Alibaba has confirmed that it has raised $3 billion for its new-look local services business after it united its Koubei local services business with Ele.
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Think Main Street businesses: local services like restaurants and real estate.
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Local services — and in particular food delivery — remains its core focus.
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Then there's home and local services where we monetize really well.
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In the second half of 2015, it purchased local services platform Near.
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Alibaba confirms it raised $3B for its newly consolidated local services business
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Many complained that it was difficult to find information about local services.
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Counselors will often offer connections to local services for follow-up help.
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The party is widely acknowledged to have brought rapid improvements to local services.
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But they are lumbered with the cost of providing local services for newcomers.
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Firstly, there's been a major shift away from hyper local services in India.
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All homeowners pay an annual council tax, which helps to fund local services.
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McGrath, a Conservative voter, is worried about immigration putting pressure on local services.
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Amazon's local services could be coming to Singapore soon, according to a new report.
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The duo's arrival is likely to put pressure on local services which include Exnet.
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The goal, he said, is to provide access to all kinds of local services.
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The famously grueling jobs in Amazon warehouses have also created strains on local services.
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These are used to power anything from homes to local services like police departments.
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Starting today, Google Assistant can help you find local services, like an electrician or handyman.
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So my question was, can we try and apply that thinking to other local services?
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There's a huge funding round from one of the top local services companies in China.
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Membership is free, but businesses need it to buy Local Services search ads from Google.
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Business rates are taxes to help pay for local services, charged on most commercial properties.
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You could then have asked what she knew about local services that could assist her.
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Despite some local services, Hinrikus isn't concerned nor is he interested in potential M&A activity.
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Line's approach is to work with local services in order to broaden its appeal beyond messaging.
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Tens of thousands of jobs have been lost, along with sales taxes that fund local services.
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One who returned and is living in Vilvoorde is intensively monitored and supported by local services.
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Meituan Dianping, a firm backed by Alibaba rival Tencent, has led the charge into local services.
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It has grown into an interactive project pinpointing local services and providing information about security in Kibera.
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In final online campaign videos, May said her party was delivering local services whilst keeping taxes low.
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She joined SoftBank in 2006 and in her role with the fund works with Alibaba Local Services.
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Xiaomi's Android-based MIUI operating system, for instance, has integration with several popular local services such as Paytm.
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Paytm is best known for its mobile wallet, but also runs online marketplaces for products and local services.
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One of Asia's most-funded clones of U.S.-based subscription fitness service ClassPass is pivoting to local services.
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Baidu is already shipping AR experiences inside Mobile Baidu, Baidu Maps and its local services app, Baidu Nuomi.
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Go-Jek offers motorbikes and taxis on demand, as well as local services like grocery delivery and mobile payments.
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"The internationalisation of local services is an important part of Didi's global strategy," the company said in a statement.
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ServisHero – ASEAN's leading mobile marketplace for local services, connecting customers to vetted service providers through a location-aware app.
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States would route tax collections to where customers reside, so Goodlatte's plan would help pay for local services, too.
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Its archrival Mobike has slowed down expansion since it was sold to Hong Kong-listed local services giant Meituan.
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Meituan, the local services company backed by Tencent, has managed to attain an expanding share against Alibaba-owned Ele.me.
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But Indians also watch local services like Hotstar, a service owned by 21st Century Fox in the United States.
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Most residents are waiting for local services to be restored before they leave their humanitarian aid camps and return.
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Request A Quote has been on fire, so the home and local services area is really hot for us.
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Beyond those two, Xiaomi has gone beyond selling phones to back local companies and develop local services for its customers.
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The institute works with cities and other jurisdictions to improve the provision of local services and effect positive social change.
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He said Navy, Coast Guard and local services were participating in search efforts for the body of the missing worker.
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The polls were held to pick about 210.30 representatives to district councils, rather feeble bodies that deal with local services.
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The progressive restoration of greater public control over health, transport, the utilities and local services hardly amounts to a socialist programme.
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The falling cost to manufacturers of local services, where pay was most constrained, played a big role in Germany's export revival.
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Beyond e-commerce, Alibaba confirmed media reports that it has combined its Koubei local services platform with its newly-acquired Ele.
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Like the Indonesia transaction, which was completed in August, KFit said today's news is about expanding its focus into local services.
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With Areo, Google is offering a platform that local services such as UrbanClap, Swiggy, Zomato, and Freshmenu could make use of.
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For example: would you rather have a Congressmember with an amazing local services office, or one that leads on national issues?
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Indiana County, Pennsylvania, a mountainous, predominantly rural region, provides a snapshot of how the crisis is stressing local services and budgets.
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With the social side of business life on WeChat, many local services have focused more on the posting of job openings.
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Spotify's India launch pits it against Apple (AAPL) and Amazon, as well as local services such as Gaana and JioSaavn. 0.13.
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It's choking on dastardly Amazon's determination to lease office space and employ people who, in turn, demand houses and other local services.
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The redesign, which will be different for each category of page, is starting with pages for restaurants, local services, and TV shows.
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That means those who can't easily get in and out of their wheelchairs would need to contact one of those local services.
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Koubei, the company's local services platform, got a $1.1 billion injection in early 2017 and is predominantly focused on enabling local commerce.
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They include Meituan-Dianping, an online local services group valued at $30 billion, and Lufax, a wealth management platform worth $18.5 billion.
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Those are important questions to answer because this technology involves more customization and local services that don't easily scale as cloud services.
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The idea is for local governments to establish or support funds that pay for local services like roads, bridges and police officers.
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While the government protected funding for the health service, schools and foreign aid, it cut local services, the justice system and police numbers.
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Ticket resellers, third-party tech support, and local services (like repairmen) are also examples of businesses Google is working with experts to evaluate.
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But in Britain and other European markets, Uber Eats is streets behind Deliveroo and other local services like Just Eat and Delivery Hero.
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It is all for local civilian officials that provide essential local services, helps the sick and wounded and keeps the children in school.
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Most of Britain now finds itself at an uncomfortable crossroads: Either taxes go up, or local services will almost certainly continue to decline.
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Two years after the influx began, Aldershot's MP at the time, Gerald Howarth, warned that it had placed "very considerable burdens" on local services.
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These are largely local services, so not every one will offer guest memberships, but you shouldn't have too much trouble finding one that does.
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"We are feed up with what's happening here," community leader Martha Pitt said, saying unemployment and poor local services were also fraying residents' nerves.
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Alibaba has also been expanding in other areas such as online video and local services as volume growth in core online shopping business slows.
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The NAO noted that the "outcomes focus" of the programme led to more integrated local services (eg, police and social services) for helping families.
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Mr. Erdogan began his career as the mayor of Istanbul, and built his popularity on providing local services like garbage collection and mass transport.
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Brexit is not remotely on the agenda in these elections because councils have power only over local services like trash collection, housing and planning.
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Those workarounds would allow municipalities to establish charitable funds to pay for local services and offer property tax credits to incentivize homeowners to give.
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The HKEX has since added dual-class shares and attracted Chinese tech upstarts such as smartphone maker Xiaomi and local services platform Meituan Dianping.
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They also will be required to collect taxes in states where they neither benefit from local services nor participate in the local political process.
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"We want to build a platform [for] any time you are going out to experience local services… we're building beyond a deals platform," he said.
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A shrinking tax base means a deterioration in local services (including the public education that might provide young people with the skills to succeed elsewhere).
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Revenue from the quarter was driven by growth in the firm's core e-commerce unit, the newly formed local services business between Koubei and Ele.
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The U.S. retail giant doesn't currently offer local services in Southeast Asia, but it is working to enter the region via a launch in Singapore.
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Such growth has left Londoners with a housing crisis where rapid gentrification forces diverse communities from the city and strains local services, according to Khan.
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Overall the group, which spans various local services such as group-buying and reviews, is profitable, but investors say its food business is loss-making.
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After six years of government-led austerity, local services are overstretched -- unable, so the Leavers claim, to cope with the growing influx of incomers from overseas.
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Many of the families who arrive are given plots of land to farm, and local services such as schools, clinics and markets are run by refugees.
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The deal deepens Alibaba's competition with Tencent, in particular its own local services and delivery platform, Meituan Dianping, which was formed by a merger in 2015.
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Before the program, most OB-GYN doctors were in the capital city, Kigali, and the second-largest city, Butare, leaving many rural areas without local services.
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To be very clear, the app itself is not a diagnostic tool — these are being developed on a national level, linking people through to local services.
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McDonnell's speech was accompanied by a dossier outlining Labour research into the extent and impact of spending cuts on areas such as health, education and local services.
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Those states passed legislation that would allow municipalities to create charitable funds to pay for local services and offer property tax credits to incentivize homeowners to give.
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There's more funding for Southeast Asia's growing local services space after Kaodim, a Malaysia-based startup that operates in four countries in the region, raised $7 million.
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In the future, Makarim says the company will focus on turning the "Go" brand into a one-stop shop for other local services, rather than expanding internationally.
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Business rates are taxes to help pay for local services, such as police and firefighters, charged on most commercial properties, including shops, warehouses, pubs, cafes and restaurants.
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Indeed, an Evening Standard investigation in 2014 revealed £3 billion worth of London mansions sit empty, with the negative knock-on effects for local services and communities.
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ServisHero, a company that provides local services on-demand via a mobile app in Southeast Asia, has landed a $2.7 million investment led by Golden Gate Ventures.
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Some satellite companies are looking to add-on services, like more DVR capabilities and additional local services, to help increase the margins of their skinny bundle services.
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In 2017, Google Assistant adopted a specialty tool, Local Services, which offers only vetted businesses when U.S. users search for domestic help such as plumbers and locksmiths.
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In the food delivery case, Tencent's horse is Meituan Dianping, the local services business formed when China's two largest on-demand platforms came together via a 2015 merger.
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"I think the only way realistically to do that is to provide a way for customers to access all of these local services through one spot," Ferguson said.
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Meituan is involved in a dogfight with Alibaba to win China's local services market — Alibaba just amped up its efforts with a $3 billion raise for its Ele.
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The move spawned official protests in states where the popular deduction has helped mitigate the burden of state and local taxes that fund local services including public education.
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Apple entered the country last summer when Apple Music launched globally, but local services like Tiger Global-backed Saavn and Times Internet's Gaana lead the mobile music space.
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Half of the company's core members have hailed from Nuomi, the local services startup that Shen founded and was sold to Baidu for $3.2 billion back in 2015.
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The deal may be a footnote in Alibaba's Q1 earnings report but it is representative of a new battle that's taking place to own China's 'local services' market.
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Residents have some experience of fighting against dwindling local services: When the village lost its post office three years ago, the community petitioned successfully to get it back.
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The platform suggests tying welfare benefits to work, streamlining and synchronizing federal, state and local services, bolstering retirement savings and access to financial services and reforming entitlement programs.
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Talk with county commissioners in rural Colorado and they will point to renewable energy development providing a consistent and predictable flow of tax dollars for critical local services.
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Each of the CBSN Local services will also offer additional daily newscasts that are produced exclusively for CBSN Local, as well as content that's available for on-demand viewing.
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Though cloud hosting and local services like AirDrop have made sharing files much easier than it used to be, it can still be frustrating to get someone a file.
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It'll be interesting to watch how that competition weighs in Grab's overall effort to go from ride-hailing into the "super app" space, covering payments, local services and more.
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In theory, taxpayers using these workarounds can make charitable gifts, which are still fully deductible on federal tax returns, instead of SALT payments, to support state or local services.
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A draft prospectus lodged with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange late on Wednesday showed that the company was increasing its investment in online delivery and local services platform, Ele.
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Later, when the deal came up for renewal, Google told Mr. Stoppelman that it would soon add a feature allowing its own users to review and rate local services.
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Our foundation helps them to identify how to look for caregivers in the community, and then to come up with local services that can really be helpful to them.
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The tax, which funds various local services like 911 and so on, was raised in 2016 and, depending on various factors, could be around 20 percent of the bill.
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Later, when the deal came up for renewal, Google told Mr. Stoppelman that it would soon add a feature allowing its own users to review and rate local services.
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Among other investments, Temasek said it had invested in Koubei, an Alibaba-affiliated local services guide platform for offline Chinese merchants, and Wish, a mobile-first, e-commerce platform.
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Salesforce joins early adopters of Indianapolis such as Angie's List, the online site for local services and contractors, which moved to Indianapolis from Columbus, Ohio, in 1996, and ExactTarget.
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Competitors in India's music streaming market include local services Tiger Global-backed Saavn and Times Internet's Gaana while Apple entered in 2015 and Google Play Music officially arrived this year.
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Local services like chat app WeChat, which contains social features and has multiple hundreds of millions of active users in China, and microblogging service Weibo are the dominant social media.
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Didi is facing pressure from rival Meituan Dianping, which started out in local services but recently introduced ride-sharing services and moved into dockless bikes with the acquisition of Mobike.
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Last week, the company announced that co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk would become chairman of Airbnb's China arm, which goes under the name of 'Aibiying' and competes against local services Tujia.
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Didi is facing pressure from rival Meituan Dianping, which started out in local services but recently introduced ride-sharing services and moved into dockless bikes with the acquisition of Mobike.
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That includes e-commerce titan JD.com, second in China to Alibaba with over 300 million annual users and local services giant Meituan Dianping, which has over 350 million annual users.
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Homeowners shell out an average $15,190 nationwide in the course of offloading a house, according to a new report from home sale website Zillow and Thumbtack, a local services marketplace.
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The only two options are higher taxes—which harm the economy and hardworking families—or diminished funding for key state and local services, such as fire departments, police, and education.
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CBS has launched live web channels affiliated with stations it owns in New York and Los Angeles, and it has plans to bring more local services online throughout next year.
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You should convey that no, he cannot live at home, but you may be able to help him find rental housing and connect him with local services and addiction counseling.
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"Strong 2Q … Home & local services ad revenue accelerated for the 3rd straight qtr as Request-A-Quote (RAQ) adoption & monetization remains strong," Anmuth said in the note to clients Thursday.
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The focus is initially on local services that cater to SMEs in Indonesia, but as Moka targets larger enterprises as clients, he said that it will integrate larger, global solutions, too.
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Obviously, there is incredible competition in the local services space from Yelp to Angie's List, but Harnevo believes that Homeis has a niche that is unique and underserved by existing tools.
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Meituan Dianping, the Tencent-backed, all-encompassing platform for local services, continues to put the brakes on bike-sharing and ride-hailing, the company said on its earnings call on Thursday.
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As Global Managing Director, Guru was responsible for growing international markets and key consumer and enterprise products across commerce, entertainment and media, local services, payments, and the entire commerce enabling stack.
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"We are trying to highlight people's rights and direct them to local services by targeting them through social media," said Neil Giles, a director at anti-slavery group Stop the Traffik.
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In Roraima, the rural state of which Boa Vista is the capital, the governor last week decreed a "social emergency," putting local services on alert for mounting health and security demands.
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Localization barriers discriminate against U.S. firms that use foreign data services by forcing them to use or set up local services when they otherwise would not, creating duplicative costs for businesses.
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And finally, there are programs designed to help Iraqis set up things like city councils that can help manage local services and make Iraqis feel as though they are being represented.
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Enrico Moretti, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, estimates that when housing prices rise by 10 percent, the price of local services, including restaurants, rises by about 2014 percent.
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They argue that the new railroad is necessary to ease congestion on the core of Britain's rail network, allowing for more local services on lines currently shared with long-distance expresses.
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Another group, the Village to Village Network, has small businesses and volunteers working on a similar idea: providing older residents and their family or caretakers with referrals to vetted local services.
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After moderate early success as mayor—a funding boost for local services, a plan for affordable homes—he is running for the Senate with a promise to make Washington more civil.
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The firm is leading a group in a $5.13 billion investment in Koubei, a business meant to help bring local services — from restaurants to local stores — even closer into Alibaba's orbit.
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"It seems necessary to rectify, so that the local services can be located by the delivery men and emergency services," the Mayor said in a statement "It seems necessary to rectify, so that the local services can be located by the delivery men and emergency services," the Mayor said in a statement The street was previously unnamed and lies near rue Robert Schuman and Avenue de Matagot and is still not available to see on Google Maps.
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The vision for the product is to connect immigrants together around critical tasks, including finding local services, learning about their new society, and connecting with peers in a similar situation as themselves.
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In particular, Didi is facing pressure from rival Meituan Dianping, which started out in local services but recently introduced ride-sharing services and moved into dockless bikes with the acquisition of Mobike.
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That intelligence is used to understand speech, and IBM claims that it enables the 'bot to greet guests, answer questions bout the hotel, and provide details about local services, sights and restaurants.
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But [our CTO and third co-founder Tom Schoellhammer] came from Google doing search there, and eventually we [expect to] recommend similar stores, or [extend into] beauty or pet other local services.
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BigBasket's latest fundraising comes amid uncertain times for Indian tech startups, and particularly those in the local services space, as many high profile investors are exercising greater caution with their check writing.
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Razer CEO Min Liang Tan has previously lamented a lack of tech savviness within Hong Kong's public markets despite a flurry of IPOs, which have included names like local services giant Meituan.
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Li said that process enabled the team to refine and iterate the software — and in particular support for local services like Uber and Yelp — five times before its Kickstarter debut this week.
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German insurance giant Allianz is following Google and Tencent by backing Go-Jek, the Indonesia-based ride-hailing and local services company valued at over $4.5 billion, after it announced an investment.
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In devising a master plan for the area, the authority has taken care to "avoid mega-blocks" by requiring building frontages to be active with retail and local services, Mr. McGuinness said.
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It is also backing ride-hailing companies Didi and Uber, peer-to-peer car-sharing company Getaround, Alibaba Local Services, DoorDash, Full Truck Alliance, Grofers, autonomous delivery robot startup Nuro and ParkJockey.
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The short-term rental market however is heavily regulated, due in part to strict address registration regulations, and local services have expanded heavily into value-added services to drive profits and beat competition.
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It's a long way from the first version of Thumbtack, which had a "buy" tab and a "sell" tab; with the "buy" side to hire local services and the "sell" to offer them.
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Beyond those services, China's top local services firm Meituan recently added a car-hailing function to its app, while car manufacturer Geely has expanded its ride-summoning service Caocao Zhuanche to more cities.
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Germany last year registered just over 1 million migrants, many from Syria and other conflict zones in the Middle East and Africa, according to a media report, putting a strain on local services.
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Should you need to move across specific playlists as well as tracks, we'd recommend Soundiiz: It can do iTunes to Spotify, and works with a bunch of other streaming and local services as well.
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That's seen Grab follow Go-Jek's lead and move into groceries, on-demand services and fintech as part of a desire to be Southeast Asia 'super app' for a broad range of local services.
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Liberal messaging also raised the specter of government spending cuts, pointing to the Conservative provincial government in Ontario — Canada's largest and most politically significant province — which is currently imposing brutal cuts on local services.
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For support in emergency situations, Siri can dial 911, find the closest hospital, recommend an appropriate hotline or suggest local services, and with 'Hey Siri' customers can initiate these services without even touching iPhone.
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However, some industry watchers said the main impediment to migrants buying homes and settling in other cities is a lack of access to local services, such as free schooling for their children and healthcare.
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Loom's annual membership fee, two hundred dollars, is low compared with other clubs, such as L.A.'s Soho House (a thousand and fifty and up); class prices are in line with similar local services.
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And, the program could fall back to pre-2008 funding levels when counties received 65 percent or less of necessary funding, dealing a major blow to local services in areas with federal land ownership.
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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative gave $300,000 to a coalition working to get an initiative on the 2020 general election ballot that would fund education and local services by closing a commercial property tax loophole.
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Bringing the two groups together to study can also reduce tensions that often erupt when large numbers of refugees arrive, overwhelming local services - a problem faced from Germany and Jordan to Brazil and Kenya.
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There are many hoops to jump through after that with credit checks, lease signing, moving out of your old place, moving into a new one, and signing up for local services in the new place.
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Even governments are starting to hop on board — Washington State uses the app to help distribute information about local services available to refugees, as well as the UK's National Health Service and cities across Europe.
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Regulators also wanted to know if rivals experienced an impact in the operation of their local services as a result of major search algorithm changes by Google, including the introduction of its Panda 4.0 algorithm.
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In total, Google created 31 new ad policies to stop bad ads in problematic areas related to cryptocurrency, ticket resellers, third-party tech support, and local services such as bail bonds and addiction treatment facilities.
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Already, a glut of companies offering to connect consumer with local services — such as plumbers and cleaners — have sprung up across Southeast Asia, including Kaodim (raised $4 million), ServisHero ($2.7 million) and RecomN ($1 million).
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WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The blizzard that blanketed Washington over the weekend put the Congress and some local services on ice for the time being, reinforcing the U.S. capital's reputation for being easily snowed under.
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Fostering confidence in health authorities is essential when fighting a disease that can spread furiously through communities where local services are scant and patients are often scared to come forward to government or international response teams.
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Go-Jek started out operating a bike taxi on-demand service, but it has since added taxi and private car options, a mobile payment business and local services on-demand, such as groceries, massages and more.
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As a new wave of snowfall and freezing cold arrived Wednesday afternoon, Londoners rallied to provide warm food and blankets for homeless people, with volunteers scrambling to refer them to local services for temporary overnight accommodation.
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Seema Jayachandran, an economist at Northwestern who has found small inflation effects from a cash program in Mexico in her own work, says the minimal inflation is understandable for traded goods, but not for local services.
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"Chinese consumers are knee deep using local services and apps like WeChat, QQ or Tencent Music, Ali Pay and so forth – spending a great share of digital lives in non-Apple ecosystem other than hardware," Shah said.
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In a leaked letter to the county council in his local constituency, the prime minister, David Cameron, complained that local services were being cut without considering "savings" that could be made in the form of asset sales.
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Three months after the China launch, users on online forums complained that using Apple Pay, even at popular fast-food outlets, was not as seamless as local services such as WeChat, Tencent's messaging and mobile commerce phenomenon.
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In 1950 U.S. agriculture directly employed more than six million people; these farmers supported a network of small towns providing local services, and some of these small towns served as seeds around which various specialized industries grew.
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SHANGHAI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Meituan Dianping, China's on-demand service giant, said on Monday it has waived all commission fees for restaurants and other local services nationwide throughout February, to help businesses cope with the coronavirus outbreak.
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The July 2019 suit addresses legislation passed in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut that would allow municipalities to establish charitable funds to pay for local services and offer property tax credits to incentivize homeowners to give.
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New York, New Jersey and Connecticut recently passed laws to create a workaround: They will permit municipalities to establish charitable funds to pay for local services and offer property tax credits to incentivize homeowners to make contributions.
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Most Americans pay no local income taxes, but the practice is common in parts of the East Coast and Midwest, particularly Ohio, where more than 2275 municipalities have an income tax to help pay for local services.
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Its entry in general is late to the game, and it faces stiff competition from the likes of Apple Music, Amazon, and Google Play, alongside local services like JioSaavn and Gaana, which dominates with about 80 million users.
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Ransomware, which is malicious software that spreads across networks and shuts down computers until a ransom is paid, can have a significant impact on the technology that runs local services, including water, power, wastewater treatment and emergency services.
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That slowdown is filtering through to transaction volumes on Alibaba's online shopping platforms where sales growth has decelerated in recent quarters, prompting the e-commerce firm to expand into other areas such as online video and local services.
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New York, New Jersey and Connecticut recently have passed laws to create a workaround: They will permit municipalities to establish charitable funds to pay for local services and offer property tax credits to incentivize homeowners to make contributions.
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When American workers decide or are forced to strike out on their own, their most frequent job is handyman, and a lot of the people taking that work are senior citizens, according to Thumbtack, the local services website.
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Part of his appeal among the poor is that he showers his own money on local services such as free ambulances (called the "Sonko Rescue Team"); he has promised to upgrade slums and cut taxes paid by market traders.
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That aggressive play from the companies, both of which entered India in 2016, is becoming increasingly necessary: Amazon Prime Video and Netflix have long trailed local services in the nation, and that gap has only widened in recent months.
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The U.S. firm has launched a series of local services in India, including data-friendly versions of its top apps, a mobile payment network called Tez, a food delivery service and — most recently — a social network for local communities.
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Amazon Prime Video said it has also started to lower the data consumption that streaming takes up on its platform, while local services Disney's Hotstar, Times Internet's MX Player and Zee5 say they are working to implement similar measures.
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In rural America in particular, shrinking populations can lead to a vicious cycle, causing local businesses to fail and young people to leave in search of opportunity, saddling those who remain with a smaller tax base for local services.
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The deterioration of local services and a sense of abandonment in villages like Congrier in the western region of Pays de Loire helped provoke the deep-seated anger that spurred the "yellow vest" public rebellion against President Emmanuel Macron.
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To generate a massive amount of new federal revenue, the new cap on SALT deductions not only increases the real costs of taxpayers to support state and local services, it disproportionately punishes a specific subset of Americans: individual homeowners.
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Currently, residents of states and cities with high taxes—these are mostly blue states like New York and California—can reduce their tax burden by writing off a portion of what they pay for local services on their federal filings.
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The company says that its decline in its revenues in North America, which were $473 million, was down to the company shifting its focus from Goods to Local services, a push in part bolstered by its acquisition of LivingSocial last year.
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The company has dabbled with commerce with a feature to let users find local services which is being tested in India and Indonesia, and, while the technology behind Qwik is hardly revolutionary, entering the payment space is a major move.
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BRASÍLIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian government may restrict entrance of Venezuelans at the border in the remote northwestern state of Roraima, President Michel Temer said on Wednesday, after a flood of migrants has strained local services and sparked violence with residents.
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Local elections are usually tough on the governing party, and after the Tories' eight years in power, in which they have presided over deep cuts to local services and the turbulence of Brexit, next month's vote will be no exception.
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Yes, Didi does have investments in Uber rivals in the U.S. (Lyft), India (Ola) and Southeast Asia (Grab), but it has said that its global expansion could come in the form of starting its own operations or buying local services.
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High-tax states, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, responded with a workaround: They passed legislation that would permit municipalities to create charitable funds to pay for local services and offer property tax credits to incentivize homeowners to give.
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There's a concept called civic service, where let's try and think of — and this is one idea — but let's try and think of local services, it could be the local library or whatever, that could benefit from that kind of engagement.
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Most impressive is the manner in which it turned WeChat from a messaging app into a social 'Swiss army knife' that users in China turn to for a range of services including payment, e-commerce, local services, investments, banking and more.
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In response to the new tax code, those three states passed laws to create a workaround: Municipalities will be permitted to establish charitable funds to pay for local services and offer property tax credits to incentivize homeowners to make contributions.
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"Would you rather have a Congress member with an amazing local services office, or one that leads nationally on issues?" she queried her 1.9 million followers on Instagram — a number that is well over twice the population of her district.
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That, he says, does not always suit the complex "two-tier" layering of political power in the shires: a county council, in charge of transport and social care, and below it, a district council, in charge of rubbish collection and other local services.
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Brendan Toomey, a Labour councillor in Merthyr for 18 years and council leader from 2012 until he lost his seat on May 4, felt voters were blaming Labour for cuts to local services that were a result of the Conservative government's budget austerity.
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Her desire for monetary policy that's more attendant to the needs of American manufacturing implies that most Americans (who these days work in local services like health care, education, restaurants, and other retail locations) will on balance pay higher prices for stuff.
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The crisis of disinformation also demands that we as individuals assert more critical thinking in the content we consume, while strengthening local services in our communities, such as education, recreation and mental health, to offer those inching toward online radicalization in-person support.
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BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For about four years Sarah has gone around her community in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon speaking with fellow female Syrian refugees who have been victims of sexual violence, comforting them and telling them about local services.
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The inability to effectively collect legally owed sales taxes from remote sellers is significantly eroding the sales tax base of the State, causing revenue losses and imminent harm to the State through the loss of critical funding for state and local services.
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Spending on local services in England has plunged by more than one-fifth on average over the past decade, the Institute for Fiscal Studies calculated in a recent study, while especially troubled areas like the north of England have seen much deeper cuts.
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"We welcome our comrade and good friend Michael," said Danke chief executive Gao Jing, who previously worked alongside Gu at Nuomi, the local services startup that was sold to Baidu for $3.2 billion and became integral to the internet giant's online-to-offline business.
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The streaming platform's Indian launch, which has been in the works for nearly a year, pits it against global rivals like Apple (AAPL) and Amazon, as well as local services such as Gaana and JioSaavn, which is owned by India's richest man Mukesh Ambani.
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"Cuts to adolescent mental health services, coupled with the NHS being ill-equipped to deal with transgender young people, means that local services are difficult to access and often require a young person to be actively suicidal before they will be seen," she explains.
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Some of those services, as the children transition from government custody to foster care, will be provided by immigrant advocates, nonprofits, and local services, but officials say they have been unable to prepare because of either the inability, or unwillingness, of federal officials to provide information.
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These small groups of displaced people living on state or private land are numerous across the city, yet their size means they are often neglected in aid distributions while they cannot access local services, said Francis Tabu, emergency program co-ordinator for the International Medical Corps.
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It follows a trip to the north of England over the weekend to set out plans to boost investment in local services in a push to address frustrations among voters that led to the vote to leave the EU. Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Dale Hudson
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In most markets today, there are two if not three or four SVOD services between Netflix and Amazon and then local services in Latin America like Blim, what Claro has, or Rakuten, in other parts of the world, and then individual services on a market-by-market basis.
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The first in-keyboard apps are Yelp (local services search); Skyscanner (flight search); Giphy (animated Gif search); GifNote (music Gifs; launching for U.S. users only for rights reasons); Vlipsy (reaction video clips); and Emogi (stickers) — with "many more" branded apps slated as coming in the next few months.
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Investments in New Businesses: We expect Alibaba to continue investing in its New Retail model (integrating online-offline customer offerings), cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, international expansion, logistics services, local services and other new businesses as the company aims to offer an integrated solution to merchants and consumers.
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It is common knowledge that Western services such as Twitter and Facebook are inaccessible in Mainland China, but the government has also cracked down on local services that include Toutiao, which is run by new media firm ByteDance, which is currently talking to investors to raise $2.5-$3.5 billion.
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To help residents deal with the pain of losing that deduction, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut recently passed laws to create a workaround: Municipalities will be allowed to establish charitable funds to pay for local services and offer property tax credits to incentivize homeowners to make contributions.
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It was 277, and the Northamptonshire council was presented a Power Point chart that depicted an unavoidable contradiction: a sharp, rising public demand for local services contrasting with a sharp cutback in money from the national government, as part of the austerity program led by Conservatives in London.
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"When you look at it closely, these local elections present a clear and informative choice: the competence of a strong Conservative council, focused on the priorities of local people, keeping local taxes down and delivering high quality local services," she told supporters in the central city of Nottingham.
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Investments in New Businesses: We expect Alibaba to continue investing in its new retail model (integrating online-offline customer offerings), cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, international expansion, logistics services, local services and other new businesses, as the company aims to offer an integrated solution to merchants and consumers.
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In Poland, for example, Netflix is up against two local services as well as HBO GO. "I watch a lot of Netflix movies without subtitles already, but the introduction of the Polish version will definitely broaden their viewers' base in Poland," said Jacek Sledzinski, a 42-year-old lawyer from Warsaw.
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That failed to stop the AKP losing in the capital Ankara and Istanbul during the country-wide local elections in March, leading some senior party members to say that the tone of the campaign had put off many voters who were more concerned with the cost of living and supply of local services.
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Didi took an acquisition route into Brazil — where it bought local operator 99 for around $1 billion — it used a franchise-based model to move into Taiwan in January, and it is still weighing up options in Japan having teamed up with SoftBank to commit to launching local services before the end of this year.
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That's likely to include Singapore, Thailand and beyond, although the business isn't just present in Asia — Sweet Escape already has a network of photographers covering 40 cities in the U.S. The idea is to help raise awareness of the service among consumers and photographers and explore more local services that the platform could host.
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It's not difficult to imagine that one day a CVS-Aetna member facing housing or food precarity could meet with a clinical case worker after picking up their script a CVS store, receiving critical guidance on the local services available to keep them healthy and off the streets and keep the company's costs in check.
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Meituan initially focused on restaurant reservations and food delivery, before expanding into more local services to create what it describes as a "one-stop super app" that allows users to buy movie tickets, make spa and salon appointments, book transportation and hotel rooms, and even pay for bike-sharing program MoBike, which Meituan acquired for $22.9 billion in April.
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As you can see, there's some overlap in the markets served by Amazon Prime Now/Whole Foods delivery and Walmart (via Postmates) — that's good news for customers in those regions, who will benefit from the competition not only between Walmart and Whole Foods/Amazon but others players like Shipt (Target), Instacart, Peapod and other local services.
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"It is a clear leader with pursuit of a digital economy strategy covering over 960 million users and with strong synergistic effects among its offerings of online retail, local services, digital entertainment, logistics and payments — all driven by a focus on user experience and product innovations that differentiate it from peers," Jefferies wrote in a note.
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