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Tech Center: Seattle Brings Heat to The Tech Arena

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Seattle, Washington is known for a great many things including its rainy weather and many pop culture phenomenas. From Grey’s Anatomy to Frasier, Sleepless in Seattle and the band that started the grunge movement in the early 90’s, Nirvana, the city has seen its fair share of recognition and consequentially tourism attraction over the years.

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Cashierless Stores Take Seattle Grocery Cues To Asia

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Thousands of miles from Seattle, where Amazon Go opened in January , the cashierless checkout model is taking hold in other parts of the world. Singapore, in particular, recently saw the opening of a supermarket that uses digital payment technology to allow consumers to pay for items instead of visiting cashiers.

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Grocers Consider Checkout Line-Free Future With Unattended Retail

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From North America to China, the concept is gaining ground around the world as retailers mull bringing the technology to multiple – even thousands of – locations. Amazon has arguably pioneered the concept with its Amazon Go stores: The first location opened in Seattle this past January. In the U.S., million smart vending machines.

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WeWork Makes Its Pitch As An Innovation Enabler

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The space-sharing company, already famous and well-funded for the value it offers to modern, technologically proficient and often geographically separated workforces, keeps making inroads in payments and commerce — in fact, it is getting into software via the just announced acquisition of Teem , which sells office management technology.

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Starbucks To Allow Access To Supply Chain Data

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The Seattle-based company says it is using blockchain technology to maintain and serve up the data. “We For coffee blends, Starbucks will provide information about the country or region of origin, since beans from multiple farms are likely to have been combined, Bloomberg reports.

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How Smaller Grocers Can Tap Into Digital Offerings

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With Amazon , Kroger and other large retailers in the grocery business introducing digital technology, such as mobile self-checkout, how do smaller regional grocers compete? GrocerKey primarily works with mid- to large-sized independent and regional chains. Still, Neren is focused on large independent and regional grocers.

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Ridesharing Startup Grab Aiming To Raise More Than $1B From Funding Round

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With the backing, the investors are hoping the ridesharing company can better compete against Uber Technologies in Southeast Asia. With an investment in Grab, Alibaba or Ant Financial would be able to push Alipay, the mobile payment service, to millions of consumers in the region. If Grab is able to raise $1.5

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