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Silicon Valley Investor Aims To Create Tech Hub In Maine

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Portland could be a good setting for one, according to Roux in the New York Times, due to the proximity of a few already-established tech companies and a major technology-rich hub in Boston available not too far away. The logic behind the institute is that innovators do their best work when they are surrounded by other innovators.

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

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And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. At the peak of the crisis, the delinquency rate was 10 percent in 2010, as underwater mortgages and foreclosures hit the headlines. Necessity is the mother of invention.

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KeyBank Acquires Bolstr Digital Small Biz Lending Platform

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Bolstr’s technology transforms the small business lending process and allows us to more efficiently serve small businesses for their SBA and traditional lending needs.”. “We Partnering with innovators like Billtrust enables us to optimize clients’ processes from beginning to end.”.

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Hillbilly Elegy Author J.D. Vance Heads To Ohio In Search Of Investment Opportunities

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In 2010 California companies received $28.4 Vance is coming off his appearance at Innovation Project 2017 last week — where he spoke to the assembled about one of the central problems affecting rural communities, which is simply a lack of interest, and his larger interest in tapping into their potential.

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Improving Customer Experience Through Digital Reinvention

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And Blockbuster, which in 2004 had about 60,000 employees and more than 8,000 stores, was in bankruptcy by 2010 because Netflix and other on-demand video providers figured out how to deliver a much more convenient and rewarding experience. RBS soon will deploy a chat bot using IBM’s Watson technology to answer customers’ questions.

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Inside Kount’s Fraud-Fighting Machine

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In an interview with PYMNTS, Bradley Wiskirchen, CEO of fraud protection tech firm Kount, detailed the landscape of online fraud, where it is going, and the challenges and opportunities that confront innovative fraud detection. BW: It’s hard to pick just one – but here is one that I think underscores our approach to innovation.

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How Alexa Found Her Voice

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Bezos forwarded the notion of the speaker taking on some functionality related to a number of patents that Amazon had filed in 2010 related to “augmented reality” — and, specifically, voice control. All interested innovators (and what innovator isn’t interested in Alexa?)