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The Millennial-Driven Evolution Of Jet.com

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To get more millennials on board, the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer is rolling out offerings designed to attract younger, well-to-do consumes in urban areas. Jet.com is broadening its selection and rolling out same-day delivery in the Big Apple for kinds of items that millennials purportedly crave, like craft beer and local foods.

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Walmart Shortens Its Legal Name To Reflect New Direction

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The first Walmart location opened in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. Apple Computer Inc. shortened to Apple Inc. to solidify itself as the most trusted drugstore brand — particularly amid Amazon’s growing presence in the space and rival CVS’ reported goals of acquiring Aetna. joined the umbrella under Alphabet Inc.

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Walmart Thinking Small When It Comes To Tech

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The Walmart Lab 415-C “Technology Innovation Open Call” event is part of the larger 2016 Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit. iPhone users everywhere rejoiced when Apple added the passcode fingerprint scan,” says Paley. “I can’t wait to see what ideas and inventions we’ll discover!

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The Walmart/Amazon Whole Paycheck Matchup

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3 post position, displacing Apple, at roughly 4 percent of retail sales. All of those things are precisely what Sam Walton staked the Walmart brand on 56 years ago when he opened the first store in Bentonville, Arkansas. Today, based on brand-new PYMNTS proprietary analysis, Walmart accounts for roughly 8.9

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The AI Industry Series: Top Healthcare AI Trends To Watch

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But big tech companies like Apple have an edge here, especially in onboarding a large network of partners, including healthcare providers and EHR vendors. Generating new sources of data and putting EHR data in the hands of patients — as Apple is doing with ResearchKit and CareKit — promises to be revolutionary for clinical studies.