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Artificial intelligence and machine learning are starting to play a bigger role in retail, foreshadowing what’s to come in the new decade of the 2020s. Walmart is among the leading chains embracing AI, though other merchants and commerce service providers are also helping to blaze new paths in this area of commerce. What’s coming next? Read More...

Resetting the women's shoe industry is not an easy task — particularly when one is dedicated to manufacturing those shoes using a lot of new, and rather untested, tech. But that is more or less exactly what Rothy's did, and managed to capture a $700M valuation in the attempt. Eventually, after a lot of false starts. Here's our multidimensional look. Read More...

The Future Of Fitness With Connected Devices And IoT

Complexity reigns in cross-border payments, as legacy systems and country-specific payment preferences and regulations lead to fragmentation. As real-time payment schemes proliferate, firms must keep speed, security, compliance and transparency top of mind. Read More...