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Tech Center: Seattle Brings Heat to The Tech Arena

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Seattle, Washington is known for a great many things including its rainy weather and many pop culture phenomenas. From Grey’s Anatomy to Frasier, Sleepless in Seattle and the band that started the grunge movement in the early 90’s, Nirvana, the city has seen its fair share of recognition and consequentially tourism attraction over the years.

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Cashierless Stores Take Seattle Grocery Cues To Asia

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Thousands of miles from Seattle, where Amazon Go opened in January , the cashierless checkout model is taking hold in other parts of the world. Singapore, in particular, recently saw the opening of a supermarket that uses digital payment technology to allow consumers to pay for items instead of visiting cashiers.

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WeWork Makes Its Pitch As An Innovation Enabler

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The innovation economy requires more than caffeine and collaboration for fuel. WeWork also wants to make a bigger name for itself as an enabler of innovation. Innovation Program. Coffee Meets Bagel has recently set up operations in Seattle — its first office outside San Francisco — and used WeWork space for that.

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Embracing disruption at Bank Innovation Ignite with IBM

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Digitally transforming operations, operating models and technologies to compete in a changing industry structure. IBM has helped many regional and global organizations along this path with everything from migrating existing workloads to forward-looking projects such as blockchain and AI. Optimizing risk, compliance and security.

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Digital Freight Services Race Toward More Cash And Last Mile Innovation

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The latest example of the power of those digitally-enabled innovative efforts comes from online freight marketplace operator Convoy. Founded in 2015, Seattle-based Convoy is among the biggest operators of online marketplaces that match truckers with shippers needing to move cargo,” the report said. Rowe Price Associates. Uber’s Move.

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Grocers Consider Checkout Line-Free Future With Unattended Retail

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From North America to China, the concept is gaining ground around the world as retailers mull bringing the technology to multiple – even thousands of – locations. Amazon has arguably pioneered the concept with its Amazon Go stores: The first location opened in Seattle this past January. In the U.S., million smart vending machines.

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Amazon And Its Real Estate Effect

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The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday (May 2) that Amazon told the also-ran cities, via conference call, that a “key issue” was toed to regional transportation — or, more specifically, the lack of a network facilitating that transportation. The financial publication illustrated that the efforts made by individual cities varied.