PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

And like Walgreens is now painfully aware, sometimes the mad dash to gobble up innovative startup partners can lead merchants down a dark path. It may have been a long time coming, but Walgreens has, as of Sunday (June 12), officially announced that its operating partnership with Theranos Wellness Centers has been torn up and tossed aside.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 11, 2019

This bill created the nation’s third regulatory sandbox program for fintechs, after Arizona , which enacted sandbox legislation in March 2018, and Wyoming , which enacted sandbox legislation in February of this year. Arizona’s program, in contrast, is administered by the Arizona Attorney General.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Beginning in July 2017, additional Fabletics locations will open in Scottsdale, Arizona; Cerritos, San Jose, San Francisco and San Diego, California and Paramus, New Jersey. Less is more,” Dustin Netral, SVP of operations for Fabletics, said in a press release.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2023

Scottsdale Community Bank is the first new community bank in Arizona in 14 years, and it already has the capacity to make more than $100 million in loans. The technology it uses allows it to maximize efficiency while minimizing costs in its operations. The $28 million-asset community bank in Scottsdale, Ariz.,

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South State Correspondent

JULY 24, 2024

If you bank in a fast-growing state such as Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Texas, Florida, or South Carolina, population and business formation growth result in lower acquisition costs. New acquisition, sales, marketing, support and management costs drive up the operating cost overtime further hurting profit.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

Income sharing is not a common method of financing as of 2019 — though, as of late, it has begun to get much more interest from investors and innovators, particularly in the context of student loan financing. However, Align can also charge high rates, particularly if a consumer’s income goes up a lot during that five year period.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Others, like Arizona, Alabama and Nebraska, which have begun reopening in a controlled capacity, haven’t seen as steep a decline, OpenTable reported. The states hit harder by the virus, like New York and New Jersey in the continental northeast, have been seeing worse declines in restaurants.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2019

That report goes on to say that Udelv “will provide H-E-B with one of its Newton second-generation autonomous delivery vehicles, which are already in service in trials in the Bay Area, Arizona and Houston, providing deliveries on behalf of some of Udelv’s other clients, which include Walmart, among others.”. Kroger Push.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

That report goes on to say that Udelv “will provide H-E-B with one of its Newton second-generation autonomous delivery vehicles, which are already in service in trials in the Bay Area, Arizona and Houston, providing deliveries on behalf of some of Udelv’s other clients, which include Walmart, among others.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

Convenience store operator 7-Eleven is launching beer and cider delivery in select U.S. We’re always looking to innovate and disrupt,” Singh said. Customers can place their beer orders via the 7Now app. Worth, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Miami-Ft. Louis, Missouri; and Tampa, Florida. How can they move in and out faster?”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

According to both PayPal and the team, the new jersey badge partnership speaks to their shared values, particularly around inclusion, collaboration, innovation and opportunity. “We Diversity, inclusion and equality are at the heart of our team’s mission, and we are fortunate to have found a company whose values so closely mirror ours.

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CB Insights

MAY 9, 2019

Today, it seems like every large corporation has its own “ innovation lab.”. Few are more critical of the model than startup entrepreneurs and VCs, who argue that corporate innovation labs are mostly innovation theater. Get the Best of corporate innovation. Get the Best of corporate innovation. Waymo (Google X).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

These efforts are grouped inside the unit known as “Other Bets,” which had an operating loss of $3.4 billion operating income reported by Google. Since the new operating structure took shape in 2015, the “ bets segment ” has lost a cumulative $10 billion. billion through the past year. That comes as a drag against the $36.5

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

As of the end of the week, at least one firm, Mattervest, said it had shuttered operations. Last week, Arizona took its place as the first state in the United States to unveil a regulatory sandbox to bring blockchain and cryptocurrency-driven new products into that state. International Innovation, With a UK Focus.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Waymo’s CEO John Krafcik said the company was teaming up with American Axle & Manufacturing to redo a Detroit factory, with the aim of it being operational by the middle of 2019. Waymo already has a robotaxi fleet in Arizona consisting of retrofitted Chrysler Pacifica minivans, with plans to expand the program.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

Arizona-based DriveTime, the country’s second-largest used car retailer focused solely on used vehicles, operates over 140 dealerships nationwide and sells more than 150,000 used vehicles each year. We’re just beginning to scratch the surface of the quality, efficiency and cost-reduction opportunities.”. The company counts more than 1.2

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The program is officially one year old, and it started in Chandler, Arizona. The company, in a blog post , also shed light on its fully autonomous taxis, which operate without a driver behind the wheel. Waymo said it was going to open up the service to iPhone users (it was previously only available to Android).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

The idea is not wholly unprecedented — Carvana operates similar car vending machines across the U.S. It may sound like a silly feature, but it’s one customers actually like — as it apparently makes working with the Arizona-based startup a bit more memorable.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The company had to scale back its autonomous vehicle program following an incident in Arizona where a pedestrian was killed by one of the vehicles. At that time, Uber let go of its 100 self-driving car operators in Pittsburgh and San Francisco. Rumors abounded that the company might sell its self-driving unit.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While AOBA 2022 had its share of execs wanting to “fake it until they make it” with future innovation, credit is due to the bankers who are pouring real financial investment into new fintech experiments. In some respects, AOBA 2022 felt a bit like bank executives wanted to “fake it until they make it” with their future innovation and fintech.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The need for food delivery keeps pushing the edge of retail innovation – and could even lead to crowding on sidewalks and competing for room with pedestrians and rented scooters – as Postmates plans to test delivery robots in San Francisco. The grocer, along with Nuro, had been using a fleet of Prius cars with operators.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

As is well known, Waymo operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet, which is also the owner of Google. As reported in May, and as seen in Arizona, Waymo has been testing autonomous trucks — both empty and loaded with “test” freight — and other tests have been in place in San Francisco and Atlanta. As Reuters reported Thursday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

To bring these innovations to fruition, technology companies and retailers decided to join forces. In a blog post at the time, Ford Autonomous Vehicle Business Team member Alexandra Ford English wrote that the research vehicles were operated manually with drivers. Autonomous Driving Startups.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

The project revolved around a competition between five colleges — the University of South Carolina, the University of Oregon, the University of Arizona, Florida State University and UCLA — competing for votes from a general audience on which school could snap the most interesting picture of their college’s name.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

If so, that just adds to the pressure on Uber regarding its self-driving efforts in the aftermath of the March incident in Arizona, in which one of the company’s self-driving prototypes hit and killed a pedestrian (a human was in the car at the time). Another survey provides a similar view in the aftermath of the Arizona accident.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

If so, that just adds to the pressure on Uber regarding its self-driving efforts in the aftermath of the March incident in Arizona in which one of the company’s self-driving prototypes hit and killed a pedestrian (a human was in the car at the time). Another survey provides a similar view in the aftermath of the Arizona accident.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Open Bank (OTCQB: OPBK) Open Bank commenced operations in 2005 as First Standard Bank in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles. and its subsidiary BofI Federal Bank aspire to be the most innovative branchless bank in the United States providing products and services superior to their competitors, branch-based or otherwise.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

The Other Bets unit also reported an operating loss of $732 million, a 16 percent increase from the second quarter of 2017. Though most testing takes place in California, those operations also are conducted in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Michigan and Washington State. Stock Compensation Growth.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

Avis has a pact in place with Google’ autonomous car development company Waymo to help manage self-driving vehicles based and operating in Phoenix, Arizona. Hertz has an agreement with Apple in which the tech giant will lease Lexus SUVs from the car rental firm and test autonomous driving technology.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

When people want coffee or tea, they want it now, and we want their orders to be ready when they are,” Aidan Hay, SVP of Operations at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, said in a press release announcing a mobile order-ahead feature for their app. The Coffee Bean & Tea Life is hardly alone. million active members.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Waymo’s CEO John Krafcik said the company was teaming up with American Axle & Manufacturing to redo a Detroit factory, with the aim of it being operational by the middle of 2019. Waymo already has a robotaxi fleet in Arizona consisting of retrofitted Chrysler Pacifica minivans, with plans to expand the program.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2017

Rather, Waymo is offering households in the Phoenix, Arizona, area a chance to incorporate the company’s self-driving tech into their daily routines — a live test with live folks. Waymo has not disclosed how many total vehicles will be operating in the region during the expanded public tests. Been there, done that.)

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Perficient

MAY 21, 2021

In her first semester at Southwest Minnesota State University, she majored in Computer Science and learned quite a lot about terminals, using Jedit, and also learned about gates and machine languages operating off binary numbers. Emily Merline, originally from Milwaukee, WI, attended Arizona State University on a National Merit Scholarship.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

These are some of the ways that innovators in the dining space are making it easier for consumers to order their favorite foods — and for restaurants to accept their orders: The projected value of online restaurant delivery sales by 2022, compared to $25 billion today, is $62 billion. Indiana University will have them this month.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This week saw Uber carry on in its payments-innovating tradition with the rollout of Uber Cash earlier this week, providing a closed-loop payment network that lets consumers easily add funds to its stored value account for use across the Uber ecosystem. “At That was Uber Freight’s second big announcement of the season, incidentally.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

Malls operated on that theory for years: Put a few anchor stores in to draw foot traffic and the smaller ancillary stores feast on the revenue rewards of being close by. million above and beyond what the Arizona-based firm has already spent on the town itself. In real estate and in retail, location is everything.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In addition, the CFPB has announced the creation of the American Financial Innovation Network (ACFIN) to facilitate coordination between the CFPB, other federal regulators, and state regulators and the CFPB’s issuance of the first NAL under the revised NAL Policy. The CAS Policy revises the structure of third party applications (e.g.

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