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MiHC La Puerta Portal Opens the Door to Success for Hispanic Students in Detroit

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Perficient developed the La Puerta portal framework as a way of giving back to the Detroit community and to pave the way for students to benefit from a college education. In Detroit, that number is even lower – 6.1%. MiHC is doing important work to advance education and career placement within Detroit’s Hispanic community.

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Today In Payments Around The World: Checkout.com Lands $450 Million In Series C; Pakistan Rolls Out Instant Digital Payment System

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The system was created over years through an effort involving the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the State Bank of Pakistan, with help from the United Nations, the U.K. Mobileye Expands Self-Driving Vehicle Tests To Detroit, Tokyo, Paris, Shanghai. and the World Bank.

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Driverless Cars A Threat To National Security

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The hacking of internet-linked devices has been a growing security concern in recent years — car hacking, in particular — and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), along with the FBI, announced in March that vehicles were “increasingly vulnerable” to hacking. million Fiat Chrysler automobiles in the U.S.

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Perficient Named a 2020 Best & Brightest Company to Work For in Chicago

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Representatives from Perficient are invited to attend the annual National Best and Brightest Illuminate Summit on March 24-16, 2021 to be honored as an award winner. Minneapolis has already been named a top workplace in 2020, and our offices in Detroit , Orange County , Minneapolis, and St. On the Path to Continued Success.

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Grocery Tracker: Instacart’s National Push

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markets and is slated to roll out to four more this week in Detroit, Columbus, Ohio, Las Vegas and the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas. And with 80 percent national coverage, these current stats wouldn’t come as much of a loss. billion back in March, grocery delivery startup Instacart is eyeing some major U.S. expansion prospects.

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Rocket Mortgage Parent Plans $3.3B IPO

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Detroit-based Rocket Companies, which owns the Dan Gilbert -founded company Rocket Mortgage , is seeking an initial public offering (IPO) for $3.3 Gilbert, who also owns the National Basketball Association (NBA) team the Cleveland Cavaliers , controls 79 percent of the voting power for the company’s common stock.

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Vaccine Provides Hope, But Sports And Concerts Keep Live Event Plans Flexible

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Current solutions range from no fans allowed in cities like New York, Detroit and Green Bay, to capacity caps of 12 to 20 percent in Tennessee and Miami, to hard headcount cutoffs of 4,200 in Arizona and 12,000 in Cleveland. 16), Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Sarah Spencer posted on her Twitter feed.

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