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Car technology was an expected part of CES in 2021, as vehicles are a big part of the big show every year — particularly for the last few years, as consumer interest in connected car technology has spiked alongside a growing enthusiasm for a possible future where cars can drive themselves and the humans just tag along for the ride.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

The upgraded platforms now let shoppers search for an item by using an image, Chain Store Age reported. In addition, shoppers can find products by scanning their price tags, allowing them to check size and color options. Visual search allows shoppers to upload a photo, and the platforms use that photo to search for relevant items.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

According to a news report for CNBC , Raymond James Analyst Tavis McCourt said he was prompted to raise the price target after an internal survey showed “surprising” demand for the iPhone X, which comes with the hefty price tag of $999 or more. Last year, those figures stood at 15 percent and, in 2015, at 17 percent.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

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. Samsung’s Family Hub got a voice technology upgrade over the 1.0 Family Hub 2.0

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AUGUST 24, 2018

The upgraded platforms now let shoppers search for an item by using an image, Chain Store Age reported. In addition, shoppers can find products by scanning their price tags, allowing them to check size and color options. Visual search allows shoppers to upload a photo, and the platforms use that photo to search for relevant items.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The iPhone X, which was launched in the fall of 2017, has an OLED display and a price tag that starts at $999. Since then the model has been upgraded by the iPhone XS and XR, which Apple rolled out in September. Apple said it would replace the parts for free and that it affects only the original iPhone X.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The phone’s release comes at a tough time for smartphone makers, which are facing increasing challenges in getting consumers to upgrade their devices. The Galaxy Fold launch — along with the debut of associated, upgraded Samsung wearables such as Galaxy watches, fitness bands and ear buds — comes amid a general slowdown for mobile devices.

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MARCH 21, 2019

A combination of a high price tag , a saturated smartphone market and low-cost competitors has created pressure for the company. Even the upgrade didn’t do too much to boost shares, with the stock recently up 2 percent. The call comes as Apple has been seeing sluggish sales of its iPhone, particularly in China.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

While Greater China and other emerging markets accounted for the vast majority of the year-over-year iPhone revenue decline, in some developed markets, iPhone upgrades also were not as strong as we thought they would be.”. China has now been starkly illuminated as a battleground for Cook and company.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

As for the iPhone X, concerns abound that the high price tag could keep iPhone owners from upgrading. wireless carrier, AT&T, said third-quarter postpaid handset upgrades were down close to 900,000 from a year ago. Meanwhile, Reuters reported that earlier this month the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

But while the exterior aesthetic is expected to remain largely unchanged, upgrades are anticipated. Those upgraded camera features are widely expected to be paired with a new co-processor alternately code-named “Rose” and “R1” expected to be rolled out by Apple at the event, according to reports from MacRumors.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Both models are more waterproof, boast an upgraded A12 bionic chip and feature a major camera upgrade with the new Smart HDR sensor. It also comes in a wider array of colors and has a much lower starting price tag (at $749) than the XS. The smaller of the new top-line models, the XS comes with a 5.8-inch

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The iPhone will take center stage, of course, and there will be interest in average selling prices and whether the $999 tags will stick. Oh, yes, Apple makes computers, too, and the upgraded MacBook Air will be under discussion. There will be a spotlight trained on wearables, where the Apple Watch is, of course, the flagship.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The product integrates into a restaurant’s point-of-sale (POS) system without a hardware upgrade, which “eliminates a common pain point” for those merchants, CARDFREE CEO Jon Squire told PYMNTS. Ordering, too, is getting upgrades — usually mobile ones — in this space. Mobile Ordering.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Businesses and financial institutions (FIs) are following suit, reordering their products and services for a new digital normal — but unfortunately, fraudsters are tagging along. Deep Dive: Why FIs, Businesse s Must Upgrade Email Verification To Keep Fraud At Bay.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Data breaches now cost Saudi Arabia and UAE companies about $188 for each stolen personal detail, for example, and this price tag is exponential because most hacks compromise thousands of records. The pandemic has refocused scrutiny on the open banking ecosystem’s privacy and security. 1 to adjust their standards in compliance.

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JUNE 26, 2018

to take the sense of discovery on Instagram even further, by allowing businesses to tag products in their organic posts and people to shop from them.”. Rose noted the latest upgrades is one Instagram has been making since launching its earliest shopping program. Last year, we launched shopping on Instagram in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

There were advances, a few interesting upgrades, a plethora of inspirational videos about the historical implications of the forthcoming class of Apple products and a lot of enthusiasm on the part of the Apple team. It also comes in a wider array of colors and has a much lower starting price tag than the XS: $749. The New Watch .

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Wireless carriers in the United States and Canada have reported slow third-quarter customer upgrades, yet some expect a pickup in sales with the iPhone X — although there is a chance the phone’s $999 price tag could hinder some customers from pre-ordering the new device. While major promotions of the iPhone X from U.S.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

The high sell-in caters to the pent-up demand of iPhone upgraders in the absence of the iPhone X,” said Canalys analyst Mo Jia. Both deals offer a significant reduction from the original price tags in China of 5,888 yuan and 7,988 yuan, respectively. But some analysts aren’t sure this demand can be sustained.

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AUGUST 29, 2020

That’s a big price tag, but it’s not so bad when one considers that doing that using humans to perform that kind of plant surveying work would cost roughly $300,000. That can dramatically upgrade supply chain efficiency, something that firms of all descriptions are looking for in the post-pandemic era. Such robots aren’t cheap.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

They also include earmarked controls that allow producers to tag and reconcile purchases made for a particular project. On the bookkeeping side, tagging these purchases with an image of the receipt allows us to not hire a full-time bookkeeper,” Tayenaka explained. “We

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Wayfair will not be alone — Apple noted during WWDC that many merchants have already signed on to embed Apple Pay in their sites just as soon as the mobile payment service comes to the desktop with the next OS upgrade. have seen Apple Pay for web tagged as “coming this fall.”

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JANUARY 21, 2019

“The thing that’s so cool about having those relationships is that they literally tell us, either through their posts, their tags, their emails or their tweets, what they’re looking for, and we respond in kind.” And then building direct relationships with the community we serve,” she told Retail Dive.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While these players work to expand and add capabilities to existing payments networks and systems, other financial players are finding that upgrades don’t go far enough to achieve their needs.Instead, they’re putting in the time and dollars to develop a whole new system. What Hong Kong’s New Faster Payment System Brings. USD) per transaction.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Consider the beacon technology used at Frames in Tokyo, the robotic waitstaff in Shanghai or even the Brekk-E-Tag at Hungry Jack’s in Australia. Cost is (as with many things) the major barrier preventing restaurants from upgrading their tech space. It’s not just in the realm of mobile ordering apps where restaurants in the U.S.

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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. They also apparently like Apple’s pricing model as well, as the base 12GB Pixel will run consumers $620, with a $100 upgrade to 32 GB possible. So what was seen — and what were the early reviews?

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JUNE 13, 2017

That partnership carries a steep price tag – Nilsen will be paid $500,000 to be the face of the of the firm – making it one of the larger brand–blogger hook-ups to date. Nilsen brings her 4 million YouTube channel subscribers and 1.7 You can see everything I use, and bareMinerals pops up regularly.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

Specifically built for interior design and fashion items, the new tools will offer shoppers a shopping shortcut through stylistically similar items that can be accessed by long holding on an item’s price tag. The upgrades also come with enhancements to self-services for advertising customers.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Presumably, Fitbit is counting on the fact that, someday, these juvenile buyers might be ready to upgrade to fully featured adult wearables — having had a relationship with the consumer that literally began in childhood could be critical in swaying a consumer’s opinion of buying a smartwatch and what brand to favor.

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APRIL 28, 2016

Opt-in for services, such as Mobile Location Confirmation via the issuer’s banking app or Visa’s Travel Authorization Tag. Consider paying via a chip-activated terminal with a credit or debit card upgraded with chip technology for enhanced security.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Going clean and green is just about everyone’s favorite marketing tag line these days. That doesn’t mean the entire upgrade has been purely zero sum — turkey is up in price — but in general Panera’s menu costs are much more tied to the rate of inflation than to the upgrades they have made. So how do they build that trust?

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APRIL 16, 2020

The first is that 80 percent of those they surveyed planned to use the upgrade as a strategic lever to gain advantage in the market. When Ekata talked to acquirers and processors in the field in Europe, Kakkar said, they came across two very curious data points.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

It is a series of results pushed by a multi-phase reset on the Urban Outfitters’ business, which has seen big upgrades to its digital platform, expansions in its offerings and an out-of the-box approach to developing new retail experiences that leverage the interplay between its brands and the crossover nature of its consumer base.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

So, for nonprofits, every expense must not only be recorded and analyzed to assess their own spend, but it must be appropriately categorized and tagged to show grantors and auditors. Like many SMBs, small nonprofits can struggle to allocate the resources necessary to digitize the back office.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Wall Street analysts at Piper Jaffray said in research to clients that in a survey of several hundred users, 16 percent will seek to upgrade to a new phone this fall, only slightly better than last year, and 24 percent will “maybe” upgrade, which is lower than the 29 percent tally last year. Fizzle of the Week: Juicero.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

Kohl’s has also developed advanced infrastructure around inventory tracking using RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, which let the store know where virtually any piece of inventory is in real time. This holiday season, that means focusing on reducing lines in stores by offering handheld checkout devices.

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