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OCTOBER 10, 2018

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. In fact, Rachel Shechtman, STORY’s founder, is an advisor on the BuzzFeed retail project.

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JUNE 22, 2020

The struggles of Neiman Marcus are the same as other brick-and-mortar retailers, hobbled by peoples’ shift to digital shopping, which has only been supercharged by the pandemic as people were forced to stay indoors. But he said the perils of the pandemic had unfortunately “placed inexorable pressure on our business.”

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Nike is suing 589 websites, the owners of 676 social media accounts and more than 100 unidentified companies and individuals for allegedly selling counterfeit versions of its Nike and Converse shoes online. Nike wrote in a lawsuit filed in the U.S.

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JANUARY 17, 2021

The paper cited interviews and social media posts by customers who said the bikes they had been promised were weeks or even months behind schedule — often with no notice until the day they were scheduled to arrive or even later. Hunt , neither of which would comment on the matter, the paper stated.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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. It has a network of dry cleaners (40 currently in New York City) that are happy for the extra revenue.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

At the Fortune Brainstorm Finance conference in Montauk, New York, he said the social media giant’s launch of its own digital currency validates the space, and that Overstock would be open to partnering with Facebook on the project. Byrne’s relationship with Butina lasted from 2015 to 2018.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

billion merger with Swiss firm Global Blue — which in turn will list on the New York Stock Exchange. Specifically, Global Blue focuses on tourists spending abroad, and offers products that help capitalize on tax-free shopping as they buy luxury goods. Retail sales were up 3.6 We’re only two weeks in, but off to the races.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

Visa said Monday evening at a New York gathering in anticipation of the launch that events through a year-long campaign will include interactive workshops, tailored on a community-by-community basis. These entrepreneurs would like to sharpen their social media skills to broaden reach and grow their firms. What’s On Tap.

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MAY 31, 2018

Talk about kicking the tires: JPMorgan is reportedly helping Cars.com to explore “strategic options, including a possible sale of the company,” according to the New York Post. The news represents the latest development in the quickly evolving ties between the digital world and car vehicle sales and service. and autoscout24.de.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Coachella, on the other hand, might not be as much of an experience in countercultural expression as it is, in the words of The New Yorker , “a catwalk of people who have decided that free-spiritedness looks good on them.” Palm Springs, Orange County, San Francisco, New York and Dallas).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Model and social media celebrity Chrissy Teigen is, in many ways, the perfect brand partner for Target, as evidenced by her recent review of her new kitchen and cookware lines. In the last four weeks alone, Target has expanded grocery delivery to California, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania and Maine.

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MARCH 9, 2020

Currently exiting beta in New York City, Fahmy’s new company, DineVite, claims to put the discounts back where they belong — with the restaurant owners. The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. It’s a new concept that means both parties win.”.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Tech specs will be held up head to head, game catalogs will be scrutinized and compared and fans of one system or the other will insult each other on social media. The latest iteration in the battle for gamer love will look familiar to those who were there for the last round in 2013 (or the round before that in 2006).

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MAY 31, 2019

Speaking at an investors conference in New York, the executive said he was “not convinced” that faster payments “are going to take off like crazy. More of today’s consumers are looking to the car as a smart guide to parking or safe driving, as a way to interact with social media and, most importantly, as a way to shop.

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MAY 9, 2017

It is no longer quite a mom-and-pop operation anymore — in 2015 Cha sold a controlling interest in the company to Richmond-based Boxwood Capital Partners. Flash forward eight years, and sweetFrog has been hopping along pretty busily — there are now 350 sweetFrog locations spread across the U.S.

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JUNE 17, 2016

It surprised even us that after nine months of looking at the 650 sites that represent 70 percent of eCommerce volume and the review of 10K data points that big retailers did no better than small ones at optimizing their online sites for checkout. But now that we know why, hopefully, big retail can get to work on fixing the problem.

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Lex Sokolin

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The core premise at its founding was to recreate the dynamics of the sharing and social media revolutions. And the investors you get, especially if they are retail, are lumpy and finnicky. Instead of selling their mutual funds to retail?—?and So you soldier on and bring in hard-nosed hedge fund capital.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 7, 2016

Social media financial compliance specialist Gremln raised $1.4 If you add the $6 billion in new capital raised in the IPOs of Worldpay, Square and First Data, the 2015 total is a nice even $25 billion. Tipping system for retail point of sale. HQ: New York City. HQ: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

So I showed her the expired building pass for CHYP Tower in New York. Here I am engaged in a heated debate with a noted retail banker over the likely future identity and verification ecosystem. She remained unmoved and demanded photo ID. And no-one would disagree that #appandpay is going to be more important than #tapandpay.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The wellness trends is affecting everything from the way gyms operate to how retailers design clothing to how smart cities are designed. Brands are leveraging social media to advertise “aspirational lifestyles,” making it easier than ever to buy into the wellness mentality. But gyms are not giving up just yet.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

So I showed her the expired building pass for CHYP Tower in New York. Here I am engaged in a heated debate with a noted retail banker over the likely future identity and verification ecosystem. She remained unmoved and demanded photo ID. And no-one would disagree that #appandpay is going to be more important than #tapandpay.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The firm also announced another major retail play: It will be opening pop-up shops within select Macy’s locations across the U.S. The new shops will feature 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores, and will be housed in The Market @ Macy’s.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Yotpo’s outlook is so bullish – from both its CEO’s perspective and from the venture capital perspective – because the company is creating a compressed marketing stack for eCommerce, whether it’s for Patagonia or for an up-and-coming DTC sneaker brand like Brooklyn, New York-based GREATS.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

No one has been more successful at using social media to generate awareness and a positive image for their bank than Jill (@JillCastilla, @CitizensEdmond). Jill’s use of Twitter is a model for any bank CEO looking to engage on social media. New Payment Species Award. Freudian Slip Award.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

That skyrocketing popularity is likely what made Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp think it was worth spending $580M to acquire the social network. And in the short-term, that would have looked like a good deal, as the social media site hit its peak in 2007 at a value of about $12B. New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

Venture capitalists initially balked at investing in the company because Holmes refused to demonstrate her technology, according to the New York Times. Select investors : Amazon, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Bowman Capital Management LLC. Signs of Theranos’ eventual demise were present throughout the company’s ascent.

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JULY 27, 2019

This week, the world was presented with a truly unusual retail mystery: The Case of the Inexplicable In-N-Out Burger. A host of potential resolutions to the mystery flooded across the web – the most popular being that this was some kind of marketing stunt by In-N-Out, possible portending a New York opening.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Barington Capital pressured Avon CEO to step down. Activist investor Barington Capital drove out Avon CEO Sheri McCoy in 2017, and in Mar’2018 Avon agreed to add Barington Capital’s CEO to its board of directors. As the private CPG sector heats up, new investors are moving in, driving further growth.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

That’s not a new development. In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending. Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers.

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CB Insights

JUNE 4, 2019

GET the 54-page retail TRENDS report. Download the free report to learn about the biggest emerging trends in retail and strategies to watch for 2019. Fueled by social media, consumers want to get a hold of the latest trends as quickly as possible, and retailers must rapidly increase production to meet demand.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. The company expanded too aggressively in its early years. Total Funding: $60M.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 21, 2016

Pearl Capital. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. HQ: New York City. Retail investment product marketplace. Sentiment analysis for capital markets. Social stock trading platform. Latest round: Unknown amount of new capital in Reverse IPO ($117 million value).

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CB Insights

JANUARY 4, 2018

It raised $1B from Sequoia Capital China and CCB International in April 2017 at a whisper valuation of $11B, and a $2B follow-on round in August 2017 which sent its valuation soaring to $20B, making it one of the world’s most highly valued unicorns. New York-based Persado is developing a multi-channel personalized messaging solution.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

This week, New York celebrated its 75th fall Fashion Week, with all the pomp, glamour, celebrity and hype that defines the event. In 1943, the fashion capital of the world at the time, Paris, was at war and under siege. Thus, New York Fashion Week was born. Even after the war came to an end, the idea stuck.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Social media is also helping campers discover new places to visit, then share their experiences with others: 30% of millennials said that they picked a camping spot after seeing someone else go there. As with many industries in today’s information economy, millennial travel trends are strongly influenced by social media.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Tech giants aren’t the only companies that have spotted the opportunity in remote diagnostics — some biotech companies have moved quickly to demonstrate value and capitalize on the eased regulations as well. Remote learning technology. 3D printing.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. For three of the tools we looked at — Mint, Level Money, and Check — we studied how their product evolved all the way up to their acquisition (by Intuit, Capital One, and Intuit, respectively). In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending. Your PIN NUMBER?!

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