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Alphabet-Owned Drone Co Fuels Expansion With Hiring

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The company wants to hire people to help it grow into new regions, help with the regulation of air delivery and find new business partners. . The company also posted listings for a chief pilot, engineers and operations managers. .

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Memorial Day: Remember Maurice "Maury" Hukill

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Maury attended Virginia Tech, and in 1981 received his degree in forestry and wildlife management at VT's College of Natural Resources and Environment. pdf (beirutveterans.org) Marines of Beirut video from the Marine Corp Reserve: [link] Virginia Tech honors 2nd Lt Maurice Hukill: University to honor U.S. beirut-memorial-program-new-.pdf

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Local Governments Move In On Retail Vacancies

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Many municipalities are looking to help by proposing new uses for vacant retail sites, including a citywide initiative in Fairfax, Virginia called Activate Fairfax , where the Department of Economic Initiative is soliciting requests for interest in an abandoned Container Store location.

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Power Appointments At TNS

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John Tait will assume the position of Managing Director of TNS’ Payments Division for the Asia Pacific region. Zirkel will be based in Reston, Virginia and Tait will be based in Sydney, Australia. Zirkel was the Chief Operating Officer of TabbedOut before joining TNS, a mobile payment app with CRM features for bars and restaurants.

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SoftBank Shares Slide Along With Ride-hailing Stocks

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Now that Uber and Lyft have both underperformed, analysts worry the appetite for large-growth, loss-operating companies may be thinning. Some companies think SoftBank’s tech fund will help with growth in the region. SoftBank shares climbed to a record high after it bought back 600 billion yen ($5.5 billion) shares.

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Is Amazon’s Delivery ‘Purge’ A Boon To Last-Mile Rivals?

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As reported last week, Bear Down Logistics is no longer working with Amazon, with the firm cutting hundreds of jobs in the wake of that severance, and effectively ceasing operations across five states. There are another 120 workers slated to be let go in Michigan. “We Yet, in a competitive market, pay may matter.

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Restaurant Business Serves Up Mixed Plate For 2020

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To be successful, restaurant operators will look to strike the perfect formula of on- and off-premises for their business as consumers strive for convenience, but continue to look to the social escape that restaurants provide. New chains could quickly emerge regionally or nationally.”.