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Retailers Feel Shoppers’ Christmas Cheer

Retailers are enjoying some extra Christmas cheer.

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Canada Launches $100M Procurement Scheme to Back Start-Ups

The Canadian federal government has launched a C$100m scheme dedicated to increasing purchases from start-ups.

Holiday E-Commerce Demand Got an Early Start in 2017

The growth of e-commerce around peak shopping season is no longer a new story, and this year was no exception. But 2017’s peak season did raise some eyebrows for getting off to an unusually early start, with sales from Nov. 1 to Nov. 22 up 17.9 percent, year-over-year, according to Internet Retailer’s report on the peak shopping season.

Why Fermentation Is the Future of Food Tech

In 2015 Nick Ouzounov and Alexander Lorestani applied to the San Francisco-based biotech accelerator IndieBio. The two Princeton Ph.D.s had an idea for a way to engineer a microbe that could build vast amounts of protein designed for specific functions. They envisioned that it could have biopharma applications, such as being used to produce insulin.

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This Huge, Bustling Mall Has a Hole to Fill — Just Not With More Stores

The scene at the East Coast’s largest mall on a recent Friday morning would seem to fly in the face of the doomsday narrative surrounding U.S. retail centers. A steady stream of holiday shoppers walked the lacquered halls, browsing stores from Gap to Gucci. By noon, a line was snaking out of an outpost of the Shake Shack burger chain.

Factories Hum From Detroit to Dortmund As World Economy Improves

Factories from America’s Rust Belt to Germany’s Ruhr region to Japan’s Aichi prefecture are revving up production lines in a unified acceleration not seen in years.

As Energy Markets Evolve, Blockchain Powers Up

Energy startups have been using blockchain to power electricity sharing in microgrid trials from Texas to Tasmania for a year or so.

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Reinventing Supply Chain and Operations

Joseph Selle, IBM's executive in charge of cognitive transformation and operations, is among technology experts who believe artificial intelligence is applicable not only across the supply chain but throughout every department and function in a company.

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As Millennials Embrace Renting Over Owning — Even Clothes — Stores Are Taking Notice

The millennial generation's embrace of renting rather than owning has spread far beyond housing and ride-sharing, and even some traditional major retailers are taking notice.

Best Buy v. Amazon: Holiday Edition

There are a lot ways to judge retailers during the holiday season. Is store inventory overflowing, as it was a couple of years ago? Are chains discounting like crazy? But what really matters for most retailers is whether they are successfully fighting off Amazon.com Inc.

Brexit: City of London Will Lose 10,500 Jobs on Day One, Says EY

City firms plan to move 10,500 jobs out of the U.K. on "day one" of Brexit, with Dublin and Frankfurt the financial centres most likely to benefit from the U.K.’s departure from the EU.

Trump Signs Executive Order to Expand Critical Minerals Production

President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday instructing his deputies to devise "a strategy to reduce the Nation’s reliance on critical minerals" that are largely imported and used to produce everything from smartphones to weaponry.

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