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Square Offers Beauty Sector Online Booking, POS Tool

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The app-based tool gives salon customers the ability to book their appointments online and also issues reminders. Originally launched in 2014, Square Appointments was aimed at small businesses offering appointment-based services like salons, wellness providers and tutors.

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Creating a ‘Blockchain Industry:’ Patenting the Blockchain

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Patent filings for blockchain technology have more than tripled since 2014; this spike includes patents filed by cryptocurrency exchanges such as Coinbase, payment processors like Mastercard, and banks like Goldman Sachs and the Bank of America.

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Powering Retail Innovation With Digital Technology

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Data: 2014: The year Lumen was founded. 42%: Share of consumers who are engaging in even the most routine activities online. And in tech, the future of retail may include mobile scanning. All this, Today in Data. 80M: Value of a Series C funding round Scandit closed from several investors.

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WhatsApp Moves to P2P First, Businesses Come Next

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WhatsApp–which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $22 billion–has 1.2 Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is beginning its trek into payments, using the UPI system to enable the feature in India. 200 […].

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Amazon Adds Driverless Car Maker Zoox To Its Portfolio For $1.2B 

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billion to acquire Zoox , the Foster City, California self-driving technology company, the Financial Times (FT) reported. . Still, some analysts say the deal is more about Amazon’s mission to fold autonomous technology into its delivery network. Founded in 2014, it was valued at $3.2 billion four years later. “We

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Online Grocery Ordering Coming To SNAP Recipients

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Big news is in the offing for Walmart , Amazon and other chains that offer grocery ordering online – they have gotten a formal “green light” from the USDA to offer that service to recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). “As technology advances, it is important for SNAP to advance, too.”

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2016 Innovators to Watch: 1 to 5

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Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.