Among other information, the release stated, “We’ve seen double digit growth in mobile payment volume for Thanksgiving, Black Friday and during the first eight hours of Cyber Monday.” An increase in shopping from mobile devices was a theme again when PayPal recently reported earnings..
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Bacon? Berries? Des Moines inventor tastes the future of tofu
Bacon? Berries? Des Moines inventor tastes the future of tofu Bob Rees wants to make your tofu taste as good as your flavored yogurt. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2kGJsj0 Bob Rees, a 59-year-old Des Moines inventor, shows his idea for flavored tofu using jello mix and soymilk, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017.
Seniors welcome new robot friends
Welcoming a robot into her family was never Maxine Duncan’s idea of a support aide in her older years. But this winter, she and her partner, Herbert Yarbrough, signed up to test a telepresence robot in their retirement community in Walnut Creek, Calif.
Tasty Valentine’s Day Gifts with Direct-to-Door Delivery
According to the National Confectioners Association , chocolate accounted for approximately 59 percent of U.S. candy retail sales for the six weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day in 2016. That’s a lot of sweet treats duly expressing our love and adoration for the darlings in our lives.
Hotel restaurant awarded three AA Rosettes for dining options
The Great Western Restaurant’s talented head chef Mark Budd honed his skills at some of the finest hotel restaurants in the world before returning to his home country of Devon. He has adapted the menu to reflect Bovey Castle’s glorious surroundings.
Norway Salmon Anyone? What to Watch If Russia Sanctions Ease
Stock pickers are already positioning for an event that has the potential to shake up markets from Norway to Brazil: the lifting of sanctions on Russia. Any easing of the restrictions that have isolated Europe’s fifth-biggest economy for nearly three years will be a “shot of adrenaline for the stock market,” according to Luis Saenz, who runs the Russian sales and trading department at BCS Financial Group.
Origami-inspired radiator from NASA could change shape to warm or cool tiny satellites
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The robots are coming
The future will feature a lot more pizza bots instead of pizza boys if London-based delivery robot maker Starship Technologies has anything to say about it. The robot-focused startup – founded in 2014 by Skype cofounders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis – is on something of a tear at the moment, having just raised $17.2 million from investors that included Daimler.
COMMENT: Tough times ahead for the high street in 2017
Dr Peter Jones, Dean of Staffordshire Business School , reflects on what was seen as a buoyant year for retail – but tough times ahead for the high street in one of UK’s biggest employment sectors. The retail sector is a key part of our national economy – accounting for an enormous A 325 billion of annual income.
Gift Design Company Unveils Innovative Caricature-Based Valentine’s Day Presents
Dezains.com, a gift-design firm based in Hyderabad, India, introduced a new concept for Valentine’s Day gifts in the form of romantic and well-done cartoons. These adorable items are already available in its e-commerce site so potential patrons will not find it difficult to choose and place their orders right away.
We should have no beef with bureaucracy if it keeps food safe
LOCALS were startled last week when thousands of Skittles were found on a road in Wisconsin. But they were even more startled when the fruity sweets turned out to have fallen off a truck carrying them as cattle feed .
Oxidative Priority, Meal Frequency, and the Energy Economy of Food…
To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. Abstract In most modern societies, the relationship that many individuals have with food has fundamentally changed from previous generations.
New Orleans man helps fellow vets start businesses
For close to a decade, Robert Armbruster woke up and put on the U.S. Marine Corps uniform. The uniform was more than cloth and thread – it was a visual reminder that he was a part of a mission larger than himself.
Space-age inventions we use daily
Gordon Ramsay is not someone you usually associate with the space age. But there he was last week, pictured working out on a Nasa-inspired 30 000 treadmill.
HPP baby food in a pouch is So Good
New So Good Baby refrigerated fruit and vegetable purees in a flexible, windowed pouch use HPP to preserve the flavor, nutrients, and color of the products while providing a 60-day shelf life. The High Pressure Processed baby food category has taken off, with entrepreneurs introducing fresh, refrigerated products with an extended shelf life for parents seeking more nutritious food choices for their babies.
Lunar New Year lai see tradition goes digital in a big way
In keeping with the digital age, mainland Chinese have wholeheartedly embraced the digital transfer of money, spending their cash on smartphones without having to venture outside. Distributing digital red packets to friends, colleagues, relatives and employees as lai see during the Spring Festival has evolved from an occasional dalliance to a major part of life during the week-long holiday for the Lunar New Year, underscoring the profound shifts taking place in the world’s second-largest economy.
30 Sugar-Sweet Valentine’s Day Icons
So, you want to give your projects some extra love? With Valentine’s Day coming up soon, we’ve got a fresh new set that consists of a delicious selection – just like a good box of chocolates. Take a peek, and you’ll find icons especially tailored to e-commerce projects , but also some more versatile motifs like a love letter, calendar, and even a WiFi sign that sends off some lovely vibes.
Amazon China uses Prime to promote imported goods in China
I would recommend that you have one description which you use on your own site and offer e-retailers an alternate description. E-commerce sales by region, sales by product category, holiday data, online spending by shopper and as percentage of household income, and more.
Pepper The Robot To Greet Travele…
More specifically, the 4-foot high humanoid robot is joining a global restaurateur to engage with customers as they walk by one of the eateries at the Oakland International Airport. The restaurateur, HMSHost, has teamed with Softbank Robotics America to launch a new pilot program with the humanoid robot starting this week.
Pepper The Robot To Greet Travele…
More specifically, the 4-foot high humanoid robot is joining a global restaurateur to engage with customers as they walk by one of the eateries at the Oakland International Airport. The restaurateur, HMSHost, has teamed with Softbank Robotics America to launch a new pilot program with the humanoid robot starting this week.
How to Opt Out of the Most Popular People Search Sites
Genealogy site Family Tree Now made waves when people discovered it can be used to look up almost anyone’s personal information, even if they’d never heard of the site before. Addresses, family members, and known associates are free for anyone to find.
Works by master Japanese ceramists to be presented at Crocker Art Museum
Beginning in January, the Crocker Art Museum will bring to Sacramento Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection, an exhibition highlighting the technical virtuosity of more than 40 artists, including many of Japan’s greatest living ceramists. Japan has an exceptionally long and distinguished history of ceramic-making, dating back to the Neolithic period, around 10,000 BCE.
Global Sports Nutrition Market to Witness Steady Growth Due to Rising …
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A virtual-reality hunt for Nian, the Lunar New Year monster
The Chinese New Year VR Express, aboard which visitors use virtual reality to hunt for the monster Nian, at The Arcade, in Cyberport. Virtual and augmented reality have put a new spin on an old festive legend for Lunar New Year, as The Arcade in Cyberport reawakens the mythical beast Nian.
Guest Editorial: Lunar New Year is for losers like me
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Top retailers gear up for Chinese New Year shoppers
MODERN RETAILERS have launched attractive Chinese New Year campaigns to cash in on the first major festival of 2017 that lures high shopper spending. According to Kasikorn Research Centre, total spending during the Chinese New Year festival is expected to reach Bt6.4 billion, or at about Bt3,600 per household on average, up 3 per cent from the same festive event last year, driven by the higher prices of goods.
Ramping Up For ADS-B
Pilots who fly in Southern California’s busy airspace will soon be expected to follow new procedures, so the FAA has planned a… While we were preparing to shut down at a tie down spot at Henderson Airport, Las Vegas, ground control was directing a taxiing Piper …… In the Flytenow case, the FAA applied old thinking that doesn’t work in a world where technology moves at the speed of heat. They’ve moldered on my office shelf, unused, for more than a decade.
‘Founder’ a scathing look at McDonalds visionary
B.J. Novak, left, and Michael Keaton in a scene from “The Founder.” This biopic profiling Ray Kroc and the making of McDonald’s puts a laser focus on the man whose ruthless tactics turned a small burger joint into a billion-dollar empire.
3 Restaurant Stocks With the Best Comparable-Store Sales Growth
As restaurant investors probably already know, comparable sales are perhaps the single most important metric in determining a company’s success. The figure, which strips out the effect of sales at stores that have been opened or closed in the last year, probably provides the best snapshot of a brand’s current popularity.
Robots and artificial intelligence set to upend the art of making a sale
Thanks to facial recognition capabilities, Pepper can determine your gender and age bracket. And as you begin asking her questions, she can draw from a vast volume of cloud-based information to give what she thinks are relevant answers.
New Research: Cisco Reveals the Current State of Digital Transformation in Retail
Analysts are hailing 2016 as the best year for holiday sales growth since 2005. However, this growth is not coming from the traditional brick and mortarchannel.
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The Founder Finds America (and Its Food) Turning Nasty
Like its subject, the man who took McDonald’s from a single burger shop to a globe-straddling child-fattener, John Lee Hancock’s The Founder can’t stop selling.
10 Things to Know for Tuesday
Members of the NAACP stand at the Civil Rights Garden during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day walk and commemoration Monday, Jan. 16 2017, in Atlantic City, N.J. As Americans celebrate the legacy of King, civil rights leaders and activists are trying to reconcile the transition from the nation’s first black president to a president-elect still struggling to connect with most non-white voters. CORRECTING DATE TO JAN 16 – Reina club attacker after being caught by Turkish police in Istanbul, late Monday, Jan. 16, 2017.
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New Year philosophical reflections
And I’ve been thinking, which reflective holiday breaks allow one to do better. Famed Gleaner columnist Morris Cargill wrote from his deathbed 17 years ago: “Martin Henry thinks too damn much”.
What Do You Know … About Preserving Knowledge?
In this week’s Atlantic coverage, our writers explored a plan to preserve all of human memory , America’s immigration history , how microbes spread through hospitals , the planet that could have been Earth , the evolutionary quirk that whales share with humans, and more. Can you remember the key facts? Find the answers to this week’s questions in the articles linked above-or go ahead and test your memory now: In this week’s Atlantic coverage, our writers explored the history of the sharing economy , how to measure the American Dream , why Trump might be thinking about a moon base , how to choose a reliable hedge-fund manager , problems with the Paleo diet , and more.
Apple Accounts for Nearly 1/3 of Holiday Smartphone Sales in US
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Online chef – doesn’t get sexist comments from trolls’
Day Day Cook founder Norma Chu believes it is partly due to her taking a less traditional path compared with other female chefs who work in professional kitchens A chef from Hong Kong who shot to fame online with her home cooking video tutorials has happily revealed that she has never received sexist comments from trolls. Norma Chu, 36, a former banker who founded online cooking platform Day Day Cook in 2012, said she had so far escaped the sexism encountered by many female chefs in professional kitchens by taking a less traditional career path.
You Can Now Order Girl Scout Cookies Online
Yes, you heard that right! Rather than trying to track down the parent of a Girl Scout or roaming around your community centers looking for those ubiquitous tables, you can now buy boxes upon boxes of the tasty cookies from the comfort of your own home, according to Hello Giggles . It’s all thanks to the Digital Cookie platform .