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TRENDING: Order-Ahead Expands To Airports And Virtual Restaurants


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Why Crypterium Thinks The World Needs A Cryptobank


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Why ISV Partnerships Loom Large In 2018


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NEW DATA: Behind Germany’s Obsession With Cash


Hitting Reset On Real World Retail Design


Finding Retail’s Big Data ROI


Trending: How Banks Use AI To Make Faster Payments More Secure


CanPay: Solving Pot’s Payments Problem


Ameliora And Trying To Stitch Empowerment Into A Firm’s Fabric


First Data: It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, Everywhere Consumers Shop


Solving America’s Paycheck-To-Paycheck Problem


Game Of Thrones: CFPB Edition


NEW REPORT: Car Sales And Kiosks


Alexa: Calling Your Screen And Screening Your Calls


The Power Of Platforms To Make Rental Income A Sure Thing


Online Banking: An Unwitting Accomplice To Multi-Channel Fraud Attacks


Joy To The World Edition: Bitcoin, Walmart And The Magic Of Movies


Bringing Subscription Commerce To Real-World Retail


Why The Future Of Payments Is Interoperable (Not Integrated)


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The Most Unusual Connected Devices Of 2017
 

The Internet of Things (IoT) may have jumped the digital shark this year. A toaster that texts? A water filter that replaces itself? A talking whiskey decanter? It’s encouraging to see so much innovation taking place, but did the world really need a ramen fork that masks the sound of slurping? For a moment, let’s set “need” aside and just focus on the, ah, creativity behind some of the more unusual connected devices that 2017 has wrought.

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Alexa: From Voice To A Conversation About Commerce
 

From physical to web to mobile to now voice, commerce has evolved across many channels. But voice, Patrick Gauthier, VP and GM of Amazon Pay, told Karen Webster, brings with it unlimited opportunities to reimagine commerce, because the types of conversations we can have as humans are limitless. Unlocking this voice-enabled commerce frontier requires conversations with voice assistants that have context, mimic human-like interactions — and, Gauthier says, avoid this one fatal mistake.

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