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NEW REPORT: Retailers Face An Augmented Reality Check

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However, AR is now rewriting the rules of the retail game. A growing number of retailers are leveraging the technology to entice customers with a “try before you buy” shopping experience, having already been adopted by several big names in retail, including the likes of Walmart and Target.

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App Could Keep Fridges Full, CPG Brands Informed

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The app has the potential to fit into the emerging trend of smart kitchens, particularly as manufacturers of household appliances — such as Samsung — seek to integrate smart technology into their products. On its website, the company lists open positions for a software development engineer, an NLP engineer and a social media content editor.

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NEW REPORT: How AI And AR Give Makeup A Makeover

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Meanwhile, retailers are scrambling to develop and translate the personalized experience consumers desire into digital features for these devices, using data as well as artificial intelligence and augmented reality. Buyers are increasingly moving away from shopping on their desktops and are instead using their smartphones.

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In Praise Of The Selfie And The Commerce It Drives

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Neither the image produced by Cornelius nor the space selfie by Aldrin had any immediate commerce applications — to put it mildly — but there is no doubt those photographs, the achievement they represented and the future they foreshadowed influenced men and women who would go on to make advancements in retail and technology.

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Samsung Pay: Getting Past Contextual Commerce Friction

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With the rapid proliferation of shoppable social media channels – as well as the explosion of wearables, smart speakers and other connected devices, along with advances in voice-activated AI – for a growing cohort of consumers, contextual is just how they do commerce. The Three Pillars.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Bitcoin Busts, Payments Get Faster And The Eyes Have It

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Mastercard started with week with an announcement of how its Mastercard Send product would extend the reach and the speed of Early Warning’s clearXchange P2P network for bank customers with a Mastercard branded debit product. The networks are happy because they are the proud recipients of tons of brand new transaction volume.

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Wells Fizzles, Lyft Sizzles And Samsung Snatches A Sizzle From A Fizzle

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Try being Samsung this past week, which had both a sizzle and a fizzle. Gymboree may be proved to be another retail fail, as the company is rumored to be prepping for bankruptcy amid a debt repayment scenario. Sizzle of the Week (With A Side Of Fizzle): Samsung. Not the type of news that warrants a stiff upper lip.

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