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Personal Branding Trends That Actually Work on Social Media
If you think social media is the vehicle you need to get to terms with your goals, whether it’s securing a job, establishing a...
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Study: 93% of companies with a personalization strategy boost revenue
Ninety-three percent of businesses with advanced personalization strategies increased their revenue last year, according to a new study from personalization software company Monetate and WBR Research.The...
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Amazon tests video ads in its shopping app, Bloomberg reports
Amazon is testing video ads in the Apple iOS version of its shopping app, with plans to expand to Google's Android mobile operating system...
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L’Oréal offers first line of virtual makeup for social media, video calls
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L'Oréal Paris introduced its first line of virtual makeup for social media. The cosmetics giant's "Signature Faces" augmented reality (AR) filters are available on...
The Xbox has been transformed into a highly designed object
The last quarter of 2020 saw the global launch of two major next gen products, Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X, together...
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...
Tommy Hilfiger to transition design process to digital
Tommy Hilfiger on Thursday announced it has established STITCH, a tech incubator dedicated to digitizing the company's design process. The company plans to completely transition...
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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...
Urban Outfitters announces disappointing holiday sales, group CEO departure
Urban Outfitters, Inc. reported total company net sales for the two months ended December 31, 2020, decreased 8.4 percent over the same period last...
Amazon’s marketplace business is growing once again
Third-party seller services and overall marketplace growth helped fuel Amazon’s third-quarter earnings.
This past quarter, Amazon’s online stores business grew 7% year-over-year to $57.2 billion....
5 retailers winning despite the pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic disrupted virtually every segment of the retail industry and created an incomparable sense of uncertainty.
Between dealing with both supply and demand...
Senreve appoints chief operating officer and new board members
Luxury handbag brand Senreve has named Jenny Oh as its new chief operating officer, effective November 11, alongside the appointment of two new board...
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Black Friday’s too late this year. Is Prime Day just in...
After months of speculation around just when Amazon would go through with its annual Prime Day sale, usually held in July, it has finally landed in mid-October. That...
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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 ......
