SoundHound Teams with ChowNow to Deploy Smart Answering
SoundHound, a voice artificial intelligence company, has partnered with ChowNow, an online ordering and marketing platform designed to support independent restaurants, to enable restaurants to automatically answer and respond to inbound customer calls. Restaurants...
Voodoo Doughnut Implements Customer Feedback Tech Amid Growth
Known for its imaginative and sometimes eccentric flavors, Voodoo Doughnut continues to spur growth since its fruition nearly 20 years ago. Friends and entertainment-oriented Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson and Tres Shannon collaborated on creating Voodoo Doughnut, a...
Tray POS Partners with Alraedah Digital Solutions
Tray, a cloud-based point-of-sale provider designed to work on legacy hardware, announced a new partnership with Alraedah Digital Solutions, a digital solutions provider based in Saudi Arabia. This agreement is aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as...
Tray POS Partners with Alraedah Digital Solutions
Tray, a cloud-based point-of-sale provider designed to work on legacy hardware, announced a new partnership with Alraedah Digital Solutions, a digital solutions provider based in Saudi Arabia. This agreement is aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as...
Inside Lunchbox’s ‘Hard and Heavy’ Move into Catering
The catering and workplace delivery category is heating up as Lunchbox, an online ordering and marketing provider, takes a big step into the category by hiring catering expert and MonkeyMedia founder Erle Dardick as its chief strategy officer. Dardick is one of the...
Walmart’s Drone Delivery Service Expands Wings in Dallas
Walmart is expanding sky-high deliveries in Dallas by teaming with Wing, an on-demand drone delivery provider powered by Google’s parent company, Alphabet. The aerial service is set to take flight “in the coming weeks” first from a Walmart Supercenter in Frisco,...Scott Landers
Scott Landers Co-Founder & CEO, Figure 8 Scott Landers began his lifelong fascination with food and water on the sixth-generation Landers Family Farm. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering from MIT, and has worked as a civil engineer,...Ryan Dilello
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PepsiCo to invest $175 million in Instacart as Grocery Delivery Hub Goes Public
Instacart disclosed a major investment from PepsiCo, as the grocery delivery service made public its filing for a long-awaited stock market launch. The San Francisco-based last-mile delivery company filed a registration statement with U.S. Securities and Exchange...
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