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ThePowerLab launches co-working space, incubator in southwest Yonkers By Ryan Deffenbaugh- October 6, 2017 SHARE Facebook Twitter Leading The PowerLab in southwest Yonkers are, from left, Ray Wilcox, LaMont OyeWale’ Badru and Anthony Bailey. Photo by Ryan Deffenbaugh The PowerLab, a co-working and incubator space in southwest Yonkers, celebrated its grand opening last month, a major step for a p...
Customers with questions about their online orders this holiday shopping season may think they’re asking a seasonal worker for help, but artificial intelligence (AI) is likely giving them the information they need. Technology of all kinds is being used on the back end of retail, to organize inventory and manage other operational functions. Whether it’s chatting with a bot or with Alexa, AI is ...
Most real estate agents are commission-based and incentivized to focus on the big sales. That results in inefficiencies for lower class home buyers, who may have to wait longer to view properties and receive less guidance on paperwork. A Miami-based startup called Home61 has been working on a solution for this category of buyers and renters, which it refers to as the “other 80%.” Home 61 is bu...
New York has 13 days to finish crafting the perfect plan to land Amazon’s second headquarters—and beat out more than 100 other cities that have indicated interest. Across the five boroughs developers and civic leaders worked frantically in late September to turn in over two dozen site proposals in 23 neighborhoods for consideration. Now, a coalition of city and state agencies are working behin...
Newark Venture Partners, a $50 million venture capital fund, works out of a 25,000-square-foot co-working space in One Washington Park in Newark. The fund launched in 2015 with the backing of Audible, Prudential Financial and other corporate anchors in Newark, seeking to promote the growth of startups while helping to build a larger tech community in the city. — Courtesy: Newark Venture Partners...
Switch Inc. has officially become the third-largest technology IPO this year. The Las Vegas-based data center company raised $531M after selling 31.25 million shares at $17 each, Bloomberg reports. Only Snap Inc.’s $3.9B initial public offering and Altice USA Inc.’s $2.2B share sale have come in ahead of the Switch deal. Switch began listing on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday under the s...
class="article-title speakable"> Amazon will serve cocktails and more at Tokyo pop-up bar by Kaya Yurieff @kyurieff October 5, 2017: 6:21 PM ET 5 stunning stats on Amazon Amazon wants to serve you a drink. The tech giant is opening a pop-up bar in Tokyo on October 20. It will be open for 10 days. Located in the high-end Ginza shopping district, the bar will serve wine, beer, cockta...
The Future of Work | Digital Drive October 5, 20170 CommentsBy JLL New York As we continue exploring how commercial real estate is transforming business through our Future of Work model, we find digitization and technology to be a powerful force behind improving work space performance and enabling employees to focus on more strategic and creative ambitions. So it’s no surprise that the second di...
Luisa Via Roma (LVR), a luxury fashion retailer that sells hundreds of well-known brands including Balmain, Gucci, and Dolce & Gabbana, has been working with e-commerce personalization platform Dynamic Yield to improve its personalization capabilities. Since implementing Dynamic Yield's technologies, LVR has seen a significant jump in conversion rates and a 15% increase in average revenue...
Consumers now expect retailers to have some form of an augmented reality (AR) experience, according to a report by DigitalBridge. Of the consumers surveyed, 20% said they expect retailers to have an AR tool now that iOS 11 has been released, while 49% say they expect retailers to launch AR features within the next six months. Many consumers would like to see AR paired with artificial intelligence ...