What has been agreed?
Member States have agreed today on practical new measures to support the digital economy when it comes to VAT compliance, which can currently place heavy burdens on small companies operating online. The new rules should help to accelerate growth for online businesses, in particular startups and SMEs. The measures include: New rules allowing companies that sell goods…
Digitization is causing a radical reordering of traditional industry boundaries. What will it take to play offense and defense in tomorrow’s ecosystems? Rakuten Ichiba is Japan’s single largest online retail marketplace. It also provides loyalty points and e-money usable at hundreds of thousands of stores, virtual and real. It issues credit cards to tens of millions of members. It offers financial…
It’s a consumer’s world, and retailers are struggling to keep up. Personalization, consumers and Amazon were big topics at this year’s conference.
At the third annual Shoptalk conference in Las Vegas, brands spoke on panels, at keynotes and with others in the industry about the various innovations they’re working on to make consumers happy. Some brands like Glossier and Boxed think…
Online platforms are changing the face of business, allowing millions of consumers to benefit from the advantages of e-commerce. The EU has proposed a number of laws to smooth cross-border trade but the current piecemeal approach means it will take a long time until the market is less fragmented. …
UPS has filed a U.S. patent application for a technology that would use blockchain and its shared distributed ledgers to more efficiently track and manage packages shipped within its network as well as those handed off to other carriers worldwide.
The application, filed earlier this year but just made public this week, details challenges that the technology would solve for, including…
Artificial intelligence took center stage at Google’s annual user conference, Cloud Next 2018. The company made several announcements that make machine learning and artificial intelligence accessible to both developers and businesses. Fei-Fei Li, Chief Scientist, Google AISource
One of the first announcements came in the form of Cloud AutoML, a managed service that lets developers build machine learning models without requiring any…
The customer experience has already changed beyond recognition in the last ten years. From the rise of platforms like Airbnb and Uber to the introduction of personalised marketing, the consumer landscape has perhaps witnessed the biggest changes of all thanks to new technologies.
As we move away from the hype surrounding AI towards real-world use cases in 2018, intelligent technologies will…