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National Small Business Week Celebrates the American Entrepreneurial Spirit

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This year’s National Small Business Week , themed “SBA: Dream Big, Start Small,” will include special events in Atlanta, New York, Denver, Phoenix, San Jose, Oakland and Washington, D.C. Many of today’s most recognized brands were once small businesses until they found an SBA counselor, lender or investor. Every business starts small.

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Can Lime Make Consumers Feel Safer About Scooters And Bikes?

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Scooters are so retro that they are almost brand new. Large billboards will go into these markets: San Francisco/Oakland, Columbus, Dallas, San Diego, Portland, Los Angeles, Denver, Atlanta, Reno and Nashville. Lime will send out “brand ambassadors” to do community outreach and distribute 250,000 helmets over the coming months.

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B&M’s Inventory Issues Aren’t Going Away Online

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Ever since consumers made it clear that they weren’t going to give traditional brands the benefit of the doubt if they couldn’t pivot toward online sales, it’s largely been big-box merchants, like Target and Macy’s, that have blamed supply chain issues for empty shelves, delayed delivery estimates or overflowing stock rooms.

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CFPB Sues LendUp Loans for Allegedly Violating 2016 Consent Order and Allegedly Continuing to Deceive Borrowers

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The CFPB has filed a lawsuit against Oakland, CA-based online lender LendUpLoans alleging that LendUp is in violation of a 2016 Consent Order that required the lender to pay over $3.5 In the Complaint filed last week in the U.S.

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Why Libraries Are Giving Up On Late Fees

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Paul, Minnesota; Dallas, Texas; and Oakland, California – in what has become known of late as the library fee amnesty movement that has been quietly (they are libraries after, all) picking up steam in 2019. But perhaps the scourge of library fines is migrating to the past. Bistritz-Balkan, spokeswoman for Equifax.

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High-Frequency Trading: Is It The New Normal?

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Animation aside, that would probably be Moneyball , an absorbing analysis of the moves made by Oakland As manager Billy Beane to rely more on technology-driven data than old-school scouting to put together his 2002 roster. To be clear, it’s not as if the regulatory bodies have kept their hands completely off this market.

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The North Face, IBM And The Quiet eCommerce Game-Changer

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Everest sounds like a good idea and not an expensive cry for help — is the first big brand to realize that putting the power of Watson into an eCommerce application, specifically its mobile app, might just be a game-changingly good idea. And, as market leaders, we think their influence will be invaluable.”.

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