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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. The unit also made an Amazon skill for Elle magazine that provides horoscopes.

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

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And, this week, an iconic American magazine, Good Housekeeping , said it was opening a pop-up shop of its own in the Mall of America called the GH Lab that, too, melds the worlds of brick-and-mortar and eCommerce — with a bit of twist from Amazon. In other news, 7-Eleven now takes Google Pay and Apple Pay at most of its U.S.

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Calling All Fintech Developers for FinDEVr New York this March!

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After two successful events in San Francisco, FinDEVr is expanding to the East Coast next month. Google Cloud Platform. Like its predecessors, FinDEVr New York will focus on the technology side of fintech. involved in building financial and banking technology products. Will you join them? The Beast Apps. Braintree/PayPal.

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Blazing A Trail Of eCommerce Innovation With Cargo Bikes

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For example, Powell had to make the bikes electric, as people are riding up hills in areas like San Francisco. A big driver of traffic is Google Adwords, but that is just a tiny portion of the company’s target market. As the company grows in 2020, it is focusing on bigger media, magazine publications and online reviews.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

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The San Francisco-based food startup was founded on a unique premise: custom, constantly changing menus of high-end dishes prepared by professional chefs and delivered directly to members’ homes. .” — James Beriker, former CEO, Munchery. Magazine, and the company picked up $40M in VC capital from Index Ventures.

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Autopsy Report: 9 Startup Failure Stories And What We Can Learn From Them

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Four days before John Carreyrou’s fateful Wall Street Journal report, The New York Times Style Magazine listed Holmes as one of “ Five Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World.”. Sprig launched in San Francisco with $1.2M The problem, of course, is that Holmes’ technology was a sham.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

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via New York Magazine. via San Francisco Business Times. After attracting about $134 million in funding from such illustrious investors as Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Juicero was losing about $4 million a month. via Boston Magazine. Company: Powa Technologies. Company: Kozmo.com.

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