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American Airlines Moves To Reduce Cash Burn, Increase Efficiency Amid Pandemic

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The company also struck a deal with Boeing to secure rights to defer deliveries of 18 737 MAX planes set to be delivered next year and 2022 to 2023 and 2024. Kerr said the firm has worked hard to rebuild its fleet into “one of the more efficient to operate and [one that] offers our customers a consistent and improved product and experience.”.

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Amazon Said To Roll Out PillPack Service To Employees

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The publication said PillPack recently filed for several new pharmacy licenses, most of which are to secure clearance to ship drugs from its warehouse in Phoenix to customers, reports said. While customers in every state, except Hawaii, can receive drugs from PillPack, only a select few facilities can deliver the product.

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Bangladesh Bank Heist Now Involves Casinos

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During a money laundering hearing at the Senate in Manila on Tuesday (March 29), Kim Wong, a Chinese resident of the Philippines and casino junket operator, denied any involvement with the scheme and said two high-rollers from Beijing and Macau brought the stolen funds into the country, Reuters reported. Wong confirmed he would return $4.63

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Malibu Poke Is Banking On Facial Recognition Payments

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Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are leveraging them to provide the faster, more convenient ordering experience customers crave and to trim costs associated with human cashiers (as well as operational inefficiencies). Some restaurants are now taking the self-serve kiosk to the next level by enabling biometrically secured payments.

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Grocers Get Creative With Delivery

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The service operates out of two 2,000-square-foot industrial spaces and offers only 1,000 products, using artificial intelligence to determine which items to stock and in what amounts based on customer buying trends. Finally, she lobbied legislators and secured $1.5 So what is a micro-grocer, anyway?

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CanPay: Solving Pot’s Payments Problem

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The Cole Memo , issued in 2013 by the Department of Justice, lays out the guidelines under which financial institutions can offer compliant financial services (like bank accounts) to businesses operating dispensaries in states where it is legal to sell medicinal and/or recreational marijuana. in fact, there are fewer than two dozen.

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Why Tech Fails Can (Sometimes) Be Inconveniently Fun

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13, 2018, an emergency alert text went out all over Hawaii telling residents and tourists that an incoming ballistic missile attack was imminent, tipping off waves of panic and terror as people scrambled for cover. In short, the system thought May was Batman and locked him out of his house as a security precaution.

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