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Shoppers Are Caught Off Guard as Prices on Everyday Items Change More Often

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Everyday items, from grocery staples to home décor, are being priced more like airline tickets and gasoline, where the sticker prices can move frequently within hours or days. A weekly digest of tech reviews, headlines, columns and your questions answered by WSJ’s Personal Tech gurus. Photo Illustration: Jacob Reynolds.

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Lost Pet Posters Get An Upgrade For The Digital Age

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Still, that seems so old-fashioned in this digital age — at least according to Andrea Chavez, Founder of Pawscout , a company whose signature product is a Bluetooth-enabled tag that not only helps pet owners find their wayward pets, but gives them access to other digital and mobile services.

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NCR’s Cardtronics Bid – And The Rise Of Self-Service Banking At The ATM 

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As noted in this space over the weekend, there already exists a preliminary agreement between Cardtronics and the investment firms, but the higher price tag offered by NCR will likely spark a re-examination of a deal. Drilling down a bit, these ATMs can leverage everything from contactless activities to biometrics to cryptos.

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How TV Can Support Digital Marketing And Online Payments

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Samba also offers digital tags that let companies figure out who visits their websites after ads appear. Men spend nearly three hours each day watching TV, while women devote 2.5 hours to that activity, according to the latest American Time Use Study from the U.S. hours a day watching television. consumers spend 4.4

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How Tech Is Reinventing How Brides Say Yes To The Dress

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Buying a wedding dress in real life often takes months, many boutique visits, hours of frustration looking through many wrong dresses, interpersonal drama with the bridal party and paying a sum of money that would make a reasonable down payment on a house in some parts of the U.S. It is much closer to fantasy than fact.

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And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. RITHOLTZ: Let me make a digression here, and since you’re in front of me, I have to ask this question. And then I have to ask the same question, so Union Square Ventures, by definition Union Square is here in New York City. Great question.

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Will Kids Be Key To Cracking The Wearables Code?

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Like the adult model, the new product will track steps, active minutes and number of hours slept each night. The real question, some experts think, is not about who will win the kiddie smartwatch race, but what it means for the future of the segment in general.

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