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Amazon is planning to build a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub near Boston that will result in the creation of 200 tech and manufacturing jobs, Amazon announced in a press release Wednesday (Nov. The 350,000-square-foot facility will be located in Westborough, Massachusetts, which is 35 miles west of Boston.
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I look forward to working with the Paytronix team to bring its industry-leading innovation, including contactless ordering for table service … to markets around the globe,” said Porter. Porter nabbed the 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Financial Technology category for the Central Texas region.
company secured the funding from Underscore VC, Accomplice, Boston Seed Capital, Imagination Capital and Project 11 Ventures. The company said in a press release it will use the funding to focus on product development and innovation, and to add staff as it links corporate buyers with a digital platform to source products and place orders.
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Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady.
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Federal Reserve The largest of the federal banking agencies, the Federal Reserve has four regional federal reserve banks (Atlanta, Boston, New York and San Francisco) set up offices to study financial innovation with AI.
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The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire , which thought that organizing thousands of merchants into a single location for shoppers to visit would establish Istanbul as an important trading center, boost economic development in the region and add to the ruling party’s wealth. For centuries, it did.
The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire , which thought that organizing thousands of merchants into a single location for shoppers to visit would establish Istanbul as an important trading center, boost economic development in the region and add to the ruling party’s wealth. For centuries, it did.
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