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Coronavirus: Amazon Adjusts Attendance Policy; Trip.com Chairman, CEO To Stop Taking Salaries

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The coronavirus could have wide-reaching effects on medical facilities, eCommerce retailers, technology and the economy as a whole. And Amazon also told employees in Seattle, Bellevue and the San Francisco Bay Area to telecommute if they have the ability to through the conclusion of March.

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Lending, Profit Grow at Washington Federal

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Washington Federal in Seattle said its profit rose 3.4% million in the three months that ended March 31 as loan growth outweighed higher information technology costs.

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Game-Changing Tech Or Dystopian Nightmare? How 16 Industries Could Be Transformed By Facial Recognition

CB Insights

While the technology is still developing, many companies (including Amazon) are banking on it as a disruptive force in a myriad of markets. From creating checkout-free retail stores to eliminating concert tickets, here are 16 industries that are starting to transform with facial recognition technology. Law Enforcement.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

We used CB Insights data gathered via our machine learning technology (dubbed The Cruncher ) and from thousands of submissions we received from VC partners and firms via The Editor. She’s covered a variety of emerging technologies during her time at there and also published a number of books related to internet technology.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

CB Insights

It is a notable pivot from Amazon’s IP strategy, where the playbook has been to build, patent, and keep proprietary technology in-house to fuel Amazon’s marketplace. FIS is also one of the biggest providers of core banking processing and has integrations with Q2 technologies. That scale would make Amazon Go a $4.5B

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

CB Insights

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. In some cases, the technological changes inspired by Covid-19 will come in the form of an acceleration of existing trends — for example, industrial automation and contactless payments. Teletherapy.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

CB Insights

The old guard of American dining are switching up their games to compete: McDonald’s is adding self-serve kiosks to many of its franchises, upping the ante with mobile order technology. In 2017, the National Restaurant Association reported annual sales of $799B — close to 48% of the total amount that Americans spent on food.