at a time, operators are integrating enhanced point-of-sale systems and features that cut overhead while and stimulate loyalty.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ariel Kelman, vice president of worldwide marketing at AWS, said the two companies have a longstanding relationship with a common goal of helping businesses “… leverage the full power of both platforms to provide world-class customer service.”. 19-22 in San Francisco and New York City.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

As is well known, Waymo operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet, which is also the owner of Google. The shortage comes even as trucking firms have boosted pay to help attract talent in a general labor market that is marked by historically low unemployment. One wonders what the impact would be on the trucking labor market.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Further proof of that came recently from a young company based in San Francisco called Castle , which helps eCommerce operators such as Touch of Modern and Rue La La to defend against that type of fraud. Fraud Prevention Innovation. That increasing risk is driving innovation, as PYMNTS has also documented.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

“We did some research and found out that the majority of businesses in the beauty industry operate offline, without any software at all. The cloud-based software platform is designed to do a good deal of operational heavy lifting for salons by automating areas like customer records, inventory, financial reporting and other tasks.

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