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Prime Members In San Francisco And Atlanta Get Free Whole Foods Delivery

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Adding to the sundry benefits of Prime, Amazon is launching free two-hour delivery of Whole Foods groceries in Atlanta and San Francisco through Prime Now. Customers in San Francisco can order “select alcohol” for delivery as well. throughout 2018.

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Contactless Payment Platform FitPay Gears Up for Next Growth Phase

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE – When the co-founders of FitPay, a contactless payment technology provider, agreed to be acquired by security tech company NXT-ID back in May, the primary goal behind the deal was to enable growth for the San Francisco-based startup. And grow it did.

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Blockchain Remains King as Banks Lose Interest in ICOs, Crypto

Bank Innovation

This is according to a panel on the subject during Bank Innovation 2018, which wrapped up yesterday in San Francisco. EXCLUSIVE–The potential use cases of blockchain technology in banking continue to captivate bankers, but topics like cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, may be losing a bit of their edge.

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12 Startups Showed Their Latest and Greatest at INV Fintech Demo Day

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE - On March 6 in San Francisco, 12 impressive startups demoed their latest in fintech technology at INV Fitnech's 2nd annual demo day. INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, is partnered with Fiserv and eight banking partners with over $3 trillion dollars in assets.

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Online Grocer Ocado Acquires Robotics Companies To Drive Automation

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based online grocery, is heightening its automation drive by acquiring two robotics companies. 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.

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Instacart-Walmart Delivery Pact Heats Up Online Grocery Wars

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Instacart now delivers from Walmart locations in three California markets — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — as well as Tulsa, Oklahoma,” Instacart said in a statement. Amazon, for its part, said online grocery sales tripled in its latest quarter. percent.

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Invests In Chipper Cash In Latest African FinTech VC Deal

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San Francisco-based Chipper got its start building a base in the P2P payments sector in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda and Ghana. The startup has since expanded into eCommerce with a service targeted at retailers and other online merchants, Chipper Checkout. Ribbit Capital, a VC firm in the U.S.

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