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Are Consumers Ready To Buy And Sell Homes Online?

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Way back in the day (which, in 21st century digital economy terms, probably means a decade or so), smart and important people used to express well-informed skepticism about the prospect of selling clothes, cars and even groceries via online or mobile channels. Knock operates in such U.S Home Marketplaces.

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Carvana Brings Car Vending Machine To Tampa

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Carvana already has car vending machines in cities such as Houston, Nashville and Raleigh. Carvana operates differently from most other car dealerships, used or new. The machine is eight stories tall and holds up to 32 vehicles, the company said in an announcement. The machine is the eighth of its kind in the U.S.

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Yum! Brands On How Delivery, Digital And Takeout Are Their Future

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According to Creed, delivery will be online in 2,000 KFC locations in the U.S. Creed also spoke at some length about the brand’s partnership with Grubhub to drive sales to KFC and Taco Bell through online ordering for pickup and delivery. We have seen positive early results along with valuable operations learnings.

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Home Selling Platform Opendoor Seeks To Raise $200M

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Knock, an Opendoor rival, operates in such U.S markets as Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham and Dallas-Fort Worth. Owners sell their homes to Opendoor, which, in turn, helps buyers find the right home for them. Over 800,000 consumers reportedly toured the company’s homes last year.

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Data Enabler Startup ItsOn Brings Wireless Carriers Into The 21st Century

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What’s unique about ItsOn is that it virtualizes business services such as billing, charging, rating and payments by moving these functions to an operator-managed cloud environment. This young demographic has one of the highest penetration rates of smartphones and online platforms in the world. A great example is roaming.

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Grocery Roundup: Ahold Delhaize Acquisition, Another Toilet Paper Rush And A SNAP Explosion

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Dutch global grocery conglomerate Ahold Delhaize — the firm behind grocery behemoths Giant and Stop & Shop — has acquired a majority stake in supermarket delivery startup FreshDirect in an attempt to up the level of its digital grocery offerings amid the online shopping surge created by COVID-19. “We Farmstead Picks Up $7.9M

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

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Just ask Carvana, the leading online automotive seller and a major force in changing the way people buy cars. This belief is based on “the Company’s operating plan, that current working capital and expected continued inventory and capital expenditure financing is sufficient to fund operations and satisfy the Company’s obligations.”.

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