Column: They say San Francisco is coming back as a tech hub, but it never really left
Austin and Miami promoted themselves as new Silicon Valleys, but they were never more than Silicon Valley wannabes.
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Austin and Miami promoted themselves as new Silicon Valleys, but they were never more than Silicon Valley wannabes.
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Matt Day, Bloomberg News Circle K store Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg , Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg A startup selling Amazon Go-like checkout technology to retailers has raised money from investors at a US$1 billion valuation, minting a new unicorn a year into a pandemic that has helped bolster the case for automated checkout. Standard Cognition Corp., based in San Francisco, offers a package of cameras and software that tracks browsing shoppers and automatically charges them when they exit. Circle K, the convenience store ...