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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.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

As reported by Reuters , the Sand Dollar – a new digital currency issued and backed by the Bahamian central bank – is now in circulation, and bit by bit, has been making inroads into retail use cases. The money is spendable at a number of retail locations. Central Banks Around the World Eye CBDCs.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The Staples Connect concept, which will be officially introduced in six Boston area stores on Feb. Retail, said per the announcement, “We recognize that the way people shop is changing, and with the launch of Staples Connect, we are adapting to fit the needs of our customers.” Mike Motz, CEO of Staples U.S. Puerto Rico and the U.S.

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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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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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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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MAY 1, 2020

But what about the entrepreneurs who are still hanging onto their dreams of starting a retail business? 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

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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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JANUARY 18, 2018

Austin, Boston, New York and D.C. Boston, Massachusetts. Higher paying technology-focused employment positions mean higher demand for higher-priced homes and retail, too — and also potential changes in the political standings of whomever green lights an Amazon deal. Politicians across the U.S. Austin, Texas.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Building The (Retail) Use Cases. 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. As reported, the company also said bought $50 million of bitcoin to hold on its balance sheet.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. From office supplies and communal workspaces to new ways to pay for concert tickets, more barriers to siloed retail activity are falling every day to the onslaught of retail partnerships.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

And in Quincy, Massachusetts, The Pour Yard has debuted an "igloo" concept to help protect guests from the cold weather and also keep them socially distant. 21 to restaurants in Chicago, New York City, Boston and Philadelphia with five or fewer locations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

To serve customers who want to shop in stores and online, retailers and solution providers are working to offer a unified retail experience across multiple channels. According to the latest PYMNTS mPOS Tracker , almost two thirds – or 63 percent – of retailers plan to offer this option within the next three years.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

For retailers, it’s the Hunger Games. The move comes as Amazon is making changes in other areas of its sprawling retail business. According to Recode , AmazonFresh customers in parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, California, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia have received the notices.

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MAY 24, 2018

bankruptcy court, Massachusetts’ New England Confectionery Co. 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. Following an auction in a U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Are shopping malls doomed to fall by the wayside along with retail trends of the past? This year, Boston Retail Partners principal analyst Ken Morris shared his thoughts with Glossy on the closing department stores and what’s happening as a result. Not quite yet. They’re evolving and frankly, they’re packed.’.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

The Boston-based company generated $5.7 Earlier this month, Wayfair announced that it is opening two pop-up shops at the beginning of November: One of the stores will be located at the Natick Mall in Massachusetts and the other will be at the Westfield Garden State Plaza in New Jersey.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Cambridge, Massachusetts. Building upon its Boston-area staff, Facebook plans to open a new office in neighboring Cambridge next year. Facebook, of course, has its roots in Boston, where founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was attending Harvard University for psychology before building the social network and dropping out.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 20, 2017

As for what you can expect between now and April 4 in Boston, look for a series of articles from the Celent analyst team highlighting some of the many insights that we’ve gleaned along the way. And while space is filling up fast, there’s still time to register for 2017 Innovation & Insight Day , April 4, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In this month’s feature story, PYMNTS examines the mPOS solutions powering Zinneken’s , a Belgian waffle bakery with several fixed locations and one Boston-based food truck, and Frosty Ice Cream , which claims to be Massachusetts’ oldest “mobile food and dessert catering company.” . Zinneken’s Serves Sweets With Speed .

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Mastercard’s “Grow Your Biz” contest for SMBs in Boston, Massachusetts, concluded in December. Mastercard and Bank of America know it’s not easy. That’s why these industry giants make a point of giving the little guys a leg up whenever possible. More to Love became an official business in 2013 and only continued to grow from there.

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MAY 7, 2021

John Hancock, also known as The John Hancock Life Insurance Company, was founded in 1862 with operations based mainly in Boston, Massachusetts. Once the request is received, an assistant to their licensed insurance representatives will call you from the Boston headquarters. Background on John Hancock. John Hancock Vitality PLUS.

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APRIL 27, 2018

Not to be outdone, famed chef Daniel Boulud is opening his own tech-centric QSR with four Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates. The restaurant, Spyce , is set to open this spring in central Boston. billion, and the self-serve kiosk market will be $1 billion, according to PYMNTS’ April Unattended Retail Tracker report.

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MARCH 11, 2016

According to its survey of 507 vendors of merchant processing systems, Apple Pay is the most requested mobile digital payments service among retailers. ” And though we live in Boston, Massachusetts, where it is usually dreadfully cold in the winter, we take his point about the dipping, answering and discomfort. .

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) is among the nonprofits working to feed local communities this holiday season is the which provides food services to 190 towns as well as cities in the eastern Massachusetts region. As Voice-Assisted Retail Gets Emotional, Privacy Issues Loom.

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JUNE 4, 2018

But based on how dynamic pricing has been used in retail, significant issues are likely to follow — if not tweaking of certain business models. No further details were immediately available about the case, or how Accenture is now pitching the pricing software and service.

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JUNE 14, 2017

And in the Northeast, Instacart and Stop & Shop will be offering same-day delivery to customers in Boston. Also in Massachusetts, Roche Bros. In the American Southeast, Instacart and Publix Super Market are teaming up to provide same-day grocery delivery to all Publix Super Market customers.

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APRIL 17, 2018

He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. Jeff began his post-graduate career as a Management Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. Operating Location: Boston, MA. BILL GURLEY. JEFF JORDAN.

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APRIL 25, 2018

To reach more consumers, Massachusetts-based restaurant chain Wahlburgers is taking its hamburgers to the grocery aisle. the restaurant’s burgers will arrive in grocery stores such as Shaw’s as early as this month, The Boston Globe reported. We know that with our name on it, we may get a curiosity try,” Wahlberg told the Boston Globe.

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AUGUST 14, 2015

We spotted founder Will Grayling on the CBS Evening News last night demoing the technology at a Manhattan retailer. ” LoopPay was founded in August 2013 and remains headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts post-acquisition. The company won Best of Show at FinovateSpring 2014 for its demonstration of Loop and LoopWallet.

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APRIL 30, 2015

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Tags: Mobile commerce, e-gifting, payments, ecommerce, SMB, retailers. There were two jumbo rounds: $50 million to cryptocurrency startup Circle and $30 million to multiple Finovate Best of Show winner MX (formerly Money Desktop). Here are the deals listed by size from April 25 to April 30: Circle.

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JUNE 17, 2019

The company recently launched its service in Boston, where producers have to be able to drive to the city within two hours. That opens the door for producers from Southern Maine, New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts and Rhode Island.) There is not a lot of noise like in Boston and New York.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Petryk, who said he was bullied ruthlessly as a kid from the third grade to high school, views his chain of Boston-based ice cream stores as safe havens that he wants to share with his community. “I The first store opened in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood (hence the initials J.P.), I was always a weirdo,” said Petryk. “I

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MARCH 28, 2016

Point-of-sale financing for retailers. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Latest round: $25 million Debt. Total raised: Unknown. HQ: Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Source: Crunchbase. Maxwell Health. Payroll & beneifts platform. Latest round: $22 million Series C. Total raised: $56.4

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APRIL 4, 2016

in Boston is a candy store for predators.”. “One thought kept coming up in his head: ‘What if I was a woman?’” ’” the company’s website said. Just one bad apple behind the wheel and those women would not be safe at all. Chariot for women only employs female drivers and only picks up lady riders (or boys under the age of 13).

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