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...
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...
Apple credit card launches this summer
Apple announced in a press release on March 25 it will introduce a credit card called Apple Card.Touted as a "new kind of credit card," Apple...
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...
Walgreens Boots Alliance’s heavy focus on digitalization to save up to $600M
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As Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) continues its "digitalization" efforts, the company stands to reduce annual IT cash spend by between $500 million and $600...
Report: Amazon is making its own version of AirPods for Alexa
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports that Amazon is working on its own version of Apple’s popular AirPods wireless headphones. The company is looking for new...
Walmart gamifies store associate training with Spark City
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Walmart has started using Spark City, a simulation-style training game in the form of a mobile app, to assist in training its store...
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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 ......
