Amazon prime day 2018 data is out from Liftoff
Monday, August 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
Liftoff released new data around Amazon’s fourth annual Prime Day and how the day-and-a-half long sale affected the world of e-commerce. The data reveals a significant change this year, with Prime Day itself offering a dramatically larger lift to other mobile commerce businesses than previous years, but with a steep drop-off late in the week.
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What AtScale wants you to know about Big Data's future
Thursday, December 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
2017 is looking like it will be the year of BI on Big Data. Seventy-five percent of respondents in the 2016 Big Data Maturity Survey indicated that Business Intelligence is taking over as the #1 workload for Big Data.AtScale, a company that provides enterprises with a fast and secure self-service analytics platform for Big Data, released the results of the survey, based...
Samsung tops Apple for Black Friday shopping deal hunters
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 by Austin Harris
A new national study reveals this year's most coveted brands, products, and deals for the 2016 Black Friday shopping holiday. The recent survey of 1,000 American consumers by Pollfish shows that Americans most prefer deals on TV entertainment systems from Samsung that are sold by Amazon, and that Samsung overall seems to be sought out more than Apple by shoppers th...
IoT Tech Expo descending on Silicon Valley next week (October 2021st)
Friday, October 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
The IoT Tech Expo will be descending on Silicon Valley for 2 days (October 20-21st) of top-level content, discussion, case studies, live demos, workshops and plenty of networking opportunities. There will be 8 conference tracks, an exclusive Samsung Workshop, IoT hackathon and a vast exhibition including robotics, 3D pizza printers, drones, mind-reading tech and more! O...
How Rapid Application Development is Changing Everything
Saturday, September 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
I admit it, every time I hear the word RAD I go back to the 80's when BMX freestyle was at it's peak (I still own my beloved GT Performer)! But the RAD we are talking about here is "Rapid Application Development" (RAD), that used to be something reserved for making quick apps with minimal code input, little functionally, and that you did not intend on maintaining f...
CurrentC Payment System Vs Apple Pay: Does CurrentC Data Breach Doom it Before it Starts
Monday, November 3, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
It’s been well publicized recently that a number of retailers - including Wal-Mart, Target, Dillards, and Lowes - are bucking against Apple Pay to pave the way for the introduction of the CurrentC payment system, which has been created by these companies under the guise of the Merchant Customer Exchange.Where some merchants like Macy’s are going full steam ahead on the ...
Macy's Store To Be One Of the First Retailers To Support Apple Pay
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Macy’s recent announcement that Apple Pay and iBeacon technology are a primary part of its marketing stratagy is just another example of how Apple is setting itself up to dominate the mobile e-commerce payment landscape.The Macy’s announcement outlined its latest advancements in omnichannel strategy and technology as the company continues to add new dimensions for attra...
Apple Announcement Goes As Predicted With iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, New Apple Watch, iOS 8 and Apple Pay
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
As most pundits predicted, there were no shocking developments with Apple’s news announcement as the company introduced two new iPhone 6 models, a new smart-watch, dates for the availability of iOS 8 and a new payment system, Apple Pay.We’ll have more coverage of each aspect of this announcement, however here we are providing exerpts from the Apple press announcements f...
