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Postmates is launching a new retail delivery feature as brick and mortar stores face 14% drop in sales

TechCrunch LA

Postmates is now rolling out what could be the biggest update to the company’s service in a long time — adding a retail option for users to shop local stores and for local merchants to set up a virtual on-demand storefront in the app. That could have an impact on retail sales that were already projected to be dismal.

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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

With the ITRC 2021 End-of-Year Data Breach Report revealing a 68 percent increase in stolen sensitive personal information, there is a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. Internet users need to start watching out for themselves, like looking both ways before you cross the street.

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Hyundai taps EV startup Canoo to develop electric vehicles

TechCrunch LA

The concept is similar to Toyota’s e-Palette vehicle, which can theoretically be customized to serve as a retail shop, restaurant or shuttle for people. The company says its goal is for “eco-friendly vehicles” to comprise 25% of its total sales by 2025. Canoo company recently opened the waitlist for its first vehicle.

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Boulevard books $70M to help beauty and wellness salons with their bookings

TechCrunch LA

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke nature of a lot of the work has meant that a large swathe of the professionals providing these services have stayed offline when it comes to interfacing with customers.

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7 Reasons A Good Team Merits Priority Over Procedure

Startup Professionals Musings

Every one of you business leaders I know struggles with the competing demands of finding and keeping employees motivated and satisfied, versus building and enforcing a set of repeatable processes that work. Leaders who focus on team communication are also more successful in dealing with partners and customers.

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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

Tech.Co

Nothing is changing for our customers at this time, and we’ll be in touch with customers as and when we have further updates. Find out more – Best Ecommerce Website Builders 2021. That's not bad but it's miles off market leader Shopify which boasts millions of customers. Physical Product Sales. Service Sales.

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Best Network Setups for Media Content Delivery

Southern California Edison Blog

Media and content creation businesses expanding their services to meet future content needs require a network that can support growing media content demands. million in 2021 1. In 2021, the average person will spend an estimated 100 minutes watching online videos each day, a 19 percent increase from 84 minutes per day in 2019 2.

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