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JUNE 3, 2019

Amazon , the Seattle, Washington eCommerce giant, is expanding in the U.K., In a press release, Amazon said it teamed up with Enterprise Nation , which supports more than 90,000 U.K. small businesses, to launch Clicks and Mortar, a new program that helps small businesses grow in-store and online.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

But it was a Bellevue, Washington-based beauty and wellness industry enterprise software firm that secured the largest funding this week, coming in at $160 million. Zenoti said it fuels over 12,000 companies in more than 50 nations. Online invoicing discounting company M1xchange has notched $4.5 landed funding rounds.

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APRIL 21, 2020

The San Francisco-based online food ordering and delivery service launched by Uber in 2014 said it will match up to $3 million in contributions made by customers, according to TechCrunch. Uber Eats said it will send its matched portion to the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Employee Relief Fund.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

According to a new report in The Washington Post , with the shutdown now dragging into its 27th day, a growing number of websites operated by the federal government are breaking down. That, in turn, is making it difficult for Americans to use online services and is causing their trust in the government to waver.

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MAY 3, 2018

Its mission, which just won the official admiration of Visa , is to move small businesses away from checks and paper receipts by migrating invoice management online. Hermyz took the grand prize and the $10,000 that came with it at last weekend’s Small Business Hackathon, an inaugural event that took place in Washington, D.C.,

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APRIL 10, 2020

Marcus , the online-only consumer banking and lending arm of Goldman Sachs, offers personal loans with no late fees of up to $10,000, with rates ranging from 10.99 The deal follows JetBlue’s announcement that it has temporarily consolidated service in Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

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APRIL 16, 2020

The prescription delivery service of Instacart lets customers of Costco finish their complete shopping trip through the web and comes after a multi-state experiment in Washington and California. As it stands, Instacart partners with over 350 local, regional, and national retailers to provide delivery from over 25,000 stores.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In its blog, Microsoft wrote ByteDance told the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant that it was not selected as the buyer. “We We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users while protecting national security interests, Microsoft said. “To

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Research confirms that QSR patrons are seeking multiple online and offline ordering methods. Restaurants need multiple strategies to meet customers’ demands for speed and convenience, regardless of whether they are ordering in person, by phone, online, via app or at kiosks in brick-and-mortar locations. The Evolution Of Ordering.

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JUNE 17, 2020

The United Nations said in January that it had evidence of bin Salman’s involvement in that plot, which Saudi Arabia called “absurd,” according to Reuters. Bezos owns The Washington Post, whose journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Arabia’s government, was murdered in October 2018.

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JULY 3, 2018

Reports in The Washington Post on Monday (July 2) said the survey shows small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. Strong cash flows in the nation’s small business population may also be a sign of a strong national economy, with analysts predicting a 4 percent increase in gross domestic product for Q2.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2017

SNAP online . The USDA is in the process of rolling out a pilot program that will allow SNAP program enrollees to buy groceries online. We’re looking forward to being able to bring the benefits of the online market to low-income Americans participating in SNAP.”. Is there any way out of that?

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MARCH 12, 2019

Instacart, the online grocery company, announced Tuesday (March 12) it has expanded alcohol delivery for customers across the U.S. In a press release , Instacart said customers in 14 states, as well as Washington D.C., Companies from which alcohol can be delivered include Albertsons, Kroger, Publix, Schnucks and Stater Bros.,

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JULY 2, 2020

In a separate move, nearly two dozen consumer groups, including the European Consumer Organization (the Belgium-based umbrella group that represents 45 consumer agencies from 32 countries), and the Consumer Federation of America, the Washington, D.C. consumer interest nonprofit, sent out a warning about the transaction on Thursday (July 2).

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JULY 7, 2020

But that number misses an unprecedented scope of scams connected to the coronavirus, according to John Breyault , a spokesman for the National Consumers League , the Washington, D.C.-based The top five scam categories were online shopping, travel and vacation, credit card, financial institutions and text messages, the FTC data said.

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American Banker

MARCH 1, 2021

The Credit Union National Association’s Governmental Affairs Conference, normally the industry's biggest annual event, will be held this week in a virtual setting, a change that would have seemed unthinkable one year ago.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Facebook and Google could face financial penalties in the millions of dollars if they don’t follow potential legislation introduced into the parliament of Australia that would require Big Tech to pay for news content that they show, The Washington Post reported. The legislation does not specify the manner in which a payment would be handled.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Some have turned to social media for help, using online fundraising sites or even selling possessions. 10) at a luncheon in Washington, D.C., Federal workers not receiving paychecks run the gamut from IRS workers to Secret Service agents, and number about 800,000. On Thursday (Jan.

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APRIL 12, 2020

Lobbyists are burning up the phone lines in Washington, D.C. Lampkin’s recent clients have included Casino Wynn Resorts, the private equity firm Colony Capital, and the trade association National Retail Federation, FT indicated, citing lobbying registration forms. The COVID-19 relief package has been the focus of requests. .

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APRIL 21, 2020

The Journal says that the online presence for Penney’s is lagging and it has already furloughed a majority of its employees. The spate of bankruptcies also presents two ancillary issues: One: Why haven’t retailers been helped by the various stimulus packages coming out of Washington? billion in sales.

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JUNE 29, 2018

Google is getting into the grocery delivery market, with NBC News reporting that it is testing a same-day delivery service that will bring food and other online orders to consumers’ doorsteps. The idea behind it, noted NBC News, is for Google to make people even more reliant on the Internet so it can turn around and sell more online ads.

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JUNE 24, 2016

This week it was Minnesota, and then yesterday Walmart really got warmed up and announced the expansion of their new payments service in: Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. Online lending .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said the new European Democracy Action Plan aims to fight online disinformation that could influence elections in EU countries. Von der Leyen also said the EU will earmark €150 billion (approximately $176 billion) from a COVID-19 support fund toward online investments.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

At a time when our nation’s secrets at the NSA and Homeland Security and assets at the Department of the Treasury were able to be illicitly tapped into by foreign hackers, the security and reliability of countless other online industries and enterprises have also been brought into question.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 11, 2018

At the Online Lending Policy Institute’s (OLPI) annual summit in Washington, D.C. earlier this week, the OCC’s recent decision to accept applications from non-depository financial technology firms for a special purpose national bank (SPNB) charter was the focus of considerable discussion.

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Abrigo

APRIL 18, 2020

Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer Glenda Sorotski said Western States Bank’s customers used an online application for the PPP loans, enabling lenders to process more than they would have been able to if they had relied on paper-based applications and documentation. we’re preparing for that as well.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A recent partnership in India aims to add further biometric security to the nation’s Aadhaar system. Identity Devices Sweden AB will provide a new biometric privacy platform (BPP) to Aadhaar, essentially adding a new layer of security to its online and offline authentication systems. Deep Dive: Making National IDs Biometric-Friendly.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

On the positive side is the retailing trade group the National Retail Federation ( NRF ). The first is available spending when unemployment hovers around 10 percent and government stimulus payments are frozen in Washington, D.C. I don’t think the outcome is going to be good at all.”. There are two wild cards. negotiations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Two lawmakers want to pass an amendment that aims to stop a massive data collection program run by the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA has used Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act to justify collecting and storing millions of Americans’ online communications,” according to the EFF.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Any vehicles sold online, including through www.carmax.com or the CarMax mobile app, must also clearly and conspicuously disclose on the first page of the overall description of the vehicle or vehicle history report that the vehicle may be subject to an open recall for safety issues that have not been repaired.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Andrew Cuomo launched the second phase of a digital initiative in which the state partnered with commission-free online ordering system Ritual to offer its platform, Ritual One, for free through April. The National Restaurant Association has issued new guidelines for third-party meal delivery.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Dutch global grocery conglomerate Ahold Delhaize — the firm behind grocery behemoths Giant and Stop & Shop — has acquired a majority stake in supermarket delivery startup FreshDirect in an attempt to up the level of its digital grocery offerings amid the online shopping surge created by COVID-19. “We Farmstead Picks Up $7.9M

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

On Wednesday, Trump banned travel for 30 days from 26 European nations (excluding the U.K.). By Thursday, California, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Washington and Oregon had advised or had outright prohibited large gatherings. And that translates into a double whammy for online travel agencies.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The remarks were made at a conference, focusing on the issue of “financial deserts,” involving the struggle for rural communities to feel the benefits of overall national economic strength and a declining unemployment rate. making it one of the nation’s first new community banks in years.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

The ubiquitous (well, at least in the Northeast) coffee chain has announced a partnership with DoorDash , the online delivery app that promises food and other “goods” delivered to your doorstep in 45 minutes or less, that will see it offer an on-demand delivery service in select parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan. “The

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MARCH 4, 2020

The state of Washington, for its part, has reportedly experienced the biggest increase of U.S. Multiple nations have reported their first cases that have been confirmed. If we want people not to meet in person, let them conduct their business online.”. coronavirus cases.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Instacart, the online groceries company, announced Wednesday (Nov. 7) the national expansion of Instacart Pickup, a new grocery click-and-collect service. “We want to make grocery shopping effortless by helping our customers get the groceries they need from the retailers they love.

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