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Boston Market On Tapping AI To Combat Fraud And Meet Mobile Customers’ Needs

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One restaurant that is working to incorporate AI into numerous parts of its operations is Boston Market , a Colorado-based fast-casual chain that has 330 locations in 37 states. I’m very excited about what AI can do for restaurants, and we are looking at how it fits with Boston Market right now,” he said. “I

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52 Boston Startups Net $1.5 Billion+ In May

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Boston’s biotech industry raised more than $1.5 Cohere Capital Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm focused exclusively on middle-market growth companies, closed its initial fund at $200 million, and Founder Collective raised $85 million for its newest fund, BostInno reported. LaunchPad Medical of Lowell received a $2.5

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Mobile Order-Ahead Sector Goes All-In On AI

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Smart move – but supervised machine learning is reliant on historical data, which means that by itself, this method might not catch the new or disguised attack types pouring in. It uses payment data, location data, unique customer data and digital identifiers to detect fraud in real time.

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DraftKings To Merge, IPO At A $3.3B Market Value

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Online betting company DraftKings is merging with two other companies and going public, according to a report by the Boston Business Journal. Jason Robins, the co-founder and CEO of DraftKings, is going to run the new company, which will be incorporated in Nevada and keep its headquarters in Boston.

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Citi: Healing Broken PPE Supply Chains With Streamlined Cross Border Payments

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While the pandemic has created unique circumstances of immeasurable strain and pressure on the global market, it’s also emboldened many to rise to the occasion and ensure business continues to flow with as little disruption as possible. to China within only a few hours in order to secure a PPE shipment for healthcare providers.

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Data: Luxury Goods Sales May Drop 35 Pct This Year

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While sales fell 25 percent in the first quarter, the slowdown is expected to accelerate in the second quarter and could lead to an estimated contraction by as much as 35 percent for the year, said the Boston-based investment firm. It will take time for the market to recover. The biggest category to take a hit is watches.

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Data Enablers: Spreadshirt, Data-Driven T-Shirts

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T-shirts may seem like a simple product, but according to Spreadshirt, there is a ton of hard data and analytics at the core of even the softest shirt. Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6

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