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Hearst Team Creating Amazon Skills For Alexa

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.” With the Good Housekeeping skill, Amazon Echo users can ask Alexa for help getting a stain out of something, and Alexa will reply with a step-by-step guide, as well as recommend tools to get the job done. The unit also made an Amazon skill for Elle magazine that provides horoscopes.

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FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco: A Bounty for Builders

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With attendance numbers already well above last year’s inaugural event, we are having a hard time containing our excitement about FinDEVr 2015 next week in San Francisco. FinDEVr returns to the Mission Bay Conference Center on the campus of the University of California, San Francisco, October 6-7. See you there!

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FinDEVr APIntelligence

Fintech Labs Insights

Be sure to check out coverage from our recent developer conference in San Francisco. We’re taking the fintech developer tool showcase to New York on March 29 & 30, 2016. The latest from FinDEVr San Francisco 2015 presenters: Hyperwallet Launches Loyalty Program for Independent Workers.

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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. via Boston Magazine. million to cook and deliver its own gourmet meals in the San Francisco area, but insiders said it was losing six figures monthly and could not expand the service into other cities. Company: Powa Technologies. Company: Kozmo.com.

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We Analyzed 9 Of The Biggest Direct-to-Consumer Success Stories To Figure Out The Secrets to Their Growth — Here’s What We Learned

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There are founders out there who can’t get magazines to pick up their PR stories. A screenshot of a machine learning-based tool that will help you build your own meal replacement just like Soylent—all you have to do is enter your ingredients. followers on Instagram. That’s the kind of reach that Honest used to hit a $1.7B

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