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3.5KReports of Cheating Increases as Computer Science Goes Mainstream
Plagiarism has made its way from traditional journalism-related courses to computer science programs across the country. But instead of copying papers and...
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2.8KA Startup To Save Retail’s Supply Chain Soul
If there’s anything that retail should learn from the now-deposed king of social media outrage Martin Shkreli, it’s that consumers always have...
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2.8KWhat Does The ‘Pink Tax’ Say About Retail’s Quest For Profit?
Shakespeare famously wrote that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” but that poetic sentiment doesn’t quite translate when...
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6.5KDelivery Delays Claim Christmas Casualties
Just about every retailer entered the 2015 holiday shopping season beating their chests with increasingly ambitious shipping options for hard-to-please consumers. This...
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Beacon Adoption — Misguided Or Just Misunderstood?
Beacons are often touted as the next evolution of retail marketing for in-store merchants, but there’s been a conspicuous lack of observable...
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4.8KHotels Are Renting Millennials An Experience, Not A Room
Hotels are in the business of giving consumers what they want. However, as one generation of consumers is replaced by another, it...
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Gamers Vs. Hackers — For The Holidays
Microsoft and Sony could be in for a bummer of a Christmas if a hacking collective makes good on its promise to...
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How To Sell [PRODUCT OMITTED]
What’s in a brand name? Perhaps not much… unless it’s got the word “tobacco” in it, in which case that’s very, very...
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3.1KCan Millennial Influencers Save Hoverboards From Crashing And Burning?
To the casual observer, it would seem like hoverboards’ moment in the sun is finally starting to end. When the gadgets burst...
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3.8KDynamic Pricing Becomes The Rule, Not The Exception
There’s no denying that in terms of cutting-edge innovations, online retailers are usually quicker on the uptake than their in-store counterparts. However,...
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4.5K2015 — The Year Amazon Won Delivery
While consumers are more than happy to play around with the latest and greatest gadgets startups can dream up, if there’s one...
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3.5KGun Sales Up This Holiday Season
Firearms are far from an afterthought this holiday season. While issues of gun control continue to circulate within the White House, on...
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4.5KIs Amazon Behind This Secretive Ohio Air Cargo Op?
Luck favors the bold in life and in retail, and no company lives by this maxim more than Amazon. Granted, being an industry...
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The Toys Are Listening (And Marketing)
Toys talking to kids? Not really a new thing. Toys taking information that kids speak to them, uploading it to a database...
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3.9KPizza, Urban Outfitters And The 2015 Holiday Retail Blues
There is an elephant in the room in 2015, which is that Christmas is coming and no one is feeling all that...
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Selling Thanksgiving Spirit (In Liquid Form)
Meet Black Friday’s cousin that not as many people talk about: “Blackout Wednesday” -- the day before Thanksgiving, which is one of...
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The Retail Delivery Coin Toss
Free delivery? Buy online, pick up in-store? Different retailers are saying ‘yay’ or ‘nay’ to a number of different options for getting...
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Taxis Keep Digging Their Own Social Media Graves
When retailers run afoul of their customers’ sensitivities on social media, what’s the best way to go about things? Should brands admit...
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The Big Drop: Retail’s Rough Record In October
English theologian and historian Thomas Fuller once (roughly) said “it is always darkest before the dawn.” It is a saying we imagine...
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The Red Cups Are Coming!
Consumer outrage has come early this holiday season, all stirred up by the innocuous design of a paper beverage container provided by...
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5.6KBlackBerry’s Back, Again. But This Time It Looks Like Everyone Actually Likes It
BlackBerry was once mobile’s resident unstoppable giant. At its absolute peak, it held an estimated 70 percent of the mobile phone market,...
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Apple IDs Caught Up In Global Phishing Email Scam
A new global phishing scam is targeting roughly 800 million individuals with Apple IDs, according to a report from the Comodo Antispam Labs....
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Walmart’s Way Forward
The last two weeks have capped off what has been a less than spectacular three-month run for Walmart. The third quarter of...
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Apple Watch In Limbo, India’s eCommerce On Fire And Amazon Is Almost Everywhere
While retail executives are mostly background players, this week they’ve been oddly front and center. And two execs, in particular, made the...
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5.9KInventory: The Invisible Anchor On The US Economy
When it comes to the U.S. economy, fall 2015 by the numbers has been less than totally inspiring. Gross Domestic Product, the...
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Turning Back Black Friday
It’s no surprise that Black Friday has a less-than-stellar reputation among the general public (even those who can’t resist in participating in...
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Fast, Cheap — And Hard To Kill
For major retail chains, there’s no cinematic slasher as scary as the very real phenomenon of fast fashion. Where did it come...
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2.4KWhat We Learned About On-Demand Consumers This Week
We live in the age of the on-demand customers, a reality measurable by various metrics. You can measure it in money and...
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To Share Or Not To Share: The Retailer’s Data Dilemma
As of 2015, it is no longer really controversial to name data and its successful use as one of the key arrows...
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4.2KWhen Brand Loyalty Breaks Bad
Merchants are obsessed with building brand loyalty and have spent much of the last half decade investing millions (or, more likely, billions)...
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2.8KFor Banks, Cash Was King
Banks no longer want big deposits, and they seem willing to charge institutional clients for keeping dollars parked in their accounts.
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1.7KDraftKings And FanDuel Aren’t Welcome In Nevada
A few short weeks ago, daily fantasy sports sites seemed poised to have their biggest year yet. The two biggest companies in...
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The Soap Opera-tion Of Celebrity Lifestyle Brands
How the heck can a celebrity lifestyle brand stay afloat while selling $300 T-shirts that consumers openly mock? The answer may lie...
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3.0KeComm Stocks Slide, Bankers Go Bonkers For Blockchain And Digital Payments Dominate
Americans hit the road en masse this weekend. A little-known fact is that Columbus Day is actually the second most road traffic-producing...
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6.1KIs China’s Cross-Border Inter-Bank Payments System A Bust?
China’s cross border payments system debuted this week to little fanfare. The hours are short, for one thing. Here’s what bears watching...
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1.5KTrending Topics
In retail it is always more or less raining data. With hundreds of millions of consumers, millions of stores, hundreds of thousands...
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Chinese-linked Hackers Suspected Of Smartphone Hijacks
A new malicious adware family is quickly spreading across Android mobile devices and China-based cybercriminals are allegedly behind the widespread attack.
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2.9KHow One DraftKings Employee Sparked An ‘Insider Trading’ Scandal
It was only a matter of time before the meteoric rise of daily fantasy sites like DraftKings and FanDuel suffered a setback,...
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18.7KEMV Aside, Be Mindful Of Best Payments And Cybersecurity Practices
EMV and chip and pin are the big stories now. But a recent set of guidelines from the PCI Security Standards Council...
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The (Miscalculated) EMV-Bitcoin Debate?
Let’s set the record straight on one thing: EMV and bitcoin have nothing to do with each other. Outside of the fact that...
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The Fantasy Football Advertising Nightmare
When does the volume of a company’s advertising risk being bad for business? As daily fantasy football brands have experienced, it might...
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1.6KAnother Reason Ad Blockers Will Rain On Retailers’ Revenue Parade
Apple is used to landmark product launches, but September was a singular month for the tech giant. In the space of nine...
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2.7KThe Anti-Amazon Model
Can anybody beat Amazon? Not at its own game, it would appear. But Colin Robinson, Co-Founder of independent publisher OR Books, believes...
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5.9KWill Ad Blockers Drive Mobile Commerce Innovation?
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Can Jet.com Reach A Comfortable Commerce Cruising Altitude?
We all know the story of David and Goliath — in fact everyone knows it so well it’s the go-to metaphor for...
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Is The Bloom Off The Alt Lending Rose?
Alternative lending is such a part of the mainstream that it’s easy to forget just how fast it has gotten so big....
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3.8KRetail’s $1.7 Trillion Problem
Every adult knows that when faced the proposition to buy with designer shoes at Payless prices, or a pair of designer sunglasses...
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What Tim Cook Didn’t Say Yesterday
You don’t get to snag the top slot on the Payments Innovation Index (Pii360) – the rankings of the largest 100 companies...
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Will Equity Crowdfunding Draw the Next ‘In Crowd?’
Traditionally an option only for wealthy investors, equity crowdfunding is now open for even the smallest players – just as the traditional...
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What Apple Watchers Will Be Looking For Next Week
While the majority of people have heard the expression “always leave them wanting more,” most of them are unaware there is a...
