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New Study Suggests Online Lenders Target Vulnerable Consumers

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The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland issued new research on the online lending market showing that borrowers end up in more debt than consumers who don’t utilize this method of borrowing. The researchers used data from TransUnion for the study, pinpointing 90,000 borrowers who took out online loans from 2007 to 2012.

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Quicken Loans May Be Readying IPO

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Recently, though, debuts from Warner Music Group, Vroom and ZoomInfo have done very well on their first days of trading, and the IPO market seems to be crawling back to life, as more companies begin to feel encouraged to take the leap to go public.

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Walgreens Teams With DoorDash For On-Demand Delivery

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Walgreens and DoorDash intend to expand the selection to over 5,000 products and bring the service to customers in other markets such as Seattle and Cleveland, among others, by the conclusion of this summer. Rowe Price Group Inc., and others per unnamed sources in a report.

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Nestlé Misses Out As Frozen Food Category Heats Up

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The company has spent more than a year developing healthy bowl-style frozen meals, working with millennial focus groups to get the recipes right. At its $50 million research center near Cleveland, food technicians and packaging pros have spent longer than that working to increase the curb appeal of Nestlé’s frozen offerings.

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Investment Tracker: Bringing Auto Trading To The Digital Age

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Auto dealers don’t get to pick their inventory from a catalog or from snazzy marketing materials delivered personally from a sales representative. The company appointed former Synacor Founder George Chamoun as its CEO and received $5 million in funding from a group of venture capital companies on Sept. In the U.S.

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Mastercard: The Inclusive Futures Of Cities, SMBs And The Next-Gen Workforce

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The needs are no less important in the American market,” he explained. “They do, however, have a different feel because of the nature and level of development of the market, the role of government and the needs of local consumers.”.

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Can AIs Put An End To The Retail Boycott?

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Backed by a menagerie of investors, from Starwood Hotels Founder Barry Sternlicht to one-time Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio, Qloo bills itself as a “cultural recommendation engine,” which is a fancy way of describing its comparative process to uncover similar preferences across different cultural groups, TechCrunch reported.

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