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PayPal Provides $5M In Grants To Support Minority Businesses

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The grants are part of the San Jose, California-based worldwide online payments system’s $530 million pledge made earlier this year to strengthen minority communities and fight for economic equality and racial justice. “To PayPal Holdings Inc. provided $5 million in grants to support Black-owned businesses in the U.S.

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Hit The Ground Running: 15 Early-Stage Fitness Tech Startups To Watch

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Equipment sensors also connect to the individual’s personal Gymtrack app, providing customized experiences for users. Headquarters: Baltimore, Maryland. Launched in 2016, BurnAlong seeks to make group exercise convenient by providing a online platform that complements in-person workouts at gyms or fitness studios.

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Retail Reinvention: Why Retail Doesn’t Need Salespeople

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No online database will replace the daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.”. Up until then, Stoll had made a reputation for himself in the online world for having snuffed out Markus Hess , the guy who’d successfully hacked into a bunch of U.S.,

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