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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

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If 2020 taught us anything about cryptocurrencies, it’s that they’ve reached a tipping point. Meanwhile, Visa said that crypto-banking platform operator Ternio had joined the payments giant’s Fast Track program as a cryptocurrency-focused enablement partner. It all depends on how you look at it — and where you look, of course.

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Caesars Puts Stake In Online Betting Co DraftKings

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The access is exclusive to Caesars locations across select states where the company operates casino properties. ” Founded in 2012, Boston-based DraftKings offers daily fantasy sports contests across 11 professional sports and in eight countries, including the U.S., and Australia. . and Australia.

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Square Makes Zesty Catering App Acquisition

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Expanding our corporate catering product with Zesty enables us to offer our restaurant partners another way to boost sales through higher-margin, large-format catering orders,” Gokul Rajaram, Caviar lead at Square, said in the announcement. The app had operations in Boston, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

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Football Season To Kick Off New Payments Plays

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It’s that’s time of year again – football season is upon us. As new PYMNTS research documents, over the past year, 18 Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) arenas have deployed biometric solutions by CLEAR.

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Opportunity Knocks With Door-To-Door Resurgence

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With direct marketing hit by robocall abuse and the National Do Not Call Registry , direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands and other not-so-usual suspects are looking into and in some cases reinstating door-to-door sales. We just started a month or two ago, and we’re now getting comments that will allow us to make an assessment.”.

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Shared Kitchens Help Restaurants Capture Growth Of The Food Delivery Market

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Introduced in 2014 alongside a handful of other experimental services, Uber Eats operates worldwide in 29 countries. And Grubhub has been in expansion mode , gobbling up Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and Yelp’s Eat24 in 2017. Manhattan-based Green Summit Group, for example, operates nine restaurants out of one kitchen.

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Can SMBs Avoid Being Left Behind In The Great Digital Shift?

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Many of the Main Street businesses, which were once options for consumers, have closed or operate with limited hours and inventory,” Webster noted. According to forecasts from the National Restaurant Association, 100,000 restaurants will close this year, doubling the 50,000 closures that typically happen in an average year.

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