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Glacial Pace For SMB Job Creation?

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The gains themselves can be traced to companies that are just starting up and are not in fact the result of larger and older firms broadening staff or geographic presence. Separately, the PYMNTS Store Front Index showed 3.7 percent growth in the third quarter of last year.

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Uber’s Rough Ride Of A Week

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Uber is also under investigation by the attorneys general of New York, Missouri, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Illinois. While Uber has reported losses throughout its run as the world’s most successful and valuable start up, until Q3 those losses had shown signs of decline.

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For The 4th – Thank A Bostonian For Democracy And The Modern Payments System

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It’s the same problem we have in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts every single year, this same time of the year. We, here in Boston – in specific- and Massachusetts, in general, would really like to be able to call ourselves the birthplace of America. The Commonwealth of Virginia. All by ourselves. Paper money. Well sort of.