Will Smith Drops Clothing, Google Shopping Redesign, AEW Disrupts WWE, Taboola is buying Outbrain, Tristan Walker Interview
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Will Smith Unveils Fresh Prince of Bel-Air-Themed Clothing Line: 'I Love This Stuff'
The 51-year-old actor starred on the NBC sitcom from 1990 to 1996 The line includes T-shirts, sweatshirts and athletic gear accessories like a duffel bag, phone case, and even a paisley-print basketball.
“So this is a sweatsuit, it’s just a sweatsuit, until it’s not just a sweatsuit.” The Aladdin star then opens up the jacket to reveal a paisley print inside, and that he’s wearing a bright yellow tee with the words “Bel-Air Athletics” emblazoned on the front in red block letters.
India’s Udaan raises $585M to expand its B2B e-commerce platform – TechCrunch
Udaan, a three-year-old business-to-business e-commerce platform in India, has raised more than half a billion dollars in a new financing round as it looks to bring more kirana stores (neighborhood stores), chemists and other small businesses online through its marketplace. The startup said today i…
Sujeet Kumar, another co-founder of Udaan, said the startup will use the fresh capital to expand its supply chain network in the nation and focus on growing the marketplace in both existing and new categories.
Udaan, which in recent quarters has introduced features such as support for government-backed UPI payments platform and an easy tax invoicing tool, expects to clock about $2 billion in annual GMV this year.
Google Shopping is getting a redesign with several new features, including options to shop local stores, track prices and even find style inspiration through Google Lens. Already, Google Lens’ smart image recognition technology can help identify objects, translate text, and find similar items…
Already, Google Lens’ smart image recognition technology can help identify objects, translate text , and find similar items.
This has allowed it to capture consumers’ interest long before their placing items in their online shopping cart — an existential threat to Google’s business, potentially.
AEW debuts as a new hope in pro wrestling
The biggest stars of the genre, from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and “Nature Boy” Ric Flair to “Macho Man” Randy Savage and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin have larger than life personalities in a way that few celebrities do.
The creative end of AEW will be run by five individuals: founder and CEO Tony Khan, the Southern California brother tag team of the Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson), Canadian wrestling virtuoso Kenny Omega and second generation star Cody Rhodes.
The two ad companies that place all those boxes at the bottom of web pages are combining
Taboola is buying Outbrain. That combination could also be an issue for regulators, who in recent months have been increasingly scrutinizing companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook over antitrust concerns.
They argue that they are still small potatoes compared to Facebook and Google, so regulators won’t have any reason to stop the deal.
Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
The very first time Tristan Walker shaved, he woke up the next morning with razor bumps all over his face. "I was like, what is this?" he remembers saying. "I am never shaving again—ever." He soon discovered that like him, many men of color were frustrated by the lack of shaving products for coarse or curly hair. Fifteen years after that first disastrous shave, and after countless meetings with doubtful investors, Tristan launched Bevel, a subscription shaving system built around a single-blade razor.
Global ecommerce brings in $147 billion for U.S. web retailers in 2018
However, only half of the U.S. retailers in the Internet Retailer Top 1000 ship to consumers in other countries. Primary obstacles include local taxes, customs duties and regulations that govern what can be shipped to each country. Many smaller retailers are shipping to foreign online shoppers, often taking advantage of services that specialize in customs clearance and international delivery.
However, only half of the U.S. retailers in the Internet Retailer Top 1000 ship to consumers in other countries. Primary obstacles include local taxes, customs duties and regulations that govern what can be shipped to each country. Many smaller retailers are shipping to foreign online shoppers, often taking advantage of services that specialize in customs clearance and international delivery.
Why Women's Sports Are Now A Top Draw For TV Advertisers
A record-breaking FIFA Women's World Cup is prompting brands to reevaluate women's sports as a second option. While it is not a new tactic for sportsmen, this trend is skyrocketing for women in 2019 , with the televised football, cricket and netball World Cups, plus Wimbledon, all leading to the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo. The ad free nature of the BBC meant that brands could not advertise directly alongside the games, but the conversation and resulting impact reached much further for future sporting events.
Gross Domestic Product: Banksy Opens a Dystopian Homewares Store
Tony the Frosted Flakes tiger sacrificed as a living room rug, wooden dolls handing their babies off to smugglers in freight truck trailers, and welcome mats stitched from life jackets: rather than offering an aspirational lifestyle, one South London storefront window depicts a capitalist dystopia.
Tony the Frosted Flakes tiger sacrificed as a living room rug, wooden dolls handing their babies off to smugglers in freight truck trailers, and welcome mats stitched from life jackets: rather than offering an aspirational lifestyle, one South London storefront window depicts a capitalist dystopia.
Created by Banksy and appearing overnight, Gross Domestic Product is the latest installation to critique global society’s major issues of forced human migration, animal exploitation, and the surveillance state.
The Fall Of Juice And The Rise Of Fresh Fruit
It and other fruit juices are now regularly derided as concentrated sugar-delivery mechanisms — and the once-mighty Florida orange-juice industry has been too wounded by hurricanes and citrus greening disease to fight back effectively.
The spectacular decline in grapefruit consumption, from a peak of 9 pounds per capita in 1976 to just 1.9 in 2017, appears to have been caused mainly by a collision between older Americans’ breakfast preferences and their prescriptions.
Secretive Seattle startup Picnic unveils pizza-making robot — here’s how it delivers 300 pies/hour
After three years of quietly toiling away on a robotic food system, Seattle startup Picnic has emerged from stealth mode with a system that assembles custom pizzas with little human intervention.
Despite the simple exterior, the component parts were mesmerizing — from the sauce spitting out of a nozzle to the waterfall of diced cheese and individually sliced pepperoni.
“Picnic could help our existing staff work more efficiently, allowing them to do double or triple their customer service load without negatively impacting workflow,” said Zaucer co-founder Aaron Roberts.
UPS gets FAA approval to operate an entire drone delivery airline – TechCrunch
UPS announced today that it is the first to receive the official nod from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate a full “drone airline,” which will allow it to expand its current small drone delivery service pilots into a country-wide network. In its announcement of the ne…
In its announcement of the news, UPS said that it will start by building out its drone delivery solutions specific to hospital campuses nationwide in the U.S., and then to other industries outside of healthcare.
Part 135 Standard also permits the drone and cargo to exceed 55 pounds and fly at night, previous restrictions governing earlier UPS flights.
Maverick Carter and LeBron James’ Uninterrupted launches Nike sneaker and e-commerce store
The media company takes its brand building in a new direction.
The partnership not only includes an Uninterrupted-branded Air Force 1 sneaker but also a new apparel collection that features a hoodie, shorts, hats, and socks, available for exclusively on Uninterrupted’s newly launched e-commerce store on October 7.
On Monday, news broke that California Governor Gavin Newsom had signed a bill on LeBron and Carter’s show The Shop that would allow college athletes to hire agents and get paid for endorsement deals.
The Business and Evolution Behind Your Favorite Performance Fabrics
Fabric has become far more important to the average consumer, especially when it comes to athletic clothes.
Earlier this year, on a whim and cruising a wave of slight boredom with my at-home fitness options, I searched for and very quickly found an online video of the iconic " Jane Fonda’s Original Workout , " first released in 1982.
There's even a program from the New York City Ballet, complete with classical music, and, weirdly, an intro from Sarah-Jessica Parker.As I watched this succession of fitness ideals through the decades, what struck me more than the elaboratestage sets and impractical hairstyles was an uncalculated element: sweat.
How to Monetize a Business Ecosystem
Alibaba, for example, invites small sellers on its business to consumer site, Taobao, to join for free, with the option to buy value-added services, while large retailers on its high-end Tmall platform pay a substantial up-front listing fee as well as commissions.
Thomson Reuters used the data in its models to develop more accurate forecasts for crop volumes and prices, which it then sold to financial traders as part of a new suite of services, opening up an additional revenue stream.