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9 Nov

Jezebel, the Feminist Website that Punctured the Patriarchy, Shuts Down

Jezebel, the sassy feminist website that launched from the rib of Gawker, is shutting down. Citing the “economic headwinds rattling [the] industry,” G/O Media, the parent company of Jezebel, said on Thursday that it will suspend publication of Jezebel after it failed to search out a buyer during a troublesome economic slog for digital publishers. The choice will impact 23 employees, including all the Jezebel staff and G/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown, who will exit the corporate. Launched in 2007 by author Anna Holmes, Jezebel quickly became a must-read for a young generation of third-wave feminists laboring amid a really much intact patriarchy. The Recent York-centric site offered a daring and caustic critique of traditional women’s magazines, with their male-gaze-centered deal...
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31 Oct

Lush Is Now Shoppable on Ulta’s Website – WWD

Lush is revamping its distribution strategy in North America, starting with a wholesale partnership. The sweetness company, which was said to succeed in $1 billion in sales last yr, has inaugurated a wholesale partnership with Ulta Beauty, a primary of its kind for the brand. That also comes because it preps greater than 30 recent brick-and-mortar retail locations.  “Within the U.S., we have now over 200 brick-and-mortar doors. We obviously need to expand, but we will’t possibly expand our reach much beyond that just by ourselves,” said Carrie Harambasic, Lush North America’s head of business development. “That’s where Ulta is available in. We spent the past yr excited about collaborations and expanding our reach and we knew we couldn’t do it alone.” Bolstering the...
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29 Mar

Ex-Modiface CEO Desires to Improve Your Website With AI

The sweetness world knows him as one among the pioneers who drove augmented reality for the sector at Modiface. Now Parham Aarabi’s next act also looks like a technical beaut, and never only for makeup. The tech start-up founder and University of Toronto professor of artificial intelligence goes full bore into e-commerce along with his latest enterprise, Predictive Commerce. With the platform, which launches Tuesday, Aarabi does what he does best — determine how AI can solve real-world problems. Here, the corporate predicts human behavior, so brands can adapt their web sites to realize maximum effect. The genesis of the business didn’t stem from a selected eureka moment, but a simmering curiosity that nagged at him, he told WWD. He kept noticing how...
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