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The Week In Happiness: Brought To You By Dancing Robots

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Sadly, we don't live in a perfect world – but the world we do live in managed to cough up a pretty good consolation prize. In it, a series of Boston Dynamics robots definitively answer the question: Do you love me, now that I can dance? The answer, incidentally, is yes. Yes, we do. This one was definitely anchored in fun for us.

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The Great Grocery Race Shifts Into High Gear

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The players are many — but in the last year and a half, Walmart, Amazon and Kroger have managed to pull ahead in the earliest rounds of the race in terms of the breadth and depth of their enhanced offerings for consumers. Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. are reportedly next on the list of expansions.

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How the Popular Bank Associate Trainee Program sets recent graduates on a career path to success in banking

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Trainees receive close mentorship from managers and advisors, participate in leadership and community activities and initiate specific projects and solutions for different business areas of the organization. Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana. The exposure to senior management. Meet Our Associate Trainees. Meet Laura. Meet Austin.

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Fintech Fundings: 29 Companies Raise $1.2 Billion Week Ending April 8

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Wealth management platform. HQ: Boston, Massechuesetts. Data for B2B analytics & risk management. HQ: Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Tags: Consumer, investing, robo-advisor, ETFs, retirement, wealth management. Source: Crunchbase. Scalable Capital. Latest round: $8.0 Total raised: $12.3 HQ: Munich, Germany.

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Playing Chess With Amazon: Target’s Competitive Strategy

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Target also invested in a new warehouse management system to integrate distribution and fulfillment at stores that run both operations out of a single building. The offering was piloted in New York City last year, and has now rolled out to 60 urban stores in New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

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