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New York Second Most Famous Skyscraper Chrysler Building is up for sale
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New York Second Most Famous Skyscraper Chrysler Building is up for sale

New York iconic and second most famous Skyscraper Chrysler Building that featured in movies like Spider-Man, Men In Black 3 is up for sale. The minority owner and a broker company stacom hired to sell the property informed media. The 77-story skyscraper, briefly the world’s tallest building after it was finished in 1930, is 90% owned by the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, with developer Tishman Speyer owning the rest 10%. Now it is the 8th tallest building in the city at 318.9 metres. The Chrysler Building was constructed by Walter Chrysler, head of Chrysler Corporation. It was the home of the American automaker until 1953. The 1.26m sq ft building underwent a $100m renovation after Tishman acquired the property in 1997. Tishman later reduced its holding. The sovereig...
Google to Invest $1 Billion on New Campus in New York
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Google to Invest $1 Billion on New Campus in New York

Alphabet owned Google is investing more than $1 billion on a new campus in New York. With this, it will becom the second major technology company after Amazon to pick America's financial capital to expand and create thousands of jobs. The 1.7 million square-foot campus, called Google Hudson Square, will include leased properties at Hudson Street and Washington Street, the company said in a blog post on Monday. The new campus will be the main location for Google's advertising sales division, the Global Business Organization. Google hopes to start moving into two Hudson Street buildings by 2020, followed by a Washington Street in 2022 and will have the capacity to more than double its New York headcount, currently more than 7,000, in the next 10 years. The company's plans...
Walmart Plans to Launch Intelligent Retail Lab in New York
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Walmart Plans to Launch Intelligent Retail Lab in New York

The retail giant Walmart has announced its plans to roll out an Intelligent Retail Lab inside one of its stores in Levittown, New York. The basic ideas behind this is to test both associate and customer experiences. With this, the company wants to use artificial intelligence to better identify when items are running low on stock so that it can proactively replenish the stock. This would be led by an internal team called Kepler. Also, the retailer is planning to use the technology to identify spills, better understand when shopping carts are running low near the entrance and identify when items are on the wrong shelf. It has also been stated that Project Kepler would entail cashierlesss stores. However, the company mentioned that Kepler is the name of the team building the AI lab i...
Amazon to Launch Amazon 4-Star Store in New York
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Amazon to Launch Amazon 4-Star Store in New York

The retail giant Amazon is prepping up to expand its brick-and-mortar footprint with a new kind of store. The company has planned to launch an “Amazon 4-Star” store in New York today. The store will have all the products that are rated 4 stars and above, are a top seller or are new and trending on Amazon. Basically, the store will have all the best products that Amazon sells. The location of the store will be in SoHo, on Spring Street between Crosby and Lafayette Streets. It will function between 10 AM – 9 PM Monday through Saturday, and 11 AM – 8 PM on Sundays.   Amazon 4-star opens tomorrow in the SoHo neighborhood of #NYC – check out a sneak peek of the store here: https://t.co/tA2G8zI5OK pic.twitter.com/UYD0UeEkA5 — Amazon News (@amazonnews) September 26, 2018  ...