BlueRoo Delivers Voice Tech for Tomorrow’s Purchases
Alexa, Google Home and Siri changed everything. In the next decade, the vast majority of shopping purchases will be made by voice. In fact, already 37% of millennials say they always or usually shop by voice. Amazon is charting that course, pouring billions into AI and hire thousands of AI employes.
Buying with Pictures: Philly-based Slyce.it Builds Visual Search for Retailers
Photos of products is the most popular things people do with their phones inside stores, even more popular than checking product reviews and comparison shopping, according to research by ComScore. That, Mann believed, was a huge opportunity for retailers.
Can we push the boundaries of technology, computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence to create a physical store where consumers can purchase what they want with no queues and checkout lines, and with a few steps and complications possible?
Online Journey Hijacking costs eCommerce companies billions. Here’s the startup that wants to save you.
Imagine a customer standing inside your retail store, loving a pair of your handmade sneakers and taking them to the cash register to buy them. You’re thrilled — until suddenly a guy from a competing store down the mall appears by the shopper’s side. He holds up the same sneakers at half the price.Now take that scenario online, and you’ve got a huge problem affecting tens of thousands of retailers. This practice is known as online journey hijacking and uses “ad injector” software to insert competitive ads onto website pages within an online shopper's browser.
