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Amazon Launches Alexa Skills Workshops For Small Developers

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Amazon is partnering with Galvanize — a 21st-century school for entrepreneurs, engineers, and data scientists — to offer Alexa Skills development workshops that will teach small developers and startups how to build skills for Amazon Alexa, the operating system for smart speaker Echo.

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Vans Skates Into LA With Community-Driven Concept

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The brand is well-known for using its community of skateboarders for design ideas and marketing. store opening signifies a new Vans chapter as we continue our mission and commitment to being community- and experience-focused,” said Carly Gomez, VP of marketing, Americas at Vans. Our downtown L.A. “Downtown L.A.

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SMBs Refocus On The ‘Four Ps’ — Especially Payments

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Panelists included Ngina Shulman, owner at Lotus Media ; Ryan Alovis , CEO at LensDirect ; Nick Nicholas , owner and technical director at Genesis Water Technologies ; and Tina Wells , CEO and founder at RLVNT Media. Fine-Tuning Marketing And Reinventing The ‘Four Ps’ . If we have a product or service, we’re marketers.”.

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What Asia-Pacific Can Learn From EU’s Open Banking Initiatives

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Implementing any new standards during the pandemic was off the table for many markets, though some regulators were left scrambling to figure out how the rules they already passed would adapt to life in lockdown. where regulators have been workshopping potential rules for several years. Around The Data Protection World.

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For Visa, She’s Next Is What’s Next

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15) that it has launched a global initiative, She’s Next, Empowered by Visa, which seeks to support the advancement of women-owned small businesses around the world through shared research, experience and technologies. 30 kickoff in Atlanta will include access to experts from Visa and entrepreneurs operating both nationally and globally.

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Retail Pulse: 7-Eleven Tests Cashierless Tech; Staples Debuts Connect Store Concept

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7-Eleven President and CEO Joe DePinto said in an announcement , “Retail technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and customer expectations are driving the evolution. Introducing new store technology to 7-Eleven employees first has proven to be a very productive way to test and learn before launching to a wider audience.”.

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AP Automation?s Uncertain Impact On Late Payments

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What’s more, although there is likely to be a range of long-term implications on how organizations operate their AP departments well after the pandemic, the effects of widespread, sudden digitization and automation may not be exactly what many in the market expect today. Stubborn Barriers. ” Prolific Impacts. ”

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