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MAY 22, 2018

Consumers love mobile apps: In fact, there were 175 billion downloads globally in 2017 — a 60 percent growth from 2015, according to App Annie ’s end-of-year retrospective report. months in apps per year. months in apps per year. But how can retailers capture a shopper’s interest in their own apps?

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APRIL 28, 2016

Visa has secured the spot as the exclusive payment provider for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio for the 30th year running. But this year, Visa will be focused on expanding its digital presence at the games by having 4,000 POS terminals across Olympic venues, along with ATMs across the stadiums, Olympic Village and Olympic Superstore.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

First up, Panasonic just debuted a system that could change the grocery checkout game for good. As of now, customers must still manually scan their purchases before the system bags for them since not every item in the store has been fitted with an electronic pricing tag. Lawson said every item should have a tag by the end of February.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians 8-7 after undergoing a gut-wrenching 10-inning ball game to clench the title of MLB World Series Champions. Devoted fans quickly pushed ticket prices to insane levels, with listing for game tickets averaging $6,000 in Chicago and $3,300 in Cleveland. They won the World Series.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

Pinterest users are also, unsurprisingly, highly mobile, with 80 percent reporting they use the mobile app to access the services. Forward motion is the best way for Pinterest — which is smaller than the other three — to stay in the game. About half of all user report making a purchase after seeing a rich (shoppable) pin.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

With the company’s artificial intelligence technology, dubbed Vue.AI, Mad Street Den provides eCommerce sites with a slew of AI-powered offerings, including visual search, recommended automated emails to customers and tagging of products without human intervention. But the startup isn’t stopping with the retail industry.

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APRIL 26, 2018

A consumer on the hunt for fresh food and grocery items steps into a convenience store with nary a human physical worker in sight and checks in with a mobile payments app. Self-service retail is big in China and, unlike Amazon, BingoBox is far from the only player in the unattended retail game. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.

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JULY 11, 2016

“We’re building deeper relationships with our customers across our ecosystem and are looking forward to delivering new tools like Walmart Pay that allow them to use the Walmart app as their remote control for a faster, more convenient shopping experience.”. However, that’s not exactly the game that the mega-retailer is trying to play.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

For the entire month of November, all of Newegg’s platforms — web, mobile site and iOS/Android apps — will offer aggressive price cuts on gifts for everyone on their list,” said Merle McIntosh, Newegg SVP of sales and marketing. 8–14, there will be a gaming sale, focusing on gaming notebooks, components and accessories.

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MAY 5, 2017

It seems that businesses are starting to decide that perhaps the Apple Watch isn’t really going to be the next big thing, after all, and are quietly pulling app support for the devices. Over the last few weeks, some pretty big name firms have decided to say sayonara to the Apple Watch App store. And were consumers enraged?

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MAY 23, 2018

Yagur explained that Sodyo’s codes leverage color-based tagging technology so scanners don’t have to read the whole code — just the connection points between colors. Scannable codes can direct viewers to additional content, polls and discussions around the show or sports game they’re watching.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

A companion mobile app enables tagging of favorites, style comparisons and, of course, shopping recommendations. Trying clothes on at a store is hard too, but online it’s just a guessing game.”. Then there’s Amazon’s Alexa-powered Look device , which has a built-in camera to help users choose and assess an outfit.

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JUNE 17, 2017

Apple’s device — which a third of respondents said they were interested in — carries a $350 price tag, more than $200 to $250 more than the comparable Google and Amazon devices. Building a financial services app to help people better manage their cash flows? Building a dating app? Could that be the Siri/HomePod game-changer?

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AUGUST 8, 2017

When moviegoers used their phone to scan the iconic lightning bolt tattoos, it brought them to a world of games and other movie extras to make the experience more exciting. Most charitable organizations can’t afford expensive wallets or apps or technology,” Garner said.

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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. Also, every photo and video shot on a Pixel phone is automatically uploaded to the cloud via the Google Photos app, in full resolution. So what was seen — and what were the early reviews?

Entertainment 55

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APRIL 17, 2018

Here are just a few of the expenses that festivalgoers are tacking on to their weekend price tag (and who’s making money off it). Coachella stepped up its refreshments game this year with the all-new Indio Central Market , featuring 15 restaurants from across the country. Reservations are required via mobile app Open Table.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

To use the feature, customers can go to the Walmart Grocery App and pick “Voice Shopping.”. This week the key battle grounds were in familiar territory, the grocery aisle, with a sprinkling of voice commerce on both sides keeping things interesting. Worry of the Week: Buttressing the Full eCommerce Offering.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Alexa, mind the kids : Voice apps for the most vocal among us — which would be children, of course. Audio games (and parental controls) abound and will bring a whole new generation into the voice platform fold. Venture capital interest and investments have been on the rise, so growth is in the cards. SpongeBob unnerve you?

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Apps And Auto Repairs. Auto glass repair and claims management company Safelite Solutions is looking to smartphone apps and a new partner to offer customers same-day claim disbursements. It recently announced a collaboration with Ingo Money to provide instant payments for insurance claims via a one-time-use mobile app.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

To do that, they’ve built a customer shopping platform through their CONNEXT shopping app, with plans to produce that actual shows and movies to house the place products. The magic that will make those purchases possible, is the proprietary CONNEXT app, which consumers can use to connect to the goods in their interactive programming.

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APRIL 5, 2019

In addition, so-called smart tags were already a well-known concept. Those sensors pick up RFID signals from each product, with information relayed back to sales associates via a mobile app provided by RADAR. Let’s not get too far ahead of the game just yet, though. Granted, RFID wasn’t exactly a new technology.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Apple also rolled out a new social sharing app called Clips, a first-of-a-kind move by Apple that no one forecast ahead of the event. In a similar move, Apple Watch’s newest edition (the 5) will carry a top tier price tag — but Apple has also officially lowered the price of the Apple Watch Series 3 to $199.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

And Chase Pay was officially added to their roster this week, as recent data indicated that the tryout rate for Chase’s emergent effort into mobile payments hasn’t managed to break out of the single digits after two years in the marketplace and its $100 million price tag. Chase Pay, meanwhile, was accepted by only four.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

I mean, even across the broader luxury categories of fashion shoes, I mean, luxury was late to the game. And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was really kind of in the Tag Heuer timeline for me, career-wise, that I became aware of Ben and of Hodinkee. CLYMER: Yes.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

And so in my formative years, there was TV, there weren’t really great video games, Mattel and television, Coleco. I go “Fred, come to the Sun’s game. I can either just give it away for free, which, you know, I started the cash tag dollar sign… RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Huge. LINDZON: Much like Chicago.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We’re going through the most aggressive tightening cycle we’ve seen, you know, I I I think unfortunately the Fed was late to the game, but 01:20:35 [Speaker Changed] They but aren’t they always? And, and I use a, a really fascinating app called Perplexity. 01:20:25 [Speaker Changed] Well, I, I think you just said it.

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