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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. OrderUp does, however, continue to operate in 11 markets, which license the platform’s technology and mobile app, though they may not be doing business under its name.

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Alphabet’s Robot Comes Alive

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While previous incarnations of Atlas, notes WSJ , were about six-feet tall, weighed 330 pounds and had to operate while remaining connected to a separate power source, a caption in the recently released video explains that the updated Atlas is about five feet nine inches, weighs 180 pounds and runs on batteries.

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Walmart Online Chief Departs

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online operations, had vacated his post effective April 1. Walmart has also spread blame to its international operations, while claiming that its U.S.-based The timing of Monahan’s move from Walmart to NewCo seems relevant, in that his new-old company will be hosting one of its conferences in Boston on April 27.

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Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

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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. It wasn’t until 2011, when a complaint was filed with the U.K.

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Corporate Banks Need Radical Tech Shift, Say Analysts

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And while partnerships, collaboration and internal product development have helped banks to improve their reputations for innovation among their corporate clients, a new report from Boston Consulting Group says it’s not enough. Baumgärtner also coauthored the report.

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The End Of The Uber Experience?

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Before Uber in Boston, where I live, trying to get a taxi reliably was not only friction-filled, it was infuriating much of the time — something that a study conducted by the city of Boston in 2013 on the taxi industry bore out. That was on a day without bad weather, something Boston never has.

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How can bank boards respond to increased regulatory scrutiny?

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How complex is the bank’s operating model? If the bank isn’t required to maintain a risk committee (under $10 billion in assets), is there an appropriate degree of focus and attention on risk management? What is the pace of change in the organization and markets served? How is the management of risk overseen?