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While Expedia and Priceline roll out ways to encroach on Airbnb’s space with their own private home listings for travellers, the $31 billion venture-backed Airbnb is also looking at new ways to boost its own traffic and bookings. Airbnb is now rolling out a new call for affiliate partners, where high-traffic sites with over 1 million visitors can embed Airbnb property listings and make commissio...
Big StoriesSidewalk Labs is in final negotiations with Toronto to build a smart city from the ground up on a 12-acre site.This is what America's eco-city of the future looks like. The GuardianUber and Lyft lead to more vehicle usage in urban areas, leading some to call for congestion pricing. CurbedWhen big cities thrive, smaller cities are often left behind. NYT Georgetown, Texas, a city whe...
Born out of a frustration with recruiting within the peninsula-trapped City of San Francisco, Terminal is a platform allowing companies to tap into talent abroad. Starting with campuses in Kitchener-Waterloo, Montreal and Vancouver, the startup aims to plant physical flags in as many of the world’s global talent centers as possible. Terminal is being run by 8VC‘s Joe Lonsdale, Atomic‘s Jack ...
To build or to buy? It’s a question that often arises when companies are assessing their software needs. One company that has experience in both approaches is global commercial real estate brokerage firm, JLL. Over the past couple of years the firm, which manages dozens of company-wide applications, has significantly shifted its technology strategy, going from a primarily build to a buy-focused ...
Author By Daphne Howland, Corinne Ruff • Published Oct. 16, 2017 Share it post share tweet Dive Brief: As the 13-week Target + Techstars retail accelerator comes to an end, half of the 10 participating startups are leaving with formal agreements with Target for pilot projects, and others are still in talks, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Two overseas startups that participated in the pr...
The most wonderful and most terrible things about new technologies are their emergent properties. The latest example is, of course, Fake News On Facebook; who would have thought that connecting everyone via social media would lead to wildly divergent narratives of (so-called) reality? And yet here we are. But if you think social media is messy and weird … just wait until we get self-driving cars...
In this webinar, the teams from Care@Work (Care.com) and Chiron Health discuss how to create and execute a content marketing strategy in healthcare. A strong content marketing strategy is critical in healthcare. And crafting a strategy is a long game. Your marketing team must invest time and energy in creating effective content to foster engagement and loyalty from your customers. In this web...
Shoppers are increasingly interested in what they can’t get out of e-commerce–experiential retail–and brick-and-mortar stores are being completely turned around as a result. Everyone in commercial real estate knows retail is today’s most exciting asset class. Malls are closing their doors from coast to coast, and behemoths like Amazon and Walmart have taken out entire categories of indepen...
Productivity seems to be the golden goal of the moment. With so many technological resources at our disposal and the social media/competitive loop urging the crowd on to ever-higher achievements, there seems to be this underlying and overarching sense that we can be more, that we can do more. Plus, it's fun to try to "game the system"-- to figure out those tasks and rituals, that w...
US consumers are spending approximately 50 minutes in shopping apps each month, adding up to 10 hours a year, according to a report from App Annie as cited by TechCrunch. This large amount of time spent in apps helps explain why mobile commerce is set to account for nearly half of all e-commerce by 2021, and makes a quality mobile experience a must-have for all retailers. Digital-first apps are pe...