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This Week In Payments: Feeding The Hunger For Innovation, Sometimes Literally

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The payments and commerce ecosystem got busy getting busy this week as the first full week of 2020 kicked off the press releases began raining down from the sky from the year’s early bird innovators. The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas certainly helped given a boost to the rate of announcements.

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Bots And Outside-The-Bots, CES 2019: Payments And Commerce Highlights

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There was a lot about CES in Las Vegas last week that was predictable. Google and Amazon competed for voice-activated mindshare. It has speakers, can understand voice commands and is compatible with both Alexa and Google. And if consumers are not in the market for their own smart toilet, they can get one for their dog.

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

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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. Big News of the Week: The Next Round of Voice Innovation .

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Adobe Is The Newest Claimant To Beacon’s In-Store Crown

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And it’s that exact legacy that may have some retailers rejoicing and Adobe’s competitors fretting that it’s now entering the battle for in-store marketing supremacy. Twyst’s smart bags also innovate — perhaps reinvent is the better word — the checkout process.

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Enabling Digital Commerce At Sporting Venues With Mobile Ticketing

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From ticketing platforms such as Gametime to payments companies such as Visa , innovators are harnessing the power of mobile. Those using mobile experiences tap to pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay. legal sports betting market following a 2018 Supreme Court Decision to legalize such activities is $150 billion.

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Alexa’s Expanding And Advancing Ecosystem

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With more Alexas on the market, there will be new skills on offer — and possibly more customized and personalized versions of some of the skills that are already available. During Amazon’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas yesterday (Nov. But Amazon has Alexa — and right now, it is owning the voice market for smart speakers.

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Alexa’s Big 2017 Entrance

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But as of the kickoff of 2017, Google has its own smart speaker, Google Home, with a widely praised smart assistant built in, Apple has HomeKit and Siri and Microsoft has Cortana and millions of compatible Windows 10 PCs already in the market. A little over a year after its initial release in Nov. An Ongoing Race.

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