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JULY 8, 2019

an eatery operator with 35 restaurants, has filed for bankruptcy and is blaming the misfortune on a recent minimum wage hike in court filings, according to a report by Bloomberg. As a large employer in the Seattle metro market, for instance, the company was one of the first in the market to be forced to institute wage hikes.”.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The bill was sponsored by Congressmen Ed Perlmutter of Colorado, Denny Heck of Washington, Steve Stivers of Ohio and Warren Davidson of Ohio, all members of the House Financial Services Committee. The legislation aims to ensure that state-authorized and regulated cannabis businesses are not forced to operate with cash only.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

Reports in The Washington Post this week profiled Severn Savings Bank, a community bank in the state that is said to be providing services to legal marijuana businesses. The dispensaries and growers told The Washington Post that they have to pay significant fees, noting that they cannot write checks or take out loans from the bank.

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MAY 2, 2019

Convenience store operator 7-Eleven is launching beer and cider delivery in select U.S. ” According to Fortune , the company will test the service in 18 markets: Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Ft. .” Customers can place their beer orders via the 7Now app.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

With the acquisition, Precor will operate as a business unit within Peloton's umbrella, with President Rob Barker taking on the title of Precor CEO and general manager of Peloton Commercial, reporting to Peloton President William Lynch , the release stated. according to a press release. The acquisition positions Peloton to join the U.S.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

This week showed investor interest in B2B FinTech companies in international markets, as a trade finance platform in India and a human resources (HR)/payroll cloud software firm in the U.K. landed funding rounds. The fundraising was headed up by Advent International via Advent Tech and Sunley House Capital, an Advent affiliate.

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APRIL 8, 2020

By utilizing robots , stores are eyeing ways to save money and improve operations in a chaotic time. Washington D.C.-based based Broad Branch Market has recently welcomed 44-pound, six-wheel, self-driving robots, all equipped with sensors and AI and able to make deliveries.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

She will continue to report to Tom Gandre, executive vice president and chief operating officer. . “As He joins PSCU from Bank-Fund Staff FCU in Washington, D.C., He handled all aspects of payment operations, including strategic planning, innovation and risk management. where he served as vice president of payments.

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JUNE 2, 2017

3,500 more McDonald’s markets are going to be lovin’ it by the end of June as delivery service rolls out to even more restaurants. On Wednesday (May 31), McDelivery with UberEATS launched at locations in the New York Metro Area, Fresno, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Washington, D.C.

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MAY 31, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has many smaller property owners looking to unload their properties to save money, which could lead to big owners seeing a market ripe with purchasing opportunities, according to a CNBC report. Stay Alfred announced that it would be shutting down soon, while the other companies all announced layoffs and new debt.

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MARCH 2, 2020

A reorientation that could prove to be a bit of a challenge, since the COVID-19 outbreak that is spreading around the world seems to have infected the stock market, sending shares crashing through the ground as Wall Street put in its worst performance since the dawn of the Great Recession. Let’s dive in…. Walmart’s Many Resets .

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MAY 14, 2020

The two food delivery giants are said to be discussing a deal that would result in the biggest restaurant food delivery operation nationwide. Uber Eats has over 100,000 restaurants on its platform, amounting to roughly 20 percent of the market. Grubhub, with about 300,000 eateries, has about 30 percent of the market.

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JUNE 26, 2020

Supreme Court to announce a bipartisan investigation into whether the company has abused its position in the online advertising market. Google has also faced accusations of abusing its dominance of Android, its smartphone operating system. Last fall, most of the country’s state attorneys generals gathered on the steps of the U.S.

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JULY 5, 2020

Federal workers, through partnerships with several online retailers, will now be able to purchase equipment like desks or office supplies through an eCommerce network for the first time, The Washington Post reports. The GSA is estimated to spend around $6 billion per year on open market credit card purchases.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The electric scooter and bike race in Washington, D.C. s program for dockless electric vehicle operators. 200B: Value of the grocery market in Indonesia. has become more complicated in the last few months, as the district has moved both to expand and contract its dockless electric vehicle program. All this, Today in Data.

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APRIL 16, 2018

HP is reportedly stepping into the cannabis industry with a new partnership to provide businesses with financial management software, according to The Washington Post. In a statement to Bloomberg last week about the partnership, HP said that “retailers across a wide range of industries use our hardware in their store operations.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Analysts at Jefferies have also identified additional licenses for operations in Washington, New Mexico and Indiana, which could signal bigger plans for Amazon as well. According to reports, Amazon has hundreds of thousands of staff already employed, and its recent decision to add new headquarters in New York City and Washington, D.C.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Bezos owns The Washington Post, whose journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Arabia’s government, was murdered in October 2018. Bin Salman denied the claim, saying it was rogue operators who committed the crime. The CIA said the Crown Prince ordered the killing, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Envoy operates a blockchain platform built with R3’s Corda, with a focus on streamlining financial processes in the global trade space — including facilitating payments via tokenization technology. The company plans to use the funding to ready its software for enterprise adoption and explore additional verticals into which it can expand.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

And in the case of a labor market that’s gone topsy-turvy in recent months, that silver lining is the raw creativity of America’s workforce in finding work, even when traditional jobs are hard to come by. She pointed out that being part of market research offers an opportunity to feel relevant. In fact, many U.S. Why is this?

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Last month, The Washington Post reported more than 40 conglomerates, including Google and Dell, have nixed working with Chinese vendors in an effort to avoid those fees that aim to encourage businesses to shift their supply chains to the U.S. “We But across the globe, access to trade finance can be stifled.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Commerce operators such as Macy’s and Timberland , for instance, are showing how to use virtual reality-equipped smart mirrors for such tasks from product testing to checkout. billion via retail and marketing in 2022. Codenamed Orion, the glasses are currently being developed in Facebook’s labs in Redmond, Washington.

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APRIL 14, 2020

If users relied upon a stablecoin to make regular payments, significant operational disruptions could quickly affect real economic activity, e.g. by blocking remittances and other payments.”. The April G-20 meeting with finance ministers and central bank governors is usually held in Washington, D.C.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Last month, two men were executed for allegedly smuggling foreign currency and illegally altering the gold-coin market. Hundreds of foreign-exchange dealers have also been arrested for black-market currency operations. The black market for U.S. sanctions being re-imposed last month.

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JANUARY 20, 2019

Meanwhile, a study by data firm Chainalysis has found that bitcoin as a form of payment doubled in 2018 on darknet market sites. Bitcoin transaction volumes on darknet markets, where people can buy illegal goods, saw an increase over the entire year to reach an average of $2 million daily.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

United Income will maintain its current management team and operate autonomously. United Income is a digital platform registered as an investment adviser in Washington, D.C. billion, a jump Capital One said due to a 6 percent increase in marketing and a 3 percent increase in operating expenses. The net charge-off was 3.48

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JUNE 9, 2019

Chief Operating Officer (COO) Barney Harford and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Rebecca Messina will both be leaving the company. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told employees in a company-wide email that the progress the firm has made gives him additional time to take a more direct role in day-to-day operations.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

When California state legislators passed the controversial AB5 law for gig workers, Uber took action to revise its app with a stealthy plan dubbed “Project Luigi,” The Washington Post reported on Monday (Jan. The bill was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in September, and went into effect on Jan.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

So, how did Vacasa , the online vacation rental home startup, go from managing one beachside cabin on the Washington coast that belonged to the family of one of the founder’s wife to a multimillion-dollar company with more than 1,400 employees that manages over 4,000 properties in the U.S. Italy, Spain, Belize and Chile.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

The statistic , released from Mercator Advisory Group in its report, “Business Credit Cards and B2B Payments: Opportunity to Improve Market Penetration,” found millennial small-business owners are less likely than their older peers to use a business credit card, and more likely to use their personal card for business spend.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Businesses are understandably following suit, adjusting their operations to cater to customers’ growing preferences for digital-first everything. They also offer the flexibility to tweak payment operations without fundamentally altering their supporting infrastructure. “I Rethinking The Basics: Cloud-Based Platforms.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Reports in the Financial Times earlier this week revealed that investors are advising startups to hold on to cash and gather reserves to remain stable amid any market uncertainties. With on-demand services like Airbnb landing a greater share of the business travel market, other players looking to compete are coming in fast.

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MARCH 31, 2020

California, New Jersey, New York and Washington have different laws, for example, and companies operating in all of these states must comply with each. This represents a problem for smaller merchants as well because many rely on companies like Google or Facebook for the data they use to market to or interact with customers.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Transportation company Penske Corporation announced that it is rolling out its new carsharing service in Washington, DC and Arlington, VA, this week. based call center and a local fleet operations team. Penske has also secured reserved parking options at Colonial Parking garages in Washington, DC.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Aberdeen, Washington, is a far Northwest outpost of JPMorgan Chase & Co., with one lonely branch perched near the Pacific, 2,900 miles from Wall Street. Now the bank is planning to depart the rainy timber town that gave the world Kurt Cobain. The next-closest Chase branch is 40 miles away. At the same time, JPMorgan […].

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MARCH 11, 2020

CIBO Express Gourmet Market, owned by hospitality group OTG, is located at Newark Liberty International Airport Terminal C, with more locations to follow in Newark and at LaGuardia Airport. OTG operates 350 restaurants and shops in 10 airports, including in Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Toronto. “OTG

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JUNE 1, 2017

At the 2017 National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago, Cicely Simpson, the organization’s executive vice president of government affairs and policy, and the Texas Restaurant Association’s vice president of marketing and innovation, Anna Tauzin, discussed the digitalization of the restaurant industry and its effect on delivery.

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