digital transformation

Voice And Visual: Better Together On The Echo Show
Voice And Visual: Better Together On The Echo Show
March 22, 2018  |  Voice Activation

There’s a lot that developers can do with voice, and that’s at the heart of the PYMNTS.com Voice Challenge with Amazon Alexa – but there’s...

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IBM Gives Alexa Another Rival With Watson Assistant
IBM Gives Alexa Another Rival With Watson Assistant
March 21, 2018  |  Artificial Intelligence

IBM has launched Watson Assistant, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent for companies looking to build their own voice-activated virtual assistants. According to Kareem Yusuf, Ph.D....

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No Cashier? No Problem: The Checkout-Free Future Of Grocery
No Cashier? No Problem: The Checkout-Free Future Of Grocery
March 19, 2018  |  Artificial Intelligence

What’s a grocery store to do if it wants to go cashier-less but it’s not Amazon Go? There are a number of tech companies trying...

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B2B FinTechs Get Creative With Enterprise Data
B2B FinTechs Get Creative With Enterprise Data
March 16, 2018  |  B2B Payments

This week’s B2B FinTech venture capital roundup is all about data, and, as investors showed, there’s more than one way to offer data services for...

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Voice Commerce: User First, Channel Second
Voice Commerce: User First, Channel Second
March 06, 2018  |  Artificial Intelligence

When working with an emerging technology – like voice-activated AI, for example – it is easy to get one’s head turned by novelty. The experience...

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Gamification: A Growth Driver For Online Apparel?
Gamification: A Growth Driver For Online Apparel?
March 05, 2018  |  Retail

To some, shopping online for clothes is a chore. To others, it’s fun. But how often does it feel like a game? Probably not very...

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Who’ll Win When Facebook Advertisers Flee?
Who’ll Win When Facebook Advertisers Flee?
March 05, 2018  |  eCommerce

Procter & Gamble made headlines last week when its Chief Brand Officer, Marc Pritchard, confirmed that the world’s largest advertiser cut $200 million of digital...

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Avoiding Scan Avoidance With Computer Vision
Avoiding Scan Avoidance With Computer Vision
March 01, 2018  |  Retail

Retailers lose $14 billion annually in “scan avoidance” — that is, when items are bagged at the register without ever being scanned or paid for....

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Checks, Data Sharing Limits Force B2B FinTechs To Find A Workaround
Checks, Data Sharing Limits Force B2B FinTechs To Find A Workaround
February 27, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Analytics technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics process automation (RPA) turned cash flow forecasting into more of a science than it’s ever...

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