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Walmart To Expand Delivery Unlimited Program

PYMNTS

Walmart started experimenting with Delivery Unlimited in Salt Lake City, Miami, Houston and Tampa earlier in the year. In a blog post at the time, Ward said the merchant is building platforms with partners including Google to help customers shop via voice. Combine that with the value we can provide, our customers can’t lose.”.

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Walmart Teams With GM's Cruise For Driverless Deliveries

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Previously, the world’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer announced autonomous vehicle ventures with Nuro in Houston , Ford in Miami , Gatik in Arkansas and with Waymo , owned by Google corporate parent Alphabet , in Phoenix. This isn't the first time Walmart has teamed up with a driverless automobile company.

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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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This Week’s Reads: Multi-Channel, Apple Pay, Self-Service Branch

Banking 2020

The mobile movement driving multi-channel banking – Banking Technology. Wearables in Banking: Google Glass – Celent Banking Blog. Banks work to stay relevant as technology evolves – Houston Chronicle. Spotlight Apple Pay bank branch banking Google Glass multi-channel self-service wearables'

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Walmart-Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: A Slow Start To A New Year

PYMNTS

A slow week and a stopped week are two different things, and while forward motion was somewhat limited, there were some reasonably good hints about the shape of things to come when it comes to strategy, voice technology, product expansions and technological innovations. Many patent applications never materialize into actual technology.

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Millennial’s Matter to Bank Marketing

Long Lasting Ideas

In the age of Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and online banking, the old assumptions are shattered. With a combination of creativity, using this generation’s technology and some of the old-fashioned, yet time-tested customer service and marketing techniques their parents knew well. Give young people a voice. Read more: [link].

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33 Ways Drones Will Impact Society: From Fighting War to Forecasting Weather, UAVs Change Everything

CB Insights

Drone technology has been used by defense organizations and tech-savvy consumers for quite some time. However, the benefits of this technology extends well beyond just these sectors. And as autonomy and collision-avoidance technologies improve, so too will drones’ ability to perform increasingly complex tasks.