The holiday shopping season has long been the crown jewel of the retail calendar. But as consumer habits evolve, so too do the tools retailers deploy to attract, engage and convert shoppers. And the evolution of those tools is assuredly digital. Take, for example, the...
In the annals of retail history, few phenomena have captured the imagination quite like Cyber Monday. Born in the early days of eCommerce, Cyber Monday has evolved into Cyber Week and quickly outgrew its Black Friday cousin, which is starting to look positively archaic in...
Old-fashioned technology is coming back into fashion, and we’re talking more than just dumb phones. Take pagers, for instance. Earlier this month, Sega’s Japanese toys division announced on its YouTube channel the launch of an emoji-only toy pager. The device, dubbed Emojam, allows users to...
Being nice to your chatbot turns out to be more than just digital decorum. According to a recent research, users who mind their manners with artificial intelligence (AI) assistants get faster, more accurate help, while their ruder counterparts face frustration. For businesses investing heavily in...
October 19, 2024
Oct. 20, 2009. The United States was starting to see daylight out of the darkness of the worst financial crisis since the great depression. The Wall Street Journal reported that companies were starting to see profit improvements but weren’t ready to hire workers laid off during the crisis. Many analysts speculated whether the Dow Jones […]
March 30, 2024
Baseball is back, and this year, more stadiums are tapping frictionless checkout to cut labor costs while meeting fans’ demand to spend as little time out of their seats as possible....
September 09, 2023
When was the last time you saw the Yellow Pages? Probably in 2019, since that was the last time it was published. Well, that thick, yellow book, which was created...
September 19, 2019
Today in the payments news roundup, Amazon PayCode is rolling out in the United States to make it easier for shoppers to pay with cash. Also, Plaid is launching new...
