The news today that Google has entered into an agreement to acquire retail tech company Pointy is a vindication for Pointy’s founders, who in the early days of the company had to convince investors ...

While most large retailers already have their inventory online, the same cannot be said about local stores. To power its “See what’s in store” feature, Google announced today that it’s acquiring ...

Google plans to acquire Dublin start-up Pointy, which has created a device that automatically lists a bricks-and-mortar store’s inventory online so customers can find local products. Today (14 January ...

Pointy , an Irish start startup that lets local retailers put their stock online so that they can be discovered via search engines, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round is being led by ...

Photographers Alex Troesch and Aline Paley first saw the long, pointy Mexican boots on a video through Facebook. “It was so funny at first, seeing this group of people dancing in the boots to this ...

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Google has been on a long-term mission to build inroads into the world of e-commerce by working more closely with brick-and-mortar retailers, and now it looks like it plans to extend that work a ...

Elon Musk admitted online that his inspiration for the SpaceX Starship's design is from a political satire and comedy film released in 2012 by Paramount Pictures, "The Dictator." The movie is known ...