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The History Behind Google’s Page Experience Signal and Where It May Be Going Next

Perficient

The user experience on landing pages was less of a concern. According to Google engineer Paul Haahr, this was caused by Google’s self-evaluation query-relevance scores getting better, even as users increasingly complained about the quality of the search results.

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Nordstrom Brings On Former Amazon Exec

PYMNTS

“Kumar’s extensive experience in strategy, product development and delivering technology solutions that support a great user experience, as well as his passion for the customer, will be invaluable.”

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Watson Marketing Delivers a Competitive Edge that Financial Institutions can Bank On

Insights on Business

These contemporary banks are being built on cognitive computing, which became known in 2011 when IBM’s Watson computer defeated the top human contestants on the televised quiz show, Jeopardy. A number of industry leading banks are transforming to address the challenges. These banks are deploying advanced technology and becoming cognitive.

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Data Enablers: Unbxd, Enhanced eCommerce Search

PYMNTS

The Mountain View-based company was founded by entrepreneurs Sondur and Prashant Kumar in 2011. They found that no one was addressing what happens when users are on a merchant’s site. “We When we set out to create Unbxd, our objective was to improve the user experience on eCommerce websites,” said Sondur.

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OfferUp And Building A Better Goods Swap

PYMNTS

There was, of course, the internet’s go-to solution for unwanted things — Craigslist — but Huzar was looking for a cleaner user experience and a process that was a bit more organized. He thought he could probably build that experience, then spent about five years trying to convince himself not to.

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Joint ATM networks – a glimpse of the future?

NCR

The aim of the project is to guarantee ongoing ATM availability by transferring the ownership and operation of all of the participating banks’ cash machines to GSN, which was established in 2011 as a joint venture between ABN Amro, ING and Rabobank. The banks stressed that, for now, nothing will change for consumers.

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Whatever Happened To…Kabbage

PYMNTS

The business made its first loans in May 2011, and now there are now about 335 employees in four locations including the U.K., Our focus has always been on user experience and for them to get capital in less than ten minutes. which was added in 2013. “We