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FitPay Founder & COO Michael Orlando Joins Bank Innovation 2018

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EXCLUSIVE- Michael Orlando, founder of FitPay, a provider of payment technology for wearables, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2018, which takes place March 5-6 in San Francisco. The company went on to be acquired by security technology company Next-ID Inc., Orlando founded FitPay in 2014.

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Contactless Payment Platform FitPay Gears Up for Next Growth Phase

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

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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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Amazon One Lets Consumers Pay With Their Hand

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But there are plans to expand it across Seattle, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the company said. Dilip Kumar , Amazon’s vice president of physical retail, told the network the technology had been in the planning stages long before the pandemic.

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FinTech Startup Revolut Raises $80M In New Funding, Now Valued At $5.5B

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has secured $80 million in new funding at a $5.5 The latest infusion of cash comes from TSG Consumer Partners , a San Francisco-based private equity company, TechCrunch reported. Revolut is also backed by Index Ventures, the global venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, and a half dozen others.

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Amazon Launches Wi-Fi Security Subscriptions

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Amazon is rolling out new subscriptions for eero , the security service that it acquired last year. Founded in San Francisco in 2014, eero’s systems blanket every room of a customer’s home using high-performing, reliable Wi-Fi. eero Secure is available for $2.99 per year, while eero Secure+ is available for $9.99

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New Facial Recognition Policy Signed Into Law In Washington State

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“This legislation represents a significant breakthrough – the first time a state or nation has passed a new law devoted exclusively to putting guardrails in place for the use of facial recognition technology,” Smith said in the post. The bill also establishes a task force to scrutinize how, when and why the technology is used.