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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 company had kept a small presence in Boston, in a small space by a Dunkin Donuts in South Station, and grew to about 200 employees working on projects like a Wi-Fi finder and the safety check feature.

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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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Nordstrom Launches Same-Day Gift Delivery Service

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Customers in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Customers can have digital orders delivered or picked up curbside, or can have merchandise rush-shipped or delivered to a store. Same-day delivery is available in the NYC area for orders placed by 4 p.m.,

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And Then There Were 20 — The Amazon HQ2 Finalists

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Austin, Boston, New York and D.C. Boston, Massachusetts. Washington, D.C. When Amazon came to Seattle, Washington, it changed the region through a boom in development to keep up with growth in employees and higher rent prices. all made the cut, as did some surprises like Columbus, Ohio. Politicians across the U.S.

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Chargeback Fears Prompts Delay Of Merchant Funds

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Now, the Tacoma, Washington, portrait studio is facing another challenge. Like many small businesses, Bluebonnet Photography has been hurt by the pandemic as customers have canceled photo shoots, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. Some categories, including travel, had chargebacks of 40 percent.

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COVID-19 Triggers Closure Of GM’s Car-Sharing Platform, Maven

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Halfway through the year, the company began winding down the number of cities in which it operated, shutting down in major markets like Boston, Chicago and New York City. Maven could still be found until recently in other cities, such as Washington, D.C. Early in 2019, the head of Maven left her post. and Toronto.

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DOJ’s Delrahim: Antitrust Laws Apply To Big Tech

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The Boston Globe reported in August 2017. Delrahim has degrees from Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University Law School and UCLA. The official was confirmed to the position in September 2017 by the U.S. Senate following a delay of multiple months because of a move by U.S. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.),

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