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Facebook Opens New Boston Office

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Facebook , which is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, opened a new office this week in Boston. The social media company invited some journalists along for a tour of the facilities, giving them a rare inside look at one of the world’s biggest companies and how it treats employees.

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Rinse Clothing Service Raises $14M To Expand To Boston, Chicago And Beyond

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Rinse has a solution for both, and thanks to a $14 million Series B funding round led by Partech, it’s taking that solution to two new cities: Boston and Chicago. The $14 million of funding Rinse recently secured will not be going into the company’s tech as much as into building out its team as it looks to launch in new markets.

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And Then There Were 20 — The Amazon HQ2 Finalists

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Austin, Boston, New York and D.C. Austin, Texas. Boston, Massachusetts. Getting from 238 to 20 was very tough — all the proposals showed tremendous enthusiasm and creativity,” said Holly Sullivan, head of worldwide economic development for Amazon Public Policy, in a company statement. Politicians across the U.S.

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Data: Americans Were On The Road Again Over Holiday Weekend

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Cuebiq , a private company contracted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to track general movement in the country, gets the data when people opt into location tracking from various mobile apps. Hospitalizations from the highly infectious virus have risen in around a dozen states since Memorial Day weekend, CNN wrote.

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Paytronix Picks Payments Industry Veteran Porter For Board

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Amy’s payments industry insight and unique experience in properly scaling a company will be valuable assets to our growth strategy,” said Paytronix CEO Andrew Robbins. “I The release said AffiniPay is “consistently ranked among the fastest growing companies in America,” including by Austin Business Journal and the Inc.

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Glossier Brings Shops To Nordstrom

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The beauty brand has launched pop-up shops in cities such as Austin, Miami, Boston and London, but its success has primarily been in online sales of its lotions, lash products and soft, pink-colored lip balms since its 2014 inception. fragrance sales.”. .

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15 Early-Stage Drone Companies To Watch

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We selected these companies based on the recency and size of their disclosed funding and their Mosaic score, CB Insights’ algorithm that uses financial and non-financial signals to predict private company health. This research briefing examines investments into IoT companies targeting enterprise and heavy industry.

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