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

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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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OpusData Takes On Movie Data APIs

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Beverly Hills-based Nash Information Services, the company behind The Numbers , a data information service providing the latest movie industry box office information, said today that it has launched a new service, OpusData. The new service allows users to access the data via widgets and APIs, for a monthly fee.

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Fox Mobile Group Sold By News Corp.

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Beverly Hills- and Berlin, Germany-based Fox Mobile Group , which offers mobile content distribution and mobile entertainment products, has been sold to Jesta Group , Jesta said Wednesday. FMG operates the Jamba, Jamster, Mobizzo, iLove, and Bitbop consumer services. on the sale.

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BloomNation's Goal To Empower Your Local Florist, And Improve Flower Delivery

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If you''ve ever ordered flowers from one of the big floral services, you know it''s an impersonal, cookie-cutter, and heavily commoditized area. The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service.

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Interview with Bruce Nash, OpusData

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Last month, Beverly Hills-based Nash Information Services , the firm behind The Numbers --one of the most extensive database of financial information about movies--announced a new service which allows third party software applications and websites to pull information from the firm's database, via OpusData (www.opusdata.com).

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Interview with Skyler Lucci, HeyTutor

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However, being that I started a tutoring agency when I was 18, Beverly Hills Academics, I was able to understand the logistics on how to operate hyper-locally from the beginning, so HeyTutor could spend money on developing a platform where we knew exactly what we were doing. We pay the highest, and pay really well for our industry.

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Interview with Adam Wicks Walker, Hydra

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It really doesn't suit a publisher well to have exclusive representation, except in some instances--for example, if a site has an outsourced sales agency. How much of your business is technology versus service? It's really a high touch service. Adam Wicks Walker: The inventory is not exclusive. It's a whole different thing.