We spend a lot of time talking about the impact of the “Amazon Effect” on traditional retail’s current misfortunes. But there’s another “Amazon Effect” which goes largely ignored, and which could be even more disruptive. As we heard Amazon’s VP of Payments, Patrick Gauthier, tell me...
Encryption is most certainly having a moment, though not in the way its proponents might expect. While Apple is fighting a legal battle in support of it, another major retailer just sandbagged encryption in a major way. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
The way Amazon’s Echo is designed, one might think it can handle just about everything with nothing more than voice commands. On every front the regular Echo can’t hold its own, though, Amazon has its customers covered. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
While Amazon’s voice-controlled Echo may have caught consumers off-guard when it was first released last year, the retailer has been hard at work adding features to the device to make it more appealing to the least tech-savvy Prime members out there. Get the Full Story...
June 27, 2017
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March 04, 2016
The way Amazon’s Echo is designed, one might think it can handle just about everything with nothing more than voice commands. On every front the regular Echo can’t hold its...
