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How Robots Are Shaking Up The Grocery Industry

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It has gained speed in 2018, showing how fulfillment — in many cases, following the lead of Amazon — is relying less on human participation as eCommerce buyers continue to change their shopping habits and expectations. online supermarket operator that earlier inked a deal with Kroger for entry into the U.S. Ocado Robots.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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But it’s clear that the company remains very focused on building financial services products that support its core strategic goal: increasing participation in the Amazon ecosystem. In December 2018, Reuters reported that Amazon was looking at airports as a potential Amazon Go partner. That scale would make Amazon Go a $4.5B

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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In the same way that Square built a payment-centric ecosystem for brick-and-mortar SMBs and micro-merchants, Stripe has reinvented online payment acceptance. Thrive Capital, Khosla, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Redpoint also participated in early fundraising rounds.As David Singleton , who joined Stripe in 2018 as the CTO.

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13 Southeast Asian Fintechs Among CNBC’s Global Top 250 List

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The company provides flexible capital access to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with competitive interest rates and flexible options in loan tenors, payment models, and collateral participation. Akseleran connects small businesses in need of loans with groups of diverse lenders to secure necessary funding.

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How Blockchain Tech Could Disrupt Real Estate

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Market participants could access more reliable data at a lower cost. ChromaWay announced that it had completed a full transaction on the platform in June 2018. Bank of China Hong Kong (BOCHK), for example, stated in mid-2018 that it processes 85% of real estate appraisals using its own private blockchain. Source: Imbrex.

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If Facebook Wants To Be WeChat, Why Did It Launch Libra?

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And all of them – developed and developing – use regulated rails, bank accounts and compliant fiat currencies to remove user confusion and friction, establish trust, enable merchant acceptance and accelerate market entry and scale. Just like WeChat did. Of Messenger and Libra. Monetization strategy, however, has yet to click.

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The metaverse could be tech’s next trillion-dollar opportunity: These are the companies making it a reality

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In 2018, Epic Games ‘ Fortnite generated 5 petabytes of data per month (that’s equivalent to 2.5T pages of standard text). Bridging micro-vibrations, pneumatic systems for force resistance, and motion tracking, this technology can give the impression that digital objects have texture, stiffness, and weight.

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