“According to eMarketer, ecommerce sales of furniture and home furnishings will accounted for 21% of total retail sales in 2018. In dollars, retail ecommerce from furniture and home furnishing sales reached $65.1 billion last year and are projected to reach nearly $100 billion within the next three years.” https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2019/06/21/google-wheres-my-couch-ai-adds-visibility-to-the-furniture-supply-chain/
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AI: Reinventing the Banking Experience
Day 2 of the ABA Digital Banking Conference is complete and my favorite session of the day was titled “AI: Reinventing the Banking Experience.” The panel was moderated by Tiffani Montez of Aite Group (former WellsFargo executive.) Notes from the session: Rob Guilfoyle – Abe.ai FIs with a culture and leadership that are willing to…
Verishop from Imran Khan
http://linkedin.com/in/dotkhan Verishop – https://www.verishop.com “Imran Khan, who spent three years at Snap (ie SnapChat) as chief strategy officer, has created a new retail company, Verishop, which aims to “bring joy back to online shopping, and do it at scale with the ease of online purchasing and fast delivery we’ve all come to expect.” Well, Verishop has officially launched,…
“I’m a Pepper, You’re a Pepper, Wouldn’t You Like to Be a Pepper, Too?”
Day 1 of the Digital Banking Conference hosted by the ABA is complete, and the biggest draw of the day was…Pepper the robot from SoftBank Related story: Rise of the robots: Bank deploys ‘Pepper’ to assist customers “Beginning Thursday, Pepper will greet customers at HSBC Bank’s Brickell branch in Miami, and later, possibly other locations…
Udacity launches nontechnical AI product manager nanodegree
“Enrollment for the first program begins today and consists of 6 lessons and 3 projects, and lasts about 2 months. The AI product manager course is just the latest such offering from Udacity, a company made popular in part by the draw of founder Sebastian Thrun’s Stanford University machine learning course.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/venturebeat.com/2019/06/18/udacity-launches-nontechnical-ai-product-manager-nanodegree/amp/