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Paytronix Picks Payments Industry Veteran Porter For Board

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Porter nabbed the 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Financial Technology category for the Central Texas region. In 2019, Porter took on the role of executive chairman at AffiniPay. Amy is an exceptional entrepreneur,” said Nick Cayer, partner at Boston-based Great Hill Partners.

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Starbucks Hits 16.3M Mobile Users, Eyes Expanded Delivery

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Overall, sales were up 3 percent, and transactions were up 1 percent in the Asia-Pacific region as a whole. Johnson noted that one of Starbucks’ 2019 goals is to draw more consumers into its loyalty program, and into using the Starbucks app. Starbucks is predicting same-store sales of between 3 percent and 4 percent globally in 2019.

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Top News In Payments: Bank Closings Hit Rural Areas; Kaspersky Highlights Rise Of Fake Notifications

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Kaspersky: Fake Push Notifications Have Grown Nearly 70 Pct In 2019. Among the nonprofits working to feed local communities this holiday season is the Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB), which offers food services to 190 cities and towns in the eastern Massachusetts region.

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

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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 . India, the U.K.

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

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That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities. We are tech agnostic,” Winrich said.

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Physical Footprints, Grocery Gains

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Meyer added that Prime Day has seen higher spending each year since it launched five years ago, but that 2019 saw a significant increase. Stores on the March: Seattle, Boston and Nashville . shoppers by the end of 2019. Significant enough, apparently, to set off an unforeseen retail sales surge for a month.

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A Deep Dive into the Distribution of the FICO Score Across the US

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as of April 2019 is 706. Encouraging news for everyone -- all 50 states (and the District of Columbia) have seen their average FICO ® Scores as of April 2019 increase when compared to their average scores at the height of the great recession period (2009-2010). Paul and Boston. State Level View. MSA 1 (City) Level View.