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Peets invests in Intelligentsia

Online auction house Paddle8 raises $34 million

Best Buy tests same-day delivery with Deliv

This millennial created a new kind of wearable to be free from the phone

Mobile payments now 1 in 5 transactions at Starbucks

And finally… Ikea has a different kind of holiday wish list. Video


 

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