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Bringing The Farmers Market Online With Apps

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It offers delivery or convenient pickup locations in the community as it has partnerships with breweries, libraries and workplaces. That opens the door for producers from Southern Maine, New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts and Rhode Island.) For deliveries, the company does milk-run logistics.

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The Digital Evolution Of The Online Gaming Ecosystem

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The decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports betting – both in-person and online – in the U.S. RotoGrinders is a website that provides the DFS community with various bits of data, including game-specific weather forecasts. All in, counting online and in-person wagers, Super Bowl betting was worth roughly $6.8

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How Charitable Giving Boosts Online BNPL Sales, Customer Engagement

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Ninety-four percent of consumers believe companies need to do more than just earn profits — they expect them to give back to social causes in their communities and in the world at large. Charitable donations have also proven to boost sales. eBay reduced its rate of customer attrition by 67 percent simply by supporting nonprofits.

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First And Ten: Disrupting The School Sports Uniform Process With Customization

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Even school sports uniforms have been dragged into the digital age, courtesy of a Rhode Island DTC company called SquadLocker. Meanwhile, the company has built partnerships with the conference ECAC Hockey, to redesign the league’s online store. The pandemic has impacted the company’s business through schools dramatically.

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23 VC-Backed Brick & Mortar Startups Changing The Face Of Main Street

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Ample Hills Creamery — named for a line in a Walt Whitman poem — is an ice cream shop and “community gathering place.” MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Total Disclosed Funding: $4.1M. Oh My Cream! Total Disclosed Funding: $6.6M.

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Hurricane Insurance: What is Covered & What is Not Covered

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When researching options for hurricane insurance, look for information online and then speak with your insurance representative or broker. Rhode Island. According to the FEMA website, “Flood insurance is available to anyone living in one of the 23,000 participating NFIP communities.” Connecticut. Mississippi.

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The PayPal Recipe

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These discussions are important because Apple, already with a popular mobile wallet, is about to roll out online payments, which is in direct competition with PayPal. Also announced by PayPal this week is that Visa Checkout , a one-click checkout option, will be available to merchants who use Braintree for online shopping carts.