It was only a matter of time. As AI continues to reach into every corner of the business and tech worlds, the latest conquest is SMB accounting and financial software., Intuit has integrated a conversational AI agent into its ubiquitous suite.
AI continues to expand as its herd mentality drives nearly every corner of the tech world toward the shiny new thing. The latest subsector sprinting toward AI is the local on-demand economy. We examine a few examples.
In a surprise move, Shopify will now offer its merchants the opportunity to integrate Amazon’s ‘Buy with Prime.’ This is Amazon’s program that lets merchants outside of Amazon.com tap into its payment processing, shipping, and returns functions.
One key question around any emerging tech is if average folks are using it… or even care about it. The latest subjects are generative and conversational AI. New research from Pew sheds some light on this question.
The latest in contactless checkout has arrived, and it could stick given its influential adopter: Starbucks. The coffee giant has begun to roll out what it calls “Scanless Checkout,” which goes a step further in reducing transactional friction.
Yelp reports in its New Business Openings Report that the first half of 2023 saw a record number of SMBs open in the U.S. – a strong health indicator for the U.S. economy.
New insights from Wells Fargo Securities paint a picture of the high stakes and impacted parties from cord-cutting. Specifically, it reports that local TV station groups – as opposed to major cable operators – could bleed the most.
TikTok is getting into paid search. Known as “Search Ads Toggle,” the new program offers a paid search option for brand marketers to get in front of TikTok users for the first time.
Amazon is showing signs that it wants to accelerate engagement around its new Inspire feed – its scrolling content feed that contains TikTok-style short videos that showcase Amazon-sold products.
Amidst a wave of excitement around the generative and conversational AI, the tech and media words continue to reach around and speculate it applies to their products. Now the latest area of applicability has emerged: reviews.
Microsoft has decided to kill off its legacy AI assistant, Cortana, effective this month. In terms of integration and investment, it will be replaced by Bing Chat, which is based on ChatGPT and lives in several Microsoft products.
Roku has announced the latest partner to accelerate its T-Commerce play: Shopify. The collaboration will position Shopify merchants and their products as targeted ads throughout the Roku UX.
Fulfilling a move that Elon Musk has telegraphed for months, the Twitter brand is gone, and X now lives there. How does this track to his explicit ambitions to build the ‘everything app?’
Rumors have been swirling about Apple’s R&D in AI. Known as “Apple GPT.” It’s allegedly being tested internally among employees, with a wider rollout to come next year. The big question: what does this mean for Siri?
Adobe Firefly has reached one billion images generated. This comes four months after the tool launched – a pace that is propelled by Firefly’s positioning in the ubiquitous creative cloud.
The humble online calendar is advancing. This longstanding and unsexy format rarely gets updates. But in the last few weeks alone, we’ve noticed an uptick in updates to calendar tech.
Yelp and Entrepreneur Magazine today published the first-ever list of America’s top-ranked mom & pop shops. The result is a list of 150 businesses across 10 categories.
We continue to track clues that TikTok has its own homegrown eCommerce program brewing. Known as “Trendy Beat” it’s a shopping section where TikTok will act natively as an eCommerce store, similar to Amazon.
What is Apple Vision Pro? Who’s it meant for? And how does it fit into Apple’s future-proofing plan for its hardware business? We go deep on the device’s role in a signature Apple product lifecycle.
Bluehost has announced a feature that’s meant to help SMBs build advanced websites. Known as WonderSuite, it’s a sort of digital co-pilot for the creation and ongoing management of business websites.
