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Car Marketplace CarGurus Has Acquired Autolist

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CarGurus, an auto marketplace based in Boston, has acquired car shopping platform startup Autolist, according to reports. CarGurus is a successful company that went public in 2017, and it’s going to keep Autolist as its own brand and website. PistonHeads also still operates under its own brand name. “We

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Plugging Expense Leaks With Spend Management Solutions

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AE Events , a respected Boston-based event planning firm, is using one of the major card brands to empower field managers in the kinetic events industry. That’s not unusual for SMBs and paper-based operations, as recent surveys have shown. Complications arise with billing and payments – it’s generally accepted as a fact of life.

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Who’s Going In The Connected Car Driver’s Seat?

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Emma Nutt, born in 1860 in a small town in Maine, was hired by Alexander Graham Bell in 1878 to be the world’s first female telephone switchboard operator. She stayed with Bell and the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company for more than 30 years until her retirement. At the end of her three-decade-plus career, about 25 percent of the U.S.

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Niche B2B Startups Surprise With High-Value Funding

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The funding was provided by Nauta Capital, reports said, whose general partner based in Boston, Dominic Endicott, said that Nauta’s confidence in Connected2Fiber stems from its ability to nix manual processes, like Excel, and other systems to help network operators visualize assets and connect to buyers. B2B eCommerce.

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What Innovators Can Learn From Uber Cash

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Uber rode the tailwinds of smartphone adoption, app stores, well-developed technologies like GPS and (at launch) well-established mapping software provided by Google to blend the online and offline worlds around a consumer experience that before lacked certainty and reliability. But that’s just one side of the Uber ecosystem.

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Getting Mobile Ready

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Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay. Today’s mobile options.

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Why We Invested: VCs Sound Off On 7 Recent Early-Stage Startup Investments

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Gupta exposed Shah to the opportunity and “emerging trend” in V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) communications: Prior to the discussion, Shah says he had yet to pay mind to the idea that autonomous vehicles must “communicate with other vehicles because decisions would need to be processed locally” by each vehicle’s respective software.