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AUGUST 11, 2020

11), reported by CNBC , that retail behemoth Walmart has struck a partnership with Instacart to offer same-day deliver across a few, select markets in the United States, focused on four initial pilots in Oklahoma and California. Amazon, for its part, said online grocery sales tripled in its latest quarter. News came Tuesday (Aug.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For Aura, an online lending platform for low-income families, reaching underbanked borrowers means going beyond the bank setting and working with retailers to reach customers who may be overlooked by traditional lenders.

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APRIL 30, 2020

The startup Flutterwave , which picked up $35 million last year in venture funding, has launched an online portal that will enable African businesses to set up online shops. The company told TechCrunch that its newly launched product, called Flutterwave Store, is not a shift away from the company’s core online payments business.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Power research shows that the number of customers doing their credit applications online has kicked into high gear. Consumers and Banks Both Like Online Auto Loans. Consumers are apparently so glad to dump the back-office haggle between dealer and bank that roughly one-third of car buyers are now doing the loan process online, J.D.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. But the fintech market has rebounded. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

More than 20 online eCigarette retailers are being sued by New York City for allegedly selling to children. 9) stop 22 online sellers from being allowed to either market or offer eCigarettes to anyone younger than 21. . New York City requested that a Brooklyn federal judge on Wednesday (Oct.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Chipper CEO Ham Serunjogi confirmed on Twitter the startup, which got its initial foothold in the market as a peer-to-peer (P2P) payments service, has just wrapped up a $30 million Series B round of venture capital. The startup has since expanded into eCommerce with a service targeted at retailers and other online merchants, Chipper Checkout.

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JULY 16, 2020

Online learning is likely to become even more prevalent in the months ahead, with many summer camps canceled and questions remaining about how schools will reopen in the fall. A Market Poised For Pandemic-Driven Growth. The global market for online learning services was projected to grow 28.6

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APRIL 11, 2016

That trend continues this week, with some San Francisco-grown AI thrown into the mix. Last week this space saw much of the largest fintech funding rounds taking place outside the U.S. This week we witnessed a major push forward in the process of collaboration between financial institutions (FIs) and startups. This Read More.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

In other organic grocery news, former Sprouts Farmers Market CEO and current Chairman Doug Sanders is reportedly stepping down from his board position effective Feb. Overall, online retail in the U.S. In 2015, grocery purchases accounted for less than 2 percent of the $341 billion spent online. 20 of next year.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Online betting company DraftKings is merging with two other companies and going public, according to a report by the Boston Business Journal. The company currently has offices in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco and Las Vegas. The company is going to merge with Diamond Eagle Acquisition and SBTech.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. Because of the pandemic, he said, younger people have begun investing, seeing the market downturns as an opportunity.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

More than 20 online eCigarette retailers are being sued by New York City for allegedly selling to children. 9) stop 22 online sellers from being allowed to either market or offer eCigarettes to anyone younger than 21. . New York City requested that a Brooklyn federal judge on Wednesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2021

The release stated, in part: “The acquisition provides FLEETCOR with a proven, modern automation platform for B2B online bill payment. Roger was founded by two Danes and has offices in Copenhagen and San Francisco. FLEETCOR is based in Atlanta.

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MARCH 19, 2019

The Global Wellness Institute found that the market for those kinds of offerings was value at $4.2 Chief Revenue Officer Kimberly Kreuzberger said, according to the outlet, “We’re marketing to a very actionable consumer because they’re a shopper.”. While Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Inc.

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JUNE 29, 2020

revved a little higher Monday (June 29) as online car sales platform Shift announced it will go public in the third quarter via a complicated reverse merger arrangement. A spokesperson for Shift indicated that the company expects the move will make online auto sales a three-horse race between Shift, Vroom and Carvana.

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APRIL 7, 2017

LendingClub’s former CEO, Renaud Laplanche, who stepped down in May, sending shockwaves throughout the online lending industry, is gearing up to launch a new lender online called Upgrade. According to a report in Fortune , Upgrade of San Francisco, Calif., Laplanche acknowledged loan missteps at LendingClub when he left.

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JULY 3, 2018

A recent California Supreme Court decision that essentially allows a negative Yelp post to stand about a lawyer could help determine how online reviews are treated in the future. An appeals court rejected Yelp’s argument, but the Supreme Court found in favor of the online review platform. A colleague disagreed.

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MARCH 31, 2020

San Francisco-based Princeville Capital has announced a $50 million investment in Russian online retailer Ozon, which is partly owned by the Russian-based conglomerate Sistema. Ozon , one of Russia’s largest online retailers, has been on a growth spurt over the last few years. million, according to Reuters.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

But consolidation looms, according to some observers, and online food delivery services will eventually have to shift more focus away from consumers and toward restaurant operators in order to thrive in a crowded marketplace. Testing was set for early 2019 in the San Francisco area. Postmates Funding. Food Delivery Pivot?

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

billion and gave it an implied market capitalization of $14 billion. Wish, which is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2010 by ex-Google engineer Peter Szulczewski, runs an online marketplace known largely for selling discounted items from China. This helped Wish raise $1.1 The company said it made over $1.7

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Francesco Simoneschi, co-founder and CEO of TrueLayer, said the “collaboration with Revolut is continuing apace — and this is just the beginning of what will be a fruitful partnership bringing further innovation to the German market.”. Meanwhile, Revolut is close to applying for a U.S. banking license.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

eCommerce market, Bloomberg reported. The company, originally founded in San Francisco, saw more use amid the pandemic as consumers flocked to the internet to do the bulk of their shopping. The unit includes GMarket , one of the country’s biggest online marketplaces. eBay acquired GMarket in 2009 for about $1.2

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Aura, a San Francisco-based fintech offering affordable loans to low to moderate-income households, wants to partner with banks to offer those loans to consumers who have traditionally been unable to secure them from larger institutions.

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Payments Source

MAY 25, 2017

At the recent Google Marketing Next event in San Francisco, Google revealed a new service designed to close the loop between online advertising and offline card payments. It's a service that should have marketers salivating, but it could easily backfire.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

They’re impressed by the delivery company's ability to stay on top of the market and show profits. market, which the company said shows the large potential it has to keep expanding into new markets. The IPO market has been quiet in December in years past, but this year it looks to be bustling.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The 2019 wine retailer of the year was online – specifically, it was a good year for Wine.com. There are gatekeepers for economic reasons all over the world of online retail. The company’s growth has been consistent with the overall online retail category. wine sales are sold online currently.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Stripe , the San Francisco-based company which works to build economic online infrastructure, announced in a press release that Mike Clayville , a 36-year sales veteran of companies like Amazon Web Service (AWS), VMware and BEA Systems, would be joining to help grow the company’s global sales organization.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Many other unicorns, like Uber and Lyft , have gone public and struggled to maintain their value on the market, even though they were coddled for years by private investors. It’s a crowded market, and until autonomous delivery becomes more common, it’s expensive labor-wise. and after 6:30 p.m. on weekdays.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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JUNE 29, 2020

are in talks with Sistema , one of the largest publicly traded companies in Russia, to purchase Ozon , the Russian online retailer, Reuters reported. Funding provided by the key shareholders will enable the company to maintain its high growth pace in 2020 and to continue increasing its market share.”. Amazon and SoftBank Corp.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

The new funding will assist the startup in speeding up team building, supply chain optimizations and market growth. The firm evolved into an online shopping website with a warehouse and delivery network in 2017. The firm evolved into an online shopping website with a warehouse and delivery network in 2017.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Less than two years after Uber Eats leased kitchens in Paris to restaurateurs so they can prepare food for its online ordering and delivery platform, the San Francisco-based company has called it quits. But Kalanick is not giving up.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Verily , an Alphabet company and Google sibling, has established a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)-certified lab at its south San Francisco headquarters, intended to speed up COVID-19 testing. Verily created an online portal to help people determine if they need a test for the virus in March, PYMNTS reported.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego and California Central Coast customers can order from Smart & Final. DoorDash’s on-demand grocery service is a nice addition to our online shopping options, and with delivery in under an hour, we know Smart & Final customers are going to appreciate it.”.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Opendoor , a San Francisco-based startup that offers a one-stop-shop for buying and selling real estate, is negotiating to go public with a California blank-check company, Bloomberg reported. Since then, its 21 markets have reopened. Opendoor is in advanced talks with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

Online gaming and entertainment platform Roblox is holding off on a public listing after the U.S. The SEC is investigating how the San Francisco-area startup allocates revenue. . The company registered for a direct listing , following the path of companies such as Slack and Spotify that went straight to the broader market.

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