When most people bring up the Internet of Things, they are usually referring to new ways smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices can communicate with a wider network. However, if retailers want to create a web of communicable nodes that extends beyond the devices their customers...
While there will doubtlessly be many contenders for retail buzzwords of the year, “experiential retail” will likely be in the running. Analysts, industry executives, journalists and other assorted experts agree: Physical retail’s secret weapon and great edge is its ability to elevate the shopping session....
For most retail tech innovations, the nuts and bolts of gadget functionality are usually the determining factors in whether it’ll be adopted by the industry. However, when it comes to consumer-facing tech-enabled products like wearable devices, how well the technology works is only one part...
In some sense, it’s no surprise when Apple posts a successful quarterly earnings report. They didn’t get to be the world’s most valuable company by making a habit of choking during earnings season. However, when it comes to Apple “success,” it is measured somewhat differently...
There are many reasons to fall behind the news. Sometimes the news is so terribly uninteresting to watch that it just seems better to stick with Netflix. Sometimes the news is hard to take seriously because it really seems as though it might be some...
Men between 20 and 30. Rising professionals. Refined sense of fashion. That’s this generation’s “tweener” and emerging retail opportunity. Max Schmidt, co-founder of 1701 Bespoke, is that person, and says that his retail model is very much a “tweener” too: in between the personalization of...
CyberSource, a Visa owned company, announced today (Oct. 20) the launch of Decision Manager Replay — a real-time fraud analytics tool that enables merchants to both analyze and adjust fraud management strategies. “Merchants create rules and parameters in their fraud management systems that determine whether a...
There is no shortage of ways to buy and sell tickets to live events on the Web through the magic of the Internet. With few exceptions, there are very few events that one cannot capture a ticket to with a working Internet connection and a...
If Apple learns nothing else from 2015, it will be that, by and large, bankers just can't keep a secret. After many months of speculation, it looks like Apple Pay may soon launch in Canada.
