Investing In Route Planning Software Enhances Efficiency For Transportation Industry

A large European FMCG firm implemented LogiNext Mile’s delivery management software in early 2020. By the end of the year, they managed to get 43% more...

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...

Gartner: 5G will drive 100M people to shop in AR by next year

Brief: 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...

Walgreens Boots Alliance’s heavy focus on digitalization to save up to $600M

Dive Brief: As Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) continues its "digitalization" efforts, the company stands to reduce annual IT cash spend by between $500 million and $600...

Is Instacart Showing How AI Will Transform the Grocery Experience?

Instacart announced a series of AI-driven upgrades to its websites, apps, and smart carts that promise to help grocery shoppers with education, discovery, and checkout. On...

FAA: New drone rules address safety, provide more operational flexibility

First published on Dive Brief: The FAA has released final rules for drones regarding remote identification and flying over people, paving the way for more delivery...

Amazon study highlights digital divide for rural businesses

Improving access to digital technology for rural businesses could contribute more than $140 billion to the U.S. economy over the next three years, and...

The 50 Best Digital Marketing Tools

Digital marketing has never been more important to businesses than right now. With a whopping 31.1% growth on online shopping and a surge in Aussies starting new businesses,...

Porsche collaborates with Huawei on new smartwatch

Geopolitics and technology make very poor bedfellows, if you believe everything you read. However, more and more of us are happy to sally forth...

Can YouTube Shopping Emulate China’s Live Shopping?

Fashion site Glossy shares how YouTube is pushing forward with video shopping in the wake of Instagram reducing its shopping features and TikTok increasing theirs with a...

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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

Dive Brief: 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 ......