The Daily Brief

Moody Monday:

Who would have thought that Slurpees® could be delivered? In an unlikely tech first, 7-Eleven announced that it had partnered with drone company Flirtey to make the first consumer drone delivery. What was the drone carrying? Slurpees®, donuts and coffee in special temperature-preserving containers. Imagine: With almost 60,000 locations worldwide, that’s potentially an awful lot of Big Gulps and donuts flying over neighborhoods.

7-Eleven First to Use Drone Delivery

Convenience store giant 7-Eleven announced Friday that it had successfully delivered two batches of merchandise to a customer’s home in Nevada via drone. The delivery marks the first time a U.S. customer has received a package via a fully autonomous aircraft. Read more →

Takt, Inc., Closes $30 Million Series A

Takt, Inc., a San Francisco-based startup that develops customer personalization software, announced today that it secured $30 million in Series A financing. The unusually large Series A round was led by BCG Digital Ventures, with participation from Starbucks who will also be an anchor customer of Takt’s platform. Read more →

2020 to See Universal Adoption of Biometrics Mobile Technology

Acuity Market Intelligence today announced that, by 2018, 100 percent of mobile devices sold will depend on biometric identification information. The research group also estimated that biometrics technology will generate $7 billion in revenue from more than 800 billion biometrically enabled transactions by 2020. Read more →