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Boston Boosts Outdoor Seating For Restaurants

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Boston’s Hanover Street parking spots, nearly impossible to find, have been eliminated and replaced with seating for more than a dozen restaurants, the city announced on Thursday (June 11). Walsh said in a press conference, referring to the lack of community input over the elimination of parking spaces. “We

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Amazon Same-Day Delivery Expands In Boston

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While there was more conjecture than proof behind Amazon’s apparent decision to exclude a Boston neighborhood from its same-day delivery service, the issue appears to be off the table now. “Demographics play no role in it,” Berman said. “Zero.”

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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. We refer to it as ‘death by a thousand cuts.’ ”. The solution is simple, but that doesn’t mean it was easy.

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Former eBay PR Chief Reportedly Involved In Harassment Campaign

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The email was in response to a piece in the couple’s newsletter on the compensation of eBay’s former CEO, Devin Wenig, who is referred to in the complaint as “Executive 1” but who, like Wymer, has not been charged. Attorney Andrew Lelling said Monday (June 15) at a news conference in Boston, according to CBS Boston. “To

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JP Morgan boss ‘regrets’ making joke about Chinese Communist party

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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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The Week In Happiness: Brought To You By Dancing Robots

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In it, a series of Boston Dynamics robots definitively answer the question: Do you love me, now that I can dance? Which, according to Aaron Saunders , Boston Dynamics’ VP of engineering, is pretty much the point: introducing the world to the fun side of robotics. The answer, incidentally, is yes. Yes, we do.

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Early Days: AI Shows Promise And Limitations For Retailers

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In fact, because SMBs will likely have less internal data to reference and learn from, there’s a case to say that they have the most to gain from AI tech. The scale in AI is about the data, not the retailer, according to Oliver. SMBs can still have access to the same big data sets that their larger competitors have.

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