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  • Square bulks up financing leadership with Yahoo exec

    As it prepares for a planned IPO, Square, the payments processing company led and co-founded by tech heavyweight Jack Dorsey is adding key executives to its Square Capital business financing operation.

  • Target Bullseye: Q&A on Tech Start-Up Accelerator Program

    Target on Monday officially opened the application process for its new startup accelerator program, created in partnership with Techstars and led by Target EIR (entrepreneur-in-residence) West Stringfellow. The retailer posted a Q&A with Stringfellow, who forged Target’s partnership with Techstars, on its Bullseye blog.

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  • Technology summit comes to Walmart’s back yard

    Northwest Arkansas isn’t the first place that comes to mind when the phrase “hotbed of start-up activity” is uttered, but organizers of a first-of-its-kind technology summit are looking to change that perception.

    On November 10, more than 800 people are expected to gather at the John Q. Hammons Convention Center in Rogers, Ark., for the Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit, an event organized by the Bentonville/Bella Vista Chamber of Commerce and the Northwest Arkansas Council.

  • Retail and CPG marketing made easier

    Aside from some massively complex challenges, retailer and consumer packaged goods marketers have never had it so good, according to Bob Fair, president of marketing applications

  • Target increases food focus with eye toward future

    Target Corp. has made grocery and perishable products a big part of its turnaround strategy, and is committing to do so for the forseeable future.

    Target is partnering with the MIT Media Lab and global design firm Ideo on a multi-year collaboration, known as the Food + Future coLAB, to explore the future of food. The work will focus on areas such as urban farming, food transparency and authenticity, supply chain and health.

  • Walmart donates nearly $1 million to help retail's front line

    Walmart is one step closer to fulfilling its mission of donating $100 million toward increasing the economic mobility of entry-level workers.

    The retailer and its Walmart Foundation are donating nearly $1 million to Innovate+Educate to fund research and build recommendations that support the advancement of entry-level workers in retail and adjacent sectors.

  • 3 ways voice is driving omnichannel retailing

    Spoken word is the oldest form of human communication. It’s also one of the newest technology trends enabling omnichannel retail.

    Voice-based communications are having on a dramatic impact on how retailing is seamlessly executed. Here are three key areas where voice is supporting omnichannel operations across the retail enterprise.

  • Tech Bytes: Three Ways Voice is Enabling Omnichannel Retail

    Spoken word is the oldest form of human communication.

    It’s also one of the newest technology trends enabling omnichannel retail. Voice-based communications are having on a dramatic impact on how retailing is seamlessly executed. Here are three key areas where voice is supporting omnichannel operations across the retail enterprise.

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