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Facebook Opens New Boston Office

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Facebook , which is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, opened a new office this week in Boston. The social media company invited some journalists along for a tour of the facilities, giving them a rare inside look at one of the world’s biggest companies and how it treats employees.

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Facebook Buys Confirm.io, Snags IBM’s Chief AI Exec

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According to a report in CNBC , Jérôme Pesenti, who led the development of the Watson platform at IBM, will join Facebook as the vice president of AI. Executives from Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research group ( FAIR ) and its Applied Machine Learning group will report to Pesenti. Confirm.io

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Facebook Tracker: East, West And Everything In Between

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Facebook is getting big, and we don’t just mean popular: the social media giant has gotten bigger than its britches in more places than one, with new offices cropping up across the U.S. Facebook will receive around $19 million in state tax exemptions through 2035, CNN Tech reported. Chicago, Illinois. Henrico County, Virginia.

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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

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Square, for example, said in its latest earnings report that revenue from bitcoin trading came to $1.6 As reported, the company also said bought $50 million of bitcoin to hold on its balance sheet. “Staking a claim on bitcoin trading can pay off,” we wrote in this space recently.

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Baby Boomers Vs. Millennials: Eerily Similar?

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While it was reported that home buying was at its all-time low at a mere 62.9 This may be due to the fact that major cities throughout the country, like Boston and New York City, are seeing significant rental price surges. percent, millennials (who are in part to blame for this) aren’t the main contributing factor.

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Why Health And Beauty Retailers Are Driving Digital Innovation

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In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. At the time, it was reported that the retailer had brought support for the payment feature in the U.S. The move, however, was publicized in the fall.

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Clienteling Gives Retailers COVID-19 Interaction Options

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According to Boston Retail Partners , 63 percent of retail personnel can’t identify customers prior to checkout. What was known as a “nice to have” practice pre-COVID-19 has now become a way to keep a valuable channel open as non-essential stores are mandated to keep their physical locations closed amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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