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Author By Daphne Howland, Corinne Ruff • Published Oct. 16, 2017 Share it post share tweet Dive Brief: As the 13-week Target + Techstars retail accelerator comes to an end, half of the 10 participating startups are leaving with formal agreements with Target for pilot projects, and others are still in talks, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Two overseas startups that participated in the pr...

Amazon opened its first tech office in Colorado last year, but it has bigger tech hubs in a handful of other cities.

techcrunch.com While Airbnb continues to grow its number of hosts and guests on the platform, sending the hotel industry into a frenzy, landlords and building owners don’t share the same enthusiasm for the home-sharing platform as Airbnb users. But the company has a new plan that gets each party on board with home-sharing. The company is collaborating with development firm Newgard Development Gr...

The most wonderful and most terrible things about new technologies are their emergent properties. The latest example is, of course, Fake News On Facebook; who would have thought that connecting everyone via social media would lead to wildly divergent narratives of (so-called) reality? And yet here we are. But if you think social media is messy and weird … just wait until we get self-driving cars...

San Diego's bid for Amazon HQ2: Can it win? Jordan Stead/Amazon Amazon's campus in downtown Seattle photographed from the roof of another Amazon building. The e-commerce giant has put out a request for proposals for a second headquarters location. Amazon's campus in downtown Seattle photographed from the roof of another Amazon building. The e-commerce giant has put out a request for...

Real estate execs and business leaders say they are confident New York will be on Amazon's short list after bids for its second headquarters are submitted this week. After all, the metropolitan area is Amazon's No. 1 sales market, and it's a priority for the company to grow its footprint here. The e-tailer last month leased 360,000 square feet at 5 Manhattan West on top of the 470,0...

John Wechsler doesn’t like to keep the same job for long. His resume is cluttered with short stints leading startups. And for the past 20 years, he has followed his passion quickly from one job to the next. Fadness But Launch Fishers—the co-working space he founded in 2012—has provided enough of the excitement Wechsler seeks in a job. So he’s remained its CEO for five years, even though he...

In this webinar, the teams from Care@Work  (Care.com) and Chiron Health discuss how to create and execute a content marketing strategy in healthcare.  A strong content marketing strategy is critical in healthcare. And crafting a strategy is a long game. Your marketing team must invest time and energy in creating effective content to foster engagement and loyalty from your customers. In this web...

CoStar announced late last week that its database is now fully integrated with LoopNet. My initial reaction was, “What took so long?” and I wondered why they were making such a big deal about something that seemed so obvious. LoopNet was purchased by CoStar in 2012 and has remained mostly separate from the parent regarding the data on each platform. LoopNet is public facing while CoStar is the...

Productivity seems to be the golden goal of the moment. With so many technological resources at our disposal and the social media/competitive loop urging the crowd on to ever-higher achievements, there seems to be this underlying and overarching sense that we can be more, that we can do more. Plus, it's fun to try to "game the system"-- to figure out those tasks and rituals, that w...