PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The business of banking is reaching a critical inflection point as ‘challengers’ take market share and incumbents implement strategies to accelerate their digital transformation efforts to enhance customer journeys.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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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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The Financial Brand

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Seattle Bank’s Unbiased CD Site Has National Plans appeared first on The Financial Brand. Seattle Bank’s Unbiased CD Site Has National Plans appeared first on The Financial Brand. This article Bankrate, Step Aside. This article Bankrate, Step Aside.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2020

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

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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Bank Innovation

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2017

3,500 more McDonald’s markets are going to be lovin’ it by the end of June as delivery service rolls out to even more restaurants. On Wednesday (May 31), McDelivery with UberEATS launched at locations in the New York Metro Area, Fresno, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Washington, D.C.

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PYMNTS

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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Bank Innovation

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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PYMNTS

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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Bank Innovation

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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BankInovation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Remitly, which provides cross-border remittances and financial services for immigrants, today began trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. The Seattle-based fintech, with $312.6 billion in assets, priced its initial public offering (IPO) at $43 a share under the ticker symbol RELY. Shares climbed to a high of $50.70 at 11:45 a.m.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Gtmhub has over 1,000 clients, including Adobe, CNN, the City of Seattle, Societe Generale, Mazda, Merck, TomTom, Red Hat, and Experian. The post Gtmhub Receives $120M Investment As It Tackles The OKR Software Market Alongside Competitors Like 15Five, Ally, Lattice, Workboard, And Many Others appeared first on CB Insights Research.

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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

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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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

As a large employer in the Seattle metro market, for instance, the company was one of the first in the market to be forced to institute wage hikes.”. The wage increases in Portland, San Francisco and Seattle carried wage expenses to $10.6 Approximately 50 workers are on salary at its Seattle headquarters.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Opening hubs in new markets presents a tremendous opportunity for CarLotz to gain ground in large and attractive regions of the country where the Company’s business model can make a real difference for car buyers and sellers,” CarLotz CEO and Co-Founder Michael Bor said in the announcement. 11) announcement. 8, CarLotz, Inc.

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Bank Innovation

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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American Banker

MAY 13, 2016

Seattle, with great demographics and low unemployment, is an attractive market, but M&A is constrained by a dearth of locally owned banks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The housing market is still hot, but we may be starting to see rising home prices hurting affordability.". The Realtor.com Housing Market Recovery Index surpassed the January index, with the most noteworthy rebounds happening in Las Vegas, Nevada; San Francisco, Santa Clara and Los Angeles, California; and Seattle, Washington.

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BankInovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

SEATTLE — Financial institutions are looking beyond so-called tech cities in the hunt for cloud engineers amid a surging demand for top talent. The market for cloud engineers is so hot, in fact, that $532 billion Truist Bank is scouting for talent in lesser-known areas of the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

.” “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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

Amid the slew of real estate startups coming to market, with any number of approaches in changing the way real estate transactions are made, there are also new initiatives to change the way homes function. For Amazon, the move represents a deeper push into real estate. The bundles also feature Echo devices and a Ring doorbell camera.

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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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