“JD.com’s annual “618” online shopping extravaganza racked up a total of 269.2 billion yuan ($38 billion) worth of transactions, as consumers splurged during China’s first major e-commerce sale since the pandemic began. This year’s tally was 33% higher than last year’s 201.5 billion yuan in sales. It reflects an increasing shift to online shopping as…
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HDS Global Names eCommerce and AI Leader Jim Liefer President and COO as Company Delivers eCommerce Model of the Future
“Home Delivery Service (HDS Global), the highly personalized, touchless fulfilment service setting the standard for next generation e-commerce, announced that Jim Liefer has joined the company as President and COO. With over 30 years of operational leadership and technology development experience at established Fortune 50 companies and Silicon Valley startups, Liefer most recently served as…
Unbounce raises $38.4M to build better landing pages with automation
“Perreault said the ultimate goal is to allow a business to “set it and forget it through machine learning” — so that they no longer have to create landing pages at all, because the Unbounce platform is doing all the optimization and personalization for them. As a first step in that direction, Unbounce has created…
Facebook details the AI behind its shopping experiences
“Facebook today announced improvements to the shopping experiences across its platform, including Facebook Shops, a new way for businesses to set up a single online store The company characterized the new products — all of which are powered by a family of new AI and machine learning system — as a step toward its vision…
Amazon releases Kendra to solve enterprise search with AI and machine learning – TechCrunch
“Today the company announced the general availability of Amazon Kendra, its cloud enterprise search product that the company announced last year at AWS re:Invent. Amazon is trying to change the enterprise search game by putting it into a more modern machine learning-driven context to use today’s technology to help you find that perfect response just…