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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 company had kept a small presence in Boston, in a small space by a Dunkin Donuts in South Station, and grew to about 200 employees working on projects like a Wi-Fi finder and the safety check feature.

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Striking a New Chord of Career Success in Consulting

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Tom originally went to school for music at Berklee College of Music in Boston (not the only consultant in the music scene ). When he wanted to return to living on land, he spent a year self-producing and recording his own album back in Boston. It was there that Tom learned about Perficient, which is one of their hiring partners.

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Google Moves In Where Amazon, GE Move Out

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Amazo n and GE may be giving up on New York City and Boston respectively, but Google is taking a different approach, expanding in both cities. The report noted that at the same time that GE was announcing it was pulling out of Boston, Google unveiled a big expansion with Cambridge, the city that is home to Harvard and MIT.

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Uber Connect Expands For Holiday Package Delivery

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locations recently added for Uber Connect include Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Charleston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Connecticut, Detroit, Fort Myers-Naples, Hampton Roads, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St.

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Amazon Takes Territory In US And Beyond

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Oakland, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, Austin, Boston and Chicago. Amazon is opening a 1 million-square-foot warehouse in metro Detroit and plans to hire 1,000 employees to fill it. In addition to the second headquarters Amazon plans to build in whichever U.S.

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The Robots Are Coming – And Some Are Already Here

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Consider Ford’s Van Dyke Transmission Plant, which recently brought in two new dogs – Fluffy and Spot – onto the Detroit site’s assembly line. Although they look kind of dog-like, they’re actually quadruped robots designed by Boston Dynamics and leased by Ford. Such robots aren’t cheap. A Do-It-Yourself Robotic Dog.

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Wayfair Launches Real-Time Delivery Tracking

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Currently available in 10 retail markets — including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York City and San Francisco, among others — Chain Store Age reports the new feature will “transform what is considered a time-consuming, even frustrating, process.”