2017: Retail To Get More Chatty
I do love a new year: fresh start – sorely needed after the horrors of 2016 – and the chance to make a ton of predictions...
Amazon Warehouses Have 45,000 Robots To Keep Things Moving
Online shopping giant Amazon has done some amazing things with the help of technology and without compromising its human workforce-at least in its warehouses....
How retailers are using AI to offer personalized shopping this Christmas
By Rikke Duus , UCL and Mike Cooray , Hult International Business School
British consumers are expected to spend £280 ($479) each on gifts over...
GM teams with IBM to create automotive marketing experiences via AI
Automotive giant General Motors has partnered with IBM to add the latter's artificial intelligence smarts to its cars. IBM's Watson will be used to augment...
Amazon’s grocery store has no checkout line
Amazon unveiled a new physical store on Monday that sells grocery essentials and ready-made meals. But the key selling point is what's missing: checkout...
Analytics, IoT Crucial To m-Commerce Growth
Since the advent of popular mobile payment services, such as Apple Pay and Android Pay, the mobile e-commerce market has become worth billions of dollars annually and...
Mastercard deploys conversational commerce bots
The rise of ‘chatcommerce’ continues. Not only has Amazon launched its Echo services that, among other things, lets shoppers tell Amazon what they want...
How AI is changing online retail forever
Artificial intelligence is all around us, from searching on Google to what news you see on social media to using Siri. And with the...
Can Retail AI Gain Situational Awareness?
“Hello, Dave. You look really nice in those jeans. Maybe you’d like to buy this shirt too?”
The retail market is being taken over by...
AI hasn’t scratched the surface of ecommerce yet
When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) has made its way into many aspects of our lives, even into toys for kids like Anki’s Cozmo which...
