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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Revolut said its new open banking offer was developed with TrueLayer , a London-based financial technology (FinTech) company. According to a report by CNBC , Revolut is likely to seek a charter with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and California’s Division of Financial Institutions. banking license.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Cashierless stores aren’t just for mega retailers like Amazon to sell prepared food from their kitchens or products from other producers: Beverage brands, among other companies, are getting into the action and choosing this checkout experience for stores that showcase their own products IRL (“in real life”) as a marketing tool.

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MAY 22, 2017

Menlo Ventures , the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, closed a new $450 million venture capital fund aimed at investing in early stage companies focused in the consumer, enterprise and so-called frontier technologies markets. Menlo Ventures said the fund was oversubscribed, with existing investors and new ones participating.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The San Francisco Chronicle , citing a letter to the California Employment Development Department sent by Apple, reported the layoffs are happening at Project Titan , its self-driving car unit. The firm speculated then that the Project Titan self-driving car unit would be shuttered, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

Business payments firm FLEETCOR Technologies has acquired accounts payable (AP) platform provider Roger , Fleetcor announced in a press release. Roger was founded by two Danes and has offices in Copenhagen and San Francisco. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. FLEETCOR is based in Atlanta.

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JUNE 29, 2020

“We are excited to partner with Shift and its world-class management team as it leverages its technology platform to disrupt the $840+ billion used car market,” said Daniel Cohen, chairman of the board of directors of Insurance Acquisition Corp. Merging with Insurance Acquisition Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Part of Alibaba’s investment would go to buying up some of the Grab stock owned by San Francisco-based Uber Technologies , sources told Bloomberg. An investment by Alibaba’s could boost the growth of Lazada in its fight for market share with Tencent-backed Shopee, Bloomberg reported.

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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 told Reuters earlier in March that it has talked to investment banks about a possible stock market listing. million, according to Reuters.

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MARCH 19, 2019

According to a Fintech Finance report, Gottschalk will be based in San Francisco and will focus on strengthening the fund via investment opportunities in the region. Gottschalk comes to Santander InnoVentures from Blumberg Capital where he was principal for seven years based in San Francisco.

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It is in locations like San Francisco and Miami but less so in Philadelphia. Because of strong corporate earnings and substantial employment, the office market is getting a reprieve from a full-fledged downturn. Thus, building lessors have not yet had the chance to adjust the size of their actual needs.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Owning Kindred Systems of San Francisco and Haddington Dynamics of Las Vegas will help Ocado tackle “one of the world’s hardest challenges in robotics, the picking and packing of groceries,” the company said in a press release on Monday (Nov. Ocado , a U.K.-based Although Ocado only claims 1.7

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MAY 2, 2019

” According to Fortune , the company will test the service in 18 markets: Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Ft. stores with the technology this year. Convenience store operator 7-Eleven is launching beer and cider delivery in select U.S. Customers can place their beer orders via the 7Now app.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In a move that bolsters its financial technology presence in India, Uber has put an Uber Money team into place in Hyderabad. Uber Money teams are also located in Palo Alto, Amsterdam, New York and San Francisco tech centers, Livemint reported. Zomato was valued at $3.55 billion earlier in January and started in 2008.

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JULY 8, 2020

The San Francisco Bay area, which includes Silicon Valley, has taken among the biggest hits as more than 25,500 jobs were shed at mega-companies including Uber Technologies Inc., He said coronavirus has caused investors to turn their backs on companies seeking less than $100 million. Groupon Inc. and Airbnb Inc.,

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Rental car giant Hertz recently announced it teamed up with startup Shift Technologies , said Fortune. Shift Technologies is an online used-car marketplace. Under the new deal, Shift Technologies will feature and sell used vehicles from Hertz’s rental inventory, giving Hertz access to an additional retail sales channel.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

What COVID-19 did change, however, is the urgency with which the market was addressing this problem. With that in mind, San Francisco-based Carbon Health is working on a more accessible and more digitally enabled healthcare ecosystem. It is why Carbon plans to expand aggressively. Ecosystems, he said, aren’t built in a day.

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MARCH 25, 2019

From Rent the Runway to McDonald’s , retailers are tapping into a world of technology that lets customers make transactions without visiting a cashier. These are just some of the ways that merchants are using digital innovations to better serve their customers with the help of kiosk and unattended retail technology: .

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JULY 5, 2020

Today, there are 26 locations in Seattle, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, though several are temporarily closed. Amazon has expanded its grocery businesses to get a bigger foothold against Walmart and Kroger, the market leaders, analysts say. the Times reported. But Amazon points to its hundreds of thousands of U.S.

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MAY 31, 2018

Internet of Things (IoT) technology isn’t just for a smart fridge or a smart speaker in the home: It also has applications for retailers. With the ubiquity of smartphones, people expect to have access to data and be notified on these devices,” said Ray Almgren, chief marketing officer at Swift Sensors. trillion in 2024.

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JUNE 14, 2020

Square , the San Francisco-based ePayment company, recently started holding 30 percent for every transaction for four months “to protect you and Square from unexpected loss events,” according to WSJ. Now, the Tacoma, Washington, portrait studio is facing another challenge. Hudson told WSJ she plans to drop the company.

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MAY 29, 2018

is looking to buy NSO Group, an Israeli company that sells military-grade technology, for around $1 billion. The Wall Street Journal reported that Verint has offered to pay NSO’s controlling shareholder, San Francisco-based private-equity firm Francisco Partners , with its own stock and assumed debt.

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JUNE 11, 2019

Though San Francisco startup Zippin has gotten lots of press for being the first cashierless convenience store to compete directly with Amazon Go, Zippin CEO Krishna Motukuri wasn’t hoping for a direct confrontation with the world’s largest eCommerce player when he first started thinking about unmanned stores.

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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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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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DECEMBER 23, 2019

The company currently has offices in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco and Las Vegas. The combination of DraftKings’ leading and trusted brand, deep focus on customer experience and data science expertise and SBTech’s highly innovative and proven technology platform creates a vertically-integrated powerhouse,” Robins said. “I

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APRIL 14, 2020

Tally had its test run at a Target store in San Francisco, although the company has not announced plans to expand as of yet. Brain Corp has taken its robotics technology to Ahold Delhaize , a consortium that includes Giant Foods, Martin’s and Stop & Shop supermarkets. COVID-19 would certainly fill the bill.

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JULY 26, 2020

Four years ago, the eCommerce giant’s venture capital fund invested in the Seattle-based company and gained access to the technology startup’s finances and other confidential information. Daniela Braga , founder and CEO of DefinedCrowd Corp., a data platform for artificial intelligence (AI), has a beef with Amazon Inc.,

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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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JANUARY 25, 2019

San Francisco-based HostBooks is stepping into the small business (SMB) accounting software industry, announcing Thursday (Jan. We have deployed a combination of latest technologies and accounting expertise. 24) that its solution officially launched over the weekend.

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MAY 3, 2020

A lawsuit against Uber alleges that the company engaged in deceitful practices to drive its competitor Sidecar Technologies out of business in 2015, according to Reuters. The lawsuit by SC Innovations, Sidecar’s successor, has been allowed to go forward by Judge Joseph Spero in San Francisco.

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JANUARY 5, 2020

One Medical , a conglomerate of technology-driven primary care offices backed by Google’s Alphabet , has filed an initial public offering (IPO), One Medical announced on Friday (Jan. One Medical is backed by technology and management firm 1Life Healthcare and will trade under the symbol “ONEM.”

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

WhereIsMyTransport, a mapping startup that works to outline public transport routes in emerging markets, has raised $7.5 In emerging markets, the mobility ecosystem is complex; informal public transport doesn’t behave like formal public transport. million in a Series A funding, according to a report by TechCrunch.

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APRIL 30, 2018

Some of the benefits include faster entry into new markets, lower operational costs, faster speed and end-to-end visibility over a payment’s journey. “By By tapping our global network with xVia, our customers now access new markets quicker and cost efficiently,” said Asheesh Birla, senior vice president of product at Ripple. “All

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Technology is the new norm for restaurant customers worldwide — especially if those customers happen to live in Asia or the Middle East. This doesn’t mean that North American customers aren’t pining for mobile ordering options — especially the millennial market. In another restaurant technology survey of U.S. While the U.S.

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APRIL 16, 2019

The banks have also agreed to share data on emerging markets. Bowman remarked at an event, held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, that the Fed could foster collaborative action between those smaller banks and FinTech firms. “I As reported, Singapore has been working on other cross-border initiatives as well.

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MARCH 5, 2020

In a new digital real estate game called Upland, players can buy virtual versions of properties in San Francisco, Cointelegraph reported. The idea of tapping into the blockchain to support a digital property market isn’t entirely novel. Decentraland, in one case, sold over $1 million in digital real estate.

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APRIL 28, 2017

leads the rest of the world in the total value of FinTech investment due to the large amount of funds available to invest in the market, with investors focusing on late-stage, clear front-runner FinTech companies,” said KMPG U.S. The company said it will also look to expand into new markets. According to KPMG’s U.S.

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