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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Google Maps is getting a makeover and retailers will be a beneficiary as it enables more location sharing, data access and social media integration. Along with a new logo for its 15th birthday, the Google Maps app has stepped up its navigation features, according to reports. Updates is a feed of stories, trending nearby spots.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Google says that six months of COVID-19 restrictions have produced changes in shopping habits that in typical times would have taken 10 years to transpire – and the company today is touting offerings for brick-and-mortar small businesses as a way to help. Business owners can integrate the ads with inventory management systems.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

In payment methods, Circle K announced a cashierless checkout pilot as convenience stores advance retail innovations. And in education, Google and Apple are facilitating students’ return to class with the help of technology. 7.3K: Minimum number of Circle K stores in operation in the U.S. All this, Today in Data.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Google Cloud and Finland’s Nokia are teaming up to develop cloud-native 5G solutions for communications service providers and enterprise customers, the companies announced in a Thursday (Jan. 14) press release.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Coinciding with Black History Month, Google is extending the Black-owned attribute to its Shopping tab, building on the initiatives launched across Search and Maps over the summer. The label reads “identifies as Black-owned” and will appear in Google Shopping’s results. .

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

As Google and Walmart battle for market share in India’s fast-growing payments sector, they face a new obstacle. The search and tech behemoth and the world’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer suddenly face strict new limits on their growth imposed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Voice recognition could soon play a bigger role in retail — especially in the world of quick service restaurants. The fast food operator recently announced an agreement to acquire Apprente. Google ’s new voice recognition app , which works entirely offline, is now available to anyone with a Pixel.

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MARCH 14, 2019

The release of a new Google app development tool is among the latest steps to try to bring more mobile accessibility to people with disabilities — a push that’s been going on in the background of digital retail and associated areas almost since the beginning. So what does that actually mean in plain English?

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Google has updated its search function to make searching for clothing items and accessories easier, the company said in a blog post. To start using the service, a customer simply types in the name of the accessory they’re looking for in the Google search bar, like “bathrobes,” “pants” or “bathing suits.”

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Customers are rewarded “time currency” at the time of their checkout by using their Google Maps timeline to demonstrate precisely how far and long they have traveled to get to IKEA. And if you find yourself leaping to Google to figure out where the farthest IKEA you can drive to is, be warned.

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JUNE 16, 2020

Carrefour Group , one of the world’s biggest supermarket chains, and Google are launching a voice-activated grocery shopping service in France. Carrefour and Google said Tuesday (June 16) their latest innovation is part of the French retailer’s ambition to accelerate its expansion into food eCommerce. . billion euros ($4.7

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MARCH 21, 2019

Very soon, eBay shoppers will be able to choose Google Pay as their payment method when checking out. Shoppers who prefer to use Google Pay will be able to do so within the eBay app, mobile website and desktop site, regardless of operating system or device. The rollout officially starts in April.

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APRIL 2, 2019

In a blog post, Tom Ward, senior vice president of digital operations at Walmart, said the retailer is building platforms with partners including Google to help customers shop via voice. If a customer tells Walmart through Google Assistant to add milk to the shopping cart, it will add the one he or she purchased in the past.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

In a roundup of today’s top retail stories: The automotive market continues its comeback with a digital spin, conversational commerce is the next big pandemic-fueled trend, and Tiffany said that its preliminary sales results for August and September 2020 are positive. Conversational Commerce Finds Its Voice in Digital Retail.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Google has updated its search function to make searching for clothing items and accessories easier, the company said in a blog post. To start using the service, a customer simply types in the name of the accessory they’re looking for in the Google search bar, like “bathrobes,” “pants” or “bathing suits.”

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JUNE 4, 2020

The eCommerce company is in the early stages of exploring a deal to take a $2 billion stake in Bharti Airtel , India’s third-largest telecom operator, Reuters reported , citing three sources with knowledge of the talks. Meanwhile, Google is exploring its own Indian telecom play. Amazon has already laid out $6.5

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

That’s one angle through which you can view a recent development involving Google Lens. The product, which is Google’s object recognition platform, has taken on new duties. On Google Images results, a new Lens button will appear at the bottom of each picture. And major digital operators are embracing the concept.

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MAY 23, 2019

Google users can now place restaurant orders right from Google Maps, Google Assistant or Google Search. The function operates in Google Maps and Google Search through an “Order Online” button that shows up when consumers look for a supported restaurant.

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JUNE 5, 2019

It’s not enough to just be a retailer these days, it seems. The retail chain reportedly has been in discussions with Triad Retail Media , the retail advertiser owned by WPP PLC, to acquire it. It is now only behind Google and Facebook. Google is expected to lose share and drop to 37.2 billion this year.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Not surprisingly, the two leading competitors in the field, Amazon and Google, have thrown massive discounts at the range of Echo and Google Home products for sale this holiday season. Though Amazon’s Echo line and Google’s Home products are the two leaders in the field, Amazon leads the race thus far by a pretty strong margin – 64.5

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MARCH 5, 2019

JD.com, one of the biggest eCommerce retailers in China, has teamed up with Google to launch a store on Google Express, according to a report by Reuters. . In June of last year, Google announced it was going to invest $550 million in JD.com in exchange for a 1 percent stake in the company.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

The free service, called Lavka, stocks roughly 2,000 items and plans to operate as a digital convenience market for items like toothpaste and condoms. Yandex launched 20 years ago as a search engine Google with a variety of online services, including ride-hailing and restaurant deliveries.

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MAY 24, 2019

Google has recently upped its game in the food service area of retail, further proof that innovation is heating up when it comes to restaurants – and another signal of how the connected vehicle ecosystem is developing. For restaurants supporting the feature, the orders are completed via Google and Google Pay.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

The hot new thing in “Big Retail” is offering in-house advertising on your website to your vendors – because why get paid only once on a purchase if you can get paid twice? In short, retailers get paid to place the ad, and then get paid again when the merchandise is sold.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This edition includes news about Facebook’s new payments push, Amazon’s new robotics plan and why Google is working more closely with financial institutions. Google Dives Into DDAs. The branding will reflect the financial institutions and not Google. Google’s Growing Global Challenge To Amazon’s Voice Dominance .

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JULY 5, 2019

It’s not enough to just be a retailer these days, it seems. The retail chain reportedly has been in discussions with Triad Retail Media , the retail advertiser owned by WPP PLC, to acquire it. It is now only behind Google and Facebook. Google is expected to lose share and drop to 37.2 billion this year.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

In today’s top news, Americans are struggling as savings accounts run dry, and several states are preparing their own antitrust probe into Google. State AGs To Press Own Case Against Google. Several states are moving forward with their own antitrust probe into Google and could decide to join the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) case.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Retail is getting more visual, and that stands to be the case for locally-focused merchants as they compete for attention and consumer dollars with the likes of Amazon and Walmart. Indeed, augmented reality is among the tools that local retailers look ready to adopt for further use. Contextualizing Commerce.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Voice commerce may grab more headlines due to the presence of Google, Apple and Amazon, but conversational commerce – its younger cousin – is finding its own way as the information superhighway to a purchase. “We With ReplyBuy, we'll operate in two-way conversations into that experience. The pandemic was definitely an accelerator.”.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In a move that shows Apple’s softening stance on its software services, Apple Music could be coming to Google Home speakers , according to a report by CNBC. A link to an Apple Music account was spotted this week in the Google Home app, but the sign-in doesn’t work yet. The Google Home Mini is significantly less expensive at $50.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

One of the main goals of digital payments and retail is to encourage seamless connections – and not just when it comes to transactions. Smart operators are figuring out how to integrate payments into not only the workforce, but also the workflow. percent: Year-over-year revenue jump for companies using AI. 80 percent: Share of U.S.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

They weren’t Google phones exactly, but they were at least Google-adjacent smartphones. While Google became the vague banner under which all Android/“not-Apple” phones could be loosely grouped, a negation of an ecosystem does not itself an ecosystem make. Yes, Google comes close but not in the way that Apple owns the iPhone.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

If you really want to understand human nature — really gain a deep sense about how people operate, and where they want to go — you could do worse than to study maps. The latest such examples come courtesy of Google Maps. Indeed, news broke this week that dining technology platform Dineout has collaborated with Google.

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MARCH 8, 2016

SEATTLE — LendingTree will “buy the clicks” previously pointing to Google Compare, now that the search giant is shuttering the service, a top LendingTree official said.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It was less than a year ago — February, to be precise — that Google appeared as the latest player in an increasingly crowded food delivery market that was intent to make a move on grocery. Google was “taking on Amazon” (according to Recode ) by making the big move on fresh produce. The big news at the time was perishables.

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MAY 8, 2017

The UK’s top retailers are facing tough competition online from U.S.-based based sites, with Apple and Google Shopping joining a list already led by American imports Amazon and eBay. According to eMarketer , February 2017 data from comScore MMX shows Apple and Google Shopping placed fifth and sixth, respectively, among the U.K.’s

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

earlier this year, Huawei has introduced a new line of 5G phones that won’t have an Android OS or any Google apps, according to a report by CNBC. The phones will not have some key Google apps like Maps, Youtube or Gmail, but Huawei has its own interface that’s based on Android called EMUI10.

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