PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Part of the future of retail is playing out inside hotels — and that’s happening as the wider part of the travel-and-tourism industry is undergoing its own significant disruption. One of the latest — and perhaps wildest — examples of the hotel-retail trend comes from Taco Bell, of all places. Unattended Retail. Deeper Trend.

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FICO

JANUARY 10, 2023

Innovative Customer Communications for Fraud. For them, this meant that they could rapidly close fraud cases over two-thirds of the time and so reduce operational costs and customer frustration. In Oakland, one convenience store customer recently found a card skimmer. The “Scamdemic”. Read the full post. Source: KTVU Fox 2 .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Postmates is on the verge of snagging San Francisco’s first-ever permit for sidewalk robotics operations, per reports. And then there is Oakland-based Boxbot, founded by ex-Uber and Tesla engineers and backed by Toyota AI Ventures. Well, if all of these California test drives go according to plan, anyway. million seed round.

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