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OpenTable integrates CLEAR’s digital vaccine card for restaurants requiring proof of vaccination

Cities like New York City, San Francisco and New Orleans are moving to enact COVID-19 vaccination requirements for indoor dining. So OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation service, is rolling ou

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PhonePe in talks to acquire Indian app store Indus OS

Walmart-backed Indian payments services firm PhonePe is in advanced stages of talks to acquire Samsung-backed Indus OS, a startup that operates an eponymous third-party Android app store, a source fam

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Less than 3% of U.S. small businesses could face tax hikes

U.S. President Joe Biden tours the Sewerage & Water Board's Carrollton water plant in New Orleans, U.S., May 6, 2021. /CFP Less than 3 percent of the roughly 30 million small-business owners i

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GameStop raises $551m to accelerate e-commerce push, shares jump

A GameStop store in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S., January 27, 2021. /Reuters GameStop has raised $551 million through an equity offering as the video-game

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HighRadius raises $300M, triples valuation to $3.1B for AI-powered fintech software

HighRadius, which has developed AI-powered fintech software, announced Tuesday it has raised $300 million in a Series C funding round led by D1 Capital and Tiger Global.The round values Houston-based

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Atlanta startups have another venture fund to tap as Silicon Road Ventures closes on $31 million

Atlanta startups can now add another name to their rolodexes of venture firms operating out of the Big Peach with the close of Silicon Road Ventures new $31 million fund.Silicon Road invests across th

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Nasdaq edges to record, extending rally

A sign for Wall Street hangs near the New York Stock Exchange, January 4, 2021. /VCG The Nasdaq edged to a fresh record again on Tuesday, extending a bull run for markets buoyed by rising hope

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TikTok sale to Walmart, Oracle pushed back indefinitely: report

Oracle Corp and Walmart Inc's plan to buy TikTok's U.S. operations has been pushed back indefinitely as President Joe Biden reviews Donald Trump's efforts to address potential security risks from Chi

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Google pledges grants and facilities for COVID-19 vaccine programs

Google said today it is taking several steps to help with COVID-19 vaccine distribution in the United States, including grants and opening its facilities to vaccination programs. The tech giant is amo

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Woman describes escaping a shooting at U.S. Walmart

01:27 Police are investigation a shooting at a Walmart in the U.S. city of Sevierville, Tennessee. Witnesses say they heard gunshots inside the Walmart. Two people are in custody, loca

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LabCorp COVID-19 test kit has just been approved for sale over-the-counter

LabCorp has now become the first company to receive approval to sell its COVID-19 test kit over-the-counter without a prescription, according to a statement form the company.One of the largest diagnos

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U.S. shopping app downloads on Black Friday reached a record 2.8M installs

Many U.S. consumers spent this year’s Black Friday sales event shopping from home on mobile devices. That led to first-time installs of mobile shopping apps in the U.S. to break a new record for

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KKR, Rakuten to acquire most of Walmart’s stake in Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu

Walmart announced today it will sell most of its shares in Seiyu, the Japanese supermarket chain it acquired 12 years ago, to KKR and Rakuten. The deal values Seiyu at about $1.6 billion and means Wa

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ByteDance asks federal appeals court to vacate U.S. order forcing it to sell TikTok

In a new filing, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance asked the federal appeals court to vacate the United States government order forcing it to sell the app’s American operations.President Donald Trump

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U.S. will 'vigorously defend' TikTok executive order despite ruling

The U.S Commerce Department said on Sunday it would "vigorously defend" an executive order that seeks to bar transactions with popular short video-sharing app TikTok.The department said it would "

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Sam’s Club will deploy autonomous floor-scrubbing robots in all of its U.S. locations

The past six months have seen a fairly aggressive acceleration in the option of robotics and automation as companies look for ways to augment (and, likely, replace in some instances) human workers. Th

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Alibaba Group will spend $3.6 billion to take control of Chinese supermarket giant Sun Art

Alibaba Group said today it will spend about $3.6 billion to take a controlling stake in Sun Art, one of China’s largest big-box and supermarket chains. After the transaction is complete, Alibaba Gro