Innit, the world’s first connected food company. We manage and connect food information with appliances and devices, maximizing simplicity, flavor, and nutrition.
Source: www.innit.com
Interesting startup in food automation information. Appliance integration (Pandora for food). Storing, preparation and cooking using data from food.
Subway is reimagining how ordering, payments and marketing tie together at its sandwich shops. It’s in the process of launching a new division called Subway Digital, which will pool the expertise of specialists in technology, marketing and operations rather than give full rein to any one of those disciplines.
Source: www.paymentssource.com
The company is assembling a digital team of 150 full-time employees over the next two years, with some coming from consulting company Accenture. The sandwich chain will still use agencies to produce content, while the 150-person team will focus on technology development, loyalty programs, digital strategy and consumer behavior.
“We are taking a good look at what ‘loyalty’ means for consumers and how to integrate digital experience into restaurant experience,” said Carman Wenkoff, chief information officer and chief digital officer for Subway.
Apple supplier Foxconn cut 60,000 jobs at a single factory, work that is now being completed by robots. As many as 600 companies in Kunshan may follow suit.
Source: thestack.com
In order to change over from human workers to robots, Foxconn & others in Kunshan spent $610 million US on artificial intelligence in 2015.
Optometrists’ and ophthalmologists’ associations differ on whether the exams and prescriptions are safe for patients; 10 states now have similar bans.
Source: www.medscape.com
The South Carolina legislature has overridden a veto of Gov. Nikki Haley (R) to make South Carolina the 10th state to ban eyeglass prescriptions based solely on remote eye exams.
SANTA MONICA, CA–(Marketwired – May 24, 2016) – U-Vend, Inc. (OTCQB: UVND) (the “Company”), a consumer products and technology company that develops, distributes, and markets next-generation self-serve electronic kiosks and merchandisers with a digital advertising component across North America, today announced the financial results for the Company’s first quarte
Source: www.marketwired.com
Sam’s Club’s lead over Costco in e-commerce has widened, and new initiatives like store pick-up of online orders could boost it further.
Source: fortune.com
Club Pick-Up lets customers build and save shopping lists online so they can re-order the same items later automatically, among other features. That function is particularly useful for Sam’s business members, a segment where growth has been tentative.
20 percent of all Google queries are spoken. The new Google Assistant was one of the stars of the search engine’s annual Google I/O conference last week, while Microsoft may be looking to bring its intelligent bots to Bing.
Source: redmondmag.com
“In Bing Concierge Bot we are building a highly intelligent productivity agent that communicates with the user over a conversation platform, such as Skype, Messenger, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. The agent does what a human assistant would do: it runs errands on behalf of the user, by automatically completing tasks for the user. The users talk to the agent in natural language, and the agent responds in natural language to collect all the information; once ready, it automatically performs the task for the user by connecting to service providers.
As John K. Waters reported on Redmond sister site Application Development Trends, Google is claiming that 20 percent of all its queries are spoken. Sundar Pichai, presiding over Google I/O for the first time as the company CEO, described his vision to create a more ubiquitous, conversational and “assistive” way to interact with technology
Target’s investments in its digital and physical store experience meld together in its omnichannel plans for 2016.
Source: risnews.edgl.com
The company is also investing in self-checkout lanes, operational enhancements and merchandizing innovations this year.
“A key area of focus in our stores is the elevation of our digital order pickup and the team is taking steps to make the process more convenient and less transactional for our guests,” said John Mulligan, EVP and Chief Operating Officer. “Our goal in these efforts is to increase satisfaction with the order pick up experience leading to more repeat usage of this capability by our guests.”
The online giant plans to expand into brick-and-mortar retail, but it’s not yet clear where, beyond a handful of cities such as Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego.
Source: www.cnet.com
Maybe they tenant with local UPS office. That would be convenient and many locations.
