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Tech Center: New York City Takes on Tech Full Force

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For years, New York City has been at the epicenter of United States’ culture with the fashion and entertainment industries leading the way. With the top modeling agencies, MTV and the home of American broadway plays, there’s no denying New York City is bustling with creativity. trillion (2012).

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IBM hosting two day Sales Performance Management Summit in New York City

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IBM is excited to be hosting the 2019 Sales Performance Management Summit, being held in New York City for sales executives and compensation leaders. Highlights include customers who tell their stories from implementation, to go-live, to next steps on the sales performance management journey.

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Ex-Uber Jump Manager Joins Amazon's eBike Unit

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Amazon has poached former Uber manager Alex Vickers and Justin Ginsburgh , known for starting New York's Citi Bike bikeshare service, to helm its eBike delivery team, CNBC reported. The move shows Amazon potentially moving more into last-mile delivery innovations, with the bikes a possible source of deliveries.

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Charles Potts: Back-office innovation

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Community bankers are embracing innovation like never before—with impressive results. But with so much emphasis placed on customer-facing products and technologies, innovating back-office operations can fall to the bottom of the priority list. As bankers, we learn this during our first day in management training.

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New Tech Combines To Make Grocery Shopping More Innovative

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The grocery battles are heating up in retail, and that is sparking innovation and could lead to even more disruption. Some of that was on display at the NRF retail show in New York City earlier this week. 14), is not the only place where grocery store innovation is coming from. Walmart’s Big Move.

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Coronavirus Fear Infects NYC Ridesharing

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For others, the emergence of a novel threat not only fails to bring out their best, but manages to bring out their worst. Such is the situation emerging in New York City among taxi and ridesharing drivers — who, in an attempt to avoid the coronavirus, are avoiding Chinese passengers. The rest, as they say, is history.

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How Might NYC’s New Ride-Hailing Minimum Wage Change Things?

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The new year will bring a minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers in New York City — that much is clear, even if the new rules on payments are a bit complicated. New York City also put a one-year moratorium on granting licenses for ride-hailing drivers. Tips and Bonuses.