In fact, the layouts of modern supermarkets would utterly flummox a shopper from the late 19th century. In the earliest days of retail, shoppers would make multiple trips to multiple shops, each specializing in a specific class of product. You had butchers, bakers, greengrocers, fishmongers, […]
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Expedia acquires Pillow and ApartmentJet to conquer the short-term rental market
To keep up with the rising demand for short-term rentals in U.S. cities and compete with the home-sharing giant Airbnb, travel booking site Expedia has picked up a pair of venture-backed hospitality startups, Pillow and ApartmentJet. Employees of both companies will join Expedia. The company declined […]
This Italian City Offers Free Beer and Gelato For Using Environmentally-Friendly Travel Options
Plenty of cities in the United States have launched bike-share programs or similar schemes to encourage people to use more environmentally- and … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
Eerie AI-generated portrait fetches $432,500 at auction
The question of whether a machine can create art, or anything at all, is at the heart of many a philosophical debate and has been for decades. But whether it’s worth something on the market? That point has been settled definitively today as a portrait-like […]
PH Participates at International French Travel Market Top Resa
Ambassador to France Ma. Theresa P. Lazaro inaugurates the exhibit of the Department of Tourism (DOT) at the International French Travel Market … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
YouTube is closing the gap with Twitch on live streaming, report finds
Twitch continues to dominate the live streaming market, with approximately 2.5 billion hours watched by viewers in the third quarter of 2018, according to a new industry report out this morning. While YouTube still trails, it’s begun to close the gap with Twitch, it appears. […]
Apple picks Thailand for its second retail store in Southeast Asia
Apple continues to increase its efforts in Southeast Asia’s fast-growing market after it picked Thailand as the location for its second Apple Store in the region. A post on Apple’s website reveals that it will operate a retail store at the soon-to-open Iconsiam which is […]
Massive ad scam stole millions through Android apps
They then tracked the behavior of the apps’ human users and mimicked it using a “vast network of bots,” allowing them to generate fake traffic and con marketers out of millions for in-app ads (including those run by Google itself). And all the while, the […]
Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has joined the chorus of voices warning that data itself is being weaponized again people and societies — arguing that the trade in digital data has exploded into a “data industrial complex”. Cook did not namecheck the adtech elephants in the […]
Smart marketplaces bridge the implicit and complex
Bart Dessaint Contributor Bart Dessaint is an associate partner at Mosaic Ventures, a London-based venture capital fund focused on Series A funding. Marketplace businesses are intrinsically linked to the technologies that enable them. There would be no Craigslist without email/SMTP, no eBay without the graphical […]