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Amazon.com Inc. plans to open dozens of grocery stores in U.S. cities, The Wall Street Journal reported, a move that would expand the retail and technology giant’s grocery footprint beyond its Whole Foods Market chain.

The first of these stores will open in Los Angeles as early as the end of 2019, and Amazon is in talks to open locations in shopping centers in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The company is also exploring the idea of purchasing regional grocery stores, the paper said.

The Seattle-based company, which has been experimenting with online delivery of groceries for more than a decade, got into brick-and-mortar food retail with its 2017 purchase of Whole Foods. Amazon has also expanded Amazon Go, its cashierless convenience store concept, to 10 stores. People familiar with the matter said last year that the company planned to open as many as 3,000 of the so-far small-format stores, including up to 50 in 2019.

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Momo, from a sculpture by Japanese artist Keisuke Aisawa, has a face that’s hard to forget, and it spurred the Momo Challenge, a viral hoax that allegedly promotes self-harm, but YouTube stressed that it is not contributing to the virality, nor are any video creators profiting from videos featuring that face. The Google-owned video site…

Advertising Week is Africa-bound

Advertising Week which already operates in New York, Sydney, Tokyo, London and Mexico City will launch later this year in Africa. The new edition will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa in late October. “From female entrepreneurs in Kenya to start ups in Ghana to a broad spectrum of digital innovation out of Nigeria, there is a unique opportunity to unite the continent and leverage our platform to tell incredible stories from all corners of Africa,” Advertising Week CEO Matt Scheckner said in a statement.

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(TrendHunter.com) The Dapper Design ‘KLIP’ is an everyday carry product with a distinctly durable aesthetic along with a multifunctional design that promises to enhance the lifestyle of any professional….

David Levy hasn’t started packing all the Emmy statuettes, photographs and memorabilia that make his office look for all the world like a museum exhibit documenting his three decades in the media business, but eventually he’ll start breaking out the cardboard moving boxes. There’s no rush; for the next few months, the outgoing Turner president will remain stationed in his aerie in the south tower of the Time Warner Center.

On the day he formally announced his resignation from Turner, Levy’s phone has been blowing up. League officials, TV personalities and franchise owners have called and sent texts to wish him welland in one case, to implore him to reconsider. One notable from the world of sports phones to tell Levy that he’s looking forward to seeing what the media mastermind cooks up next before signing off with a dark joke about hanging himself.

People, it seems, are going to miss Levy when he’s gone. But he won’t be away for long.

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Pensando na galera que não curte muito a vibe do Carnaval, a Budweiser criou o Circuito Alternativo em São Paulo, para quem pretende festejar nos próximos dias, só que longe dos bloquinhos e do sambódromo. Com sua forte ligação musical, a marca traz a Bud Garage, um espaço para o “não-folião”, desenvolvido com muita personalidade, …

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