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Starbucks launched Starbucks Odyssey in 2022 as its initial foray into the web3 world.

Starbucks ditches its Odyssey NFT program

Starbucks is testing a new way for customers to pay for their favorite beverages — without even having to pull out their phone. The company confirmed an internal test of…

Starbucks is experimenting with ‘scanless checkout’ for drive-through users

Nationwide retailer Target is encouraging more consumers to use the convenience of its curbside order pick-up service with the addition of a new perk: Starbucks coffee. The company announced today…

You can now order Starbucks with your Target Drive Up order pickup

Starbucks will become available for delivery via DoorDash across all 50 U.S. states by March, in an expansion of a partnership with the delivery service announced last year. In September,…

DoorDash expands Starbucks partnership with plans to reach all US states by March

As the world becomes more digital, the demands and needs of everyday consumers are changing — and NFTs might be a big part of the future for brands looking to…

Starbucks’ NFT program may drive more digital collectible integrations with big brands

Starbucks today is launching its blockchain-based loyalty program and NFT community, Starbucks Odyssey, to its first group of U.S. beta testers. The new initiative, which includes coffee-themed NFTs that translate…

Starbucks opens up its web3 loyalty program and NFT community to first beta testers

Starbucks is adding a new delivery partner, as the coffee giant has entered into a partnership with DoorDash that will expand nationally in 2023, the companies confirmed to TechCrunch on…

Starbucks and DoorDash launch delivery partnership, will expand offering nationwide in 2023

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Daily Crunch: New Starbucks Odyssey loyalty program ‘happens to be built on blockchain and web3’

Starbucks is today officially introducing Starbucks Odyssey, launching later this year — the coffee chain’s first foray into building with web3 technology. The new experience combines the company’s successful Starbucks…

Starbucks details its blockchain-based loyalty platform and NFT community, Starbucks Odyssey
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Apple Pay launches in Malaysia

Apple launched Apple Pay, which lets customers make payments in stores and online through iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch or Mac, in Malaysia on Tuesday. Currently, Apple Pay is supported for…

Apple Pay launches in Malaysia

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Starbucks will unveil its web3 initiative, which includes coffee-themed NFTs, at next month’s Investor Day event. The company earlier this year announced its plans to enter the web3 space, noting…

Starbucks to unveil its web3-based rewards program next month

As several Apple stores across the country fight to unionize, workers in Towson, Maryland became the first to win formal recognition. Out of 110 eligible employees, the union received 65…

An Apple store in Maryland makes history by forming the company’s first recognized union

As a handful of Apple retail locations begin the process of unionizing, the trillion-dollar company’s vice president of people and retail Deirdre O’Brien delivered a warning to 58,000 retail staff…

Apple VP kindly reminds retail workers that they can say no to unions

Let’s say we have a Venn diagram with two circles: Pokémon GO players and Amazon Prime members. If you fall in the middle, congrats! Here’s 30 pokéballs. Niantic’s flagship Pokémon…

Pokémon GO trainers who use Amazon Prime can snag some bonus items

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Would you like an NFT with your Starbucks latte? The coffee giant this week announced its plans to enter the web3 space with the launch of its own NFT collection…

Starbucks to launch NFTs this year, offering access to ‘unique experiences and benefits’

You can’t tackle climate change without taking a hard look at the environmental impact of the global meat and dairy industries. Combined, they emit 7.1 gigatons of greenhouse gasses every…

Impossible Foods’ Pat Brown will discuss plant-based meats at TC Sessions: Climate 2022

Apple retail workers at the Cumberland Mall store in Atlanta, Georgia became the first group of U.S. Apple store workers to reach a crucial step in the formal unionization process:…

An Apple Store in Atlanta is the first to file for a union election

From Activision to Amazon, historic union elections are changing the way that Americans think about work. Now, Apple is the next tech giant to reckon with an employee-driven labor movement.…

Apple retail workers at the Grand Central store are trying to unionize

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Chipping away at the problems of reproductive healthcare, one patient at a time

One in eight couples, single parents by choice and much of the LGBTQ+ population in the United States seek out fertility services.

Chipping away at the problems of reproductive healthcare, one patient at a time

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Indian giant Tata takes on Amazon and Ambani’s Jio with super app Tata Neu

The Indian conglomerate Tata Group, a $103 billion company whose business spans multiple industries from salt and software to telecom and steel, is ready to embrace consumer technology. The 154-year-old giant has been working – and internally testing – its audacious plan to offer a range of services from e-commerce…

Indian giant Tata takes on Amazon and Ambani’s Jio with super app Tata Neu

The Russian App Store has lost 6,982 mobile apps since the start of the Ukraine invasion, as numerous companies have now pulled their apps and games from Apple’s iPhone and…

Russia’s App Store lost nearly 7K apps since its invasion of Ukraine, but some Big Tech apps remain

Target is preparing a series of changes to make its curbside pickup service called Drive Up more appealing to consumers. The retailer announced on Wednesday it will begin testing an…

Target to add Starbucks orders and returns to its curbside pickup service

Mitsubishi Electric, the automaker’s electronics equipment manufacturing company, is starting a pilot program to explore the value of autonomous robots. The company will be working with Cartken, the Google alum…

Mitsubishi partners with Cartken to break into the robotic delivery world

Alibaba is reassigning roles to four of its executives in one of the biggest reshuffles in its recent history, the company announced on Monday morning. Maggie Wu, the e-commerce titan’s…

Alibaba undergoes major management reshuffle

Starbucks has teamed up with Amazon to open a cashierless store in NYC. The new location will combine the Starbucks app’s order ahead feature with Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology

Starbucks is using Amazon’s Just Walk Out tech in a New York concept store

Vimeo, the B2B video platform that spun out from IAC earlier this year, has made a pair of acquisitions aimed at building out the suite of features and tools it…

Vimeo snaps up AI video startup Wibbitz and ‘shoppable’ video tech maker Wirewax to expand its enterprise video tools

Countable is taking a cue from the positives of social media to build technology that nurtures more authentic communication and facilitates business and social outcomes.

Countable brings in $12M for virtual brand communities

APIs are the grease turning the gears and wheels for many organizations’ IT systems today, but as APIs grow in number and use, tracking how they work (or don’t work)…

Tyk raises $35M for its open source, open-ended approach to enterprise API management