PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Uber Technology is reportedly offering $2.6 As Americans head into Fourth of July barbecues and related celebrations, they are showing few, if any, signs that they’re declaring independence from the takeout and delivery services that have surged in popularity during COVID-19’s social distancing. Need proof?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

As they are busy managing jobs, soccer practice, dance lessons and social schedules we are on a mission to do more than keep a little extra money in their pockets,” Tom Ward, senior vice president of Digital Operations, Walmart U.S., Customers love our Grocery Delivery service. said in a press release.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Uber Technologies, the ride-hailing startup, announced on Thursday (Sept. As part of the deal, Uber’s self-driving technology will be implemented in Toyota Sienna minivans that will be used by Uber drivers. The cars could be owned and operated by fleet managers outside of Uber , noted the report.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

The delivery company also said that it’s been testing self-driving trucks on a freight route in Arizona since May. From the regulatory perspective there is a long way to go,” said Todd Lewis, managing partner at UPS Ventures. But the technology has a ton of implications today.”. The size of the investment was not disclosed.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Country Manager Lars Petersson said, “We recognize that we are in a rapidly changing retail environment, and to be fit for long-term growth, IKEA is transforming in a way that lets us meet our customers where they are.” As it stands, Amazon Go stores in Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco use the cashierless technology.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

On September 17, 2021 in the Scottsdale, Arizona desert, I delivered a speech to a ballroom full of bankers titled: 5 Things I Wish We Did Better. Number 1 on that list: Project Management. We have to be able to identify, implement, utilize and market technology solutions using PPP-level speed and urgency. Can it be done?

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Management Community Bank Community Arizona 78

PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

Volara , the company that makes a hotel concierge service powered by Alexa for Business , announced news on Wednesday (April 18) that it is bringing the technology to hotel guests. A trial of the expanded capabilities is currently being tested at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess hotel in Arizona.

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Arizona Conference Technology Management 108

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

It’s not uncommon for new management at a company, upon taking the corner office, to take a look at what he or she has been left. Those would include the self-driving cars, the drone business and the various “smart” technologies. So may be the case with Alphabet, parent company of Google. billion through the past year.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It’s been a long two years since bankers and investment bankers nationwide made their annual pilgrimage to the Arizona desert for the Acquire or Be Acquired conference – and ohhh man, a completely different world has emerged since the January 2020 get-together! Technology Management Breaking the Bank?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

“We’ve spent the last two and a half years building an amazing team, launching our first unmanned service, working with incredible partners and creating technology to fundamentally improve our daily lives,” said Nuro Co-founder Dave Ferguson in the press release. It will also bring on more employees.

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Arizona Regional Technology Capital 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The suit was filed by San Francisco-based Partner Fund Management in Delaware Court of Chancery on Monday October 10. The letter accuses Theranos, founder Elizabeth Holmes and a former executive of deception by claiming that “proprietary technologies that worked” had been developed and were close to regulatory approval.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

We have been investing with Aura for the past four years because we strongly believe in the company’s mission and credit culture,” said Fernando Guerrero, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Varadero Capital. It’s available in 1,200 locations throughout California, Texas, Illinois and Arizona.

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ABA Community Banking

APRIL 13, 2018

California regulator down on sandboxes Management Financial Trends Technology Fintech. First state effort explained by top lawyer.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2017

It had to choose between three platforms that had seen success at its 450 locations across California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii and two international markets. The important thing, according to Round Table Pizza Director of Business Technology Andrew Kohn, was to continue to make it look easy.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The company works in partnership with fleet managers to deploy those vehicles, or sells them outright, and has clients such as supermarket chain Lidl. The company’s products have no cabs, which makes the vehicles lighter and less costly to fuel than trucks that require drivers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2017

Arizona temps grounded flights last week when they got about 120, and even the Pacific Northwest saw temperatures get up over the 100 mark in Portland. And if you can’t stay cool this summer – and odds are if you’re reading this from Arizona you can’t – we can at least keep you very well informed. But as for the lazy, well not so much.

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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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Utah Arizona Innovation Regulation 60

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

The ride-sharing technology provider managed to trim its loss in the second quarter of 2018 , to $891 million from the $1.1 Uber so far has spent $2 billion on self-driving technology development, the report said. If it spent $200 million, that would equal 22 percent of the quarterly loss. Uber’s Q2 revenue was about $2.8

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Arizona Survey Phoenix Technology 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

The ride-sharing technology provider managed to trim its loss in the second quarter of 2018 , to $891 million from the $1.1 Uber does not report figures associated with its work on self-driving technology. Uber so far has spent $2 billion on self-driving technology development, the report said.

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Arizona Survey Phoenix Technology 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

The two car rental giants are the poster cases for the ways technology may be forcing an entire business model, well, off the road. The longer-range plan, as noted by Bloomberg, and one that takes aim at technology, involves leasing cars to Uber drivers, a business model currently in the pilot testing stage. There’s an app for that.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Universities working to enroll thousands of new students online face many of the same challenges that currently plague financial institutions (FIs) and insurance firms: They are struggling to keep out bad actors while managing surges in digital interactions. percent of their annual budgets on IT development.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Insurance agencies are looking to leverage technology to improve driver safety (and save policyholders some cash). Last week, telematics solutions provider Automatic and American Family Insurance (AmFam) announced a partnership to develop connected car technology to both increase driver safety and reduce insurance costs.

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Indiana Arizona Mobile Data 101

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In 2017, an Arizona Diamondbacks coach was fined for violating Major League Baseball’s on-field regulations because he wore an Apple Watch in the dugout. In 2015, a similar incident occurred with Kansas City Royals Manager Ned Yost.”. That’s a long and silly way of saying that Apple seems to be winning the wearables war.

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Apple South Dakota Alabama Kansas City 123

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Olo was the mobile order-ahead technology firm that Red Robin enlisted to enable mobile order-ahead.) Which means, while they have been upgrading their technology and digital capacities, the focus hasn’t only been on sending food out to customers. Our hosts are being trained via the new system on dine-in seating and to-go standards.

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North Carolina Colorado Training Oklahoma 108

PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

The meal kit startup, an alternative to visits to grocery stores, has hired Steve Robinson, former head of global logistics and supply chain at Starbucks, and Brian McEvoy, former assistant general manager at meal kit competitor Blue Apron, to lead its scalability efforts.

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Idaho Operations Leadership Nevada 118

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

million round of Series A funding, via technology that they say will enable collaborative, real-time interactions between providers, payers and members. A year from now, Cohen said, they hope to be out in the field in California and Arizona, and hopefully announcing that “we have nailed the patient experience piece.”.

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Payments System Arizona Resources 139

PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

Brown was far from the only voice on the committee during the hearing with sharp words for the manager Facebook sent. should “absolutely” lead the way when it comes to creating global cryptocurrency structures — and further asserted it is Facebook’s belief that blockchain technology is inevitable and it falls to the U.S. Arizona Sen.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

states, with only Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Washington labeling DFS as illegal. The betting platform – which is managed via DraftKings, which won the competitive bid for the project – has been operating since late December, and saw a spike in activity over the weekend.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Collectively, these startups have raised over $9.5B, with leading companies including lending startup Avant (Illinois, $655M in total disclosed equity funding), next-gen auto insurer Root Insurance (Ohio, $509M), restaurant finances management system Toast (Massachusetts, $503M), and small business lending startup Kabbage (Georgia, $490M).

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United States Fintech North Carolina Rhode Island 72

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Notable companies that are not featured in the map above include Arizona’s BeyondTrust ($195M in total disclosed funding), Minnesota’s Code42Software ($138M), and three companies in Georgia: Pindrop Security ($134M), Ionic Security ($123M), and the company Core Security ($231), which recently agreed to merge with SecureAuth.

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Colorado Maryland California Massachusetts 74

CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 11, 2018

earlier this week, the OCC’s recent decision to accept applications from non-depository financial technology firms for a special purpose national bank (SPNB) charter was the focus of considerable discussion. At the Online Lending Policy Institute’s (OLPI) annual summit in Washington, D.C. Questions directed at Ms.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 17, 2018

Using the CB Insights database, we identified the most-well funded VC-backed technology startups by state based on disclosed equity funding. Tilson Technology Management. Weather Decision Technologies. First Name. The Most Well-Funded Tech Startups By US State (2015 – 1/8/2018). Disclosed Equity Funding ($M).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Cason Grover, who manages Hyundai Motor America ’s connected car program, recently spoke with PYMNTS about how the integration of virtual assistants could change how consumers and automakers view vehicles. With a virtual navigator along for the ride, how will consumer attitudes toward vehicles change? Rethinking the car.

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Las Vegas Google System Arizona 100

Bobsguide

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This project has served as an impetus for us to address customer and employee frustration points, simplify and de-risk how we do business, and make us more agile in adapting to future digital technology, customer and regulatory expectations.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

and its area of retail specialty is marijuana; particularly the growth and technology that supports it. American Green managed to buy the whole thing – all 120 acres of the town – for a very reasonable $5 million. million above and beyond what the Arizona-based firm has already spent on the town itself. Why Buy A Town?

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Las Vegas Nevada California Retail 109

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

While historically a “pen and pencil” business, technology has begun to push the global real estate market into digitized approaches. In this analysis, we dig into how blockchain technology could change the real estate industry, and the areas where we’re already seeing its impact. Property management. Title management.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Early this week, the conference was the epicenter of discussions, where 2,000 attendees descended upon Arizona to strategize and set the tone for our great industry’s future. As disruptive innovation finds a home in banking, the industry anticipates a surge in technology’s ability to drive tangible business outcomes.

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