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African FinTech Chipper Cash Gets $6M To Enter New Markets

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The San Francisco-based company said it will use the money to expand its roster of employees and move into new regions. million in May of this year in a seed round that had support from Liquid 2 Ventures, which was co-founded by football star Joe Montana. Southern Africa is an area we’re looking to expand to in 2020,” he said.

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MainStreetEXPO.com Aims To Help Small Merchants With New Platform

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Registration is open for small merchants at MainStreetEXPO.com , a website created to assist local companies with selling to a larger market, according to a Friday (Oct. The website was created to provide a simpler, more cost-effective method for small merchants to market to the country through the web. "We 2) announcement.

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The eCommerce Bachelor: Which City Will Get The Rose?

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Jeff Bezos missed a major marketing opportunity there (as if Amazon needs it). only Arkansas, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, Wyoming and the Dakotas did not apply. Proponents note that, between Doña Ana County itself and the nearby El Paso region and Juarez, the region could more than satisfy the eCommerce giant’s stated requirements.

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Why Millennials Want To Crowdfund Their Mortgage Down Payments

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Millennials are either dragging down the housing market because they can’t/won’t buy houses, or millennials are both leading the modern mortgage market and simultaneously leading it into the digital age. Those consumers are buying houses, and are a driving force in some markets. The Complex Demographic.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

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Bank of Montana. Tom Swenson, CEO and chairman of the board, Bank of Montana. Bank of Montana. 3 MINUTES WITH… Tom Swenson, CEO and chairman of the board Bank of Montana. “We We use the ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ approach to serving clients,” says Tom Swenson, Bank of Montana’s CEO and chairman of the board.

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Excited To Help People

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Central Region Award Recipient. His collection of shot glasses, each bearing a particular state’s name or emblem as tangible evidence of his visits to those states, is complete after a recent trip through the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and then, lastly, Alaska. One person cannot do it all—there’s just way, way, way too much to do.” —Jim

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21 Predictions About Digital Health in 2021: Part III

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These predictions for health plans are in light of the five themes I see for 2021: Telehealth as a competitive advantage, New insurance markets, More self-service digital triage tools, Mega-mergers of vertically integrated health delivery models, and. That will all change in a market of impatient growth.

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