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Uber Connect Expands For Holiday Package Delivery

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locations recently added for Uber Connect include Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Charleston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Connecticut, Detroit, Fort Myers-Naples, Hampton Roads, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Louis, Tucson and Upstate New York.

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Amazon Prime Customers Get A Better Deal On Books At Its Physical Stores

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The report noted that, when the Seattle bookstore opened last year, the prices at the physical store were the same as online, regardless if you were a Prime member or not. The report noted an employee said the pricing rules started in August and are applicable at Amazon’s three bookstores in Seattle, Portland and San Diego.

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Uber Of X: goPuff Is The Uber Of Convenience Store Items

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RI and YG: While attending Drexel a couple years ago, we found it unbelievable that there wasn’t an online alternative to running around, store after store, cab after cab, to get the supplies and products students and young professionals needed daily. PYMNTS: What is the story behind how goPuff started?

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Uber Of X: Paintzen, On-Demand Home Painting

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Based in New York, the business is now in seven other cities — Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Dallas, Portland, Los Angeles and San Francisco — and growing to more. You go online and give us really simple information about your home. So we started researching the world of painting, and it grew from there.

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $220 Million Week Ending March 25

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HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. HQ: Portland, Oregon. Online foreign exchange services. Nigerian online credit card processor. Source: Crunchbase. Maxwell Health. Payroll & beneifts platform. Latest round: $22 million Series C. Total raised: $56.4 Source: Crunchbase. Real estate investment marketplace. CrowdStreet.

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46 Corporations Working On Autonomous Vehicles

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Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. It then also became the first to test such technology on public streets in Boston, Massachusetts. Read more: The Guardian , Reuters , Bloomberg , The Guardian , Wall Street Journal. Aptiv hits the road for testing.

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