PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Lime is striving to reach profitability in 2020 and is laying off about 14 percent of its workforce — roughly 100 people — and ceasing operations in 12 markets, according to reports on Thursday (Jan. These market closures have an effect not just on riders, but on our whole Lime community. billion valuation, making it a unicorn.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, Phoenix, Dallas and New York City. Our community is counting on us to put their health and safety first,” said Angie Westbrock, vice president of global operations and head of Lyft’s COVID-19 Response Task Force, in a prepared statement. “By The company said it sells them to drivers at no profit.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Weee, which was started in 2015, began as a community buying platform that received Asian spices and fresh produce, among other items. The company provides its offering in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle. The firm evolved into an online shopping website with a warehouse and delivery network in 2017.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 25, 2019

Eleven startups participated in the Demovation challenge at the Bank Innovation Ignite conference in Seattle earlier this month. These startups, diverse in focus, comprised a wide range of the fintech ecosystem, including payments, security and blockchain.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Airbnb and HomeAway are facing calls from a group of lawmakers and community groups that want the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the firms, alleging the home rentals are operating as hotels. In fact, last year, over 350 people used the money they earned sharing their space in Seattle to avoid eviction or foreclosure.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Coffee Meets Bagel is listed as one of the alumni members of WeWork Labs , which “provides the community, education, connections and mentorship to help anyone take the startup path and grow with us,” WeWork said. “We but in Seattle, it attracted three new hires fairly quickly,” the report said. The company has reportedly raised $23.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

There’s no shortage of growing small businesses and entrepreneurs in Atlanta , but there was a shortage of purpose-built space that allows a business to operate like a business, store and ship product, and also provide a community of peers and collaboration. Saltbox is the solution.”.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The idea that community banking can be a force for positive change is at the heart of Beneficial State Bank, which engages its customers through financial activism. billion-asset community bank in Oakland, Calif., When it comes down to it, though, the community bank’s mission is radically simple. Photo: Ashley Courter.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As reported last week, Bear Down Logistics is no longer working with Amazon, with the firm cutting hundreds of jobs in the wake of that severance, and effectively ceasing operations across five states. There are another 120 workers slated to be let go in Michigan. “We Yet, in a competitive market, pay may matter.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Washington state became the latest example late last month, as reported by Eater Seattle , and joins New Jersey and cities such as New York City, as PYMNTS reported. DoorDash is branching out to other services, such as a “ghost convenience store” that is a nod to operating a brick-and-mortar service.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

Bungalow also helps to create a sense of community through exclusive social events and volunteer opportunities so residents can get to know each other. “My It was hard to find a great home and even harder to build a supportive community away from friends and family,” Andrew Collins, co-founder and CEO of Bungalow, said in a press release. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2020

San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and Jersey City were among the first communities to implement caps on delivery fees through emergency orders last month. If the two giant delivery services merge, it would create the biggest restaurant food delivery operation nationwide.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2017

Seattle-based Algorithmia allows companies to make use of recent machine-learning advances, with algorithms on the site developed by university researchers and individual developers worldwide. The back-end operations, the scaling. But there aren’t that many that are enabling this. Everybody believes that toolset is necessary.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Really, the focus is on building the right type of community. The Lenfest Institute’s mission is to develop and support sustainable business models for local journalism,” said the institute’s Director of Operations Ken Herts. “We It’s not about Facebook tools and services,” Grant noted.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

had hit 1267 and there were 38 deaths, most of them concentrated north of Seattle, Washington. A restaurant operator still wants her restaurant to be one that largely welcomes patrons for a pleasant dining experience, even though takeout and delivery got her over the hump during the darkest days of the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2016

Come July 27, customers in the Orlando area will be eligible to get their drink on courtesy of Shipt and partnering retailer ABC Fine Wine & Spirits , which operates 150 locations across Florida. It’s a partnership that’s been a long time in the making for Shipt, said Community Manager Anne Adams. “As

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

Call it trend or phenomenon, cashierless operations are popping up back by influential money. As we read in the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ , “eCommerce giant Amazon is among the companies tapping into unattended operations to keep time-strapped customers satisfied. Amazon Go’ Cashless. Now, it’s downright fun.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 3, 2015

ROADS to Financial Independence will operate in six communities through 19 participating organizations. The six communities are located in Austin, Texas; Birmingham, Alabama; Finger Lakes, New York; Seattle, Washington; and throughout the state of Delaware and Greater Washington, DC Metro Area.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

Apart from online sales, they have brick-and-mortar stores (in Seattle, Portland, Denver and Whistler, and British Columbia, with a 100,000-square-foot retail operation under construction in Salt Lake City), an adventure travel business and an outreach program to local retailers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

The company ceased operations in late January after laying off 30 percent of its workforce in May 2018. That came after it shut down service in Seattle, Los Angels, and New York. We have also enjoyed giving back to our community through meal kit donations, volunteer service, and so much more.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In a web post , Target Chief Operating Officer John Mulligan said, “We have more than 1,800 stores in neighborhoods across the country, where we’re already offering local shipping, pickup and delivery services. Beyond suburban neighborhoods, robots have been making deliveries on college campuses.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

But Recology CleanScapes — an operating company under Recology — is different from most of what is out there in retail. In the intervening four years, three new shops have opened in other Recology communities. Opening up a brick-and-mortar shop is usually not something one just happens to do.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2018

According to reports, store number two will also be in Seattle, about a mile from the first location. Amazon said it is “excited to bring Amazon Go to 920 5th Avenue in Seattle” for those who couldn’t quite travel that last mile. was cleared for launch, and coming soon. The store will open in Fall 2018. billion. “As

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

We are thrilled to expand Rebag’s retail footprint to the Miami community. Brookfield Properties operates some of the most exciting and visited malls in the country, and we are thrilled to introduce our CBD shops to their centers,” Green Growth Brands CEO Peter Horvath said in a press release. Operating hours span from 6 a.m.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Walmart said in the announcement of the training, “the upskilled workforce will help the retailer make quality healthcare more affordable and accessible for customers in the communities it serves.”. Beyond the training program, Walmart’s Sam’s Club is collaborating with multiple healthcare companies to offer discounts on routine care.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

Like a few communities in the U.S., In Seattle, Cisco, HP, Yahoo and other companies have worked with the Scoop app to facilitate about 650,000 carpool trips since 2015. And employers like LinkedIn in California, where Scoop also operates, are seeing the benefits.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 29, 2015

For some community banks, video tellers, sometimes called interactive teller machines or ITMs, can work well for select markets or under certain conditions, experts say. Still, some community banks haven’t considered the extra hardware investment in video ATMs worthwhile yet, Seibert says. James Johnson, PCSB Bank.

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Filene

JANUARY 26, 2016

FS-ISAC on Cyber Community Defense: The Importance of Information Sharing. A slate of information security leaders from credit unions just like your's: WSECU, David Luchtel, Vice President - Infrastructure and Operations. Cybersecurity governance responsibilities: Randy Gainer, Partner, BakerHostetler, Seattle, WA.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

Even so recent news does show that the brand — now owned by a France-based operation after Atari all but faded out after the late 1970s and early 1980s video game craze and the massive industry crash that followed — is making a play to take part in the emerging trend of making hotels more attractive to gaming-minded consumers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

At the time, the retailer said it would leverage its stores and Shipt’s proprietary technology platform and community of shoppers to bring same-day delivery to Target customers around the country. The team is moving remarkably quick,” John Mulligan, Target’s chief operations officer, said.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 7, 2019

billion in assets community bank with 22 branches that encircle the Seattle Sound. Founded in 1980, Plumas Bank is a full-service community bank headquartered in Quincy in Northeastern California. The bank operates thirteen branches, eleven in northern California and two in Nevada. (NASDAQ: FSBW) FS Bancorp, Inc.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

“It’s taking longer to get things into our warehouse than out of our warehouse,” CFO Brian Olsavsky told investors after earnings were announced, adding that it’s still unclear when operations will go back to normal. Starting this week in Seattle, some downtown restaurants got a delivery option provided at no charge from Amazon.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

Both of the nation’s mega-retail players have spent the week strategizing how to strike a balance between three goals — protecting their thousands of employees, serving their massive customer bases and keeping supply chains operating at as close to normal as imaginable given the highly abnormal circumstances.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Postmates is on the verge of snagging San Francisco’s first-ever permit for sidewalk robotics operations, per reports. Well, if all of these California test drives go according to plan, anyway. Postmates Takes San Francisco .

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Industry-specific tech talent is consolidating and migrating to programmer and megabank community hotspots in San Jose, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta and Phoenix. Attracting and keeping technology talent at a regionally based financial institution is a constant struggle.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to reports, Amazon Go will be coming to a 10,400 square-foot grocery store in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, where it is currently being tested. Personal data can be exploited by foreign intelligence services to amplify the impact of espionage and influence operations,” the letter said. and Puerto Rico.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 3, 2019

NACTO is an association of 63 American cities and 10 transit agencies across North America, including Seattle and the King County Metro and New York and the MTA. This data is presented through visuals to help engage stakeholders and community members. NACTO’s SharedStreets is trying to create the OS of the streets.

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