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Hollar No More, As Five Below Rebrands Site

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According to an email to current customers of Hollar--known for its "dollar store" style, grab bag of products--Hollar will "soon become Five Below" and continue to offer up its $1 to $5 products, and occasional products of up to $10. Financial details of that deal were not disclosed by either of the companies.

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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

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Glossier, the popular beauty brand led by former blogger Emily Weiss, let go of 80 of its corporate employees today, according to an internal email obtained by Modern Retail. The company laid off its entire retail staff and closed all its physical locations, including its flagship New York City store, in August 2020.

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What to Expect From CES 2020

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Flesh will be pressed, complimentary bars emptied, but most importantly we'll get a first look at some of the gadgets that will dominate 2020. In 2020, you can expect 8K displays to be the order of the day, even if right now there's very little native material to actually watch on them. So what can we expect to see?

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New York Auto Show delayed until August over coronavirus concerns

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Organizers of the 2020 New York International Auto Show have postponed the event until August due to concerns about the COVID-19 outbreak. We have already been in communication with many of our exhibitors and partners and are confident that the new dates for the 2020 Show will make for another successful event,” Schienberg added.

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Upfront Summit Delayed Due To COVID-19 Surge

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According to conference organizers, in an email to ticket holders, the summit has been postponed for at least five weeks, to March 1st and 2nd, rather than its original event dates of January 26th and 27th. Upfront's last tech conference, in 2020, was held at the Rose Bowl.

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Abodu raises $20M to build prefabricated backyard homes

TechCrunch LA

Then on January 1, 2020, the state of California made it dramatically easier to add extra housing units to single-family home sites. The California legislature changed laws in 2017 to make it easier to build Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). Abodu’s success would be a win-win that strengthens communities.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. And now they want to revolutionize email.