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Apple’s Nonexistent Smartglasses Beat Google’s In Survey
Apple // May 28, 2019

The product doesn’t even exist yet, but Apple still managed to beat Google in the smartglasses market. A recent survey of AR/VR industry insiders by Digi-Capital and AWE saw Apple come in as the third-most important smartglasses platform, after Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap. The...

Bringing ‘Try Before You Buy’ To Interior Design
Retail // December 15, 2017

It looked great in the store, but it didn’t look so great when it got home. It’s a problem all consumers face, and it isn’t that big of a deal for most objects. Thinking better of a buy is an easily solved problem generally handled by finding...

Vantiv On Attracting And Keeping Developers Engaged
Matchmakers // July 26, 2017

Developers platforms have quickly gone from being cutting edge to being something like table stakes for serious financial technology players, as Karen Webster observed in a recent conversation with Vantiv’s Head of Developer Integration’s Matt Ozvat — “it feels a bit like everyone out there has their...

Oracle Creates Internal Startup To Stay Ahead Of Competition
Innovation // April 25, 2017

Multinational computer technology corporation Oracle is looking to shake things up in the innovation department to stay ahead of younger rivals. (It has been around for 40 years, after all.) To accomplish this, Oracle recently announced plans to create an “internal startup,” said Bloomberg News —...

Interviews & Exclusives
Vantiv On Attracting And Keeping Developers Engaged

July 26, 2017
Developers platforms have quickly gone from being cutting edge to being something like table stakes for serious financial technology players, as Karen Webster observed in a recent conversation with Vantiv’s Head of Developer Integration’s Matt Ozvat — “it feels a bit like everyone out there has their own version of a platform for the developer.” That is […]

Facebook Messenger 2.0: Lotsa Bots

April 19, 2017
Innovator, entrepreneur and architect of “the greatest show on Earth” P.T. Barnum famously said, “There is no such thing as bad publicity.” This week, going into its F8 conference — Facebook’s...

Quick Reads
Apple’s Nonexistent Smartglasses Beat Google’s In Survey

May 28, 2019
The product doesn’t even exist yet, but Apple still managed to beat Google in the smartglasses market. A recent survey of AR/VR industry insiders by Digi-Capital and AWE saw Apple come in as the third-most important smartglasses platform, after Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap. The data in the report explains that there are five challenges […]

Oracle Creates Internal Startup To Stay Ahead Of Competition

April 25, 2017
Multinational computer technology corporation Oracle is looking to shake things up in the innovation department to stay ahead of younger rivals. (It has been around for 40 years, after all.)...

Amazon’s Future Is In AI, Logistics, AWS

April 25, 2017
As Amazon’s Q1 earnings report quickly approaches, here’s a glimpse of the future. Amazon is hardly a stranger to reinvention. Lest we forget, the online retail giant started off as...