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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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Chase Plans Expansion In Top US Markets In 2019

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area, Philadelphia and Boston. Louis, Missouri; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Kansas City, Kansas and Greenville, South Carolina, among others. Chase has announced it is expanding its retail footprint into nine of the top American markets, as well as opening dozens of new locations in the greater Washington, D.C

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US Companies Advised To Add Health Experts To Manage Pandemic Response

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Williams said the school has partnered with Kansas-based AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., Boston Properties, the publicly-traded real estate investment, has hired an expert on improving conditions in “sick buildings.”. “I think the penny has dropped because unlike some of the other crises we’ve had, this one is enduring,” she told FT.

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Boston’s Bridj Wants Self-Driving Robots To Deliver Goods

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Bridj — a Boston-based transportation startup that acts like an Uber for bus rides and currently serves the Boston, Washington, D.C., and Kansas City areas, now wants to launch a package delivery service that would use self-driving droids to transport packages to a customer’s front door, according to The Boston Globe.

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Fed Becomes Founding Sponsor Of Faster Payments Council

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“Our payment system is a vital part of America’s infrastructure that touches everyone,” said Esther George, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. She is also a sponsor of the Federal Reserve’s payments improvement initiative. As a result, the FPC was created in 2018.

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Fed Names New Payments Security Leader

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Kenneth Montgomery, first vice president and chief operating officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, is taking up the position. Montgomery will also retain his position at the Boston Fed, where he focuses on services for the U.S. Treasury and financial market, among other responsibilities.

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Alibaba Offers Global Trade Program For SMBs

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This setup will take “what is usually a daunting and extremely complicated task, and turn it into a simple, concise step-by-step process without allowing you to make any mistakes before you move on to the next step,” said Casey Heim, founder and CEO of Kansas-based Wake 10, a boating-industry manufacturer. based B.A.A.B.S.

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