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Gambling Site DraftKings To Sell More Shares In $1.6B IPO

PYMNTS

While questions linger over the 2020 sports season, that hasn’t stopped DraftKings from upping its previously announced initial public offering (IPO) to 40 million shares of stock. . The Boston-based online sports gambling company announced Friday (June 19) it will sell 16 million shares of its stock. billion. .

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Self-Advocacy Tips for Promoting Your Work

Perficient

BuiltIn Boston , an online tech community, recently interviewed Hiral Shah , a lead technical consultant at Perficient, to discuss the importance for women to self-advocate and the benefits she has realized as a result. READ MORE: Perficient Celebrates Women in Technology. BONUS: Sitecore Symposium 2018: Empowering Women in Technology.

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DraftKings To Merge With Other Companies, Go Public

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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.

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

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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.

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Paytronix Picks Payments Industry Veteran Porter For Board

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I look forward to working with the Paytronix team to bring its industry-leading innovation, including contactless ordering for table service … to markets around the globe,” said Porter. Porter nabbed the 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Financial Technology category for the Central Texas region.

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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?

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You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. 23-25, 2020. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend.

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Strategies for fighting remote authentication fraud

Independent Banker

Here, a fraudster obtains a legitimate user’s details to take over their online accounts, enabling the theft of money or a credit card, according to Marianne Crowe, vice president in the Secure Payments Innovation and Research group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Online U.S. Online U.S. The best defenses against fraud.

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