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Payment Processor Platform Marqeta to Launch in Canada Next Month

Bank Innovation

Based in Oakland, Calif., Marqeta uses open API technology to process payment cards, virtual cards and mobile authorization products. EXCLUSIVE -Payment card issuing platform Marqeta will be launched in Canada next month and Europe in 2018, Marqeta’s CEO, Jason Gardner told Bank Innovation.

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Grocery Tracker: Food Markets’ Lag In Online Presence

PYMNTS

Sanders will be leaving to become CEO of an unnamed technology company. In San Francisco, Oakland and Albany, California, consumers voted to see a one-cent-per-ounce tax on all sugary beverages, joining Berkeley, California, which instated a similar tax two years ago. Overall, online retail in the U.S. 20 of next year.

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Amazon Takes Territory In US And Beyond

PYMNTS

Oakland, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, Austin, Boston and Chicago. They’re places where the company already has a presence and where resources and infrastructure could support a technology heavyweight like Amazon. In its first week owning Whole Foods, Amazon saw big victories, especially in terms of online ordering.

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British Grocers Get A Boost From Brexit

PYMNTS

Premium chain and online grocer Waitrose is growing marginally faster than the market average at a rate of 5.3 Gazzali’s Supermarket of East Oakland is one of them. Stores waiting to go online “are just wasting time. If we don’t offer online shopping to our customers, then they are gonna go shop somewhere else.”.

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Changes Loom Around The (Crowded) World Of Food Delivery

PYMNTS

The startup, located in Oakland, California, aims to facilitate food deliveries for nearby restaurants that receive high volumes of orders from delivery companies like Uber Eats. The online delivery service announced that it has a new pay model that aims to boost delivery workers’ earnings from the app. “We Costs And Reputation.

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10 Early-Stage eSports Startups To Watch

CB Insights

We used the CB Insights platform to surface 10 notable, early-stage eSports startups developing technologies related to competitive gaming facilitated by electronic systems, particularly video games played on computers or consoles by professional gamers (though many do it as a hobby or pastime). Headquarters: Oakland, California.

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How A Bank And A FinTechs Are Jointly Cracking The Code On Financial Inclusion

PYMNTS

The teams at FinTech startup LendUp and Oakland-based Beneficial State Bank think very differently about that relationship. How to save better, how to improve a credit score, how to protect identity online, what your right are as a consumer … it’s designed to teach people long-term success.”.

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