Smart Cities How UPS delivers faster using $8 headphones and code that decides when dirty trucks get cleaned Inside EDGE: the shipping giant’s ambitious, tech-driven bid to keep Amazon and others at bay. by Elizabeth Woyke 2018-02-16T13:19:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Alibaba’s AI Fashion Consultant Helps Achieve Record-Setting Sales AI will blur the line between online and offline retail. by Yiting Sun 2017-11-13T00:00:00-05:00
Artificial Intelligence Amazon Has Developed an AI Fashion Designer The retail giant is taking a characteristically algorithmic approach to fashion. by Will Knight 2017-08-24T00:00:00-04:00
Business Impact Can China and the Internet Save American Small Business? The giant e-commerce platform Alibaba and its charismatic founder, Jack Ma, have a plan to add a million U.S. jobs by enticing American companies to sell to China. by Emily Parker 2017-06-26T00:00:00-04:00
Business Impact Next Up for Amazon’s Mall Takeover: Furniture and Home Appliances The e-tailer’s bricks-and-mortar vision is starting to resemble its digital approach—try everything once, because you can always shut it down. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-03-27T11:20:00-04:00
Business Impact The Jeff Bezos Retail Laboratory—or Seattle, as the Locals Say The city’s inhabitants are unwittingly part of a real-life commerce experiment orchestrated by Amazon. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-02-13T12:55:00-05:00
Business Impact Amazon’s Algorithms Don’t Find You the Best Deals Finding the cheapest products requires paying attention to some subtle wrinkles in how the retailer displays items. by Jamie Condliffe 2016-09-21T13:25:00-04:00
Connectivity 5 Things You Need to Know about Facebook’s Next 10 Years At Facebook’s annual developer conference this week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined audacious goals for the social network’s next decade. by Rachel Metz and Tom Simonite 2016-04-15T13:43:00-04:00
Connectivity Facebook Wants You to Chat with Business Bots Forget calling customer service. Your next interaction with a business might be inside Facebook’s messaging service. by Tom Simonite 2016-04-12T13:28:00-04:00
Connectivity Smartphones (and Motorcycles) Fuel Hyperlocal E-Commerce in India Entrepreneurs using couriers and mom-and-pop shops hope to outmaneuver Amazon with ultrafast deliveries in India’s big cities. by George Anders 2015-06-15T00:00:00-04:00
