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Piece By Piece: 14 Offsite Construction Companies Transforming The Building Industry

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From Marriott opening its first modular hotel, to tech giants like Alphabet investing in modular housing, to Japanese retailer Muji launching prefab micro-homes, offsite construction methods are gaining traction. Research Briefing: Construction and Infrastructure. prescient co. Headquarters: Arvada, Colorado. acre designs.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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In the same way that Square built a payment-centric ecosystem for brick-and-mortar SMBs and micro-merchants, Stripe has reinvented online payment acceptance. In 2012, Stripe introduced Stripe Connect to allow businesses and individual sellers on online marketplaces to get paid via Stripe. Source: Square.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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As NYU Stern School of Business professor and digital transformation researcher Arun Sundararajan notes: “Crisis can be… a catalyst or can speed up changes that are on the way — it almost can serve as an accelerant.”. As far back as 2012, proponents were predicting that 3D printing would usher in a “third industrial revolution.”

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