Virginia’s Chesapeake Bank has joined The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments (RTP) network, showing that smaller community banks have joined the new trend of enabling instantaneous payments and receipts for customers, a press release said. The move will also allow the bank to access advanced messaging capabilities....
Main Street may not be able to save itself in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis. Several small to mid-sized towns and cities were already creating support networks and assistance programs before the crisis, and now they’ve taken on magnified importance. One of those is...
Wing, Google’s drone delivery unit, received approval to use drones to deliver packages by the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday (April 24). The New York Times, citing the FAA, reported Wing was given the nod to deliver packages commercially. The company has been testing delivery...
Amazon.com’s plans to open its HQ2 in Virginia got the support of local officials who approved a financial package valued at $51 million over the weekend. According to NBC News, the five-member Arlington County Board voted unanimously to approve the financial incentives despite some opposition to the package. The...
November 14, 2018
Build it and they will come — in this case, times two. Apologies for the cliché (some of us miss baseball already), but that’s the story with Amazon and its split decision Tuesday (Nov. 13) on its new headquarters. The Seattle-based eCommerce operator and cloud computing provider decided to build in both Crystal City, an […]
January 19, 2024
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed an executive order implementing guidelines and standards for artificial intelligence (AI). The state’s AI Education Guidelines apply to classrooms while the AI Policy and Information Technology Standards are designed to protect Virginia’s databases, and therefore the individual data of the state’s residents, the governor’s office said in a Friday (Jan. […]
April 24, 2019
Wing, Google’s drone delivery unit, received approval to use drones to deliver packages by the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday (April 24). The New York Times, citing the FAA, reported...
March 18, 2019
Amazon.com’s plans to open its HQ2 in Virginia got the support of local officials who approved a financial package valued at $51 million over the weekend. According to NBC News, the...
March 03, 2017
While not often given credit for being the most forward thinking place in the U.S., Virginia is getting out ahead of the innovation scene by being the first place in...
