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AUGUST 3, 2016

Boston doesn’t quite make it into the top tier of U.S. 2) that they are running a contest to reward shoppers who pay with Mastercard credit, debit or prepaid cards at BJ’s locations in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. cities, like New York, L.A. The prize?

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JUNE 8, 2017

Industrial rents in already-expensive cities like Los Angeles and Boston are expected to get a boost because of weed startups, according to Bloomberg Markets. California and Massachusetts will begin allowing residents to purchase recreational pot — not just medicinal marijuana — making the states especially attractive to entrepreneurs.

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APRIL 14, 2020

It starts with an undergrad degree from Boston College and a law degree from Boston University. After that, a private law practice followed by an appointment by William Weld (then governor of Massachusetts) as commissioner of revenue in 1975. But a slew of Boston area residents are thankful that she hasn’t.

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MAY 22, 2020

The concert at Charlotte, North Carolina’s PNC Music Pavilion has been rescheduled to April 24, 2021 and the concert at the Boston, Massachusetts Xfinity Center has been rescheduled for Aug. Jimmy Buffett and The Coral Reefer Band are making new dates for stops on their Slack Tide Tour, according to an announcement.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Podcast company Spreaker has teamed up with Staples Connect in Boston and its surrounding areas to be the hosting and distribution vendor in the podcast space at retail stores, according to a release. . The first six locations are opening in Massachusetts, in Cambridge, Somerville, Needham, Boston, Brighton and Danvers. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Amazon has opened its first physical store in Massachusetts. Located at the Natick Mall in Natick, Massachusetts, the 4-star store is the fifth physical location nationwide for the eCommerce giant. We created Amazon 4-star to be a place where customers can discover products they will love.

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 3, 2017

The report also highlights complaints from consumers in Massachusetts and the Boston metro area. Findings regarding complaints from Massachusetts consumers include the following: As of March 1, 2017, approximately 20,600 complaints were submitted by Massachusetts consumers of which approximately 15,400 were from Boston consumers.

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TheGuardian

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Speaking at an event in Boston, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, Jamie Dimon referred to the fact that the bank began operating in China in 1921, the same year as the Communist party. Continue reading.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Four former eBay employees have agreed to plead guilty next month in federal District Court in Boston, U.S. In June, six former eBay employees were charged with cyberstalking a Massachusetts couple who publish a newsletter that company executives viewed as critical of the California-based eCommerce corporation.

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JUNE 17, 2020

A former eBay communications chief and veteran public relations executive was involved in a campaign to cyberstalk and harass a Massachusetts couple behind a newsletter critical of the online retailer, according to a Bloomberg report. Attorney Andrew Lelling said Monday (June 15) at a news conference in Boston, according to CBS Boston. “To

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Payments Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has approved a $723 million overhaul of its fare system that would eliminate cash payments on buses and trains.

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MAY 13, 2020

But in a collaborative effort with Flywire , Citi Commercial Bank is working to accelerate these transactions for Boston-area hospitals that need equipment fast. Citi and Flywire are putting their decade-old partnership to a new use in an initiative with The Boston Foundation , a community foundation connecting nonprofits to funding.

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JUNE 19, 2020

The Boston-based online sports gambling company announced Friday (June 19) it will sell 16 million shares of its stock. For the first three months of 2020, DraftKings, which has 800 employees in Massachusetts, posted a net loss of $68.7 million in the first quarter, Boston Business Journal reported. billion. . “I

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In bizarre banking news, the Boston Police Department announced it had arrested a bank robbery suspect who was hiding in a port-a-potty. A dye pack attached to the money exploded as he fled the scene, CBS Boston noted. Law enforcement followed Spolidoro into Boston. 24 robbery at East Boston Savings Bank in Everett.

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 3, 2017

The report also highlights complaints from consumers in Massachusetts and the Boston metro area. Findings regarding complaints from Massachusetts consumers include the following: As of March 1, 2017, approximately 20,600 complaints were submitted by Massachusetts consumers of which approximately 15,400 were from Boston consumers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

A week after details of the Federal Reserve’s instant payment initiative emerged, news came via Bloomberg that the central bank is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing digital currency.

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APRIL 1, 2020

Based in Newton, Massachusetts, Paytronix is offering its self-service online ordering setup for free for six months to customers of Toast , which specializes in restaurant technology, notably point-of-sale (POS) systems for restaurants. At the time, Paytronix said the funding was to jump-start growth.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

the Massachusetts-based accounts payable (AP) automation software provider, announced a $50 million Series D investment round and the purchase of two companies Thursday (Sept. 406 Ventures, the Boston venture capital fund. 406 Ventures, the Boston venture capital fund. MineralTree Inc., Terms of the deals were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

By using secret card-reading devices and pinhole cameras at various locations, Rusu and others were able to commit a widespread bank fraud conspiracy that targeted various banks in Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey from August 2014 to November 2016, according to law enforcement.

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APRIL 28, 2020

TripAdvisor is also furloughing another undisclosed number of employees and closing offices in San Francisco and Boston. The employees from San Francisco will be able to work remotely, while Boston employees can work in the Needham, Massachusetts, office.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

And as PYMNTS has previously reported , the Boston Federal Reserve has been working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore tech infrastructure. The Fed, of course, is hardly alone in mulling digital fiat currencies.

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TheGuardian

MAY 6, 2023

Thomas Ferguson is professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and director of research at the Institute for New Economic Thinking Servaas Storm is a senior lecturer at the Delft University of Technology Continue reading.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Instead, U.S. citizens will likely have to learn to “live with” the virus for now, according to the report.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

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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PYMNTS

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. And what is that model? I tell them that business is a game of misses, not hits,” he said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Meanwhile, the Boston Fed has been working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore the necessary tech infrastructure. In the meantime, the Sand Dollar’s launch in the Bahamas could do much to accelerate efforts to get digital currencies into consumers’ hands – and onto the world stage, too.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Earlier this month, as PYMNTS noted , the Federal Reserve said its Boston bank is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing digital currency. And there’ll be quite a bit of tinkering with the technology (especially the infrastructure) and the use cases to get there.

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APRIL 10, 2020

Massachusetts may be one of the rare exceptions. She told the NPR affiliate in Boston that the system routinely freezes, causing applicants to start over. Charlie Baker said the payment system is completely online, and its success stems from the fact that the unemployment service was moved to a cloud-based system years ago.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Also participating were existing investors Boston-based Optum Ventures, which offers capital and strategic guidance to startups; TI Platform Management LLC.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The WSJ reported that Boston-based Bain raised the funds even though other global impact funds have struggled with fundraising this year, drawing just $14.6 The managing director was former Massachusetts Gov. billion through Nov. 20 compared with $76.2 billion through the same date in 2019. Deval Patrick.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The Staples Connect concept, which will be officially introduced in six Boston area stores on Feb. The store also houses the Staples Studio coworking concept that the retailer has been launching in some Massachusetts locations, as well as three Canadian locations. Mike Motz, CEO of Staples U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) is one such organization fighting community hunger. Headquartered in Boston, the group serves over 500 pantries and programs in 190 cities and towns across eastern Massachusetts and distributes nearly 57 million meals annually. . Millions of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

In separate news, Boston-based Legendary Restaurant Group has scrambled to keep ahead of the pandemic’s economic mayhem. At the time of Massachusetts Gov. The crisis has created business destruction in its wake. Chris Damian , chef and owner, said he could see the tsunami coming back in early March.

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APRIL 28, 2020

And in those cases, Jonathan Parker, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the Boston Globe , the attempt was pretty successful. Next year’s budget is a mystery, she told the Boston Globe – which meant when her stimulus funds arrived, they went straight into rainy-day savings. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, Phoenix, Dallas and New York City. While battling problems caused by the virus, Lyft also is dealing with legal hassles in Massachusetts and California based on the company’s classification of drivers as contractors rather than employees.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Austin, Boston, New York and D.C. Boston, Massachusetts. The finalists are in, and Amazon has chosen its list of the 20 cities still in the running to be the home of its second headquarters (HQ2), according to Bloomberg reports. all made the cut, as did some surprises like Columbus, Ohio. Politicians across the U.S.

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