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The curious case of the disappearing Hydrox cookies

The Hustle

She’s visited multiple grocery stores near her home in the Bronx, followed a Facebook group, and even talked to a manager at a production facility in El Segundo, California, about supply shortages. Almost 30, 40 years I’ve been on the trail for Hydrox,” she says. And it’s a dirty path, I tell you.” commands nearly 40% of the cookie market.

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VIDEO: How does your technology choice today impact your custom software profitability tomorrow?

Praxent

B) Having more off-the-shelf solutions instead of having to invent everything ourselves, and. Our second indicator is from Stack Overflow’s 2018 Developer Survey. It’s a very lengthy survey – I’d encourage anybody out there to take a look at it. Plus, he shares his recommended technologies today. ?.

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How Retailers Use Artificial Intelligence to Innovate Customer Experience and Enhance Operations

Altexsoft

In-store cameras and sensors detect each product one takes from a shelf, and items are being added to a virtual cart while a customer proceeds. Physical stores still have a lion’s share of sales, but the tendency of the growing demand for online experiences shouldn’t be ignored. Source: Forrester Consulting. Amazon Go stores.

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Three surveys of AI adoption reveal key advice from more mature practices

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Recently, O’Reilly Media published AI Adoption in the Enterprise: How Companies Are Planning and Prioritizing AI Projects in Practice , a report based on an industry survey. That was the third of three industry surveys conducted in 2018 to probe trends in artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and cloud adoption.

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Why Wearables at Work are Increasing

IDC

In a recent IDC survey , examining the distribution of wearable devices throughout the company, for the past three years, the percentage of respondents that picked ‘we are not deploying wearables’ has shrunk from 61% in 2016 down to zero in 2018. And you get a wearable! And you get a wearable! Tablets followed suit.

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Antitrust regulators are using the wrong tools to break up Big Tech

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In his 2018 letter to shareholders , published this past April, Jeff Bezos was already prepping for conversations with regulators. In fact, surveys have suggested that between seven and nine out of 10 Americans will check Amazon to compare the price of a purchase.) It’s a nerve-wracking time to be a Big Tech company.

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The great dollar store backlash

The Hustle

She was standing in a Dollar General store a few miles from Cascade, Maryland, where she and a dozen other residents are suing a developer to stop a Dollar General from going up. It was horrible.” Cascade, a village of 840 people, has three dollar stores within five miles of town. It’s been there for nearly two years. Dollar General is invasive.

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