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...Instead of trying on boots in a shop, users will scan their feet using a smartphone app, then have boots and skis delivered to them....
...Wan Chai was historically a small fishing village known for its harbourside location, and Sang Kee is primarily a seafood restaurant....
...Planners and developers aim for village ambience. But picture, from Echo Park to Victoria Park, the truest urban villages. How many are car-less?...
...But the burgeoning landscape of young Asian tech companies has the private equity shop veering towards uncharted territory....
...Facebook has also unveiled a payments system that will allow users to shop, make donations or send money as the social media group integrates WhatsApp and Instagram more closely with its core platform....
...The elite Jardins district with its bars, restaurants and fashion shops and the city’s existing luxury hotels lie on the other side....
...But while once upon a time women in search of such a sandal had to travel – to small seaside villages where craftsmen had been plying their trade from a family shop front for generations – these days, increasingly...
...We shop, communicate, publish and read on it. It has become the village commons of the planet. But in the village commons of old, neighbors who knew and recognized each other met and lived together....
...This will cost small businesses more than £480m and wipes out any hopes local shops had for a sales boost from the Olympics.”...
...But a recent spate of shop and hotel openings suggests a commercial critical mass may be forthcoming....
...He set up a company, Eign Enterprise – based on the way English neighbours pronounced his name – which created what became known as the Left Bank village, a complex of shops, bars, restaurants and a conference...
...CamelBak has donated systems that filtrate tap water to shops in the US, including outdoor and bicycle shops, to encourage people to buy one of its bottles and fill them up....
...The appeal to foreigners looking to buy apartments comes as the city’s hotels and shops are bulging with tourists eager to take advantage of the weak dollar....
...Edward Bates, the gentleman’s hat shop on London’s Jermyn Street, is confident about the hat’s popularity....
...Thom Yorke of Radiohead, the EMI band that sold its latest album online for as much as its fans would pay, described Mr Hands and EMI as “confused bulls in a china shop”....
...“It’s like living in a village but you have the advantages of a big city.”...
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