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Six e-commerce personalization examples with tools and tips
PaperStyle, an e-commerce store that sells invitations and personalized gifts, used to send out un-targeted mass emails to subscribers. With poor response and open rates, PaperStyle decided...
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Warning Signs That You Are Creating Irrelevant Content
Content is king – heard that phrase before? Coined shortly after search engines came into being, it was all content publishers needed to flood...
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Amazon, Walmart dominate shopping app downloads in 2020: report
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Amazon, Walmart and Wish were the top three most downloaded shopping apps in the U.S. in 2020, according to a new report by Apptopia. Amazon...
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Gartner: 5G will drive 100M people to shop in AR by next year
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The rollout of high-speed 5G mobile service is set to drive growth of augmented reality shopping to 100 million consumers by next year, researcher Gartner...
Visionarea Unveils a New Generation of AI Sensors for Smarter Retail and Building Management
Milan, October 2025 – The evolving relationship between digital intelligence and physical retail has taken another step forward with Visionarea’s launch of a new...
Will Self-Checkout Ever Win Over Its Critics?
Self-checkout stations show little signs of slowing their expansion across retail, yet critics only appear to be getting louder.
In a recent article in The Atlantic,...
How to Choose a Perfect Mobile App Development Company
Sometimes having a plethora of options makes choosing the best solution for your project even more difficult. In 2019, the United States alone had...
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Alibaba in crosshairs of growing antitrust scrutiny in China
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s dominant position in the online retail and digital payments markets make it the most likely target of growing antitrust scrutiny...
Caleres to close 133 Naturalizer stores in shift to digital
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Shoe seller Caleres plans to close 133 stores under its Naturalizer women's footwear brand by the end of fiscal 2020 and pivot to a digital...
Walmart launches voice-activated grocery shopping
Walmart has partnered with Google to allow customers to voice order groceries from their Google Assistant enabled devices including Google Home, iPhones and Android...
The government just blocked another razor startup from getting acquired
The Federal Trade Commission announced it would sue to block Proctor & Gamble’s purchase of razor and body care company Billie on December 8th, citing P&G’s...
A new era for Amazon as Jeff Bezos hands over CEO role
In an internal letter to Amazon.com employees yesterday, Jeff Bezos announced that he will be stepping down as chief executive of the company in the third...
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Ranking: Top 30 growth retailers led by Gymshark, Boohoo and Farfetch
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Dominated by retailers, our latest Top 30 Growth Retailers ranking is critical reading in the run-up to Christmas as shoppers increasingly migrate online.
As...
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Will Self-Checkout Ever Win Over Its Critics?
Self-checkout stations show little signs of slowing their expansion across retail, yet critics only appear to be getting louder.
In a recent article in The Atlantic,...
American Express expands small business perks as it reportedly falls under federal investigation
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Days before The Wall Street Journal reported federal investigators were looking into American Express' sales to business owners, the company introduced more incentives...
Digital Shift Leads Mastercard To Take Contactless Payments To The Cloud
If the sky’s the limit for contactless payments, which the pandemic has certainly shown, and if the technology is deployed across mobile devices ......
