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Today In Payments: Western Union On An M&A Hunt; Amazon, Simon In Talks To Turn Malls Into Distribution Centers

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In a New York Times opinion piece, Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, urged instating a restrictive lockdown to defeat the coronavirus. Fed’s Kashkari Advocates For New Lockdown.

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Buy Now Pay Later Startup Sezzle Tops 1M Active Customers

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Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. Sezzle’s payments platform expedites quick, safe and simple payments among consumers and retailers. Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb. 10) that it topped 1 million active customers. .

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FinTech Startup Sezzle Tops 1M Active Customers

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Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. Sezzle’s payments platform expedites quick, safe and simple payments among consumers and retailers. Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb. 10) that it topped 1 million active customers. .

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U.S. Bank Announces Amazon Alexa Integration

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The Minneapolis-based bank ran an employee pilot over the summer and initiated work on the Alexa skill earlier in 2017, said Gareth Gaston, executive vice president and head of omnichannel banking at U.S. […]. EXCLUSIVE- U.S.

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Hormel Selling Bacon Via VR

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The VR experience was created in conjunction with marketing agencies BBDO Minneapolis and Made in Haus. Hormel will be tracking user participation and resulting sales on the VR platform and is promoting the program on social media. Will this VR tactic work out for Hormel?

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What Evine’s Surprisingly Dramatic Journey Means For The Future Of Home Shopping

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Its areas of focus include cable TV, telecom and retail, and many analysts have said STARTEK is exactly the type of firm a player planning to go into cable home shopping might buy. It has been a fairly dramatic piece of the retail landscape for the last few years — albeit a quiet one. Evine is getting ready to expand.

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Building A DTC Men’s Personal Care Brand With eCommerce

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It built and launched a website while disabling the cart and running social media campaigns all over the Midwest. The company had upwards of 50 or 60 different product pages to understand what was working on the social side of the equation. (In The company then rolled all of those data points into a fake brand.

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