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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The committee will listen to a few trade groups from automakers and technology companies, as well as a transit official from San Francisco and a few different safety advocates. Legislators have been working for years on legislation to get rid of the barriers that would allow the vehicles to operate freely on roads.

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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. The expansion to San Francisco will strengthen our partnerships with the next generation of entrepreneurs.”. “The

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JUNE 6, 2017

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. SigOpt now helps optimize fraud detection and investments like beer brewing and even the manufacturing of synthetic rhino horns. PYMNTS: Can you explain the business?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

San Francisco-based Salesforce has officially launched its “Vaccine Cloud,” a technology package designed to help manage the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines. Technology can play a critical role in ensuring it’s done efficiently, effectively, and equitably,” said Bret Taylor , president and chief operating officer of Salesforce.

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That trend continues this week, with some San Francisco-grown AI thrown into the mix. Last week this space saw much of the largest fintech funding rounds taking place outside the U.S. This week we witnessed a major push forward in the process of collaboration between financial institutions (FIs) and startups. This Read More.

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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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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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JUNE 16, 2020

the San Francisco-based payments platform, has announced it purchased Verse, the Spanish mobile app startup that allows users to make payments instantly at no cost. Square Inc., While the terms of the sale were not revealed, MarketWatch reported the deal closed at between 30 million euros ($33.8 million) to 50 million euros ($56.3

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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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AUGUST 14, 2019

In an effort to create a relationship between its portfolio of investors, SoftBank has created an “operating group” within its Vision Fund. What we try to bring [to all of the Vision Fund’s investments] is the perspective of someone who has operated across that industry on various different levels,” Lopez said.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

trillion Wells Fargo has selected banking software provider nCino’s technology platform to streamline loan origination, account opening, business process management, customer engagement and instant reporting. The San Francisco-based bank serves one in three U.S.

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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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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

“Some industry analysts have predicted that robotics in retail will be involved in more than three-quarters of logistics operations, with McKinsey estimating that autonomous vehicles will make up 80 percent of deliveries by 2025.”. It is also rising on the sales floor.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Amazon is testing the idea of expanding its cashierless checkout technology to a larger store format, experimenting with it in Seattle in a space that is formatted to be like a big store, reported the Wall Street Journal. That could mean it will take a while before Amazon could roll out the technology to larger format stores.

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MAY 29, 2020

Starting next month, ridesharing users in a dozen cities can opt in for a $50 an hour ride, Uber Technologies Inc. Following a pilot program in Australia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, this new feature is aimed at helping Americans with essential trips during the COVID-19 pandemic, the San Francisco-based company said.

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MARCH 23, 2016

In an effort to track product and service efficiency, as well as tease and test possible features of the future, Wells Fargo has launched Digital Express, a pilot program exclusive to its Transbay Gateway store in downtown San Francisco. Within, a section of the lobby displays tablets on a table which confronts customers Read More.

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MAY 13, 2016

The San Francisco-based bank is working on deepening its links with Silicon Valley neighbors, and has a hackathon planned for June 17-19 in concert with parent BNP Paribas. Fear of fintech disruption is still common in banking, but for Bank of the West, “fintech” means opportunity.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

San Francisco-based Salesforce is gearing up for expected COVID-19 vaccination campaigns by setting up Work.com for Vaccines, which will “help governments and healthcare organizations more safely and efficiently manage vaccine programs,” the company said in a press release.

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MAY 24, 2019

The use of IoT technology is gaining steam in alternative industries, such as beer brewing. Meanwhile, in the mainstream tech industry, companies are partnering to deploy IoT technology. Currently, Express Logic operating systems are installed in 6.2 Developments from Around the IoT World. billion IoT devices globally.

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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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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

This week, Uber and Lyft were told by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera to “turn over records on whether they classify drivers as employees or private contractors, as well as records on driver pay and benefits,” according to a statement from his office. And here come the subpoenas ….

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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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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

18), a San Francisco startup launched by sending roughly 60,000 credit cards to consumers living in northern California. billion cards, more than 46 million merchants and 16,000 financial institutions (FIs) as part its network , operating across 200 countries and processing transactions in more than 106 currencies to the tune of $10.8

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Uber doesn’t have concrete plans to put the vehicles back on the roads yet, but said it will notify the required authorities if it plans to return to San Francisco. An Uber spokesperson called San Francisco “a great city to gather key learnings for self-driving technology,” due to its complex and changing environment.

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JUNE 14, 2019

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that allows autonomous cars to operate on the roads without requiring a human being to be behind the wheel, according to reports. The new law puts the responsibility on companies making the technology to make sure the cars are safe and don’t cause accidents.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

Along any avenue of technology, there is hope … and there is hype … and then there is reality. Sloan said that though the technology has been “interesting … it’s been slow to roll out.”. Blockchain has long been in the process of being divorced – operationally as well as conceptually – from its crypto connection.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the San Francisco-based company announced Monday (Aug. Filing confidentially allows a company to keep its financials private until 15 days prior to the actual offering to prevent competitors from gaining more detailed knowledge of their operations. 31) in a press release.

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JUNE 28, 2019

Now that San Francisco is on the verge of banning eCigarettes, the question naturally turns to whether other municipalities and states will follow suit. The ban in San Francisco was, at last check, awaiting the signature of the city’s mayor before it became law. Will that happen? Likely not wide scale.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Embedded Payments A 2022 study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco noted that app payments increased as a percentage of total consumer purchases from 11% in 2019 to 15% in 2020, to 29% in 2021. Technology has come a long way since then.

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JUNE 11, 2019

Operating hours are between 6 a.m. The company’s other locations for the Go concept are mainly on the West Coast in places like San Francisco and Seattle. The location is filled with technologies that aren’t commonly found in U.S. Customers tap into self-service kiosks to make their own Cafe Americanos, mochas and lattes.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Location-based virtual reality (VR) startup The Void is partnering with mall operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) to open 25 new entertainment outposts in the U.S. Four temporary pop-ups have opened and are opening in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and in the Las Angeles suburb Santa Anita, CNBC reports.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Uber Technologies Inc. billion, 15 percent stake in the Chinese company is up for grabs, as the San Francisco-based ride-hailing giant is seeking cash to improve its balance sheet and raise its own share price, sources said. Bloomberg News reported that a portion of Uber’s $6.3 The company had long-term debt of $6.7 billion. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

According to a report in USA Today , Starbucks is rolling out the delivery expansion in San Francisco on Tuesday (January 22) and will extend it into Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington D.C. Starbucks is adding more cities to its delivery network via a partnership with Uber Eats. during the next few weeks.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

In total, more than $1 billion was raised this week, with funds landing at an array of technologies from B2B payments to payroll to eProcurement. The firm, based in South Africa, said it will use the funding to scale operations across Southern Africa, the U.S. Flutterwave.

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PYMNTS

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 Ripple has offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, Singapore and Sydney. The companies partnering with Ripple are FairFX (U.K.), RationalFX (U.K.),

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Visa , which is the official payment technology partner of the National Football League (NFL), will provide small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with a one-day offer that will waive some of the costs connected with getting online and taking digital payments on Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 7), according to a Tuesday (Feb.

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