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YAHOO FINANCE
SEATTLE, Sept. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Zillow today announced partnerships with select homebuilders across the country to give home shoppers an easier and more convenient way to move into their dream home. The partnership helps home sellers move into their new construction home without the hassle and stress of selling their existing home traditionally, by using Zillow Offers….
BUSINESS WIRE
PASADENA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kitchen United, the kitchen as a service company built to serve the fast growing world of off-premise dining, today announced it has closed on its $40 million Series B funding round. The round was co-led by RXR Realty – one of New York City’s largest real estate owners, investors, operators and developers – and GV, with participation by certain funds managed by Fidelity Investments Canada ULC, DivcoWest and G Squared. Existing investors and founders John Miller…
TECHCRUNCH
Transportation startup Lime is shutting down LimePod, its car-sharing service that it launched last November in Seattle. Lime plans to start removing its vehicles from the streets of Seattle next month and will completely shut down the service by the end of the year. The news was first reported by GeekWire. Lime has operated a pilot program in Seattle since last year and is set to conclude at the end of the year. Throughout the program, more than 18,000 people took more than 200,000 trips in L…
CRUNCHBASE
Airbnb is not in a rush to go public. According to a brief statement issued by the company today, the San Francisco-based travel company said “it expects to become a publicly-traded company during 2020.” It didn’t provide further details so we reached out in an attempt to find out more. An Airbnb representative told Crunchbase News that the company didn’t have anything to add to today’s announcement….
TECHCRUNCH
When it opened in 2006, Apple’s Fifth Avenue flagship quickly became a top destination for New York City residents and tourists, alike. The big, glass cube was a radical departure from prior electronics stores, serving as the entrance to a 24-hour subterranean retail location. Location didn’t hurt either, with the company planting its flag across from the Plaza Hotel and Central Park and sharing a block with the iconic high-end toy store, FAO Schwarz.
PR NEWSWIRE
NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Cherre, the leading real estate data platform, is pleased to announce that they are a Sixth Annual Real Estate Tech Awards (#RETAS) winner in the Information & Intelligence, AI, and Geospatial & Mapping categories, presented by CREtech, the largest event, data and content platform in the commercial real estate tech industry. …
TECHCRUNCH
Arch Rao, the former head of product at Tesla who was behind the company’s Powerwall home energy storage is system, is back with a new company pitching energy management and efficiency for homes. SpanIO is looking to upgrade the electrical fusebox for homes with a digital system that integrates into the existing circuit breaker technology that has been the basis for home energy management for at least a century….
VENTUREBEAT
The world performs 3.5 billion Google searches every day, which translates to 40,000 queries every second on average and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide. Despite what the volume might imply, people generally find the information they’re seeking after only a few clicks, if not always from the first page. Case in point: Searcher satisfaction with Google hovered around 76% in 2015, and it ticked up to 82% in 2018.
WWD
While the famed “merchant princes” of retail may be long gone, the innovations and technologies driving business today aim to do what they did best: sell compelling fashion by offering top-notch service in a way that delights customers. And where yesterday’s merchandisers relied on intuition, today’s retail leaders are making data-driven decisions to boost sales and margins as well as increase shopper loyalty. And it is not just at in-store and online. The entire supply chain is being enhan…
WSJ
Adam Neumann was flying high. Literally. His office-rental giant WeWork was months away from being valued at $47 billion. Revenue was doubling annually. And Mr. Neumann was zipping across the Atlantic Ocean in a Gulfstream G650 private jet with friends last summer, smoking marijuana. After the group landed in Israel and left the plane, the flight crew found a sizable chunk of the drug stuffed in a cereal box for the return flight, according to people familiar with the incident. The jet’s…
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