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According to a report in The New York Times , Redfin started testing the program in Boston and is gearing up to expand it to other parts of the country. It was for listings in the Boston area. Despite that, the Redfin CEO said the response in Boston has convinced the company to roll Redfin Direct out elsewhere.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

People can also opt for the “receive a package” option, which lets them ask friends and family to borrow tools, a cup of sugar or a care package, for example. Originally introduced in April, Uber Connect was redesigned “for more seamless Secret Santa gifting and sharing homemade treats to a loved one across town,” Kumar added.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said, “To date, U.S. doubled to more than two million during the six months preceding the study, for example. It’s part of that “stand back” posture the Boston Fed noted in its March brief. In its March 2020 brief “Developments in Open Banking and APIs: Where Does the U.S. for a foretaste. “A

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APRIL 4, 2019

Boston Children’s Hospital has long believed that voice technology has the potential to substantially improve the healthcare experience for both consumers and clinicians,” said John Brownstein, chief innovation officer of Boston Children’s Hospital.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

After cherished Boston dining spot, Stella, closed its doors due to pandemic losses, chef and owner Evan Deluty couldn’t let the dream die — or his heavenly preparations disappear — and has reinvented Stella as a gourmet food truck.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Simon owns such properties as the upscale Copley Place in Boston. For example, JCPenney and Sears both filed for bankruptcy. The move comes as the retail industry is reeling from a double blow: fallout from the pandemic and the great shift of consumer buying to online sales.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

Burger King , for example, unveiled plans for a new store concept that features touchless ordering as its centerpiece. Uber Eats, for example, introduced a contactless system for placing takeout or dine-in orders, with customers using their phones to scan QR codes and access restaurant menus.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

The province of Hainan, for example, has shown a 150 percent increase in sales —1.04 Boston Consulting Group in September has estimated that the demand for luxury goods could underpin a spending boost on the order of 30 percent as the Chinese economy rebounds. billion yuan ($155 million) over the same period in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

By stating there is no public policy urgency to issue a CBDC, the Australian bank puts a note of caution in a discussion that is global in scope, and where, in Europe, for example, there are other discussions of risk and reward.

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JULY 30, 2018

” The news comes more than a year after the McDonald’s in Boston was to activate what it called a “customized digital Big Mac ATM.” Vince Spadea, a McDonald’s franchisee, was quoted by The Boston Globe as saying, “It’s really just a fun way to be modern and progressive. “Why not have some fun with it?

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JANUARY 25, 2018

The plate, available in California and due to be rolled out in other states through 2018, is a self-lit LCD screen with a display that can be changed to, for example, showcase advertising along the (government-issued) license plate number. Boston noted that within the plate there is a GPS unit, which means the plate “knows” where it is.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

For example, integrating Sidewalk into parking meters would bring low-cost network access for the city, but it will also provide more mesh nodes to strengthen network coverage and capacity.”. It could certainly benefit from adoption within smart-city projects. But he noted that Sidewalk would “struggle to match 5G’s national coverage.”

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Product recommendations are an example of social proof at work – if other people have good experiences with buying a particular product, that boosts the chances that other consumers will buy it, too. The owner of an upscale hair salon in Boston is an example of a business living this reality. Saving Main Street.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Square, for example, said in its latest earnings report that revenue from bitcoin trading came to $1.6 The Federal Reserve said this year that its Boston bank is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing digital currency.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

On the global stage, too, digital currencies should be fungible with one another – a dollar, for example, is worth 0.9 In one example, Venezuela is studying using various cryptos, including the petro (a national crypto) to conduct trade. euros (at least at present). Beyond that, national efforts are piecemeal.

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MAY 24, 2018

Ohio-based Spangler Candy Company won the auction with a bid of just under $19 million, The Boston Globe reported. “We The candies are made in a suburb of Boston, where the company has a little more than 200 employees. Necco had moved its operations to a large 50-acre site after leaving its longtime plant just outside Boston in 2003.

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One study by The Boston Consulting Group estimated that small and midsize U.S. Leaders reap multifaceted benefits from the technology tools they adopt.” - The Boston Consulting Group Some of the ways technology is specifically helping valuation firms grow include the following: - Providing flexibility. Reducing the IT burden.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Skirting Cash Shortages at Boston Pride. Boston’s pride celebration is one of the season’s biggest events for Mandy Roberge, the owner and artist behind Wicked Good Henna. The 2018 Boston Pride parade reportedly saw more than 750,000 spectators and over 55,000 marchers. Her needs are relatively simple.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Fidelity Investments , the Boston-based fund company, is becoming a leader in blockchain technology, investing billions of dollars on that and other cutting-edge technologies. According to a report in CNBC citing Fidelity, billions of dollars are going toward Fidelity blockchain, Fidelity AI and Fidelity VR.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

A food delivery app, for example, probably should use a customer’s location and previous restaurant transaction data to serve up food recommendations, but it doesn’t make sense for that app to automatically reorder food just because it’s been a week since the last order.

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MAY 9, 2018

McDonald’s , for example, has rolled out delivery to 5,000 of its approximately 14,000 U.S. In 2017, it gobbled up at least three different food delivery competitors: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon ’s OrderUp and, most recently, Yelp ’s Eat24. The partnership comes as fast food chains have increased their appetite for delivery.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Examples of remote authentication fraud. Here, a fraudster obtains a legitimate user’s details to take over their online accounts, enabling the theft of money or a credit card, according to Marianne Crowe, vice president in the Secure Payments Innovation and Research group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. An ecosystem problem.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Example: Trendy LA bike shop Pure Cycles encourages its customers to take 3D photos of a planned purchase, and even to take photos of individual parts. For example, Sephora cosmetics and perfume store has developed a tool for customers to put on virtual makeup.

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APRIL 9, 2020

According to Boston Retail Partners , 63 percent of retail personnel can’t identify customers prior to checkout. For example, by having a customer profile a store associate can engage with customers based on past purchases, preferences and interests.

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MAY 1, 2020

“Quite the contrary,” says Bob Brennan, chairman of the National Expansion Council and one of the directors of a nonprofit organization called Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) based in Boston, Massachusetts. “I They don’t have VC funds.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

In the latest example of hospitals’ influence in the data economy, Microsoft and Amazon now have access to patient records. And an agreement between IBM and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital from 2019 allows the Boston hospital to share personal information — although the hospital says they haven’t done that and have no plans to do so.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

We want restaurants to work so badly that we are willing to lie to ourselves,” Heather Mojer, co-owner and beverage director at Boston-based Big Dipper Hospitality Group , operator of the Café Du Pays, Mamaleh’s Delicatessen and State Park restaurants, wrote in an Instagram post. “We

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

With the addition of Reserve, which works with about 1,000 restaurants, most of them in Chicago, Washington and Boston, Resy will now serve about 4,000 restaurants in the United States. For example, if a restaurant has a long waiting list on a Saturday night, it can use Resy to attract diners on a slower night with the offer of a free drink.

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JANUARY 9, 2021

In it, a series of Boston Dynamics robots definitively answer the question: Do you love me, now that I can dance? Which, according to Aaron Saunders , Boston Dynamics’ VP of engineering, is pretty much the point: introducing the world to the fun side of robotics. The answer, incidentally, is yes. Yes, we do. and a dozen for $7.49.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

One recent survey found that roughly 50 percent of consumers abandoned onboarding attempts that they described as cumbersome or untrustworthy over the past 12 months, for example. Retailers, in particular, are wary of adopting 2FA because of the frictions the method can present, and their fears are not without merit.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Starbucks , for example, ran a “Starbucks for Life” contest, where winners would receive a free drink or food item each day over a 30-year period. The news also comes more than a year after a McDonald’s in Boston was to activate what it called a “customized digital Big Mac ATM.” McDonald’s is not the first QSR to run such a contest.

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JULY 19, 2020

For example, the Times talked to Jess Brown, who has $40,000 in credit card debt and only qualified for $135 per week in unemployment benefits pre-pandemic. That could change soon though, as the supplemental jobless benefits are set to end this month. “It only brings me emotional distress,” she said, according to the Times.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The partnership comes as fast food chains have increased their appetite for delivery: McDonald’s, for example, has rolled out delivery to 5,000 of its approximately 14,000 U.S. In 2017, it gobbled up at least three different food delivery competitors: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and, most recently, Yelp’s Eat24.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). For example, take the Super Bowl ads. And then there’s Tom Brady. No, we aren’t kidding. per second).

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FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). For example, take the Super Bowl ads. And then there’s Tom Brady. No, we aren’t kidding. per second).

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JULY 5, 2017

I’m sure all of you have your favorite examples of those — and I’ve written about many of them. Before Uber in Boston, where I live, trying to get a taxi reliably was not only friction-filled, it was infuriating much of the time — something that a study conducted by the city of Boston in 2013 on the taxi industry bore out.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

” In particular, a Shorr Packaging analysis suggests that tech hubs such as Silicon Valley, Boston and Seattle are particularly susceptible to thieves, as these areas face a particularly common problem with stolen packages.

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