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Snap To Buy Digital Mapping Startup StreetCred; Adds To Location Strategy

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Snap , parent of social media company Snapchat , has bought New York City-based StreetCred , which is working on a platform for location data, according to a report from Business Blockchain HQ. StreetCred previously raised around $1 million in seed funding from Bowery Capital and Notation Capital.

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Wardrobe: Recommerce Meets The Sharing Economy In Bid To Become The ‘Airbnb of Fashion’

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That’s the oversimplified view of the business model adopted by Wardrobe , a new kind of peer-to-peer fashion rental company that on Tuesday (Sept. 8) is breaking out of its New York City beta test and into a nationwide launch. And it has renters who are encouraged to share their experiences on social media.

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BuzzFeed To Launch Unique Toy Store In NYC This Fall

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BuzzFeed is planning to open a toy store in New York City later this fall. New York Post reported that the store, called “Camp,” will be located in an 11,000-square-foot space in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. Freeman, senior managing director at GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group, recently said.

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Retail Pulse: FAO Schwarz To Open New Flagship; Amazon Expands Grocery Delivery

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News this week surfaced that FAO Schwarz is planning to have a flagship store in New York City once again – this time at Rockefeller Center instead of the Fifth Avenue location where Tom Hanks tapped out “Chopsticks” on a dance-on piano in the 1988 movie “Big.”. percent stake in Starbucks.

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Facebook Eyes Leasing Neiman Marcus Store In Manhattan

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Google has plans to expand its New York City footprint within the next decade, too, with an eye toward adding new offices and 7,000 employees there. The office would also be near space slated for eCommerce titan Amazon, which has a lease for 350,000 feet at Hudson Yards east of where Facebook is planning to move.

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Luxury Retail Finds New Avenues As Brick-And-Mortar Fades

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The company has raised a total of $288 million in funding from venture capital and private equity backers, including Great Hill Partners, Greycroft, PWP Growth Equity, Sandbridge Capital, Industry Ventures and Canaan. Indeed, in its recent U.S. initial public offering (IPO), eCommerce luxury reseller The RealReal Inc. Barneys Woes.

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Fast Fashion Isn’t Dead Yet — And Could Find Retail Rebirth

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30) from the Columbia Spectator , which covers news important to students at Columbia University and Barnard College in the global fashion capital of New York City. The Facebook group Buy | Sell | Trade at Barnard has over 7,000 members.

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