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Hearst Team Creating Amazon Skills For Alexa

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Media company Hearst has put together a team of 10 people that is tasked with staying on top of cutting-edge technology, including voice-activated devices from the likes of Amazon and Google, and creating products and services around them. Last week, the new group rolled out an Amazon Echo skill for its Good Housekeeping brand.

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QSRs Get Smarter With The Help Of AI

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Customer-facing tech advancements — especially those powered by AI — have the potential to boost sales and delight customers,” reads a recent analysis from QSR Magazine. AI could lead to more QSR customers ordering their own products via kiosks at tablets at tables, QSR Magazine says.

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Ikea And What Comes Next For Printed Catalogs

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7) as the Ikea brand continues to shift itself to digital, according to published reports. Print runs of books, newspapers and magazines have been more or less continuously on the decline as consumer preference for digitized content grows in the mobile era. Do catalogs work for every brand? But are catalogs going to disappear?

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The Big News Out Of I/O

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So, what did we learn this week at Google I/O? Google announced that its research division will heretofore be known as Google AI, which will highlight how Google’s research and development efforts are increasingly centered on computer vision, natural language processing and neural networks. The goal of all that updating?

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Retail Pulse: Good Housekeeping Plans Pop-Up; Amazon Coming To New York

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Digitally native brands, Casper among them, have turned to pop-up shops to introduce their products to consumers through an offline experience. That seal may provide a bit of reassurance to customers perusing the shop, as the magazine will offer customers a refund or replacement if a product fails within two years of purchase.

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DoorDash Taps Subscriptions To Keep Free Delivery Profitable

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In the latest edition of the Subscription Commerce Tracker , PYMNTS looks at how new industries, such as transportation and food delivery platforms, are employing subscriptions, as well as how businesses are attempting to use the model to entice customers away from a rising pool of competing brands. Around the Subscription Commerce World.

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Move It Or Lose It: Apple, Amazon And Other Big Tech Rivals Square Up In Connected Fitness Smackdown

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“It’s comfortable, easy, and the technology behind it surpasses any workout machine on the market,” Elle magazine said. Google – Fitbit Combination Finally Gets a Look. Thirteen months after Google’s $2.1

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