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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.

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Lease-To-Own Business Fueled By Acima Acquisition; Company Boasts Triple-Digit Growth

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It was also tabbed by Utah Business magazine as the fastest-growing company in the state. Granted that’s not a tech spot on the order of New York or San Francisco, but nonetheless the growth rate shows a well-run company that has tapped into a hot market, in this case the underbanked consumer. LTO Vs. BNPL.

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Retail Pulse: Good Housekeeping Plans Pop-Up; Amazon Coming To New York

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Digitally native brands, Casper among them, have turned to pop-up shops to introduce their products to consumers through an offline experience. That seal may provide a bit of reassurance to customers perusing the shop, as the magazine will offer customers a refund or replacement if a product fails within two years of purchase.

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Sephora’s High-Tech, Social Justice Case For Cosmetics

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In retail, and especially for personal beauty brands trying to navigate brick-and-mortar and online subscription spaces, this is doubly true. Dive deeper Sephora did when it followed up its Innovation Lab announcement with another explaining the first eight innovators invited to work on their projects at the San Francisco think tank.

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The Truth-In-Advertising Push

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There’s a (slowly) growing push among retailers, brands and even politicians to make advertising campaigns as true and transparent as possible. It could even soon become a federal law. That’s a public health issue. 2014 introducing the campaign. “We want to help empower young women to be confident in themselves and their bodies.”

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Why TOMS Shoes Is Putting A Toe In Brick-And-Mortar

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TOMS — apart from cute shoes with a conscience — believes its ability to make fast connections with its consumer base is a strength — which can typically be a challenge for brands born digitally. This is likely why TOMS has been one of the many digital brands that has spent the last year experimenting with pop-up shops and physical stores.

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Coinbase, Motif Investing Earn Spots on Fast Company’s Most Innovative List

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.” Fast Company added that 2016 also marked the first year the magazine used machine intelligence – in this case, technology from a San Francisco company called Quid – to “help inform the list.” ” The list will be published in the March 2016 issue of the magazine.