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DECEMBER 11, 2020

In today’s top news, FinTech startup Tink raised €85 million to bring its valuation to €680 million, and Starbucks plans to shift more toward drive-thru and online ordering. New Funding Values Swedish FinTech Startup Tink at $824 Million. Plus, Airbnb shares soared in its first day of trading.

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JULY 1, 2020

Two new projects have already been tagged for the initiative. Meanwhile, Lululemon announced plans this week to buy home-exercise technology startup Mirror for $500 million. The deal comes as the global pandemic has shut down gyms nationwide, leaving U.S.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Intuit closed a deal to buy Credit Karma for a price tag of $7.1 Lately, banks, payment processors, brokerage firms and others have been scrambling to acquire startups and companies considered disruptive or innovative in the field. billion on Monday (Feb. 24), according to published reports.

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APRIL 16, 2018

Foursquare is offering small businesses (SMBs) and startups access to its geolocation API, according to VentureBeat reports on Friday (April 13). Now, Foursquare is extending this service to SMBs via its Places API for Startups.

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OCTOBER 6, 2019

Coinbase is reportedly in talks to acquire rentals startup Omni’s engineering team. The startup has also received interest in its engineering team from Thumbtack. Two sources told TechCrunch that Omni also laid off seven operations team members on Friday (October 4). The news comes as Omni has been struggling.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Google is experimenting with new features to drive online shopping dollars to YouTube and is encouraging some creators there to tag and track any products used in their videos. YouTube is one of the least utilized assets,” Andy Ellwood, president of eCommerce startup Basket, told Bloomberg. “If

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Facebook, Alphabet, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon and other major companies are all working on AI projects, along with numerous tech startups. Since starting Clarifai,” Zeiler said, “we’ve seen many startups in the space that have since been acquired.” For video, Clarifai’s API doesn’t just send back one set of tags. “We

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

In addition, there is about $10 million in “earn-outs” for the management of the startup including chief executive Oren Jacob, noted the report. Apple’s HomePod voice activated speakers haven’t resonated with consumers partly because of the hefty price tag. The aim of the acquisition is to help Siri perform better.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

With the advent of emerging FinTech startups, banks face some competition for payments. As a result, banks are investing in and engaging with FinTech startups to grow their customer base and their market share. A whopping 42.5 percent of payments executives are focused on peer-to-peer (P2P) payments.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

The idea led to her experiential hospitality startup, The Sursy, which offers consumers shoppable stays in a Denver home share. (A The house contains items that come with small wooden tags that printed with the hashtag #SHOPTOSTAY. The house contains items that come with small wooden tags that printed with the hashtag #SHOPTOSTAY.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Vending machines may get a makeover now that Byte Foods, a startup that makes so-called smart vending machines, raised $5.5 Vending machines may get a makeover now that Byte Foods, a startup that makes so-called smart vending machines, raised $5.5 Berg Insight, the market research firm, forecasts that by 2020 there will be 3.6

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APRIL 26, 2019

Through a release in December of that year, the companies said the definitive merger agreement came with a price tag of $4.3 Carr founded Heartland as a small payments processing startup based in Princeton, New Jersey in 1997. billion and would grow the U.S. By 2015, the company was generating $2.77 billion in annual revenue.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

279 million | Total raised in venture capital funding rounds by B2B startups in PYMNTS’ B2B VC breakdown this week, backing firms that cover everything from accounting for blockchain companies to social and business networks for farmers.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

A popular London-based massage startup has leaked its entire customer database — and could face steep fines due to violating GDPR (General Date Protection Regulation) rules. Other clients were tagged as “dangerous,” while others were blocked due to “police enquiries.”

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APRIL 12, 2019

The firm has also invested in FinTech startups. In a press release at the time, PayU said the price tag was undisclosed, but noted the deal supported the company’s expansion into high-growth markets. Beyond Wibmo, PayU bought Citrus Pay in 2016 for $130 million.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Artificial intelligence may still seem futuristic to many, but a startup trying to bring artificial intelligence into our daily lives has piqued the interest of investors, reportedly raising $5 million in a Series A round of venture funding. It comes nearly a year-and-a-half after the startup, Mad Street Den , closed a $1.5

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

While the $9 billion price tag should have been a red flag to human traders, Apple did briefly see its stock rise to $158 before settling back down to around $156. billion in an acquisition of the Pixel division of HTC Corp, while Apple recently snapped up startup Init.ai Google did announce last month that it will pay $1.1

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JUNE 28, 2017

While everyone may not be ready for the high price tags that come with buying furniture, they do want their dwellings to look chic and stylish. That’s where furniture startup company Feather comes in. After college, people often move into their first “adult” apartment.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Dreamscape Immersive, a new virtual reality technology startup, is looking to find growth and opportunity in the film and entertainment industry. Dreamscape Immersive’s VR experiences are reportedly expected to run around 10 minutes each, each coming with a production price tag of over $1 million to produce.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Jiobit, a technology startup based out of Chicago, makes something that seems like every parent, from those expecting to empty nesters, will want or wish they’d had. The startup has developed a location-tracking smart tag and accompanying mobile app that sends alerts to parents when their child has gone outside a preset range.

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JULY 16, 2020

By the time of its initial public offering (IPO), the startup from Seattle was poised as the ultimate disruptor to these and other industries, ushering in an era of the same. Subscription service Amazon Prime launched in early 2005 with a $79 annual price tag.

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APRIL 26, 2018

Instead of relying purely on cameras and sensors to determine what users place in their shopping carts and then auto-charging them through their Amazon payments account when they walk out the door, BingoBox’s items come embedded with a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag.

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APRIL 23, 2019

Felix Rodriguez, founder and CEO of small business accounting and financial management startup Back Office , spoke with PYMNTS about some of the core functions of financial management that can crumble under the weight of accounting challenges. The firm secured $1.8

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JULY 4, 2019

Those consumers — given their travel habits, and relatively high sense of adventure — are looking for seamless experiences that go beyond the price tag. Those are all lessons that apply to the world in which Awayco operates, where consumers are “mobile-first,” Silverman said.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But a new report from cloud accounting firm Sage has put a price tag on this burden: a whopping $600 billion for firms across the globe. Manual processes are expensive for small businesses, in both time and money. Taking time to crunch numbers or hand-pick data is a waste for SMB owners, for sure. Canada, U.K. Canada, U.K.

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MAY 22, 2019

Inserts, packaging and leaflets can come with near-field communication (NFC) tags and quick-response (QR) codes to allow customers to sign as well as pay using their smartphones for their subscriptions. And global payments platform Currencycloud has teamed up with Evarvest, a startup based in Lithuania, Currencycloud said in an announcement.

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MARCH 28, 2016

As customers place items also equipped with RFID tags into the bag, those potential purchases are immediately registered to a central system. Embedded RFID tags and the running tally of what’s in the bag automatically charge connected credit cards, and customers can go on with their days.

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AUGUST 19, 2016

Separately, Bloomberg reported that, in July, Uber reached an agreement to buy Otto , a driverless truck startup that has 91 employees, including engineers from tech companies aiming to bring self-driving cars to the market. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the report pegged the price tag at about $680 million.

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APRIL 29, 2019

The Chanel products have been well-reviewed but come with an impressive price tag. There is an emerging field of startups popping up in the still relatively green field of male-centric makeup. But not all makeup for men is Chanel.

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JULY 11, 2017

What they need, according to the Austin- and Sydney-based tech startup BlueCats , is a GPS: A Guest Positioning System to give servers a general sense of where a customer is seated. In some instances, two tags might suffice: Is the customer sitting indoors or out on the patio? At Panera, one of BlueCats’ U.S.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

She wanted to not only do what the firm had done for the roughly three decades it had been in business — sell high-quality, lightly used and tags-on new children’s clothes — but also to think bigger and take the store and its mission online and into the digital age with a new business model more suited to the needs of modern parents. .

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JANUARY 19, 2017

The latest is global consulting firm McKinsey, whose new report has put a price tag on the potential of blockchain: $110 billion. While few working applications of blockchain technology are in use today by financial service providers, the industry continues to place its confidence — and money — behind the technology.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Consider the beacon technology used at Frames in Tokyo, the robotic waitstaff in Shanghai or even the Brekk-E-Tag at Hungry Jack’s in Australia. While the U.S.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Global investments in healthcare startups set a new record in 2020, reaching $80.6 In fact, Health Affairs reports, the pressures of the pandemic, and the systematic inequalities in weakness it has exposed has created an incentive for “rapid investment and modernization across the health care sector.”. billion in equity funding.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Before we get into the myriad ways fresh juice startup Juicero managed to propel itself into the annals of the more spectacular startup flameouts, firmly securing this week’s Fizzle Award, we would like to give a small shout-out to the minor sizzle that issued from Juicero’s ashes. Fizzle of the Week: Juicero.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

From the biggest names in retail and technology to up-and-coming startups, there suddenly seems to be a world of innovators with wearable inventions at the ready to make all of our collective lives better. Wearables are at an interesting crossroads in the life of the American consumer. What’s Next.

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APRIL 3, 2019

The cookware startup announced today (April 3) that it has closed a $5 million seed funding round, led by Bonobos Founder Brian Spaly. The pans come with graffiti-styled labels on the bottom and plantable paper tags embedded with basil seeds. As a result, the cookware is more or less manufactured here in the U.S. —

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