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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Because when you’re deep in the virtual world of shoes and staking out the best pair of Christian Louboutins, nothing shatters the experience more than having to pull off those VR googles to — you guessed it — pay. Intel said that VR has high potential to disrupt retail and manufacturing industries and connect to the Internet of Things.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Every year, Americans cap off the summer with a collective mini-vacation called Labor Day — an event marked with barbecues, trips to the beach, catching a ballgame and pretty much doing as little labor as humanly possible. This Labor Day will come and go without parades, hot dog eating contests at the beach or various other local festivals.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

That track record doesn’t come wholly unmarred — that big revenue pick up was more than offset by logistical costs that pushed the firm into a net loss in Q3 — but minimally, Wayfair has managed to answer a question that its founders got asked a lot in the firm’s early days — who wants to buy furniture on the internet? Navigate Widely.

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JULY 19, 2016

For example, Alibaba’s recently announced VR store will simulate a full Alibaba location that shoppers will be able to navigate and browse, all while wearing a VR headset or pair of glasses.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Nope, Google went big, rolling out its fancy new phone (with an accompanying fancy price-tag), its VR entry and its Echo competitor. Nope, Google went big, rolling out its fancy new phone (with an accompanying fancy price-tag), its VR entry and its Echo competitor. The Pixel Phone — The Day’s Headliner . megapixel camera.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

Who can forgot the excitement around, say, virtual reality (VR) and even Oculus Rift from past CES shows? People are still talking about VR, of course — and will keep doing so at the 2020 CES show — but even now, the CES promise of VR seems like some overhyped dream , a marketing exercise that has yet to pay off.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To help improve the retail shopping and shipping experience, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is catching on with big-box retailers in the U.S. s YouCam Makeup app, customers will be able to “try on” different shades of makeup using a digital screen before they make a purchase.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The homesharing platform has branched out this year, endeavoring to help customers find not just a home away from home for the day, week or month, but an Instagram-worthy vacation experience. Airbnb wants to put more than a bed and breakfast-style stay at customers’ fingertips. However, not all of its recent experiments have met with success.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

By 2025, Hamburg will be processing about 18 million containers each year, as well as tens of thousands of trucks per day, self-driving vehicles and about 100,000 sensors, all sending and retrieving data to ensure fluent processes,” said Volker Held , head of Nokia’s 5G market development. “By What types of business will it support?

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

Thanks to advancements in 3-D renderings, the days of guessing how furniture and decor will look inside a space [are] long gone,” said Shanna Tellerman, CEO of Modsy. Thanks to advancements in 3-D renderings, the days of guessing how furniture and decor will look inside a space [are] long gone,” said Shanna Tellerman, CEO of Modsy.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

From scan and pay through mobile devices and personal shopper services that can be ordered through apps, grocers are turning to new technologies to drive innovations in their stores. Retailers are rolling out new ways for consumers to purchase their groceries that allow them to trade the checkout line for a few taps on a smartphone.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

And yet, according to new PYMNTS data, the consumers most excited to get a vaccine are also the ones who have made the biggest digital shifts in their day-to-day lives. And yet, according to new PYMNTS data, the consumers most excited to get a vaccine are also the ones who have made the biggest digital shifts in their day-to-day lives.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

The app that got famous for its disappearing messages is looking like it will either need to raise a some capital by sometime in 2019 or run the risk of going broke, according to a note by MoffettNathanson. Snapchat , according to recent reports , is having cash flow troubles. Nathanson went on to slash his revenue estimates for Snap Inc.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

This week, NRF’s Retail’s Big Show , as it is commonly referred to, will host a virtual version of its four-day confab, including 90 sessions and 300 exhibitors who will speak to the future of retail in a post-COVID-19 environment. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

We know people always write that they don’t want anything for Christmas when they really want to get on your good side to score an extra VR headset instead of sensible socks. We’ve seen how transformative the combination of smartphones, the internet and apps are, and we don’t want anyone to miss out. You seem to be onto something.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

In fact, in its founding days back in 2002, Wayfair fit comfortably in the spare bedroom of Conine’s Boston-area home. Humble beginnings, to be sure — but humble beginnings that its technologist founders were set to overcome from day one. “We And that growth has carried on since then. As of today, Wayfair brings in $6.6

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JANUARY 12, 2017

The last five days have seen numbers bouncing around between $790 and $800. Amazon has another reason to celebrate — its mobile app grew tremendously in terms of use in 2016. Just a few days ago, Amazon quietly acquired AI security startup harvest.ai So far, so good. The new year has decided to play nice with Amazon’s stock.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Kohl’s rolled out its own payments app — inventively named Kohl’s Pay — that accepts only one card: its own. Google Home — the Echo competitor with the Google personal assistant AI — was not the day’s headliner. That honor certainly went to the Pixel phone (and the associated Daydream VR hardware). Google is doing both.

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JUNE 5, 2017

The VR training improves their real-world reaction time, pattern recognition and decision-making, according to Walmart spokeswoman Beth Harris. “VR They say robots could replace as many as 38 percent of retail workers in the next 10 years, starting with cashiers. Not so for Walmart employees. We will be people-led and tech-empowered.”.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

Oculus Rift rose from being a plucky crowdfunded upstart to a $2 billion dollar acquisition by Facebook – a deal that Marc Zuckerberg touted at the time as a first step toward using AR/VR tech to connect the entire world in wholly different ways. It really is a little piece of the Jetsons brought into day-to-day life.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

The average American has a 51-minute round-trip commute five days a week, new PYMNTS research has found. The PYMNTS research found that 64 percent of commuters have downloaded apps to help make such purchases, and that 38.5 More than half of all connected commuters who ordered coffee for pickup at a drive-through used apps to pay (54.1

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JUNE 1, 2017

The world is becoming an increasingly connected place such that internet connections aren’t just for phones and computers anymore – appliances, household systems, dog collars, hair brushes, cars and VR headsets are just a short sampling of the world of things looking for secure, consistent connections to the web.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

The app, which launched in 2014 from the Y Combinator summer program, allows the guards flexibility and the potential to make more than working with a traditional security guard company. More specifically,the security guards we work with have a Bannerman app, which allows them to be much better on the job. Tell us, what is Bannerman?

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JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. Of course, last week was also the long-anticipated swan song for the nation’s second oldest U.S.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Technologists Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley, CPA, have a chat about firm technologies, and which upgrades they see as beneficial to firms, allowing them to accomplish more even if facing talent shortages. Use the podcast player below to listen. Transcript (Note: There may be typos due to automated transcription errors.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Technologists Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley, CPA, have a chat about firm technologies, and which upgrades they see as beneficial to firms, allowing them to accomplish more even if facing talent shortages. Use the podcast player below to listen. Transcript (Note: There may be typos due to automated transcription errors.

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JULY 1, 2016

While the ONvocal solution – “an acoustic interface IoT device” – was enhanced through PYMNTS’ Alexa Challenge, its seeds were planted long ago, during Graylin’s days as an MIT student. It was this broad potential for IoT innovation that inspired the PYMNTS 2016 Alexa Challenge. Pioneering the IoT push.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

As the year opened, our inaugural Faster Payments Tracker™ looked at the looming arrival of the new Same Day ACH. It wasn’t just the end of the year that saw advancements in VR, however, as the March issue of the Developer Tracker featured an interview with Hrvoje Prpic, founder and CEO of Trillenium. DEVELOPER TRACKER.

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JUNE 10, 2016

However, as if often the case with the early days of real next big things, as well as the many, many pretenders to the throne that never quite make the cut, the gap between the possibility and the actuality of us is still pretty impressive. The slightly more technical details of how and when, well, those are a bit fuzzy at this point.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Millennials [see] hundreds, sometimes thousands, of images [on] their mobile [phones] every single day, and we wanted to allow them to use those images to interact with their favorite retailers, brands [and] shops,” she said. Users can screenshot products found on Instagram , Pinterest or similar social media apps.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Gaming tech, virtual fans with virtual reality (VR) headsets for point-of-view (POV) viewing are all getting tryouts. Gaming tech, virtual fans with virtual reality (VR) headsets for point-of-view (POV) viewing are all getting tryouts. It has also put the site in a position to help teams. “A

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JUNE 17, 2020

The shift to Digital 3.0 will include sports — in fact it will have two business models. One will be live gaming with teams competing for cash and prizes in arenas full of thousands of screaming fans. As the chief operating officer and co-founder of Copenhagen-based Astralis Group , Jakob Lund Kristensen walks both sides of the eSports line.

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JANUARY 27, 2018

Lines to get into the store are a rare sight at any brick-and-mortar retailer these days, let alone a supermarket. Success stories of drawing substantial foot traffic are few and far between for grocers these days. That’s exactly what French supermarket chain Intermarche brought upon itself this week, however. Grocers, take note.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

While not much of an event, yet, on North American shores, elsewhere in the world the countdown to Singles Day is underway. Which is why, since the last Singles Day celebration, Jack Ma and Alibaba have added a new shopping option to the menu for consumers: website, mobile app and, now, virtual store.

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MARCH 6, 2017

The store also features charging station for phones and a RockBot, which allows customers to download an app and select a song to play across the second floor. The new Neiman Marcus store in Dallas-Fort Worth is both very much like — and completely different from — the 42 other Neiman Marcus stores scattered throughout the United States.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Samsung managed to take up most of the oxygen in the mobile room this week — and the big show included the world’s introduction to the new Galaxy phone, Bixby, VR, Samsung Pass, and Samsung Pay’s and Visa Checkout’s partnership to bring Samsung Pay to the online world. Lots to catch — here’s the rundown. Brexit, Schmexit.

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MAY 4, 2018

Although we are hardcore virtual reality (VR) fans, the announcement of a $200 VR console might have been the highlight of the day had not Facebook revealed that it’s getting into the dating game. Fizzle of the Week: Timing. Spring has finally arrived across the United States, and love is in the air. Even on Facebook.

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