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MAY 13, 2020

People quickly figured it out, and the market for gently used items blew up overnight. A good example would be a local furniture store here in Seattle that has sold $2 million worth of furniture in two years on OfferUp,” Huzar told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster. Huzar noted that “…if you look at Seattle or even L.A.,

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In today’s top retail news, Amazon Go stores in Seattle are reportedly being equipped with Amazon One palm-reading scanners, while automotive brands are taking control of digital purchasing platforms. Amazon Expands Palm Biometrics In Seattle . percent of the market. A year ago, PYMNTS research indicates, Amazon claimed 9.5

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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. The robot relies on cameras and Lidar to get around the sidewalks.

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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. billion, up 7.7

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MAY 4, 2020

In eight countries, it appears that the parent company has decided Uber Eats fails to deliver the desired market clout. This continues our strategy of focusing our energy and resources on our top Eats markets around the world,” the company said, adding that the moves will not affect its ridesharing business. .

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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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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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MAY 21, 2018

Seattle Taxation Change of Heart. It looks like the tax situation in Seattle may be getting a bit stickier: Seattle’s city council has approved a new tax for the city’s biggest companies, including Amazon, to combat a housing crisis impacting the city’s working class.

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MARCH 21, 2019

Rapid prototyping and an innovation-oriented mindset are two characteristics that make a bank a good fintech partner, according to panelists at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 conference in Seattle last week.

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MAY 21, 2020

Seattle-based Amazon is ramping up its operations in India’s growing market by launching Amazon Food, which will deliver prepared meals. could see a permanent market restructuring that has $158 billion in brick-and-mortar sales moving to online shopping. The company already offers grocery delivery in many Indian cities.

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MARCH 10, 2020

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, three Seattle entrepreneurs have created a wristband that vibrates when the person wearing it goes to touch their face, artificial intelligence (AI) startup Immutouch announced on Tuesday (March 10). It typically takes over a year to bring a product to market. Immutouch took 1/50th of that time.”.

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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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DECEMBER 1, 2020

A new survey of Black Friday shoppers from PYMNTS showed the Seattle retailing giant dominated its rivals in the traditional post-Thanksgiving holiday season kickoff. When PYMNTS last measured Amazon’s take of the total eCommerce business it found that it touched just north of 50 percent for Q1 2020 in eCommerce market share (51.2

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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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JANUARY 10, 2020

Lime is striving to reach profitability in 2020 and is laying off about 14 percent of its workforce — roughly 100 people — and ceasing operations in 12 markets, according to reports on Thursday (Jan. These market closures have an effect not just on riders, but on our whole Lime community. More global markets planned for this month.

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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. 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. Louis, Missouri; and Tampa, Florida.

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APRIL 2, 2019

Ignite Ideas talks at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 conference in Seattle last month tackled issues of financial inclusion, designing products that enhance the customer experience, revamping payments, and rebuilding trust in banking.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

25 in Seattle to introduce new products and services. Amazon’s Alexa is reportedly the most-used voice assistant on the market, found in more than 60,000 smart home devices from 7,400 companies. Amazon will host an event on Sept. That’s up from just 12,000 devices a year earlier.

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.” “Through this partnership with Uber Health, we are able to dramatically increase the availability of on-demand delivery of an essential product like prescriptions, which is leading to a further increase in demand in all markets we are already active in,” Sattar added.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Amazon will also offer the service for food orders from Whole Markets or Amazon Fresh. 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.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Seattle global remittance startup Remitly is rolling out a new banking product created especially for immigrants, the company announced Monday (Feb. North America’s biggest independent digital remittance company is introducing Passbook for immigrants, to help them bypass the typical barriers of opening a bank account.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Earlier this year, the eCommerce giant launched its first checkout-free convenience store market in Seattle. It recently opened two more locations in the city, which will make New York its first foray outside of Seattle. “We Amazon has announced plans to open an Amazon Go location in New York.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

A Seattle-based grocery startup named Swiftly has raised $15.6 Zion Market, a grocery company that has stores in Texas, California and Georgia, has already signed up for Swiftly services. Swiftly Co-Founder and CTO Sean Turner said the company moved to Seattle to find the best technology talent.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Amazon has arguably pioneered the concept with its Amazon Go stores: The first location opened in Seattle this past January. According to the PYMNTS Unattended Retail Tracker , the self-service market is growing rapidly, as fresh food sellers work to carve themselves a niche in a market that will soon be worth billions.

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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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OCTOBER 24, 2018

Earlier this year, the eCommerce giant launched its first checkout-free convenience store market in Seattle. At the first Seattle location, Amazon Go customers can choose from pre-made salads, sandwiches, snacks and meals, as wells as beer, wine and other beverages. The company reportedly plans to open 3,000 locations by 2021.

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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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DECEMBER 5, 2016

For now there is just one store and it’s in Seattle and only open to Amazon employees, Read More. Amazon released a video today promoting its Amazon Go stores and their “Just walk out” technology. Users check in with their apps at the door and then fill their shopping bags and leave.

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MAY 14, 2020

Uber Eats has over 100,000 restaurants on its platform, amounting to roughly 20 percent of the market. Grubhub, with about 300,000 eateries, has about 30 percent of the market. Similar caps were also instituted in San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Jersey City, according to a CNBC report.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

It’s clear dogs have a market, and the market loves dogs. Seattle-based Rover is a dog-sitting platform that just announced a $40 million Series E round from investors Foundry Group, Menlo Ventures and Madrona Venture Group. One company that is dog-related is barking that it’s getting ready for its IPO.

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JULY 4, 2017

The headlines during the penultimate week of June in The Washington Post regarding the Seattle minimum wage increase might have been a bit confusing to the casual observer. an hour by the city of Seattle is not killing jobs but is nonetheless ruining the lives of working class people, unless it isn’t — and it is actually working just fine.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

The news comes as Amazon is reportedly testing the idea of bringing its cashierless checkout technology to a larger store format by experimenting in a Seattle space that is formatted like a big store, according to a Wall Street Journal report earlier in December. Amazon Go’s first location opened in Seattle earlier this year.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It’s the latest effort by the Seattle-based online retailer with a headquarters in Bengaluru, the center of India's high-tech industry, to intensify the competition in the mostly cash-based economy. It’s not going to be easy to win over the Indian FinTech market,” a source told Reuters. WhatsApp Pay debuted in India in 2018.

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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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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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