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Alphabet-Backed Healthcare Startup, One Medical, To IPO

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The San Francisco-headquartered startup runs membership-based healthcare clinics and was launched by internal medicine doctor Tom Lee, who served as the company’s chief executive officer until 2017. trillion in 2018, as measured by Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of National Health Expenditure data.

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Fed Exploring ‘Hypothetical’ Digital Currency

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In a speech delivered by webcast at the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Innovation Office Hours, Fed Governor Lael Brainard said that the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is working with researchers at MIT to “build and test a hypothetical digital currency oriented to central bank uses.”.

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Goldman, JetBlue Team Up On Installment Loan Product

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The deal follows JetBlue’s announcement that it has temporarily consolidated service in Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The new schedule comes amid a record drop-off in flying as the nation deals with stay-at-home orders during COVID-19. between April 15 and June 10.

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Uber Eats Says Customers Donated $3M To Help Unemployed Workers

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The San Francisco-based online food ordering and delivery service launched by Uber in 2014 said it will match up to $3 million in contributions made by customers, according to TechCrunch. Uber Eats said it will send its matched portion to the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Employee Relief Fund.

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Rinse Clothing Service Raises $14M To Expand To Boston, Chicago And Beyond

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Rinse has a solution for both, and thanks to a $14 million Series B funding round led by Partech, it’s taking that solution to two new cities: Boston and Chicago. Rinse currently serves its home base of San Francisco as well as Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The solution is simple, but that doesn’t mean it was easy.

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Entrepreneurial Upscale Chefs Are Plating Recovery Plans

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Quick-service restaurants (QSRs), fast casual eateries and fast-food drive-thrus keep dominating headlines throughout the pandemic as a nation is understandably obsessed with staying fed on lockdown and after, when breathing the open air still feels oddly risky. As reported by Eater San Francisco, “the restaurant announced Wednesday (Sept.

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Some Restaurants Opt For A Long Winter’s Nap

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We want restaurants to work so badly that we are willing to lie to ourselves,” Heather Mojer, co-owner and beverage director at Boston-based Big Dipper Hospitality Group , operator of the Café Du Pays, Mamaleh’s Delicatessen and State Park restaurants, wrote in an Instagram post. “We