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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The eCommerce operator reportedly is leasing some 500,000 square feet of space in a three-story warehouse in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle, according to The Wall Street Journal. As the company had been testing the robot in Seattle, it was said to be accustomed to many different types of weather conditions, including that of sunny California.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv. Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty.

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MAY 12, 2017

Seattle startup FLEXE looks to enable online retailers to compete against Amazon’s logistics capabilities. Earlier this month, the online retail giant dropped its free shipping threshold to $25 in a move to better compete against Walmart — the second such price drop in the past three months.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

According to The Seattle Times , a company spokesperson confirmed that employees received an email notification and apology from Co-president Blake Nordstrom last week regarding the breach. Employees who may not have regular access to corporate email accounts were being notified by their managers at work.

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JULY 13, 2020

And the retailer ponied up a reported $200 million for pieces of Seattle-based startup CareZone ’s technology, which personalizes prescription drug management for individuals. Taking unbundling online, direct-to-consumer (D2C) startups like TruePill are championing virtualized prescribing and fulfillment.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking. IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. The […].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Sure, the lines separating those three areas can be both fine and blurry, but understanding how they differ can mean the difference between success and failure — or even the difference between falling victim to fraud and fending off online criminals. You want to create a holistic view of that person,” Kumar said. Who Is John Smith?

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2016

SEATTLE — The Silicon Valley model for its startups is well-known. Heck, there’s a Wikipedia for it. It centers on a simple principle: build a business that scales, no matter the initial profitability. And then scale it like mad. Or, in technical terms, build a business that has the potential Read More.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle. INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite.

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AUGUST 4, 2019

The FBI arrested a Seattle area woman, Paige A. Thompson even boasted about using techniques to access the sensitive data in online forums. After looking at her online messages, the WSJ reported that Thompson first ran a scan of the internet in March to find vulnerable computers.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1. Many applied, few were chosen.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

German-based discount-supermarket giant ALDI announced a great leap forward into the world of digital sales this week with word that it will be piloting a new “click-and-collect” online grocery ordering program at a single U.K. Target also announced big changes in how it’s managing foot traffic. and Ireland, told the Financial Times.

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JUNE 3, 2019

Amazon , the Seattle, Washington eCommerce giant, is expanding in the U.K., small businesses, to launch Clicks and Mortar, a new program that helps small businesses grow in-store and online. small businesses, to launch Clicks and Mortar, a new program that helps small businesses grow in-store and online.

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MARCH 8, 2016

To say the least, the retail world was caught off guard when Amazon announced last year that it would open a brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle. “If you look at how the store is laid out, it seems to be set up to gather information about customers, much like they do online, and seeing whether that works in real life.

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JUNE 16, 2020

Walmart has purchased CareZone, a health services technology company that promises to manage prescription drugs for customers and simplify the ordering and payment process. The the world’s largest retailer paid about $200 million for the Seattle-based tech startup. Walmart Boosts Digital Health, Wellness Capabilities With CareZone Buy.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The feature is currently only available at two Amazon Go stores in Seattle, but the eCommerce giant plans to expand it to its other checkout-free stores. Fifty percent of businesses say manual processes, sluggish payments and high operating costs have made managing accounts receivable departments nerve-wracking over the last six months.

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APRIL 16, 2020

“Everything that we are doing on grocery and convenience is driven by the fact that we are seeing strong consumer appetites from new consumption trends, people who are confined and cannot go out,” European General Manager Stephane Ficaja told Reuters in a Thursday (April 16) report.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Companies are seeking smaller warehouses and industrial spaces that are close to major cities with the growth of online shopping and the push for faster delivery. And, in May, a Seattle-based startup that manages an on-demand warehouse marketplace, Flexe , notched $43 million in a series B funding round.

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MARCH 6, 2018

Nordstrom has announced a partnership with Anthropologie that will feature more than 200 items from Anthropologie Home at 15 Nordstrom locations, as well as online. Downtown Seattle (Seattle, Wash.); The new Anthropologie Home collection will be available starting March 19. Bellevue Square (Bellevue, Wash.);

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JULY 30, 2019

POSaBIT, based in Seattle, already manages millions of transactions for over 120 dispensaries across Washington, California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and Oklahoma. The three-year pilot program is intended to ease the payments situation for the local cannabis industry and create an online system for digital currency.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Feedvisor, an algorithmic commerce startup that helps sellers optimize their inventory and increase sales in online marketplaces, has secured $20 million in Series B funding from General Catalyst. Founded in Israel, Feedvisor also has an office in Seattle. This brings the site’s total amount raised to $33 million.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Friday (June 17) saw Amazon announce the location of its third brick-and-mortar bookstore that will complement its growing network of locations in Seattle and San Diego. Is that enough of a difference to manifest itself in the way shoppers in Portland and Seattle peruse books on Amazon’s B&M shelves? Los Angeles?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Amazon’s yearly sales represent about 15 percent of total online sales among consumers in the U.S., But the Seattle eCommerce company may actually be handling double that amount — 20–30 percent of all U.S. shoppers spend online could be as high as $125 billion yearly. online sales at 31.3 percent as of today. “If

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MARCH 9, 2017

While much has been made in the past few months about Amazon’s grocery store of the future, Amazon Go isn’t the online retailer’s only brick-and-mortar play — and a new move indicates that Amazon looks to continue expanding its physical retail presence outside of the grocery space. That’s not all.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Call it maybe — just maybe — a prudent financial management strategy, with the thesis that not all debt is created equal. News comes this week, as reported by The Seattle Times, that U.S. Call it a case of six of one, half dozen of the other. Call it a case of financial alchemy. Aggregate debt levels are at recent highs.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

as well as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. Consumers and quick-service restaurant (QSR) managers favorably view digital technologies for ordering: According to the PYMNTS Restaurant Readiness Index , 64.5 percent of QSR managers and 83.6 FoodBoss is available in markets from Chicago to Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2018

With more than $95 million in financing placed, startups across eProcurement, cybersecurity, logistics, alternative finance, blockchain and supply chain management secured support. The company provides an online marketplace for small businesses (SMBs) in the country to procure raw materials and negotiate with larger suppliers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2017

Some were already investors in the startup, which is headquartered in New York City and will use the funding to expand into Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., It’s time-consuming and difficult to navigate, with many businesses not even having a presence online.”. and Chicago.

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MARCH 30, 2020

So it is with verticals such as ride-hailing and the online firms that serve them, promising disruption to getting people to and from where they need to go. Management said on a conference call with analysts that the cash, along with a $2 billion revolver, comes amid the continued impact of COVID-19.

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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.” Pizza Hut plans to acquire online ordering software provider QuikOrder. In the announcement, IKEA Retail U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

Walmart is apparently working hard at restructuring itself to win, particularly in regards to how it manages it growing its eCommerce business — operationally and logistically. “Walmart’s results show it’s a food fight out there, with Amazon re-accelerating holiday sales growth,” Evercore Analyst Greg Melich said on Feb. The Battlegrounds.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Even in an age when shoppers can order groceries online and have them delivered straight to their doors, the vast majority of consumers are still shopping the traditional way – hopping in their cars and heading to their local brick-and-mortar grocery store to shop the aisles or pick up an online order. Roughly three in 10 – or 27.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

Online retail giant Amazon continues on its path to being a purveyor of everything. In this latest expansion, Amazon looks to be preparing to launch its own line of workout clothes, adding to its current apparel offering of shoes, dresses, suits and its latest offering, a dress shirt line called Button Down.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Going forward, Temares outlined initiatives for the retailer, including adoption of a new technology model, finding a new chief information officer and establishing a strategic portfolio management office. The decision to drop 880 department and assistant store manager positions earlier this year falls under that same restructuring effort.

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MARCH 9, 2020

The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. What will factor into any restaurant or restaurant group’s success in tomorrow’s online world are the numbers and demographics of just how tourist-traveled your city, town, or region is going forward.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Spin is a San Francisco-based bike-sharing service that announced news that it is going online for the first time this week in the Bay Area — after previously having launched in Seattle and Dallas. In Seattle, it was an interesting experience.

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