December 20, 2017
EU’s Highest Court Rules Uber A Taxi Service
Compounding what might be charitably described as an epic run of bad luck, Uber has lost a major battle in the European Union’s highest court, which has ruled that the...
December 20, 2017
Finding Retail’s Big Data ROI
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.” That’s a quote from department store maven John Wanamaker, illustrating a conundrum for...
December 19, 2017
Amazon Sparks Price War In Smart Speaker Market
Amazon has sparked a price war in the voice-activated smart speaker market that helped make its Echo Dot the number one product on its website during Black Friday. The price...
December 19, 2017
China Says Facebook, Google Will Have To Live With Censorship
If Google and Facebook want to operate in China and access its 751 million internet users, it will have to operate within China’s cybersecurity rules. That’s according to Qi Xiaoxia,...
December 19, 2017
Alexa: Calling Your Screen And Screening Your Calls
Commerce is becoming ever more linked — between nations and across time zones and gadgets. Amid all the change in commerce and payments (already), can Amazon’s Alexa help transform the...
December 19, 2017
Social Ordering, In Order To Be Social
In the latest Data Drivers, Ritual Founder Ray Reddy weighs in on the ways the coffee (and food) run is getting digitized, with the side benefit of bringing people together...
December 19, 2017
UE: Comisión revela decisión en caso Google
El lunes 18 de diciembre, la Comisión Europea publicó un documento de 215 páginas que detalla su investigación de siete años sobre Google y su decisión sobre el caso de...
December 18, 2017
EU: EC publishes the official Google Search Shopping decision
On Monday, December 18, the European Commission released a 215-page document laying out details of its seven-year investigation into Google and their decision regarding the internet shopping case. In the...
December 18, 2017
Developers Enter The World Of Banking
Following the global financial crisis and a pullback among banks from small business (SMB) lending, some jurisdictions have recently begun introducing new initiatives to entice competition in the space. That...
