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Google Teams With Portland’s Public Transport Operator TriMet for First Android Pay Virtual Transit Card

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Here comes the world’s first virtual transit card in Android Pay, well at least according to Google and Portland’s public transport operator TriMet, who teamed up to unveil the Hop Fastpass.

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Verizon Buys Drone Operator

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In a press release , Verizon said Skyward, which is based in Portland, adds drone management to the Verizon IoT portfolio, making drone operations easier to manage for any size company. companies rely on Skyward to manage drone operations, improve safety and lower operating costs. According to Verizon, outside of the U.S.,

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BI Ignite 2019: Umpqua’s Go-To Platform Moving to a 24/7 Service, CEO Says

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Umpqua Bank’s Go-To human-digital live support platform is moving to a 24/7 service, Cort O'Haver, President and CEO of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, announced at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday. Access to the Go-To platform is free for the Portland, Ore.-based He said the decision had been made just that morning.

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WEX Reorganizes With New Team For B2B Payments

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Aquilina previously spent almost eight years working in commercial card products at Mastercard prior to joining the Portland, Maine-based WEX. As part of a new strategy aimed at innovation, WEX is developing “cloud-native solutions on a microservices-based architecture” as a way to improve payment speed and efficiency, the company said.

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More Retailers Are Checking Into Hotels In Search Of Innovation

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and Portland, Maine. According to the newspaper, those new hotels “will join a smattering of hotels already operating around the world under names more associated with fashion, jewelry, crystal or home goods, including Armani, Versace, Bulgari, Baccarat, Ikea, Muji and Shinola.”. Unattended Retail.

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Fabletics Announces Brick-and-Mortar Expansion

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The first opening will take place in Frisco, Texas next March, followed by Indianapolis, Indiana; Lexington, Kentucky; Schaumburg, Illinois; Boulder, Colorado; and Portland, Oregon in the second quarter of 2017. Less is more,” Dustin Netral, SVP of operations for Fabletics, said in a press release.

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Accelerating To The Future?

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With more than 700 now in operation across the United States, small business accelerators are becoming increasingly crucial engines of the U.S. And the financial benefits of these accelerators may only be the start of the equation, at least according to Joe Munk, program manager at the Portland State University Startup Accelerator in Oregon.

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