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The Corner Bank in the Cloud

2018-06-13T21:20:42+00:00 January 1st, 2017|Articles|

How alternative financing companies can challenge the daily engagement banks still command with their customers. This holiday season, we witnessed the continued and painful decline of main-street retail as consumers increasingly shop on their mobile devices. Retailers are deploying omni-channel

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Storytelling & Beaver Dams: GoPro to SnapChat

2018-06-13T21:20:42+00:00 September 28th, 2016|Articles|

Drones and Spectacles sold by camera and video merchants. There is a strange expansion of lego-snapping services in the market. Both companies are empire building, GoPro launches a Karma Drone and Snap Inc., its camera glasses. Both companies are adding

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My Amazon Dash Button arrived!

2018-06-13T21:20:42+00:00 June 9th, 2016|Articles|

After talking about impulse purchases for over 10 years, my Dash button arrived to be duly attached to my washing machine for timely one-click checkout. In measuring clicks to commerce, Amazon's app experience is four PRE-clicks to setup the patented one-click

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Data rules Echo, Siri and Google Now

2018-06-13T21:20:42+00:00 May 4th, 2016|Articles|

This past month, the media happily announced that Echo was "all growed up.” An astounding adulthood spurt given that Echo is mainly relegated to kitchens and has the key functionality of telling you the weather and managing your Spotify account

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A Mobile Trading HERO (FinTech)

2018-06-13T21:20:42+00:00 May 2nd, 2016|Articles|

Today’s millennial traders are pop culture survivors of “The Wolf of Wall Street” and the “Big Short”.  Many would rather pitch tents on Wall Street than open up their wallets. These traders require some reassurance that their mobile tools have evolved as other utility,

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6 mobile-oriented services to complement the live operator experience

2018-06-13T21:20:42+00:00 May 2nd, 2016|Articles|

Until 2015, business process outsourcing (BPO) was based on a simple math formula: outsourcing non-core services including customer call centers to more cost-efficient partners and markets to reduce spend. When technology was deployed, it was predominately committed to optimizing the

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Amazon Books and the mythical wormhole

2018-06-13T21:20:42+00:00 April 29th, 2016|Articles|

We all woke up this year to our ecommerce hero marching into Seattle and opening up a real bricks-and-mortar store. The creaking wood floors and smell of pulp is live and well. Stroll down 2623 Northeast University Village and Amazon

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Heads Up: Google Just Invented The Mobile Browser

2018-06-13T21:20:42+00:00 April 27th, 2016|Articles|

Self-driving cars? Hot-air balloon Internet-delivery? Alchemy-tech projects from Google X’s laboratory. Now, finally the Mountain View scientists launch a moonshot project that has immediate impact on our mobile economy: the invention of the mobile browser. Google X’s ability to “stream” app

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Social: Shouting so loud, we lose our voice!

2018-06-13T21:20:42+00:00 April 27th, 2016|Articles|

We tend to be nostalgic about the past. Media and news are good examples. We often romance the content and integrity of publications and television outlets. However, the vast majority of us have always consumed our world through one-line headlines

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