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Hearst Team Creating Amazon Skills For Alexa

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Last week, the new group rolled out an Amazon Echo skill for its Good Housekeeping brand. The unit also made an Amazon skill for Elle magazine that provides horoscopes. It also developed skills for the San Francisco Chronicle and Houston Chronicle , two newspapers it owns. The skill reads the newspaper’s daily news via the Echo.

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Bulletin: A Cheaper Way To Sell In-Store

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In SoHo, for example, the average rental price on Broadway between Houston and Broome Streets is $824 per square foot, according to the Real Estate Board of New York. Retailers run the retail space as if it was their own store, and there is even a salesperson on-hand who works for Bulletin, but each brand gets to train them.