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VR Venture Gets Hollywood Backing

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21st Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — along with an investment from director Steven Spielberg, according to The Wall Street Journal. have also reportedly invested in Dreamscape. The company has already raised $11 million in funding from three major Hollywood studios — Warner Bros., Tickets will cost $15–$20, said WSJ.

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Choosy Turns To Social Media For Fast Fashion Inspiration

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Beyond answering the demands of social media users who crave celebrity and influencer fashions, Choosy seeks to solve another problem: making expensive designer fashions available to the masses without the big price tags. Fashion Through Social Tagging.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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Can TAGWALK Redefine Fashion Search?

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At the beginning, she was hand-tagging all the thousands of images on the site (algorithms have mostly taken that on, though all things are reviewed by human eyes before being uploaded). The turning point for the brand was Carmen Busquets, a Venezuelan businesswoman and angel investor who came to prominence as an early backer of Net-a-Porter.

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Kohl’s Sizzles, ICOs Fizzle And Juicero’s Cold-Pressed Sales Run Dry

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The physical retailer is joining forces with the online juggernaut and is debuting a “smart home” experience across 10 stores in Chicago and Los Angeles. Venture capital interest and investments have been on the rise, so growth is in the cards. Can you spell coopetition? Alexa is debuting a slew of skills aimed at kids.

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2:00PM Water Cooler 12/9/2022 | naked capitalism

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Video surveillance captured Brinton removing the suitcase from the carousel and putting the bag’s tag in their handbag before leaving ‘at a quick pace,’ the police complaint read. Wastewater data ( CDC ), December 5: JFK/LGA, Queens County is still red; ORD, Cook County just turned red; LAX, Los Angeles County now red. Wastewater.

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Grocery Expansions, eCommerce Improvements And Voice Extensions

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Additional locations are reportedly being considered for Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles. We will continue to invest in strong, distinctive partnerships for Nike with other retailers and platforms to seamlessly serve our consumers globally.”.