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One Food-Ordering App To Rule Them All

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It’s a hungry brand, gobbling up three different food delivery competitors in the last quarter alone: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and most recently, Yelp’s Eat24. The OrderUp acquisition from Groupon ended on similar terms, with Groupon customers gaining coupon codes and gift cards to certain Grubhub-participating restaurants.

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Does ‘Google Checking’ Foreshadow Big Tech, FinTech Payments Changes?

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Instead of trying to be the bank, Google is leveraging the brand name, banking infrastructure and trusted reputation of two banks, one of which is among the world’s largest global FIs, to acquire new users for that product and for Google Pay. Consider, he said, how the Apple Card came into the market. Google’s Aim.

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Bringing In Future Residents With Pop-Up Hotels

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Travelers can pay by credit card and receive an email confirmation when they make a reservation, for example. These are all brand new units,” Fudin said. Our brand is brand new. Its new hotel in Baltimore, for example, includes a rooftop pool area. A ‘Hosted Hotel’ Experience. Everything is fresh.”.

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Retail Fizzles, Alipay Sizzles — And Burger Wars Reignite On Mobile

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Scrutiny, industry-wide, of who charges how much, for what and when is likely in the cards. Macy’s Backstage, the chain’s off-price brand — has been rolling out for the last two years, and the plan is to now open 30 more Backstage-branded shops housed within Macy’s full-price stores by the end of 2017. “In

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The Global Bike-Share Boom: Dockless Models Look To Solve Urban Commutes & Transit Access

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Uber partnered with JUMP (formerly Social Bicycles) for urban bike-share, while Lyft partnered with the city of Baltimore’s Bike Share program. These players have approached partnership models differently, with Uber currently identifying the brand of its partner JUMP while Didi does not. Automakers are catching on as well.

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