For many fashion brands, highly personalized customer experiences are a cornerstone of their digital businesses. Their customers expect nothing less. Advancements in AI, analytics, and cloud computing mean that businesses have the tools to work with all types of data across channels in real time. This could support a move to hyperpersonalization, in which technology…
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According to Pew research majority of Americans believe their online and offline activities are being tracked and monitored by companies and the government with some regularity. It is such a common condition of modern life that roughly six-in-ten U.S. adults say they do not think it is possible to go through daily life without having…
Apple and Intel have signed an agreement for Apple to acquire the majority of Intel’s smartphone modem business. Approximately 2,200 Intel employees had join Apple, along with intellectual property, equipment and leases. The transaction, valued at $1 billion, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2019, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary…
On a daily basis, consumers engage in a variety of online and offline activities that reveal personal information about them. Some typical activities include using a mobile device, shopping for a home or car, subscribing to a magazine, making a purchase at a store or through a catalog, browsing the Internet, responding to a survey…
Open source software is the foundation for much of the technology that serves as a backbone of our world. Open source refers to software that is made freely available for anyone to access, modify, utilize and redistribute. Providing the foundation for 96% of the world’s software, open source software is a public good enabling a…
Many of the revolutionary technologies that make the iPhone and other products and services “smart” were funded by the U.S. government. Take, for instance, the Internet, GPS, touchscreen display, as well as the latest voice-activated personal assistant, Siri. And Apple did not just benefit from government-funded research activities. It also received its early stage finance…
Core Privacy Roadmap Over the past years, CMS projects have taken a new focus on online privacy, largely spurred by compliance requirements for Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation. Although that work is now largely completed, the work gave each project useful practical experience in creating privacy teams planning and structuring work on a volunteer-led basis…
Every language on the web has strong links to English, usually with around twenty percent of offsite links and occasionally over forty five percent, such as from Tagalog/Filipino, spoken in the Philippines, and Urdu, principally spoken in Pakistan . Both the Philippines and Pakistan are former British colonies where English is one of the two…
The internet is riddled with bad checkouts: a shocking number of purchase flows underperform both consumer expectations and business needs. Stripe research found that 99% of the leading ecommerce sites make five or more basic errors in their checkout, impeding the ability of customers to complete a purchase. Sixty percent of online shoppers said they’ll…