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Google’s New AR Feature Lets Users Try Cosmetics Before Buying

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The pandemic-fueled acceleration of online shopping has prompted Google to roll out an augmented reality (AR) tool to help people see how makeup will look before committing to a purchase. shoppers are planning to buy online,” Archana Kannan, group product manager of shopping for Google, said in a blog post on Thursday (Dec.

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Top News In Payments: Central Bank Coin Currency At Least A Decade Away; US Economy Could Lose $10B To Chinese Travel Ban

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In this month’s B2B API Tracker, BNP Paribas VP of Innovation and Product Management for Trade and Treasury Solutions Charlotte Hausemer explains how APIs (application programming interfaces) are reshaping corporate spending with precise liquidity management and real-time payments tracking.

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A New Virtual Reality For Real Retail Shoppers?

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No longer a figment of innovative imaginations and fictional futuristic stories, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technology is increasingly having an impact on, well, reality. . Similarly, in an effort to help customers better preview their purchases, online beauty platform Perfect Corp.

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Checkout Features, Visa Interchange Rates, Gaana’s Music Service Top This Week’s News

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Lightspeed , the Canadian global point-of-sale (POS) and eCommerce company, is teaming up with Silicon Valley payments platform Stripe to advance in-store and online payments for retailers and restaurants in the U.S. The Digital Evolution Of The Online Gaming Ecosystem. and Canada.

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Five Lessons In Retail Reinvention From 2019

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In 2019 Barneys New York went bust, as did Forever21, Gymboree, Charlotte Russe, Payless and Diesel Jeans, among others. They join a long list of once massive brands that have fallen to the reformation around digital and omnichannel shopping habits — Sears, Toys R Us, Borders, Sports Authority, Radio Shack. .

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The New Playbook: 6 E-commerce Cos Reinventing Brick-and-Mortar Retail

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Since 2012, retail space occupied by brands that started online has grown by 1,000% in the top 300 malls in America. But other companies are starting from scratch, building a new business model that relies on maintaining a superior customer experience online and transferring it to physical retail. And it isn’t alone.

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The Beauty Tech Revolution: The Startups, Investors, Products And Tech Reshaping Personal Care

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The beauty and grooming segment is expanding rapidly as startups experiment with new product formulations, new distribution methods, and new strategies for online and offline consumer engagement. This post will dive into innovation across beauty and grooming, focusing on the following areas: Startup investment trends.

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