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Walgreens Follows Amazon And Walmart Into The Retailer-as-Ad-Agency Trend

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The hot new thing in “Big Retail” is offering in-house advertising on your website to your vendors – because why get paid only once on a purchase if you can get paid twice? In short, retailers get paid to place the ad, and then get paid again when the merchandise is sold. Enormous Potential.

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How B8ta Gives Consumers A Technology Test-Drive

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Retail isn’t dead; it needs a revival.”. With a list of bankruptcies growing ever longer, suburbs hosting the carcasses of scores of dead and dying shopping malls and foot traffic on an ever-falling curve, it’s not hard to draw the conclusion that retail — or, at least, the brick-and-mortar version of it — is dead.

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Today In Payments: DOJ Antitrust Case Against Google To Focus On Search; GoodRx IPO Shares Sell Above Target

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When the government’s case against Google reaches a courtroom, prosecutors will focus on the multinational technology conglomerate’s power over internet searches. But that decision could spur dozens of separate lawsuits from attorneys general nationwide that will target the tech giant’s mastery in other business sectors.

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How To Make Online Sports Gaming A Sure Bet For Payments, State Governments

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Against that backdrop, considering the speed at which states are accepting online sports betting (and the strength of the dollars flowing into the space), legalized gambling via mobile seems a sure wager. Several other states have online gambling legislation in the works. The Technology Component. The Current State.

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AGI Firm Soul Machine Snags $40M To Advance Human-Machine Connections

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The company said it is the first human experience platform that “automates and personalizes digital interfaces at scale.” We are very grateful for the continued support from Horizons Ventures, who are highly valued partners that understand how great technology businesses are built.”.

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P&G Leads Parade Of Connected Products As CES 2021 Becomes Smart Home Show

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Nowhere is that dynamic more prevalent right now than at CES 2021, the all-virtual Consumer Electronics Show, where hundreds of companies — large, small, foreign and domestic — are currently vying to wow the world with an array of new product launches and high-tech innovations.

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TRENDING: Robots And Humans Join Forces To Speed eCommerce, Together

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The company said it plans to use the funds to advance its sales and marketing, further develop its security platform and increase its ability to supply advanced technologies to security companies’ IoT-related digital transformation efforts. The company said the funding would be utilized to scale and develop its technology.