Here’s our recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech Today, Marketing Land and other places across the web. From MarTech Today: With Marketo mega-deal, Adobe’s reach just got a whole lot wider Sep 21, 2018 by Barry Levine At least one analyst said the acquisition “fundamentally resets the competitive playing field” for […]
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Third Door Media is currently looking for a Community Editor to lead contributed content efforts for its industry-leading editorial brands Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. The Community Editor is first a convener, adept at cultivating a strong community of contributors who have demonstrated high-level expertise in digital marketing and wish to […]
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Customized clothing and automation generally don’t exist comfortably in the same sentence, let alone in the same retail operation. Custom dressing tends to call to mind images of sketched designs and hand-sewn items, not robots or computers. But, fresh off a $1 million funding round with Google Ventures, fashion start-up Maison Me is hoping to […]
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Some digitizations are clearly an upgrade — consumers prefer doing their Black Friday shopping from their couch as opposed to the mall, and businesses prefer that their cross-border payments not be a source of surprise when it comes to arrival times. However, some innovations are, perhaps, a harder sale. We may live in the era of […]
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Lease-to-own services are making a comeback with eCommerce retailers. Overstock.com is bringing a lease-to-own purchase option to its financial service offerings. The option, provided by Progressive Leasing, allows customers to lease products for as long as a year and is available for over three million products on the retailer’s website. Overstock.com is no stranger to offering financial […]
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Before Ankush Sehgal co-founded Try.com, he saw the benefits of try-before-you-buy with his family’s luxury discount store that sold high-end designer brands in London. As was common for luxury retail shops, the store had a black book of VIP customers. Each time a new collection would come into the store, Sehgal’s family would send them […]
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When it comes to the home, and specifically the technology at the heart of most people’s homes, the television has a big role to play. On average, people spend more time interacting with television than any other single activity. Of course, we aren’t all sitting down to watch scheduled programmes in the way families did […]
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After its controversial Colin Kaepernick ads appeared earlier in September, the market value of Nike has grown by $6 billion. All in, the retailer’s stock has risen by 36 percent during the year, with 5 percent of the gain occurring after the release of the ads, Fortune reported. Riley FBR Chief Market Strategist Art Hogan said […]
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Thailand’s fourth largest bank, Kasikornbank, will join Visa’s blockchain-based B2B solution for international payments. Thailand’s fourth largest bank, Kasikornbank, has recently joined the blockchain-based Visa B2B Connect program for cross-border payments, local newspaper The Nation reported Thursday, September 20. According to The Nation, Kasikornbank is the “first” bank in the country to use the technology, […]
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BofA has filed a new patent for managing the communication of data from Internet of Things devices. The U.S.’s second-largest bank, Bank of America (BofA), has filed a new patent for adapting multiple digital signatures in a distributed network, according to a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) filing published September 18. The new patent […]
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