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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

He was alleged to be an active member of a cybergang that collaborated online to swap trade secrets and tools. Ellis III, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia. . The sentence was handed down by Senior U.S. District Judge T.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2018

Sears Holdings has announced that it has expanded its leasing program so that customers can easily finance a variety of products, both in-store and online. There is also an online estimator tool to help members estimate their payment with different payment schedules and lease amounts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The states that approved legal sports betting were Maryland, South Dakota and Louisiana, while Virginia approved casino gambling in four locations, Nebraska authorized adding casino games for its horse race tracks, and Colorado added more types and numbers of games allowed at casinos and got rid of some wagering limits. billion by 2025.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

One might imagine that mall operators nationwide take a rather jaundiced view of the internet, since online shopping has more or less killed the mall. But perhaps that is the old conventional wisdom — the emerging idea is that online retailers are giving back some of what they’ve taken away these days. “We

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BankInovation

DECEMBER 22, 2021

s online services business suffered at least its third outage in the past month, knocking a number of websites offline, but service was restored by Wednesday morning. Users of Amazon Web Services began reporting network connectivity problems at its US-East-Region 1 facility in Northern Virginia around 7:35 a.m. Amazon.com Inc.’s

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

As of today, it’s available in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia, Instacart said in announcing completion of the Digital Deli rollout. Publix has more than 1,200 stores, all in the Southeast, stretching from Virginia to Florida.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

As of this week, customers with SNAP in the states of Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin can now use their cards to buy groceries from the website’s services and have them delivered to the customers’ doors.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2021

online casino games are only allowed in Delaware, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Sports betting is only allowed in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and West Virginia. . Currently in the U.S., Earlier this month, New York Gov.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2017

The platform is licensed in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Morty isn’t the only one trying to get into the online mortgage market. In the future, Morty plans to add more markets. Morty is a free platform for borrowers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

India-based online food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy has reportedly spent about $7.3 million to buy Scootsy , another Indian firm that offers online food delivery services. That said, online food delivery is having its moment. China, too, provides evidence that online food delivery remains a hot proposition.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

Amazon.com’s plans to open its HQ2 in Virginia got the support of local officials who approved a financial package valued at $51 million over the weekend. The HQ2 approval by the Virginia board is seen as a victory for the eCommerce giant, which has been under scrutiny from regulators, advocacy groups and lawmakers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2019

Walmart , the world’s biggest retailer, is gearing up to bring on 2,000 technology professionals during 2019 to support its operations in stores and online. Some of the digital tools the IT professionals are expected to support include advanced algorithms that speed up online ordering and mapping the route through the store.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The lawsuit against Amir Golestan and his web-services provider firm Micfo is shedding light on the ecosystem that governs the world of online spammers and hackers, a Wall Street Journal article said on Monday (Feb. The alleged victim is the nonprofit American Registry for Internet Numbers , based in Centreville, Virginia.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Increasingly everything is online these days, up to and including consumer identity. 217 percent: The increase in searches for home listings in Crystal City, Virginia since Amazon officially announced it as one of two HQ2 locations. Data: $10 billion: Current value of the global digital identity market. percent: Share of U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Credit Karma , a company that enables people to gain access to their credit scores, is launching a high-yield savings account that customers can use through an app and online. Credit Karma is partnering with West Virginia-based MVB Bank on the venture. Vio, an online bank, has an account that pays 2.42

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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

AUGUST 13, 2020

The company said it is looking into “any and all strategic alternatives,” such as a possible sale of its online shopping operation and the intellectual property related to it. filed for Chapter 11 in federal bankruptcy court in Virginia. It also foresees to close a number — if not each one — of its physical locations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The shift to online sales caused Amazon.com Inc. As a result, consumer demand and retail employment could slump, Robert Frick , an economist at Navy Federal Credit Union in Virginia, told the WSJ. Home improvement stores such as Home Depot Inc. and Lowe’s Co. to boost hiring. and in the United Kingdom.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Ascena is currently running with roughly 95 percent of its store base opened again, helping shoppers via retail locations as well as online stores. Ascena Retail Group, Inc.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

Many municipalities are looking to help by proposing new uses for vacant retail sites, including a citywide initiative in Fairfax, Virginia called Activate Fairfax , where the Department of Economic Initiative is soliciting requests for interest in an abandoned Container Store location.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

Offering a mix of in-person house calls by doctors and online telemedicine sessions, Heal claims to have made 200,000 home visits over the past five years, serving patients not just in California, but also in New York, New Jersey, Washington, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for its “planned wind-down of operations.” Pier 1 plans to sell its leftover assets, including its online shopping business and intellectual property, following the bidding procedures set forth in February of this year. said it has received the green light from the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Ballard Designs opened a 12,400-square-foot prototype store in Tysons Corner, Virginia back in August. The Virginia location will serve as the model for the four new and potential future expansions. The design studio merges Ballard’s European-inspired design catalog, online and in-store channels.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

These laws were meant to make online sellers face sales tax requirements similar to those for retailers with on-the-ground locations, putting both types of businesses on equal footing. Retailers in high-tax states have largely not been able to build themselves up or expand online beyond their local markets to the same extent, Rogers said. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Last month, Instacart announced its first deal with a convenience store chain, adding 7-Eleven to its online ordering platform. Initially, it will make deliveries from 750 stores nationwide in a first phase covering Virginia; Maryland; Washington, D.C.; Florida; and Texas.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Bankruptcy Court in Richmond, Virginia. Its customers will still be able to shop with the company, both at the stores that remain open and online. The Fort Worth, Texas-based retailer franchise said it filed for chapter 11 protection Monday in U.S. The bankruptcy financing from lenders including Bank of America N.A.,

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PYMNTS

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

JUNE 26, 2020

It announced this week that it is piloting Fuel Loyalty at participating 7-Eleven stores in North and South Orlando, Florida; North Texas; and Woodbridge, Virginia. While many consumers believe that buying things online is faster and more convenient, they also find it safer than going to a physical store and risking COVID-19 exposure.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

started offering Juul vaporizers in addition to refill pods in flavors like Virginia tobacco and mint from Sept. They had reportedly been taken off both online retail sites by Tuesday. The news comes as a report surfaced that Juul Labs Inc.’s s sales have stopped on two Chinese websites. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

The one bright spot was online sales, which increased to $164.7 CEO Virginia Drosos put the best face on the results. That’s down from $1.4 billion for the same period last year. . Its operating loss swelled to $291 million, 34 percent of sales, up from $2.6 million, or 0.2 percent of sales one year ago. million, a 6.7 ”

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 9, 2022

The Fourth Circuit heard argument earlier this week on whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields on-line data aggregator, PublicData.com, from FCRA liability in a putative class action dismissed last year by a federal judge in Virginia.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

Maryland and Virginia, as well as online. Mama Biscuit’s Gourmet Biscuits (MBGB) produces flavored gourmet biscuits that “bridge the gap between” sweet cupcakes and savory tasting treats. They are sold in major retailers such as Wegmans and Whole Foods Market in Washington, D.C.,

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American Banker

APRIL 20, 2016

An online student loan refinancing business that was recently spun off from a Virginia bank has been rebranded as Purefy Inc.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

Amid less expensive destinations for kids’ online clothing and declining traffic in malls, Gymboree Group Inc. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Bloomberg reported. plans to close following its second bankruptcy. The retailer, which has just under 950 locations, filed for protection from creditors in the U.S.

Virginia 160

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Perficient

MAY 27, 2022

Of particular significance is that in Virginia, banks may offer this service in either a fiduciary or non-fiduciary capacity. In September 2015, ahead of the SEC’s 2017 guidance letter, the CFTC released an enforcement action and settlement order against an unregistered online trading platform called the Coinflip Order. dollars.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In a press release , the company said the Federal Court in the Eastern District of Virginia granted it a temporary restraining order and froze the PayPal accounts of the entities that were selling fake products without regulatory oversight or the age verification processes JUUL employs. JUUL Labs, an e-cig maker, announced Tuesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2017

bank, has now added Apple Pay support as an online payment method, which means customers can add their Starling debit card to Apple Wallet. According to a news report , with the mobile pay support, customers can make online payments via their Apple devices. Starling Bank, the digital-only U.K.

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