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Consumer Electronics Show Goes Virtual Due To COVID

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The giant Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which draws tens of thousands of marketers, tech enthusiasts and reporters each year to Las Vegas, has become the latest victim of the resurgent coronavirus pandemic. While the show will go on as planned on Jan. While the show will go on as planned on Jan.

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DraftKings To Merge, IPO At A $3.3B Market Value

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The company currently has offices in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco and Las Vegas. The combination of DraftKings’ leading and trusted brand, deep focus on customer experience and data science expertise and SBTech’s highly innovative and proven technology platform creates a vertically-integrated powerhouse,” Robins said. “I

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Homie Unlocks $23M In Funding To Expand Its Homebuyer Program

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Fresh off a new round of Series B equity funding that secured $23 million, the company intends to expand into three new markets this March, including in Las Vegas. We are disrupting the traditional model, and saving customers thousands of dollars by combining technology, a team of experts and a one-stop shop for real estate.

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P&G Enters The Connected CPG Device Market

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Product giant Procter & Gamble made its first appearance in 2019 at the annual Consumer Electronic Services showcase in Las Vegas. It is back again this week with more smart technology-enhanced household items. Another heated razor returned to the tradeshow from 2019, this year with new FlexDisc technology.

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Online Grocer Ocado Acquires Robotics Companies To Drive Automation

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Owning Kindred Systems of San Francisco and Haddington Dynamics of Las Vegas will help Ocado tackle “one of the world’s hardest challenges in robotics, the picking and packing of groceries,” the company said in a press release on Monday (Nov. Ocado , a U.K.-based Although Ocado only claims 1.7

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What’s The Reward For Early 5G Deployment? Asia Will Soon Find Out

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That could give the country an edge when it comes to showcasing payment and commerce uses of the mobile network technology — and provide the rest of the world with an example of what might not work so well with 5G-enabled features. At the CES show in Las Vegas this week, companies are demonstrating potential 5G use cases.

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What’s New At CES Isn’t Always What’s Really Good

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No organization or person has a lock on the future, and that applies to the big global event that starts next week in Las Vegas — the annual CES show , going strong after more than a half century. Success is bred there, to use the terminology of the inspirational marketing industry. That’s hardly the worst of it, of course.

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