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Hearst Team Creating Amazon Skills For Alexa

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Media company Hearst has put together a team of 10 people that is tasked with staying on top of cutting-edge technology, including voice-activated devices from the likes of Amazon and Google, and creating products and services around them. Last week, the new group rolled out an Amazon Echo skill for its Good Housekeeping brand.

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Surviving The Retail Apocalypse: The Technologies And Trends That Can Help Brick-And-Mortar Thrive Again

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Currently, customers in New York City and San Francisco are able to leverage experienced TaskRabbit workers to assemble furniture; the service will be expanded to stores in Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Boston, and more this year. Even Google’s new pop-up stores take on a showroom style format. streamlining the supply chain .

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From AT&T To Xerox: 65 Corporate Innovation Labs

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Google’s X research center is where some of their biggest projects happen. They’ve also got six foundry labs located around the world: Atlanta, Houston, Palo Alto, Plano, and Israel. Teams work in collaborative groups to develop new financial apps and tools. Innovation Lab Name: X. Founded: 2010. Founded: 2008.