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Facebook’s News Accelerator Nets Extra $5M For Local Newspapers

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But David Grant, the Accelerator’s program manager, said that about 99 percent of the program has nothing to do with Facebook. Also in January, the social media giant opened a 130,000-square-foot office in Cambridge , Massachusetts. It’s not about Facebook tools and services,” Grant noted.

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Coachella’s Contextual Commerce: The Good, The Bad And The Flower Crown Ugly

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But setting up shop on the edge of the festival and hawking blatantly branded products is a little too gauche for Coachella attendees who want to preserve the festival’s sanctity (whether it ever existed or not), which leads more than a few companies to turn to social media and the tricks of contextual commerce.

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Rescuing The Restaurant Business From App Decline

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The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. The DineVite dashboard gives restaurants who have signed up to the platform insight to data that allows them to manage and coordinate the dining offers based on their own individual businesses.

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

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For example, as reported by Forbes, auditor Grant Thornton wrote that “management believes” it can meet its financial obligations through February 2021. Miami is Carvana’s 24th car vending machine location to date — joining Nashville, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Raleigh, Jacksonville, Tampa, Charlotte, Washington, D.C.,

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A Very Pop-Up Christmas With Glossier

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Glossier’s Dallas pop-up was described by one fashion blogger as a transformative experience , the ideal cosmetics shopping trip for the Instagram age and the home of “the perfectly curated aesthetic.”. So, how did Glossier manage to generate near-universal adoration in such a relatively short time on the market?

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The 2018 GonzoBanker Awards

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PNC made a Gonzo move with a national digital expansion in 2018 with the unique idea of building a small number of branches in target metro markets like Kansas City and Dallas. The award goes to Jack Henry and Associates for its new JHA Treasury Management platform. GonzoBanker of the Year – Mid-Size Banks.

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32 Corporate Innovation Labs In Retail

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Key People: Anthony Gregorio, Innovation Lab Senior Manager; Prat Vemana, VP Online; Albert Vita, Director of Strategy Insights. The focus here is on using data and analytics to create “intelligent retail software” that will help optimize inventory and revenue management. Founded: 2015. Tesco — Tesco Labs.