Year In Review news and trends

Year in Review: The Milestones That Transformed AI in 2023
artificial intelligence // December 29, 2023

2023 was the year of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) boom. What was perhaps the innovation’s greatest trick to date was fitting a decade’s worth of technical and marketplace advances into just one year — and what a year it was. Over the past 365...

52 Mondays 2023: The Year of Acronyms, AI and the Connected Everything
Karen Webster // December 27, 2023

The traditional look back at the end of the year that was begs the question: What have we learned? Specifically, for 2023, the question might also be: Was it all about AI? Hardly, although you’d be forgiven for thinking that artificial intelligence was the sole...

Retail Merchants Focus on Loyal Subscribers to Shore Up Sales
Subscriptions // December 20, 2023

In the last two years, due to persistent inflation and consumers returning to normal life, retail product subscriptions have steadily decreased from pandemic boom times to reach levels equivalent to 2019. This sharp correction in demand is common across all retail categories. To combat cancellations,...

Biometrics in 2023: Reshaping Authentication, Igniting Debates and Driving Innovation
Biometrics // December 20, 2023

In a digital landscape increasingly defined by the surge of online and mobile shopping, consumer demand for flexible, secure and convenient ways to authenticate transactions is at an all-time high. Enter biometric authentication — a game-changing technology revolutionizing how transactions are verified using unique physical...

Interviews & Exclusives
The Conversations That Defined The Reinvention Of Retail In 2017

December 29, 2017
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” There are many great ways to begin a book – but it’s hard to argue that anyone did it better than Charles Dickens. Whether one has read A Tale Of Two Cities or not, everyone knows that opening phrase. And it works as well […]

The Wild Ride In Alternative Financing In 2017

December 26, 2017
A decade ago, the world of financial services saw what was perhaps its greatest sea change in a generation — in 2007, two separate, unconnected and epoch-making things happened at...