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Around Town | Mega gym coming to Virginia Beach

VIRGINIA BEACH
Regency Hilltop has a conditional use permit sign up for “indoor recreation.” Do you have any insight there? – Michael Colombrito
The indoor recreation center referred to on the sign will be a new “mega gym,” said Bill Overman of S.L. Nusbaum Realty Co.

Detroit News

U.S. markets rebound a day after big plunge

U.S. stocks rebounded on Wednesday, recovering some of their losses from a day earlier.

Detroit News

Warren mayor puts moratorium on opening used car lots

Jim Fouts says he fears the Macomb County city will become known as “Used Car Lot City”

Detroit News

Group says coworker objected to Muslim flight attendant

CAIR-Michigan says ExpressJet threatened to terminate job after she refused to serve alcohol on flights

Detroit News

Webcam offers real-time look at Wings arena project

New webcam offers real-time look at Detroit Red Wings arena project construction

Detroit News

Tesla, Panasonic poised for European battery fight

Panasonic Corp., which makes the batteries for Tesla’s cars, will begin selling batteries that power homes in Europe

Baltimore Sun, Business

Number of Labor Day travelers inches up over last year despite lower gas prices

Maryland residents plan to get away for Labor Day in about the same numbers as last year, even with gas prices nearly $1 per gallon cheaper than in late August 2014, AAA Travel said Monday.

Fast Company

With LinkedIn’s New Messaging Service, You Can Use GIFs To Network

The professional social network is moving away from its old-school, email-style messages.

Professional networking site LinkedIn gave its formerly clunky messaging service a sleek revamp—which means it is no longer modeled after your black hole of an email inbox.

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Fast Company

Klarna Arrives In The U.S. Via Overstock.com Partnership

The dominant online payments company in Europe, Klarna, takes on Stripe and PayPal for domination of the U.S. online payments market.

For the last few years, Sweden-based online payment provider Klarna has slowly and steadily become a bigger e-commerce presence than PayPal…in Europe. Its arrival in the U.S. seemed to be a matter of “when” rather than “if” (CNN Money speculated about Klarna’s American intentions way back in June 2014)—and that when is today.

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