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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Seattle locals dropped everything once word started to spread online that the yellow vending “Snapbot” was spotted at Dick’s Drive-In restaurant. GeekWire interviewed some of the of Seattle residents waiting in line, like Ian Atianza, who came down from the Capitol Hill neighborhood and was one of the first people in line.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

To provide a new shopping experience for wireless products, AT&T is opening a new 3,000-square-foot concept store in Seattle. AT&T recently launched a new product, the LTE-M button, which allows users to place orders online in one click. The store, which is scheduled to open on Saturday (Sept.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Alex Carriles, Head of Online Banking, BBVA Compass will speak at Bank Innovation Ignite in Seattle in March 2019 on the Natural Language Banking panel.

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MAY 12, 2019

Redfin , the real estate company based in Seattle, is rolling out a new program that enables home buyers to bid on properties via its website. Redfin Chief Executive Glenn Kelman told The New York Times that at the end of March it started accepting online bids from people who aren’t represented by a real estate agent.

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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.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

The first big move was the introduction this month of an online marketplace to enhance the popular Kroger Ship service and widely expand the digital assortment of private-label products that Kroger has on offer. billion, Amazon is pushing to open more of its own Amazon Go grocery stores in Seattle, California, Chicago and Washington, D.C.,

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Payments Dive

JUNE 8, 2017

Amazon has been a source of stiff competition for online retailers around the world of many years. And, with the launch of its Amazon Go concept store in Seattle last year, the online giant brought itself out of the cloud and into direct competition with brick and mortar stores.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 10, 2019

Remitly, a Seattle-based online international money transfer service, announced $220 million of new financing on Wednesday to expand its global custom.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 10, 2019

Remitly, a Seattle-based online international money transfer service, announced $220 million of new financing on Wednesday to expand its global customer reach and stretch beyond remittances into other areas of financial services.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

For now, the feature will only be available at two Amazon Go stores in Seattle, at 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street and its store in South Lake Union at 300 Boren Avenue North. But there are plans to expand it across Seattle, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the company said.

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JULY 21, 2020

The Seattle-based coffee chain’s offerings are now available on multiple platforms run by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. , Starbucks ’ customers in China now have more ways to order drinks. the global technology company specializing in eCommerce, Reuters reported.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 7, 2018

Online real estate company Zillow has entered the mortgage space. On Monday the Seattle-based company purchased Mortgage Lenders of America for an undisclosed amount. The move solidifies the company’s effort to simplify and streamline the home buying process, according to a company-issued statement.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And so two years ago Worthy purchased a local physical thrift shop in Seattle that was on the doorstep of shutting down — the eponymous Kids on 45th — and decided to expand its mission. In short, she put consignment on subscription for parents. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2017

The Tower holds, retrieves and dispenses online orders by scanning a barcode displayed on the customer’s smartphone screen. The Pickup Tower basically works like a huge, high-tech vending machine for online order pickup. It requires no employee direction at all and, of course, no in-store shopping.

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JUNE 11, 2019

comes after the online retailer opened one of the concept locations in New York City in a mall, CNBC reported. The retailer has been experimenting with the offering through an arrangement with Starbucks in Seattle.) The company’s other locations for the Go concept are mainly on the West Coast in places like San Francisco and Seattle.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

That arguably describes the recent acquisition of Seattle-based Blueprint Registry , an online universal gift registry, by David’s Bridal , the privately held wedding retail chain that traces its roots back to the first years after World War II. Online Advantages. When in doubt, bet on digital. Industry Changes.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2019

Interested in joining us for Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 on March 11-12 at the Hyatt Olive 8, Seattle? In Seattle, you’ll see four Ignite Ideas sessions from the following fintech innovators: Lisa Frazier, Head […]. You’d better hurry! Early registration ends this Friday, February 1 at 11:59 PM.

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MAY 21, 2020

This spring, Seattle-based Amazon went on a hiring spree, unable to keep up with the boom in online sales. Also, its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery arm was unable to handle all the stay-at-home consumers attempting to go on online COVID-19 shopping sprees. In a COVID-19 world, the eCommerce scene changes quickly.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

Seattle startup FLEXE looks to enable online retailers to compete against Amazon’s logistics capabilities. Earlier this month, the online retail giant dropped its free shipping threshold to $25 in a move to better compete against Walmart — the second such price drop in the past three months.

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MAY 17, 2017

Amazon, the nation’s largest online retailer, is taking home delivery to the next level : instead of just delivering goods to customers’ homes, the company will now be providing actual homes for the homeless at its new six-story headquarters in downtown Seattle. The new headquarters is projected to open in 2020.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

News of Amazon ‘s acquisition of online pharmacy startup PillPack have had analysts assuming the eCommerce conglomerate is ready to introduce an online pharmacy to its suite of services. However, new reports from CNBC on Wednesday (Nov. 21) said Amazon may first be gearing up to introduce the service to its own employees.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

German-based discount-supermarket giant ALDI announced a great leap forward into the world of digital sales this week with word that it will be piloting a new “click-and-collect” online grocery ordering program at a single U.K. The chain plans to then quickly expand the service to 15 stores across the country.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 13, 2018

The Toronto-based startup, which demoed at Bank Innovation 2015 in Seattle […]. Its engineers were also looking for a side project. What they came up with was a way to make billpay easier, and a bot, called Kbot, to smooth the way.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

Four years ago, Amazon introduced its Amazon Pay digital wallet to increase online payments. 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.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Find out how grocers are tackling omnichannel options in the digital age with the following roundup: Ninety percent of customers shop and purchase groceries in a physical store: Online sales may be skyrocketing, but eCommerce is still just scratching the surface when it comes to groceries. purchased groceries online at least once a month.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Customers in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. All stores will be open on Christmas Eve for online order pickup, the company said. will have a wider merchandise selection for same-day and next-day pickup. .

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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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MARCH 30, 2020

The firm evolved into an online shopping website with a warehouse and delivery network in 2017. The company provides its offering in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle. South Korean investment company Mirae-Naver and Alibaba, the Chinese online shopping giant, led the round of funding.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

The Seattle-based coffee giant’s loyalty program has 19 million active members that account for 48 percent of its annual revenue. . The report also found that 62 percent of digital diners — those who exclusively place orders online — prefer accessing rewards through a mobile app when ordering from a full-service restaurant.

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MAY 13, 2020

Online marketplaces are well-situated for a COVID-triggered digital shift, personified by millions of the newly unemployed who are desperately seeking lockdown diversions and elusive items. But as the 2020 pandemic emptied store shelves, shoppers began finding depleted inventories online, too.

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JULY 2, 2020

The Seattle-based online behemoth already twice rescheduled the event from a previously planned July date. The news outlet quoted what it said was a leaked Amazon email to a supplier as stating: “Every year, Prime Day is a huge hit with customers, who enjoy some of the best deals of the year.

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APRIL 22, 2020

The Seattle eCommerce giant said they are partnering with food banks in 25 U.S. In March, the charity saw 14,000 visits to their online food locator tool, up from 1,500 visits in March 2019. Amazon is delivering six million meals to underserved populations that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced.

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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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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Paul, Nashville, New Jersey, the New York City suburbs, Raleigh-Durham, Richmond, Portland, Salt Lake City, Seattle, St. This is the moment of truth for eCommerce delivery and fulfillment as the pandemic continues to fuel heightened demand for online shopping and delivery amid the busy holiday season.

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FICO

JUNE 21, 2019

Want to protect yourself online - and protect your family - from data compromise and identity theft? FICO's Doug Clare, vice president for cybersecurity solutions, offers some advice in this interview with NBC King 5 News in Seattle. More tips on how to protect yourself online are discussed in this blog post and video.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

The growing cost of online fraud – and finding ways to detect it – has long been a costly concern of financial institutions (FIs). As Briggs pointed out, many more students and employees work remotely and use virtual private networks (VPNs) to get online these days. The VPN Problem .

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