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Written by guest author Carlos Castelán with Andrew Murphy. Carlos is Managing Director of The Navio Group. Note: size of bubble represents FY 2017 company revenue In recent years, companies in the retail and consumer goods space have touted “business…

Apple has been criticized for not doing enough in AI. Two recent announcements show the company is closing the gap. In the past two weeks, the company has announced the hiring of Google’s AI head, and an AI partnership with…

Market decline does not change the mega growth opportunities. The heart rate of the market increased the past week because of fears of a trade war, Facebook data privacy, and broken market technicals, but the health of the market is…

Apple and Amazon are relative safe havens. We expect over the next year investors will look favorably on Apple given the company’s privacy-first ethos in an age where privacy is becoming a more prevalent topic. Amazon will also likely benefit…

We tested Target’s Drive Up service with 10 separate orders. The most important metric, park-to-depart, average time was an impressive 1:18 seconds. This delightful service that will gain traction, and something that Amazon can’t offer today. This does not change…

After our first visit to Amazon Go, Amazon's automated retail store in Seattle, we're not surprised to hear the company has plans to open up to six more cashierless convenience stores later this year. The automated retail space is getting…

We recently surveyed 520 US consumers about smart speakers and found that 89% of respondents were satisfied with them. A closer look at the results reveals the reason for this high satisfaction; early use cases are simple (Music, weather, general…

Conclusion Yesterday, we put HomePod through the smart speaker gauntlet which included 782 queries along with comprehensive tests of sound quality and ease of use. Our methodology was comprised of 3 HomePods being tested throughout the day by the Loup…

Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer, about five times bigger in that space than Walmart and its Jet.com subsidiary. Yet despite Amazon’s deep online roots and dominance over Internet shopping, I believe it will buy Target in 2018.

Loup Ventures’ predictions of 2018: AI theme continues and artificial general intelligence takes small step forward through Google’s “Deepmind” initiative. VR gets untethered but it still takes another year to take off. Google Home continues to gain market share in smart…

Smart speakers are quickly becoming one of the most common consumer uses of AI thanks to aggressive pricing and marketing from companies like Amazon and Google. We've conducted our latest round of queries, designed to test the full range of…

Written by guest authors Lindsay Boyajian, Product Marketing, and  Zack Kadish, Professional Services at Conductor. For the past few years, we’ve seen the buzz around AR and VR build. All the major players from Amazon to Apple to Snap have made…