The Amazon Alexa Fund has invested in Plant Prefab, a leading home design and prefabrication company. The Southern California startup announced it has raised a $6.7 million Series A funding round that also included participation from Obvious Ventures. The funds will be used towards new senior hires, building the marketing and sales team, and developing […]
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Four months after General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect, France is seeing a rise in data privacy complaints. The country’s CNIL agency announced on Tuesday (Sept. 25) that it’s received 3,767 complaints since May 25, which is when the GDPR went into effect. That is an increase from 2,294 complaints over the same period last […]
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One card to rule them all: the mantra rings throughout the payments realm, and smacks of some sorcery and swashbuckling movies one may remember. Like a scene out of a Tolkien movie, though, the lure of that mantra has left a lot of bodies in its wake, where peril outweighed promise, where startups burned through cash. […]
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Every time a new visual search deal comes along — like the major one involving Amazon and Snap, one rumored but officially announced on Monday (Sept. 24) — it seems a good time to remind ourselves that text is dead and that we live in a post-literate society. As was the case many centuries ago, pictures are […]
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Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech Today, Marketing Land and other places across the web. From MarTech Today: Adobe’s new Virtual Analyst doesn’t need questions to provide answers Sep 24, 2018 by Barry Levine The AI-powered addition to the Analytics Cloud is designed to alert marketers to data […]
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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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Some failures of technology are very serious. On Jan. 13, 2018, an emergency alert text went out all over Hawaii telling residents and tourists that an incoming ballistic missile attack was imminent, tipping off waves of panic and terror as people scrambled for cover. There was no attack, of course, just a crossed wire between […]
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Jeff Bezos has been busy building stores, and rockets, and distribution centers, and a knockoff of Pinterest. He’s a bit late to the game, but that has never stopped Amazon from figuring out ways to monetize on improvements to existing technology. They took ecommerce to a whole new level, and now dominate the realm of online […]
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is partnering with ConsenSys, a group of Ethereum developers and entrepreneurs on a mission to build infrastructure, applications and practices that enable a decentralized world. AWS is among the largest cloud computing service providers in the world. They have a vast array of plans for ecommerce hosting, database storage and other […]
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Amazon was awarded a US patent for analyzing the data stream coming from various data sources, to determine who has made a Bitcoin transaction. The data that the analysis provides may then be sold to subscribers, or shared with various government organizations, including law enforcement, tax collectors and regulators. According to the patent, the invention […]
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