PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

The company is boosting the number of engineers it is hiring in and around the Seattle, Washington area. The delivery company has nine openings for engineers around Seattle, according to a report in GeekWire , citing job listings at Postmates.

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JULY 5, 2020

billion for Whole Foods , the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in Seattle’s Eastside neighborhood and is hiring managers for a third store in the city’s Capitol Hill district, The Seattle Times reported. Three years after it paid $13.4 And it’s not stopping there.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2020

SEATTLE — Embedded finance, or the concept of payments and banking being appended to other consumer use cases, is quickly evolving beyond retail and e-commerce, industry executives said at the Bank Innovation Ignite forum in Seattle this week.

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PYMNTS

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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Bank Innovation

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

A merger “could significantly accelerate both Grab and Gojek’s paths to profitability,” Asad Hussain, an analyst at PitchBook Data, a Seattle-based research company, told FT. As a result, sources told FT Son is now among the biggest champions of a merger. COVID-19 disrupted these trends in a material way,” Raj told FT.

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MARCH 14, 2019

Customers increasingly expect banks and other financial institutions to meet them where they are with full functionality, said panelists at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 7, 2018

On Monday the Seattle-based company purchased Mortgage Lenders of America for an undisclosed amount. Online real estate company Zillow has entered the mortgage space. The move solidifies the company’s effort to simplify and streamline the home buying process, according to a company-issued statement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery service will initially be available in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle before expanding to other cities around the country. Amazon will also offer the service for food orders from Whole Markets or Amazon Fresh.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Downdetector.com, the Seattle-based company that collects status reports from a variety of f sources, said there have been nearly 2,000 incidents reported with Apple Music, while more than 200 users flagged issues with iTunes and the App Store. It was unclear how many users and which countries were impacted, the news service reported.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 14, 2019

Umpqua Bank’s Go-To human-digital live support platform is moving to a 24/7 service, Cort O'Haver, President and CEO of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, announced at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday. He said the decision had been made just that morning. Access to the Go-To platform is free for the Portland, Ore.-based

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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

MARCH 28, 2019

Seattle-based Jargon spent a lot of time in advance of its recent $1.8 What Jargon does, according to Brace, is enable a content management system for firms building voice apps for smart assistants like Alexa or the Google assistant to manage and continually develop their voice apps over time.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

And the company also offers up to 40 percent off deals when the Seattle Seahawks play at home, as the airline is based in that city. We’re seeing we’re able to stimulate demand in a way we weren’t sure we’d be able to,” said Natalie Bowman , managing director of marketing and advertising, according to WSJ.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The Seattle-based firm, which did not disclose the purchase price, said in a press release that the transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2021. Avalara , a tax compliance software firm with a focus on the business sector, said on Tuesday (Dec. 29) that it has struck a deal to buy INPOSIA Solutions GmbH.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

What are hiring managers doing, and how is it reflective of the broader economy? hiring managers reported difficulty in finding talent with so-called “soft skills,” the kind of skills workplaces need, said LinkedIn in a new report. Check out below the other data on small business employment released last week. 59% of U.S.

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MARCH 10, 2020

As a result, they can take off the necessary time from work without the concern of giving management a note or running out of sick time. Tim Cook delivered a memo to the tech company’s employees about the continuing COVID-19 outbreak during the weekend.

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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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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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Bank Innovation

MARCH 13, 2019

The customer experience in banking will change drastically over the next 10 years said panelists at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2016

Starbucks announced on Monday (July 25) changes to its management structure in an effort to open new retail concepts, such as “upscale” coffee shops and bakeries.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Her first job at the company was as the product manager in marketing. She was also the CEO of Amazon subsidiary Quidsi, based in her native New Jersey, The Seattle Times reported. She was promoted numerous times, and from 2015 to 2017 she was the first female technical adviser to Jeff Bezos , Amazon’s founder, chairman and CEO.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In June, Walmart reportedly paid some $200 million to buy key assets from CareZone, a Seattle-based health-technology startup that promises to manage prescription drugs for patients. In 2018, Amazon Inc. bought PillPack , the online pharmacy, for $1 billion, as the eCommerce giant expands into the healthcare sector.

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PYMNTS

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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MARCH 1, 2020

Health tech startup Accolade , with headquarters in Seattle and Philadelphia, filed with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise $100 million for an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday (Feb. Lead book-running managers for the IPO included Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and BofA Securities. 28), according to reports. .

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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

JUNE 20, 2019

Sources are saying that Uber wants to acquire Seattle startup Mighty AI. The company — originally called Spare5 — was launched in 2014 out of Seattle-based VC Madrona Venture’s labs, a rival of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That guidance definitely applies to the fast-growing and fast-changing world of digital identity and identity management, as discussed in the latest edition of the PYMNTS Masterclass series. Say a person who lives in Seattle wants to buy a Christmas gift online and ship it to a relative in New York, Kumar explained. Who Is John Smith?

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MARCH 1, 2020

The company works with others, such as Nokia, Dell and PayPal , on managing contracts. It is in competition with Seattle-area startup Icertis. Docusign, which is based in San Francisco, operates its largest base out of Seattle, where it was originally founded in 2003.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2018

The first cashierless Amazon Go store opened in January in Seattle after being in development for five years. However, earlier this year it was reported that there are plans to open additional stores in Seattle. The Amazon Go store is getting ready to expand into San Francisco and Chicago.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Founded in 2007 in San Mateo, California, Zuora is an end-to-end subscription business management platform that provides insights for businesses looking to grow a robust subscription service and build customer loyalty. Its investors include Benchmark Capital, Wellington Capital Management and Shasta Ventures.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

Walmart has purchased a health services technology company that promises to manage prescription drugs for each family member, the Arkansas-based chain announced on Monday (June 15). CNBC reported the world’s largest retailer paid about $200 million for CareZone , the Seattle-based tech start up.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

Management said on a conference call with analysts Thursday that the cash, along with a $2 billion revolver, comes amid the continued impact of COVID-19. He said the core ride-hailing business is down 60 percent to 70 percent in the places where coronavirus is seeing the most impact, such as Seattle.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The space-sharing company, already famous and well-funded for the value it offers to modern, technologically proficient and often geographically separated workforces, keeps making inroads in payments and commerce — in fact, it is getting into software via the just announced acquisition of Teem , which sells office management technology.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

In a press release , Globe Fintech, known as Mynt, said Bow Wave Capital Management and other existing investors all participated in the fundraise. Management is “confident in Mynt’s future prospects as a unicorn in the Philippines,” Cu said in the release. The overall deal values Mynt at close to $1 billion.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

According to the company, the STEPcom takeover strengthens Descartes’ presence in Switzerland and enhances its B2B toolset around the areas of data pool synchronization, product information management and vendor-managed inventory. That takeover agreement was reached for $14 million.

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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Frontline staffers are asking for better pay, internal talent development programs and more flexible work environments.

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