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Site Visits Fuel Anticipation For Amazon’s HQ2

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According to a person with a understanding of the visits, the eCommerce retailer visited Chicago, New York City and Chicago, The Wall Street Journal reported. That is partly because Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post and has a house in the region. Austin, Boston, New York and D.C.

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And Then There Were 20 — The Amazon HQ2 Finalists

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Austin, Boston, New York and D.C. Boston, Massachusetts. Chicago, Illinois. When Amazon came to Seattle, Washington, it changed the region through a boom in development to keep up with growth in employees and higher rent prices. all made the cut, as did some surprises like Columbus, Ohio. Politicians across the U.S.

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AmazonFresh Continues To Expand

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26) that its grocery delivery platform, AmazonFresh, is continuing its march toward national domination with the addition of two new cities : Chicago and Dallas. We continue to expand AmazonFresh into new regions so that more and more customers can take advantage of the service,” said Ben Hartman, VP of AmazonFresh.

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London: still the #1 Global Financial Centre

Chris Skinner

The GFCI rates 88 financial centres and finds the top ten are: London New York Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo San Francisco Chicago Sydney Boston Toronto Updated every six months, the main headlines of this half year are: Brexit and the US election have had a significant impact. Of the 29 GFCI centres in the region, 16 declined and 12 rose.

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State Street Agrees To Pay $35M To Settle SEC Charges

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Levenson, director of the SEC’s Boston regional office, the department which investigated the overcharges. Pyszka, associate director of the SEC’s Chicago regional office, which investigated the GovEx-related disclosure failures.

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Today In Payments: Facebook Closes $5.7B Deal For Stake In Reliance Jio; GM Shutters Its Car-Sharing Platform

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billion deal on Tuesday (April 21) for a minority stake in Indian telecom startup Reliance Jio, giving the social media giant a larger foothold in the region. Maven had already began winding down the number of cities in which it operated, shutting down in major markets like Boston, Chicago and New York City.

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Starbucks Hits 16.3M Mobile Users, Eyes Expanded Delivery

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Overall, sales were up 3 percent, and transactions were up 1 percent in the Asia-Pacific region as a whole. Over the next several weeks, delivery services via Uber Eats are on deck to roll out in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C. Sales in Europe, Africa and the Middle East were all down by 1 percent.

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