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Amazon To Build $40M Robotics Innovation Hub Near Boston

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Amazon is planning to build a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub near Boston that will result in the creation of 200 tech and manufacturing jobs, Amazon announced in a press release Wednesday (Nov. The 350,000-square-foot facility will be located in Westborough, Massachusetts, which is 35 miles west of Boston.

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Amazon Expands Boston Tech Hub; Adds 2,000 New Tech Roles

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MAY 1, 2018

Amazon , announced news on Tuesday (May 1) that it will expand its Boston Tech Hub, creating 2,000 new tech jobs in fields including machine learning, speech science, cloud computing and robotics engineering. According to Amazon, the teams based in Boston are focused mainly on Alexa, Amazon Web Services and Audible.

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DraftKings To Merge With Other Companies, Go Public

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Online betting company DraftKings is merging with two other companies and going public, according to a report by the Boston Business Journal. Jason Robins, the co-founder and CEO of DraftKings, is going to run the new company, which will be incorporated in Nevada and keep its headquarters in Boston. DraftKings was founded in 2011.

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DraftKings To Merge, IPO At A $3.3B Market Value

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Online betting company DraftKings is merging with two other companies and going public, according to a report by the Boston Business Journal. Jason Robins, the co-founder and CEO of DraftKings, is going to run the new company, which will be incorporated in Nevada and keep its headquarters in Boston. DraftKings was founded in 2011.

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Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. Innovation by Any Other Name. Back here in the U.S.,

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Data Dive, Go Big Edition: Apple, Amazon And CloudKitchens

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub. The 350,000-square-foot facility is planned for Westborough, Massachusetts, a community roughly 35 miles west of Boston. Amazon’s Big Robotics Investment .

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How Adore Me Discovered The Data Behind Lingerie Models

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AUGUST 16, 2016

That “team of geeks” would be the folks at Adore Me , the disruptive eCommerce lingerie startup founded by a Harvard Business School student in 2011 after he couldn’t find his girlfriend any affordable lingerie online for their anniversary. Since its founding, Adore Me has grown into a business that saw $43 million in sales in 2015 alone, 6.5

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Kreditech Taps mBank Veteran Michal Panowicz To Lead on Products, Technology

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Panowicz, who worked for fellow Finovate alum mBank as Senior Director and Managing Director from the fall of 2011 to the spring of 2015, will be responsible for Kreditech’s product and technology departments. His long tenure in finance and technology includes stints at Alior Bank, Microsoft, eBay, and The Boston Consulting Group.

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From AT&T To Xerox: 65 Corporate Innovation Labs

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JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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Is It ‘A Bot Time’ For Payments To Jump On The Bot Bandwagon?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

WeChat was launched in 2011 by Chinese internet giant Tencent. We take our weather very seriously in Boston. I tried last night to make a reservation from Boston to San Francisco, and it told me that I had presented it with a first: There were no flights between those two cities.

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12 Industries Experts Say Millennials Are Killing — And Why They’re Wrong

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MARCH 26, 2019

In the 1950s and 1960s, the biggest innovations in breakfast were Eggo Waffles and Pop-Tarts. Thanks to innovative new rental models, ownership is no longer essential. This trend presents a lot of opportunity for innovation. By this reading, cereal similarly doesn’t fit into the “on-the-go” millennial lifestyle.

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Power Trip: New Technologies From Tesla, Mercedes, Ikea, And Others Could Hold The Key To Widespread Solar Adoption

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Where’s the innovation & money in renewables? Now, several innovative new methods for storing solar energy are gaining traction, from lithium-ion batteries to substances that have high heat-holding capacities, like molten salt. Free: What’s the latest in renewable energy? a brewing MATERIALS issue.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

via Beta Boston. Torris said Boo.com also spent too much on advertising and promotions and failed to keep pushing forward on technology innovations. In a Boston Globe interview in January, he had indicated that the company’s financial performance was a pressing concern. ” via Boston Globe. via Boston Magazine.

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2019: What To Take Forward And What To Leave Behind

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JANUARY 7, 2019

This is the year that everyone takes a critical look at the innovations they’ve pursued over the last decade to decide what’s worth taking forward into the decade of the ‘20s and what’s best left behind in the decade whose door will close 358 days from today. Roughly 55,000 vehicles use it to get in and out of Boston every day.

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DraftKings To Merge With Other Companies, Go Public

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Kreditech Taps mBank Veteran Michal Panowicz To Lead on Products, Technology

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