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Best Buy Co. and Amazon.com Inc. see the future of selling electronics—and it’s happening in your living room. Best Buy BBY,-9.43% is hiring hundreds of salespeople to sit down with consumers inside their homes and recommend the electronics they should buy, part of a free service it has been testing in several cities and plans to roll out across the U.S. this fall. Read: The company hopes its ...
Even as Amazon steps up a groceries war in the US following its $13.7BN acquisition of Whole Foods — cutting prices at the chain this weekend to amp up the pressure on rival Walmart — other supermarket players are figuring out their own strategic responses to Jeff Bezos’ big food fight. UK online supermarket brand Ocado has today outted an app for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, enabling u...
Do you want to find out how to do real world hyperlocal? What is content creation like for a broker today? Are you neglecting your “brand?” How do you engage with possible clients online? Is it just about online activities? Of course not, are you sure, maybe it is now. Can you say you are giving back to the business of commercial real estate? How serious are you about your tech stack? All this...
For $39 a day you can walk the plank, drive a race car or fly over an iceberg at VR World NYC, one of several virtual reality experiences in New York City.
When a major brewing company announced plans to move to a renovated industrial building in South End last week, it attracted most of the buzz. But Southern Tier and Victory’s beers aren’t the only companies expanding at the Bowers development at Yancey and Old Pineville Roads. SentryOne, a technology firm, plans to increase its staff by nearly 50 percent when it moves from Huntersville to the ...
What the leading commercial real estate tech investors look for in a Founder... As a follow up to my blog last week about how I personally think Hustle is the key ingredient you want to look for in a Founder of a startup, I asked the best real estate tech investors I know what they look for in evaluating an entrepreneur who is raising money. Of course, it's never as simple as just looking for...
Customers can buy a GoPro (NASDAQ: GPRO) camera in any one of 45,000 retail outlets globally. While this a great convenience for its consumers, it has been a significant supply chain challenge for GoPro. In late 2015, the company overestimated demand for some of its HERO4 cameras and didn't respond fast enough when the cameras weren't selling as expected. This issue has led to reduced re...
Voice recognition technology may still be in the novelty stages, but as more people are getting used to talking to their devices, retailers have started paying attention. Right now it's being used for ordering groceries, pizza or coffee. For consumers there's no driving to stores, logging onto a computer, or pulling out smartphones to open an app. They simply say what they want to one of...
Tech & Startups New Bot Aims to Help DFW Businesses Lease Office Space Dallas, Chicago entrepreneurs are expanding their platform across Texas via a startup called Truss. By Danielle Abril Published in Business & Economy August 28, 2017 6:05 pm SMS Vera is Truss' commercial real estate chatbot that helps connect businesses with office spaces. Two Dallas entrepreneurs have joined two p...
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