Lars Markull

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As I have been doing it in the last few years, I want to share my books that I have read this year as well. Usually I have shared all of them, but this time I decided to keep it to my favorite ten books. I always aim to read roughly 50 books per year, but this year fell clearly short of it and landed at around 35-40 books.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 26, 2020

In the next few weeks Doing Digital, my newest book, will be finally live on Amazon and all good book stores. It’s the result of two years primary and secondary research and, to pay it its due, has been featured in many interviews with me recently.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Amazon has opened Amazon 4-star, a new store in New York City where every product is rated 4 stars and above, is a top seller or is new and trending on Amazon’s website. The store is located in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood, on Spring Street between Crosby and Lafayette Streets. million 5-star customer reviews. to 9:00 p.m.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Amazon has opened its first pop-up store in Spain, selling everything from electronic goods to video games to clothing. Similar stores will open in Italy, Germany and Britain, an Amazon spokeswoman said. The company added that the average rating of all the products in the new store is 4.4 million 5-star customer reviews.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Amazon has announced that it is set to open an Amazon Books location in Nashville, as well as an Amazon 4-star store in Boston. Geek Wire reported that the announcement came on the same day the eCommerce giant launched its fourth 4-star store in Seattle. The first location opened in New York City last September.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Amazon has opened its first physical store in Massachusetts. Located at the Natick Mall in Natick, Massachusetts, the 4-star store is the fifth physical location nationwide for the eCommerce giant. Every product in the stores are rated 4 stars and above, is a top seller or is new and trending on Amazon’s online platform.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Macy’s started the year by laying off employees and closing stores. For retailers, it can be as simple as an in-store event or a high-profile design that consumers will travel to visit. Pop-up stores ? It ran a fashion show at 25 stores in March 2019. As 2020 unfolds, the retail business has been dramatically altered.

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 12, 2020

The main blog headlines are … How JPMorgan Chase, BBVA, ING, DBS and CMB are doing digital Today is the day that Doing Digital, my newest book, is finally live on Amazon and all good book stores.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Amazon has announced that it is opening a pop-up store at its headquarters in Seattle, according to a report by GeekWire. The store is an expansion of one of Amazon’s new concepts that hasn’t been talked about much in comparison to the company’s other retail initiatives, like Amazon Go. Other stores have a Food Network theme.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

Clothing stores, in particular, are trying out new ways to showcase and sell items. In some cases, retailers are dedicating small spaces to brands inside their brick-and-mortar stores. Macy’s , for example, is testing out pop-up stores in 10 cities in a concept called “The Market @ Macy’s.”

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Amazon.com is gearing up to open an Amazon 4-star store in Colorado later Thursday (November 1). According to a report in CNET citing Amazon, the second 4-star store will be located in Park Meadows mall in Lone Tree, Colorado, just outside of Denver. The first 4-star store opened its doors in New York City in September. “We

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Consumers are converging on stores and eateries in England before new lockdowns are enacted on Thursday (Nov. 2 and includes the closure of pubs, restaurants, hairdressers, golf courses, gyms, swimming pools, entertainment venues and non-essential retail stores that sell books, clothing and sneakers.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

grocery stores with locations in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. The company has 16 Amazon Go stores where shoppers can pick up grocery purchases and ready-to-eat food checkout-free. In addition, the company has four Amazon 4-star stores that have products rated 4 stars and higher on the Amazon site and 18 Amazon Books stores.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Although most consumers did their Black Friday shopping online this year, new research shows young shoppers were most likely to head into physical stores, suggesting their fear of COVID-19 was dwarfed by their desire to get out of the house and shop. Other traditional retailers making the in-store list included Kohl’s (23.2

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JUNE 22, 2020

Apple gave the green light to bug repairs to the Hey iOS app after its developer, Basecamp , complained about the unfairness of the rules governing the App Store but pledged to make changes to a new version of its app at the suggestion of an Apple executive. On Monday (June 22), Basecamp send in a new version to the App Store for review.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

New research from Security Research Labs (SR Labs) has revealed fundamental security and authentication weaknesses across major flight booking systems, leaving them vulnerable to hacking. Instead, the booking code (aka PNR locator, a six-digit alphanumeric string such as 8EI29V) is used to access and change travelers’ information.”.

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APRIL 17, 2018

That option is not always available with the traditional suspects for business travel booking, like travel agents or online travel agencies (OTAs). As a result, Avi Meir sought to build a better business travel booking experience when he helped found Travelperk. “We That process is often slow and time-consuming.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

But the traditional physical store model, which is how most everyone today defines physical retail and measures its sales, pretty much is—and has been for the last several years—on life support. Instead of nearly 90 percent, nearly 80 percent of all retail purchases are made in the physical store. The Demise of Physical Retail.

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MARCH 26, 2020

Target released an updated financial report Wednesday (March 25) that shows dramatically increased revenue booked since the COVID-19 crisis shut down non-essential stores. Beginning with the fourth week of February and into the first part of March, Target saw an increase in traffic and in-store comps. Talk about mixed emotions.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 28, 2017

This is especially true if a mall loses an anchor store, like Sears. On trend, Macy’s is closing 68 locations in the first half of 2017; JCPenney is closing 138 stores; RadioShack 552 stores; Wet Seal 171 locations; and Crocs is closing 160 locations. What is really happening here is the dominant shift to digital.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

With Stripe Terminal, we’re introducing just that: a way for internet-first retailers and SaaS companies to leapfrog legacy retailers in building highly customized payments experiences for in-store purchases that match what they’ve built online.”.

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APRIL 16, 2018

How do business travelers book business trips that meet their needs, while staying within corporate travel policies? Plus, these booking methods can be frustrating for travelers as well as administrators. As a result, Meir sought to build a better business travel booking experience.

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JULY 6, 2020

Travala.com , the Binance-backed online trading agency, will be allowing travel bookings through Expedia paid for in cryptocurrency for the first time since 2018, according to CoinDesk. The license allows Currency.com to use DLT to store and transmit others’ value for the provision of dealer and custody services, the release states.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Amazon wants to bring its cashierless Go technology to other places, like airport stores and movie theaters, in a bid to expand its reach and potentially win more cloud customers, according to CNBC. The eCommerce giant has been talking to OTG’s CIBO Express stores at airports and Cineworld’s Regal Theatres.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Despite many of these trends taking place, brick-and-mortar retail outperformed expectations by embracing innovation, exemplifying inherent value for non-traditional retailers and improving the customer experience — which, in our view, helped crown 2018 “The Year of the Store.”. This renewed relevance is why 2018 is The Year of the Store.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Store owners, such as Emile Sebbag, who owns two clothing stores in the area, are agonizing and deliberating on how to make ends meet as the strike goes on. Sebbag told Reuters that one of his stores, where he sells hoodies, jeans and handbags by companies like Guess and Replay, is particularly reliant on people commuting to get there.

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Cisco

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It is an update to the 2004 Operations book, and links the different processes of Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations (AIO) into a cohesive framework for auditors to assess. However, there are concerns mostly around handing and managing the vast amount of data stored today, and access to it.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Amazon is gearing up to celebrate the holidays in a bigger way in Europe, announcing it is opening up pop-up stores in major European cities. In a press release, the eCommerce giant said its first pop-up store in Italy will be located in over 500 square meters in Milan, in heart of the city.

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AUGUST 29, 2016

Amazon is dominating in the eCommerce world, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t see value in physical store fronts, with the eCommerce retailer gearing up to open up an offline store in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. They can buy in the store or place an order to be delivered.

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MARCH 17, 2016

The biggest question around Amazon’s Seattle brick-and-mortar bookstore — as well as the upcoming second location in San Diego — remains a philosophical one: Why would an online retailer that already sells books need to put up with the hassle of running a physical store? Jellybooks’ data gets a lot more granular than that.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Epic Systems, a large digital medical records vendor, froze enrollment in its app store because of privacy concerns from third-party developers, according to a report by CNBC. Jon Pearce, CEO of digital health company Zipnosis , said Epic’s app store was important to the industry as a whole.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Japanese tech startup and messaging app maker Line announced on Tuesday (August 1) that it is rolling out a taxi-booking service in Thailand’s capital of Bangkok. The country, noted TechCrunch, is one of the Southeast Asian company’s biggest markets, making Thailand the perfect place to launch a taxi-booking app.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

Magazines have been testing the waters of brick-and-mortar retail by opening temporary stores in major cities, and New York Magazine is no exception. In all, the store will feature approximately 250 different items and will be open for a seven-week period between November and December. In other news, Sears Holdings Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

myPOS announced that it will open a store in Milan, Italy this week, its fourth brick-and-mortar location in Europe. So far this year, myPOS has opened stores in London, Amsterdam and Sofia—and there are plans to establish locations in Zurich and Barcelona before the end of 2018.

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MARCH 9, 2018

According to Business Insider , Index’s software will be integrated with Stripe’s offerings, allowing customers’ physical and digital payments data to be stored in one place. The integration will allow Stripe to focus on signing on larger companies that also have deep pockets. Terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Google is slated to open a physical YouTube store, dubbed the Creator Store, attached to its 11-story King’s Cross headquarters in London later this year, according to TechCrunch. The new “gift shop” will allow them to sell their merchandise, such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, videos, mugs, books, etc.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The Hackett Associates and National Retail Federation Global Port Tracker report registered the highest volume in August on the books going back to 2002. The volumes have brought a tide of containers into American ports.

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