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(Patent) Walmart is Patenting Technology That Could Have Terrifying Implications for Workers
[Tech]
2016/09/18 11:10
Walmart just patented a system based on mini-robots that can control shopping carts, as well as complete a long list of duties once reserved for human employees. Last week, Walmart was granted a patent for a new system that allows shopping carts to drive themselves, untouched by customers and employees. However, the system goes far beyond self-driving carts, with details on automated devices th...
Marketers Need to Say Goodbye to Campaigns, Hello to AI-Driven Conversations
[Business]
2016/09/18 11:10
New report on emerging tech in next five years also points to personal data lockers, commonplace augmented reality, and much smarter location analytics. Marketers will need to transform from campaigns to real-time, continuous interaction with customers via intelligent agents.So says Forrester Research VP and principal analyst Brian Hopkins, co-author (with Adam Silverman) of a new Forrester Res...
How Amazon is Blowing Away Competitors — and Its Lead is Growing
[Business]
2016/09/18 11:09
Amazon is absolutely killing it in online retail and its lead continues to grow, according to a new note published by RBC Capital.The note shared a number of charts to illustrate this point, based on the results of a recent survey it ran against 2,024 people, of whom 1,682 had shopped on Amazon over the past 12 months.The first chart shows that Amazon is the clear mindshare winner when it comes...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The 4 Pillars of Distinctive Customer Journeys
[Consumer]
2016/09/18 11:06
New research reveals that focus, simplicity, “digital first,” and perceptions matter most.In recent years, customer experience (CX) has emerged as a major differentiator for large companies, including financial-services providers. In a McKinsey survey of senior executives, 90 percent of respondents confirmed that CX is one of the CEO’s top three priorities.It’s a priority because the stakes...
AI Disrupting The World’s Largest Industries
[Tech]
2016/09/18 11:06
Intel’s acquisition earlier this month of Nervana Systems is another example of how startups are preparing to disrupt the worlds largest industries using Artificial Intelligence.Artificial Intelligence is undergoing a massive acceleration driven by rapid growth in available data and rapid evolution of algorithms.DCVC, a venture capital fund that invests in entrepreneurs applying cognitive comp...
Finally, A Device That Makes Fire Good for Phones - Jikopower
[Tech]
2016/09/18 11:05
According to University of Washington-based startup JikoPower, approximately 80 percent of Kenyans have a cell phone, but only 20 percent of them have electricity. In some cases, this means that people in rural locations have to spend hours walking long distances in order to use paid charging stations. JikoPower, however, aims to bring the power to the people's cooking fires, with its Spark the...
The Airpod Securers
[Design]
2016/09/18 11:04
The Airpods became a meme on the internet for being by far the most functionally inferior products to leave the Apple headquarters. Headphones without wires? It didn’t take the smartest of us to think, what if they fell off? Even one of the Airpods going missing would render the $150 product useless. Spigen came to the rescue with their $10 Airpod tethers and the internet laughed a little more...
(Infographic) How To Successfully Capture Rare Pokémon On ‘Pokémon Go’
[Consumer]
2016/09/18 11:03
This infographic by Casino Shortlist shows which Pokémon are the hardest to catch and includes tips that can help you secure such rare finds. Advice includes throwing the Pokéball from the top of the screen rather than from the bottom, trailing the Pokémon’s shadow with the ‘AR mode’ on and taking note of other factors affecting your Pokémon catch rate. Discover the illustrations that im...
Funding To Restaurant Tech Startups Headed Toward Record Annual High
[Investing]
2016/09/12 11:23
Despite a dollar drop in Q2'16, deal count remains high to software & hardware restaurant management startups[click to enlarge]The restaurant tech category is heating up, with at least 26 deals to startups in six of the past seven quarters and funding on track for record annual highs. Investors have poured $403M into the category across 69 deals so far this year. If that pace continues, dea...
