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In The Age Of Big Data, Why Are We Still Flying Blind?

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Put on a Retail Happy Face. Yup, physical retail is doing just fine — despite all the talk of doom and gloom. Yet, according to Fung Global Retail & Technology, 6,985 stores closed in 2017 , up 229 percent from 2016, and well above the number of stores which closed in the year that started physical retail’s death spiral: 2008.

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Reading Predictive Tea Leaves With Smart, Big Data

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Missing the opportunity to gauge demand accurately can result in lost sales, and ramping up production or staffing while waiting for foot traffic or clicks on buy buttons that never materialize can ding operating profits. However, as Cam Brown, CEO of PredictHQ , told Karen Webster, the key is to find “smart” data buried within the Big Data.

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Casino Royale-with-Cheese, Part 10

Tomorrow's Transactions

From Apple Pay brings significant increase in mobile payments to retailers like Whole Foods and McDonald’s, increases awareness of Google Wallet and… | Killer Apps TV ]. Bond put his driving licence on the table and took a photo of it, and mailed to the AU10TIX operative opposite. A meeting at his favourite place in Boston, Post 390.

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Reopening: The Tech-Enabled Office In A Post-Covid World

CB Insights

Individuals using Alipay’s Health Code fill out a form in the app and the software uses big data to generate a QR code depending on a user’s contagion risk. Managing the flow, operation, and sanitization of elevators will be a key component in instilling confidence in returning employees.

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From AT&T To Xerox: 65 Corporate Innovation Labs

CB Insights

Retail/Consumer Goods. From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Retail/Consumer Goods. Technology.