Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

“Cognitive computing,” artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics are evolving companies’ understanding of their customers in game-changing ways. To augment and overcome physical distance, we are starting to use drones, virtual reality, and driverless cars.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Walmart’s Store No 8 innovation arm has acquired an Israeli machine learning startup , the retail giant announced Wednesday. Aspectiva joined the two-year-old Store No 8 Monday, and its employees will remain in Tel Aviv.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Retailers are not only wasting so much money targeting us with bad data, consumers get frustrated,” says Katy Aucoin, founder and CEO of Dearduck, a Houston e-commerce data startup. Though based on our Web searches, those ads don’t necessarily represent what we would like to buy. Retailers end up distancing themselves from customers when.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Now, some founders are seeking to use tech tools such as chatbots, artificial intelligence, analytics, and mobile to help clients remedy those deficiencies. As the last year has shown, the tech industry has a significant problem with sexual harassment and ensuring that women are treated equitably in the workplace.

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2018

Called Eden, the initiative is in its early stages, but the idea is to use artificial intelligence and cameras to create a “freshness algorithm” used by employees at Walmart’s distribution centers.

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Xconomy

JUNE 4, 2018

Bossa Nova, along with San Francisco-based Simbe Robotics, is among a group of tech companies that are using robotics and artificial intelligence. “If it isn’t on the shelf, the shopper can’t buy it,” Skaff adds. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 19, 2017

From products designed by artificial intelligence to virtual reality systems that help shoppers picture merchandise in their homes, retailers are deploying technology like never before this holiday season, betting that they can win business back from the default of online shopping.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Austin —It stands to reason that if any industry could resist the tidal wave of e-commerce, it would be the fragrance business. After all, how can you smell a perfume or cologne online to decide if you like the scent?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 14, 2018

Ford’s recently acquired unit Autonomic , which co-created the automaker’s Transportation Mobility Cloud (TMC), inked a deal Tuesday to partner with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing division of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

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Xconomy

APRIL 2, 2018

says Drew Giovannoli, product marketing manager at Bazaarvoice, an Austin, TX-based maker of e-commerce software. “Internet shopping is now across mobile and Web, and now, the [question] is, ‘How do we create great experiences for everyone?’” But dialing shoppers one at a time is.

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

The Seattle e-commerce giant is “a hefty competitor, but that doesn’t mean brands and retailers don’t have the ability to fight back,” says Kay Koplovitz, co-founder and managing partner of Springboard Growth Capital in New York. Commerce Department. There is still plenty of heft in traditional retailers,” she says.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 17, 2018

At the National Retail Federation’s three-day conference, which ended Tuesday, the discussion centered on both the disruptive effects and potential promise of e-commerce technologies. Kate Ancketill, the CEO of GDR Creative Intelligence, a retail trends consultancy, said retailers must adapt by becoming more than traditional stores.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

It’s been a long time since tech’s biggest companies could be sorted into discrete buckets according to the products they pioneered—-Google, the search software giant; Apple, the computer and mobile device innovator; e-commerce leader Amazon; business software stalwart Microsoft; and social media engine Facebook.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 13, 2019

Austin —The grocery store shelf has yet to be plugged into the increasingly digital food supply chain. Instead, inventory is typically tallied by employees by hand in a slow and laborious process.

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Xconomy

MARCH 9, 2018

If a shopper interacts with technology in a typical grocery store, it’s usually at the very end—as they are paying for their items. That could be about to change, though.

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2018

These days, it’s not just Snow White’s stepmother who has a mirror that talks back. Thanks to augmented reality, Internet of Things, and data analytics technologies, more of us might be confronted with so-called “smart mirrors” the next time we try on clothes or accessories in a store.

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

View the Slideshow With the first quarter in the books, it’s time to step back and lay out Xconomy’s editorial map for the rest of the year.

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Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2018

There are few things more universal in wardrobes the world over than blue jeans. But they are also the number one item that is returned by online shoppers, says Rian Buckley, founder and CEO of Fitcode. Fit is the number one purchase driver and reason to return,” she says.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2018

When Cathy Polinsky became chief technology officer of Stitch Fix in late 2016, she knew one of the San Francisco-based company’s key challenges was continually refining its core software algorithm to make sure customers received the right tailored suggestions in their monthly wardrobe boxes. So, she made it into a game.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Poshmark , a social media e-retail company, has raised $87.5 million in a Series D investment round led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek. That brings the total funding raised by the Redwood City, CA-based company to $160 million.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 18, 2018

For the second year in a row, NAIAS highlighted the mobility sector’s potential business models and offered glimpses of how the trillion-dollar market for self-driving cars might take shape.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

In a tech culture that looks toward self-driving cars as the pinnacle of mobility innovation, we’re still debating whether fully autonomous vehicles are an imminent reality for our roads or an ever-receding Shangri-La.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. “By the time Norman became an operating machine we had four generations of devices preceding it. “TAE

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

A generation ago, for example, Microsoft was coming to life in New Mexico and the Puget Sound region was largely dependent on Boeing. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making astonishing progress. Many of the most successful AI systems are based on what’s called “deep learning.”

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2018

Selling a new Web-connected thermostat or other wired gizmo to consumers without a plan to deliver the necessary security patches is not only bad business—it’s unethical. So is failing to challenge a law or tech company rule that governs work on technology products, if that rule causes unjustifiable harms to people or the environment.

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