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Trade show report: Ecommerce Expo, London, September 2017
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Our verdict (of 5): Admittedly we visited Ecommerce Expo in 2016 and were very impressed and the September 2017 edition did not disappoint on content or exhibitors. In fact it seemed as the quality of exhibitors was slightly better than the previous show. Ecommerce Expo had everything from the usual suspects such as Shopify, SAP Hybris, Bronto, Marketo and others to some of the more exciting startups such as Mad Street Den, Phrasee and others. SAP Hybris were mightily excited about their rumoured $350m acquisition of Gigya and the opportunties this will mean for upselling to existing Gigya customers and...
How will Trump's tax on non-US manufactured goods hit robots?
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Thomas Anderssontom@styleintelligence.com Most things are more complex than we think they are. It just struck me that Trump's fight with companies that open up factories overseas or outside the US is just this - more complex. If you add a tax on jobs that are moved outside of the US should there not also be a tax on machines and robots that are replacing US labour inside the US? So... the question is perhaps how this will impact the "Made in China" vs "Made in the US" labels? Or, how are robotics manufacturers setting themselves up for a possible fight...
Styleintelligence celebrate 12 months of FashionTech cover with content syndication by leading Artificial Intelligence company
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In September 2015 we took the decision to build a library of Fashion Technology specific sector reports. Throughout the 12 months since we started we have been very impressed with the ecosystem of Fashion related technology, and in particular its global spread. Although the US continues to dominate funding there are a lot of bootstrapping going on and some pretty awesome ideas being born and brought to market from other parts of the world. Our library is not building as fast as we would have liked, but this is about to change and our aim is to produce one new...
New Report - FashionTech: Visual Search
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Consumers are becoming increasingly visual in their online activities. Visual Search technologies have advanced to a level where entering a visual conversation with consumers is now possible. We profiled 23 companies and interviewed C-level executives in 14 companies. In addition we also interviewed the ecommerce pioneer Eric Olson, Ex-Innovation Director Online at Nordstrom Inc to get the customer view on the technologies. Download a summary of the report here