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Restaurant Business Serves Up Mixed Plate For 2020

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The 2020 outlook report from the National Restaurant Association was released today and it paints a picture of an industry dealing with the countercurrents of solid consumer spending and disruptive technology. In fact, by 2030, the National Restaurant Association expects that technology could completely change the face of dining.

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JP Morgan Creates $100B Funding Arm To Help UN

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JPMorgan has created a $100 billion funding arm — the JPMorgan Development Finance Institution (DFI) — to expand investments in emerging markets and help the United Nations (U.N.) Our aim is to increase engagement with clients and investors interested in financing critical projects and transactions in emerging markets.”.

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Navigating The Overstuffed Weight Loss Market

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is largely credited for the global epidemic – even if we are no longer technically the “fattest” country on Earth (congratulations, Nauru ) – the problem has definitively spread inside our national borders. The firm recently raised $10 million in Series A funding to push its sustainable lifestyle-changing app into the wider global market.

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Grab Creates Accelerator For Vietnam Startups

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Grab Ventures Ignite will nurture and support promising Vietnamese startups in their journey to become national champions in Vietnam’s tech startup ecosystem, in line with the government’s national strategy to create 10 technology unicorns by 2030,” Grab said in a statement.

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Former Restaurant Execs Seek $230M For SPAC

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Companies and investment firms with a member of our management team in an executive, partner or board role have completed over 100 merger and acquisition, capital markets and private investing transactions since 2010.”. In August, Ruby Tuesday Founder Sandy Beall and Doug Jacob, co-founder of the Washington, D.C.-based

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Chinese Finance Group Calls For AI Regulation In Ecosystem

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More should be learned from the rise and fall of the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending sector, during which regulations were not introduced quickly enough, said economics professor Huang Yiping at the National School of Development of Peking University to Reuters. The Chinese AI industry would be worth $143 Billion by 2030. trade war.

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UK Gov’t Wants New Homes To Have Electric Car Chargers

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The news comes as the nation has proposed a number of EV-supportive initiatives regarding England’s building regulations. by 2040, but there has been discussions about moving that deadline up to 2030 or 2035. government wants to equip all new homes in the country with electric car charging points. As the U.K.

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