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NY Mag To Open Pop-Up Shop; Amazon Go Plans New York Store

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Magazines have been testing the waters of brick-and-mortar retail by opening temporary stores in major cities, and New York Magazine is no exception. The venture, which is dubbed “I Found It at The Strategist,” will feature items chosen by the magazine’s editors. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News….

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Why Payments Personalization Is Key To Enhancing User Experience For Digital Content Platforms

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Magazines, newspapers, television networks and other content providers typically offer more uniform interfaces that may not consider their customers’ geographies, content or payment preferences. Online content subscription purchasing experiences are far different from that ideal in practice, however.

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Why Payments Personalization Is Key To Enhancing User Experience For Digital Content Platforms

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Magazines, newspapers, television networks and other content providers typically offer more uniform interfaces that may not consider their customers’ geographies, content or payment preferences. Online content subscription purchasing experiences are far different from that ideal in practice, however.

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Bulletin: A Cheaper Way To Sell In-Store

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Bulletin — described as “WeWork for retail” — opened its second New York City retail space this week while also raising funds in anticipation of opening additional NYC locations as well as eventually branching out to other cities.

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14 Corporate Innovation Lab Products That Changed The World

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Nevertheless, the success of Alexa has secured Amazon’s place as a leading innovator in the rapidly expanding field of artificial intelligence. In 1995, the company ran magazine ads headlined “Who invented the laser printer?” Alexa has not been without controversy. with the answer “It’s Xerox.”.

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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.”. Aereo was founded in New York City by former Navic Networks CEO Chaitanya “Chet” Kanojia and backed by media mogul Barry Diller.

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

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Atari spent $20M securing the movie rights, built the notoriously-hard-to-play game in just five and a half weeks, then produced 4 million cartridges, of which 2.5 At a time when Atari was the undisputed monarch of video gaming and E.T. was the top box office hit, an officially-licensed E.T. video game should have been a guaranteed hit.