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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The new tax would apply to Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon so that they are paying what the government sees as a fairer tax rate in the region. NCR Buys StopLift To Prevent Retail Fraud. Airbnb Landlords Get $2.25M Fine For Illegal San Fran Rentals. Amazon Eyes Two-City Split For HQ2. Transit Raises $17.5M Led By Alliance Ventures.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

can now have alcohol delivered in as soon as an hour from national, regional and local grocers as well as wine and liquor stores. Instacart said customers in participating states will now see a new in-app banner that lets them shop directly from beer, wine and spirit “aisles” of select retailers on the Instacart marketplace.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Northern Virginia, Virginia. When Amazon came to Seattle, Washington, it changed the region through a boom in development to keep up with growth in employees and higher rent prices. Indianapolis, Indiana. Los Angeles, California. Miami, Florida. Montgomery County, Maryland. Nashville, Tennessee. Newark, New Jersey.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

The Cleveland-based firm says that it is “reviewing strategic alternatives for its retail portfolio.” According to Chain Store Age , this could mean shifting or significantly reducing its investment in the mall and retail center industry to instead focus on apartments and office buildings.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

These new cities will join the AmazonFresh family cities/regions of Northern Virginia, Boston, Baltimore, London, Seattle, New York, Philadelphia, Stamford, Trenton, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose and Stockton. Amazon announced yesterday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

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 The firm takes in-person returns from participating online retailers at six malls in California, Chicago and Virginia. Lebovitz said, the number will grow.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The net impact of Amazon’s decision translates to Bear Down Logistics’ facilities shutting down in Ohio, Virginia and Illinois in April — with 280 positions lost. The Seattle Times reported that a Bear Down Logistics driver in Michigan makes $15 an hour, while UPS pays about $20 an hour in the same region for the same work.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The Seattle-based eCommerce operator and cloud computing provider decided to build in both Crystal City, an urban area in North Virginia near Washington, D.C., In addition, jobs will be created in coffee shops, restaurants, retail stores and with various service providers to support Amazon workers, of course. “I

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

New chains could quickly emerge regionally or nationally.”. For example, students at George Mason University in Virginia and Northern Arizona University have been getting food delivered by robots since the beginning of 2019. For now, delivery apps are an interface between consumers and restaurants.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Amazon confirmed that it will instead move forward with plans for Northern Virginia and Nashville, and continue to hire and grow across its “17 corporate offices and tech hubs in the U.S. and Canada.”. The question has gone answered – and the answer, apparently, is no. But it won’t be in the Big Apple, it seems.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

cities – Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas and Virginia Beach – but nationwide rollout is scheduled by the end of the year. Even if Amazon is only delivering groceries – and a big fat benefit to its Prime members – as Karen Webster noted, that might just be enough to start a whole new retail death spiral, spinning off a whole new Amazon flywheel.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

From nowhere, sizable regional players are being created. Performance and multiples continue to be solid, outperforming most regional banks. Goes to Larry Mazza and the crew at MVB Bank in West Virginia. Fiserv DNA continues to rack up successes in large credit unions, savings banks, and even a few regional commercial banks.

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

From creating checkout-free retail stores to eliminating concert tickets, here are 16 industries that are starting to transform with facial recognition technology. For example, algorithms can track color changes in two areas of the face, like regions near the eyes and cheek, using that data to calculate heart rate detection.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2016

Small business owners don’t expect to be the star of the show, but wherever we went — and we went to Vermont , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , Virginia , South Carolina and Georgia — we heard the same two things over and over again. 2) Can taxes be made comprehensible?

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AUGUST 31, 2018

online grocery sales since 2017, the largest share of any single retailer and double its closest competitor. Acceptance of SNAP/EBT online : Amazon is one of several retailers, including Walmart, selected by the USDA to pilot the use of SNAP/EBT online to buy groceries. According to the Harris Poll, Amazon is the most trusted U.S.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2017

billion in asset company headquartered in West Virginia, providing community banking services primarily in the Eastern Panhandle and South Central regions of the state, and the Northern and Shenandoah Valley regions of Virginia. (Nasdaq: SMMF) Summit Financial Group, Inc. Summit also operates an insurance subsidiary.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

Since that time, Shen has built one of the most successful venture capital franchises in the world by focusing on trends specific to the Chinese region, rather than within the broader technology landscape. Education: University of Virginia (JD), Harvard College (BA). Current Firm: Sequoia Capital China (Founding Partner).

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Demonstrating sales is a necessity for retail startups, especially those operating in the intensely competitive food vertical. At the heart of the scandal was Hampton Creek’s flagship product, a dairy-free mayonnaise called Just Mayo that was sold at Kroger, Safeway, and Walmart, among other retailers. Total Funding: $240M.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

And nowhere in the region are these qualities more on display than in Massachusetts, the state that both brought us the phrase “Boston Strong” and countless memes of people barbecuing during blizzards. The overall region was up 2.3 And this is a good thing, since growth has been less than on fire of late. By The Store Front Numbers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

From rough sledding in Nebraska to West Virginia, where conditions are best described as dismal, the voters voting today are hoping for a turnaround soon. The only metric that Nebraska bested its regional benchmarks on happened to be real wages and that by only 10 basis points. West Virginia.

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