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Google, Amazon Tech Help States Handle Jobless Claim Boom

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Google and Amazon Web Services are assisting Rhode Island, Kansas, Illinois and New York in processing the unprecedented number of unemployment claims prompted by the coronavirus crisis, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. Help is on the way for beleaguered states facing a record number of jobless claims.

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Citizens Access Targeting ‘Optimizers’ to Grow Deposits Beyond the Bank’s Footprint

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Citizens Access, the digital-only arm of Rhode Island-based Citizens Financial Group, has grown to about $4 billion in deposits, mostly from new customers outside the bank's traditional footprint, since its launch in July 2018. If you build it, the optimizers will come.

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Waze Introduces Contactless Payments At ExxonMobil, Shell Stations

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Google, the world’s dominant online search engine, has faced growing regulatory scrutiny in recent years. Chairman David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island) asked Pichai if Google has evolved from a turnstile to the rest of the web to a walled garden that increasingly keeps users within its sites. country manager, in a statement.

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Report: 80 Pct. Of NJ Gamblers Place Wagers Online

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About 80 percent of gamblers are now betting online. Legislators in Rhode Island, for example, debated allowing mobile sports betting after extending it to casinos. According to an analysis released in January, “New Jersey’s online sportsbooks accounted for $241.05 In May, New Jersey surpassed Nevada for the first time.

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Google Play Policy Changes Will Extend Gambling Apps Across More Countries

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online casino games are only allowed in Delaware, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Sports betting is only allowed in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and West Virginia. . Currently in the U.S., Earlier this month, New York Gov.

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Bringing The Farmers Market Online With Apps

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That opens the door for producers from Southern Maine, New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts and Rhode Island.) When it comes to geography, Rhode Island, where the company is based, has advantages for a startup. For deliveries, the company does milk-run logistics. There is not a lot of noise like in Boston and New York.

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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. All in, counting online and in-person wagers, Super Bowl betting was worth roughly $6.8 In a microcosm of the national expansion, New Hampshire’s newly online sports gambling program raked in $2.31

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