Amazon's (AMZN) Venmo Rollout an 'Important First Step'

CED Honors US Business Executives and Their Companies for Leadership in Challenging Times

NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tomorrow evening, the Committee for Economic Development, the public policy center of The Conference Board (CED), will honor six US business leaders and their companies for demonstrating extraordinary leadership in challenging times. The CED Distinguished Leadership Awards Celebration... More

Innovation Minds announces a VIP Pilot program for executing a 3-4x increase in your Engagement & Innovation

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Innovation Minds, a Silicon Valley-based company, announced today the launch of its VIP Pilot program. The program aims to serve organizations which are keenly interested in championing innovation & engagement at their company and want to get started without having to worry about the change management efforts.

We know how difficult it can be for companies and its leaders to start an innovation & engagement initiative without the right tools or support structure said Bala Balasubramanian, Founder & CEO of Innovation Minds We believe that our Pilot program represents a unique opportunity for companies looking to... More

Wildfire Systems Announces Strategic Investment from Citi Ventures

Investment supports the continuing innovation and expansion of Wildfire's white-label shopping rewards platform

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wildfire Systems Inc., an innovative fintech platform that powers white-label reward programs and shopping companions, today announced that it has secured a strategic investment from Citi Ventures. The funding will support Wildfire's technological... More

Amazon Offers Customers a New Way to Pay This Holiday Season With Venmo—a Convenient, Easy-to-Use, and Secure Payment Option

In time for the holidays, U.S. customers will be able to place an order using Venmo as their payment method on Amazon.com and the Amazon mobile app

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Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that it will begin offering Venmo as a new payment option for orders placed on Amazon.com and the Amazon mobile app. This convenient, simple, and secure payment method will... More

Crown Electrokinetics Announces Application for Dual Listing on Upstream

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crown Electrokinetics Corp. (NASDAQ: CRKN) ("Crown" or the "Company"), a leading smart glass technology company, today announced that it has begun the application process to dual list its shares on Upstream, the revolutionary trading app for... More

Point Expands Leadership Team; Bavyaa Vasudevan Takes Over Engineering and Karthik Govindankutty Now Leads Operations

PALO ALTO, CA, Oct. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Point, the leading home equity platform, has added two key leaders to its executive team. Bavyaa Vasudevan and Karthik Govindankutty have joined the company to lead the Engineering and Operations teams, respectively. 

As the Head of Engineering, Vasudevan is responsible for leading the engineering organization, where shell be responsible for scaling the team. Vasudevan comes to Point from Salesforce, where most recently she served as Senior Director of Engineering. In her role, she oversaw the full-stack engineering organization for Salesforce Field Service, which included multiple teams and product workstreams. Previously, Vasudevan... More

Sonder Holdings Inc. Announces Seasoned Tech Industry Finance Executive Sean Aggarwal Appointed to Board of Directors

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sonder Holdings Inc. (Sonder; NASDAQ: SOND), a leading next-generation hospitality company that is redefining the guest experience through technology and design, announced today that Sean Aggarwal has joined Sonders Board of Directors, effective immediately.

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