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Giving The Gift Of Michigan With Curated Boxes

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It’s all “nice, local, Michigan-made food products,” Founder Cory Wright told PYMNTS in an interview. When people try a crazy recipe for a hot sauce that uses locally grown peppers or other high-end ingredients and put it next to a regular national brand, “it doesn’t even compare,” Wright said.

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Industry Slant // Bo Berg Talks Giant Schnauzers, DJing, Financial Services

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BB : In 1992, I discovered these online bulletin boards, where you could communicate with people all around the world. In 1993, a guy from the University of Michigan came up with something called Mosaic, which was a browser. I eventually got headhunted to work for City National Bank in Los Angeles. MM: What happened next?

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For Retailers, Love In The Air, And At The Register

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14) is and will be a day where the chimes of registers at brick-and-mortar checkouts and online signal the late stragglers toward romance and last-minute gifts. Bloomberg reports that record spending on this holiday may give a lift to specialty retailers, as estimated by the National Retail Federation (NRF). The reading was 100.9,

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Startup Food Delivery Apps Savor Local Flavor

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Take Holland Eats , which caters to 30,000 residents in Holland, Michigan. The app comes as the online food delivery market is booming. The service does, however, have the kinds of interfaces that consumers might see with national food delivery services.

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VCs Back Autobooks For SMB Banking

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The company provides online banking platforms with small business solutions to help FIs better service their SMB clients. The new funding also saw participation from CU Solutions Group, Baird Capital, Detroit Venture Partners and Invest Michigan, the company said, adding that the round follows its self-funded $2 million in seed financing. “We

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TRENDING: How Credit Unions Give Digital The Personal Touch

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More diverse communities are being served by CUs than ever before, with the state of Michigan recently approving the nation’s first LGBTQ-focused CU, Superbia Credit Union. CUs are expanding their reach to previously underserved marketplaces, too, thanks to a relaxation of hemp-related laws. Federally insured CUs in the U.S.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

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This week it was Minnesota, and then yesterday Walmart really got warmed up and announced the expansion of their new payments service in: Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. Online lending .

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