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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Thousands of miles from Seattle, where Amazon Go opened in January , the cashierless checkout model is taking hold in other parts of the world. After starting in Singapore in 2015, the company has since broadened its operations to countries such as Japan and the Philippines. The Marketplace of Cashierless Ideas.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The initiative will also bring five new eateries to Seattle, which will serve as the training location for those enrolled in the program and help people in entry-level foodservice jobs attain the skills needed to earn a higher income. Poverty and income inequality are growing in Seattle.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Reports out of Seattle say that Amazon has significantly cut the number of open positions in the city, and some employees are even talking about a hiring freeze. In addition, two current Amazon employees revealed that they heard no new positions will be added in the Seattle area until early next year.

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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.

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JULY 8, 2019

an eatery operator with 35 restaurants, has filed for bankruptcy and is blaming the misfortune on a recent minimum wage hike in court filings, according to a report by Bloomberg. 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.”.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

That came after it shut down service in Seattle, Los Angels, and New York. Reports citing an email Munchery sent to customers Monday (January 21) said the shutdown isn’t too surprising given in May it was forced to lay off 257 employees, which amounted to 30 percent of its workforce.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

At a prime retail location in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, the Amazon Go team is running “internal tests.” The space is unusually big for a potential Amazon Go location and is under an apartment complex in a residential neighborhood, which is not like the 16 locations in existence across the country, GeekWire reported.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The eCommerce operator reportedly is leasing some 500,000 square feet of space in a three-story warehouse in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle, according to The Wall Street Journal. UPS , too, is going down the robotic path, and is seeking a certification to operate commercial drone flights. The company applied to the U.S.

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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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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Denver-based fast casual Seattle-style teriyaki chain Teriyaki Madness , which offers digital ordering online and via app, realized several years ago that many consumers were interested in convenient meals they could eat at home. Taking such steps can enable QSRs to streamline their operations and lead to significant sales gains, he noted.

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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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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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APRIL 22, 2016

The Seattle coffee giant now has 19 million active mobile app users in U.S. alone, Kevin Johnson, president and chief operating officer said, and mobile represented 24% of the total payments in 2Q. Starbucks proves, once again, that it owns mobile payments. The company’s Mobile Order & Pay program, launched Read More.

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MARCH 8, 2016

SEATTLE — LendingTree will “buy the clicks” previously pointing to Google Compare, now that the search giant is shuttering the service, a top LendingTree official said.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

The Seattle company, which transfers more than $1.5 The move on the part of Remitly was prompted by the state giving it approval to operate in Massachusetts. Remitly, the digital remittance company based in the U.S., has expanded its services to Massachusetts. and also offers its services in Canada.

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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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MARCH 25, 2019

Eleven startups participated in the Demovation challenge at the Bank Innovation Ignite conference in Seattle earlier this month. These startups, diverse in focus, comprised a wide range of the fintech ecosystem, including payments, security and blockchain.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Customer demand is driving FIs to move to a realtime payments system, and quickly, according to panelists at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 conference in Seattle this week. The need for speed is here to stay. The payment systems that we all run today, they've worked and they've been rock-solid," said Matt Wilcox, SVP of […].

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MARCH 12, 2019

Identity proofing and verification startup Diro Labs won the DEMOvation Challenge today at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle. In addition to bragging rights, the company will receive admission to the INV Fintech Accelerator and an advertising package on Bank Innovation.

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JUNE 11, 2019

(The retailer has been experimenting with the offering through an arrangement with Starbucks in Seattle.) 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 store is said to also take cash for payment. convenience stores.

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MAY 15, 2020

Amazon has filed suit against two companies that are allegedly operating a global tech support scheme targeting Alexa users, CNN reported. The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S.

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MARCH 14, 2019

Umpqua Bank’s Go-To human-digital live support platform is moving to a 24/7 service, Cort O'Haver, President and CEO of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, announced at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday. He said the decision had been made just that morning. Access to the Go-To platform is free for the Portland, Ore.-based

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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 29, 2018

will speak at Bank Innovation Ignite in Seattle in March 2019 on Building the Future of Banking. Dan O’Malley, CEO of Numerated Growth Technologies, Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Downdetector.com, the Seattle-based company that collects status reports from a variety of f sources, said there have been nearly 2,000 incidents reported with Apple Music, while more than 200 users flagged issues with iTunes and the App Store. It was unclear how many users and which countries were impacted, the news service reported.

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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. Each store has less than 2,500 square feet and sells drinks, groceries and other products. billion.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Amazon is reducing its headcount at its corporate office in Seattle, with the eCommerce giant reportedly laying off several hundred employees in what is seen as a rare move by the company. Two people familiar with the matter told the paper the layoffs are mainly focused on its consumer retail business.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

In a company press release , the eCommerce giant said it will invest more than $5 billion in “construction and operation of Amazon HQ2,” and that the second Amazon headquarters will be home to as many as 50,0000 high-paying Amazon jobs. for Seattle. for Seattle. “We

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JUNE 1, 2020

With curfews descending on some American cities due to violent clashes between law enforcement and protesters, Uber , Lyft and DoorDash have ceased operations during the curfew hours, CNBC reports. Now, Uber has suspended its operations in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco and parts of Minneapolis during the curfew hours for the time being.

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MARCH 10, 2020

Cook told Apple office workers in Seattle, California, Japan, South Korea, Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Switzerland that they can work from home during the week in the event that their “job allows” for it. Cook also reportedly noted that retail shops are continuing to operate to help Apple clients.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

operations. 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.

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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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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

will speak at Bank Innovation Ignite in Seattle in March 2019 on Building the Future of Banking. Nicolas Kopp, CEO of the N26 U.S., Building the bank of the future is something Kopp knows a lot about. After being one of the early employees of German challenger bank N26, as the Head of Business Development […].

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Lisa Frazier, Wells Fargo’s head of innovation, will deliver a presentation at Bank Innovation Ignite in Seattle in March 2019. Frazier joined the bank in May, but though she is new to Wells Fargo, she is not new to banking. She was Chief Digital Officer at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, a Partner at McKinsey & […].

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

A Seattle-based grocery startup named Swiftly has raised $15.6 The company also announced a brand new “operating system for brick and mortar stores.” Swiftly Co-Founder and CTO Sean Turner said the company moved to Seattle to find the best technology talent.

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MARCH 13, 2019

The customer experience in banking will change drastically over the next 10 years said panelists at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

The Seattle startup went so far as to open a Detroit office to cozy up to the auto industry. Mighty AI spent much of its first five years building software that helps self-driving cars recognize real-world objects.

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