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MARCH 12, 2020

Starbucks closed a Seattle store on March 5 after one of its baristas was diagnosed with the virus, but the cafe reopened the next day. “We The company noted that its China headquarters and regional support centers have been reopened, with the exception of the Wuhan support center in the Hubei province.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The company also reported it intends to create tens of thousands of additional jobs and tens of billions of dollars in investments in the surrounding community. for Seattle. “We We expect HQ2 to be a full equal to our Seattle headquarters,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, in an announcement.

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APRIL 22, 2020

The Seattle eCommerce giant said they are partnering with food banks in 25 U.S. Now, more than ever, access to nutritious food is essential to keeping our community healthy,” Abbott wrote. Thanks to Amazon ’s support, we are continuing to deliver senior boxes to the community. There are plans to expand to other U.S.

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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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JULY 27, 2020

.” “Amazon has a longstanding commitment to addressing right-now needs – with over $100 million in donations to homelessness, hunger and disaster relief,” said Alice Shobe, director of Amazon in the Community. ” In Seattle, the eCommerce giant has targeted deliveries to students who are medically fragile and have disabilities.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The megabank and community bank recently announced they're offering accounts through the payment app. Both gave similar reasons: They need big tech to help them attract new customers.

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MAY 17, 2017

Amazon, the nation’s largest online retailer, is taking home delivery to the next level : instead of just delivering goods to customers’ homes, the company will now be providing actual homes for the homeless at its new six-story headquarters in downtown Seattle. The new headquarters is projected to open in 2020.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Apart from online sales, they have brick and mortar stores in Seattle, Portland, Denver and Whistler, 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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JANUARY 27, 2020

The city can’t hope to compete in every way with heavy-hitters like Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and Silicon Valley, which captured nine out of 10 jobs between 2005 and 2017. So it will have to go its own way with the new institute to be called the Roux Institute after Silicon Valley investor David Roux, its patron.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Seattle Bank has launched a new website and mobile app, CD Valet, to assist customers in finding the most competitive certificate of deposit (CD) rates while leveling the competitive playing field between large financial institutions and community banks.

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APRIL 17, 2020

CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 35, used his Facebook page to post the Seattle-based company’s latest effort to protect the social media platform’s users and employees from the coronavirus , TheVerge reported. I hope this helps contain the spread of Covid-19 so we can keep our communities safe and get back up and running again soon,” he said.

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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Reports from Seattle and California say the company is adding a new format and expanding beyond its Amazon Go and Whole Foods brands. The ideas that receive enough votes from the community will be considered by the Instacart team. The normally staid and stable supermarket business is suddenly a hotbed of activity.

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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. They’ve built a secure and scalable marketplace for AI models that allows developers to openly collaborate.”.

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AUGUST 24, 2019

The prison, which is located near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, “has taken the unusual step of placing Thompson in a cell with her former housemate, Park Quan, with whom Thompson has expressed a preference for sharing a cell,” prosecutors said in the filing on Thursday (Aug. On Friday (Aug.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It was reported over the weekend that the eCommerce giant was in late-stage discussions with a handful of communities, including Crystal City in northern Virginia, Dallas and New York City. Many of these communities were hoping to brand themselves as the co-headquarters with Seattle,” he said. “I

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BankInovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

is turning the typical banking tie-up formula on its head with plans to acquire First Sound Bank, a Seattle-based community business lender. Financial-technology firm BM Technologies Inc. BM Technologies agreed to acquire First Sound for as much as $7.22

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JANUARY 23, 2019

“We developed Amazon Scout at our research and development lab in Seattle, ensuring the devices can safely and efficiently navigate around pets, pedestrians and anything else in their path,” the company said. We are delighted to welcome Amazon Scout into our community,” he stated.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

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 donations, volunteer service, and so much more.”. In May Munchery said it was planning to focus on its largest market, which was San Francisco, in an effort to become profitable.

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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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APRIL 15, 2020

This latest financing comes as Airbnb bookings in San Francisco, New York City, and Seattle fell by more than 50 percent compared to the week beginning Jan. 5, according to a report by CityLab.Com last week. During the same period, reservations slipped by more than 35 percent in Washington, D.C., and Chicago, the survey revealed.

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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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JULY 24, 2018

The Accelerator , a program designed to support early-stage startups using voice to deliver transformative customer and business experiences, will be hosted in Seattle this summer.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Well-known private-equity firms Silver Lake and Apollo are poised to buy a $1 billion minority stake in Seattle-based travel listing giant Expedia Group Inc., The new money is expected to support Airbnb’s investment in its community of hosts who share their homes, the company said at the time. according to The Wall Street Journal.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

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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 Innovator Awards.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The pop-up shop will be located in The Market @ Macy’s in New York City, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, now through early February.

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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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APRIL 8, 2019

“Our mission is to help these people build financial security and help them remain committed to their communities,” Landed co-founder Alex Lofton said. “We Landed said it has helped 200 teachers so far in areas like San Francisco Bay, Seattle and Denver. We try to stay flexible to people’s realities.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Donations from AmazonSmile have resulted in hundreds of thousands of charities expanding their meaningful work across global communities making a difference in people’s lives,” Amazon Vice President of Consumer Engagement Llew Mason said in a prepared statement. “We Seattle; and Orlando, Fla. Alexandria, Va.; Ann Arbor, Mich.;

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

• Alliant Credit Union, which offers services to the communities around O’Hare International Airport and based in Chicago, captured the top spot for the Midwest. Many credit unions, like top-ranked Boeing Employees Credit Union (BECU), headquartered just outside of Seattle, have invested in growing this segment of their portfolios.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

“These market closures have an effect not just on riders, but on our whole Lime community. He added that the company is “hopeful we can reintroduce Lime back into these communities when the time is right.”. The Silicon Valley transportation startup was founded in 2017 as LimeBike, rolling out with 500 bicycles in Seattle.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

It seems the brick-and-mortar arena continues to entice online merchants, as the store opened its doors at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters. The Whole Foods physical imprint also leaves room for tailor-made experiences, from gourmet prepared meals (cooked on site or packaged and ready to go), classes and a community feel.

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MAY 11, 2020

Our goal is to take the conscious consumers away from Amazon and put them in a channel that supports local independent businesses and keeps bookstores in their communities,” said Bookshop’s Founder and CEO Andy Hunter , which “are really essential to our cultural fabric when it comes to books.”.

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MARCH 22, 2018

Some in the industry believe that you must either focus on a retail experience that is about community or a retail experience that is about convenience, you cannot do both,” he said at the company’s annual meeting in Seattle. “We We do not buy into the false trade-off.”.

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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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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. Several states have instituted caps on the fees that apps and platforms can charge on restaurants. But the ripple effect threatens to spill over onto the aggregators.

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