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JUNE 29, 2018

Google is getting into the grocery delivery market, with NBC News reporting that it is testing a same-day delivery service that will bring food and other online orders to consumers’ doorsteps. If the test is successful, Google told NBC News it could expand into other markets.

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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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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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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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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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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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OCTOBER 22, 2019

According to CNBC, the “San Francisco 49ers announced Monday that season ticket holders next year will get unlimited food and beverage items at Levi’s Stadium, as part of the team’s ‘Member Inclusive Menu’ initiative. “I The latest example of that comes from the NFL.

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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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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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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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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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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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AUGUST 13, 2020

Sources told Bloomberg News in advance of the release of Q2 earnings that the San Francisco-based online vacation rental marketplace’s revenue fell to $335 million in the period ending June 30. When the market is ready, we will be ready,” Chesky wrote in an email to staff obtained by the WSJ. “We Airbnb Inc.

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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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AUGUST 19, 2020

real estate market has spent the summer booming despite an economy hit hard by the pandemic. We’re basically seeing one of the most robust housing markets that we’ve ever seen,” Uher said. “We’re We’re basically seeing one of the most robust housing markets that we’ve ever seen,” Uher said.

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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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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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JANUARY 30, 2019

Stripe, the San Francisco digital payments startup, has landed a $100 million investment from Tiger Global Management, boosting its valuation above $20 billion. Stripe is a leader in the market, with its platform that enables electronic payments and secure transactions both in-store and online.

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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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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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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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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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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. Amazon must like the supermarket business. Three years after it paid $13.4

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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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Word of mouth has moved online. So, in a customer service-focused industry like accounting, it quite literally pays to know what’s being said about you and your firm online. A Yelp search for accountants in San Francisco turns up four pages of opinions on independent accountants and CPAs, as well as small and large firms.

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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APRIL 14, 2020

As an example, Ocado, Britain’s leading online grocer, has had to stress-test an experimental program to automate its warehouses. Tally had its test run at a Target store in San Francisco, although the company has not announced plans to expand as of yet. The robotic rise can be seen in two key areas: fulfillment and in-store.

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

The report noted Deliverr, which is based in San Francisco, uses machine learning and predictive intelligence to ascertain which warehouses have the clients’ merchandise. Deliverr said it will use the funding to grow its team and ink more partnerships with more online retailers. They didn’t build their own taxis.

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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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AUGUST 5, 2020

4) night after the San Francisco-based financial services company posted better-than-expected quarterly results for its mobile payment app. Analysts at Refinitiv, the London-based global provider of financial market data, had predicted a 5 cent loss. Square saw its shares skyrocket Tuesday (Aug. CNBC reported the company had $1.92

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Monzo , an online bank out of London, has added loans to its menu of services, the Financial Times reported on Thursday (Aug. can apply for loans as the online bank advances its efforts toward profitability. . The eBank joins smaller rival Starling Bank on the lending front, becoming the second online bank in the U.K.

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