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New Au Bon Pain Owner Turns To Drive-Thrus, More Locations To Revitalize 40-Year-Old Brand

New Au Bon Pain Owner Turns To Drive-Thrus, More Locations To Revitalize 40-Year-Old Brand
New Au Bon Pain Owner Turns To Drive-Thrus, More Locations To Revitalize 40-Year-Old Brand
July 07, 2021  |  ResTech

As consumers’ mobility increases, breakfast on-the-go is coming back. Seizing on the return of the bakery café, Ampex Brands, a franchisee founded in 2005 that...

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Walmart AR Brings Michelle Obama’s Netflix ‘Waffles’ To Store Aisles
Walmart AR Brings Michelle Obama’s Netflix ‘Waffles’ To Store Aisles
July 06, 2021  |  Retail

While Walmart has been a leader in interactive shoppable grocery content for some time, the content suite has until now remained an exclusively online. On...

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Europe Excludes WHO-Approved Covishield Vaccine From Digital Certificate
Europe Excludes WHO-Approved Covishield Vaccine From Digital Certificate
July 06, 2021  |  Economy

The ability for people to quickly and easily prove they’ve been vaccinated against the coronavirus has hit a bit of a snag in Europe, where...

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Big Tech’s Big China Trouble Makes Investors See Red
Big Tech’s Big China Trouble Makes Investors See Red
July 06, 2021  |  Cross-border Payments

China — a market with hundreds of millions of consumers, a burgeoning middle class, with the attendant discretionary income — proves an irresistible lure for...

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UK’s Revolut Eyes SoftBank Investment At Potential $30B Valuation
UK’s Revolut Eyes SoftBank Investment At Potential $30B Valuation
July 05, 2021  |  Investments

British banking and payments app Revolut is in “detailed” talks with giant technology investor SoftBank that contemplate an investment valuing the FinTech company at more...

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ByteDance Allows Other Companies To Buy TikTok AI Tech
ByteDance Allows Other Companies To Buy TikTok AI Tech
July 05, 2021  |  Artificial Intelligence

ByteDance has begun selling the artificial intelligence that powers its blockbuster TikTok app to other companies outside China, the Financial Times reported. Get the Full...

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Google, Twitter And Facebook Eye Leaving Hong Kong If Data Laws Pass
Google, Twitter And Facebook Eye Leaving Hong Kong If Data Laws Pass
July 05, 2021  |  Legal & Regulation

Facebook, Twitter and Google are among the big companies threatening to quit offering services in Hong Kong if the authorities’ proposed changes pass, making those...

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Businesses Spend $1.74T On M&A In First Half Of ’21, Break 40 Year Record
Businesses Spend $1.74T On M&A In First Half Of ’21, Break 40 Year Record
July 05, 2021  |  Partnerships

Businesses were hungry for mergers and acquisitions involving U.S. companies for the first six months of 2021 — the numbers for that sat at $1.74...

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