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Commerce Weekly: The lucrative art of tracking shopper behavior
Revealing shopper behavior, retail battles web with experience and service, and Starbucks' struggles with Square.
Snooping on shoppers pays off
Liz Gannes took a look this week at how online retailers’ desires to track consumers’ shopping habits are resulting in emerging startups offering services to track various behaviors on behalf of retailers. In a post at All Things Digital, she highlights newly launched startup Sift Science, which tracks online shopper behaviors…
Commerce Weekly: Goodbye traditional retail, hello ecommerce
Marc Andreessen predicts the end of retail; expansion plans at Starbucks, Intuit; and Newegg takes down a patent troll.
Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week.
Death bells toll for brick-and-mortar retail
A recent report from mobile analytics startup Flurry looked at the growth in consumer use of shopping apps and concluded the “App & Mortar economy has arrived.” Flurry president and CEO Simon Khalaf reviewed their research results
Commerce Weekly: Verizon drops Google Wallet
Mobile payment fragmentation, swipe-and-pay lives up to its name, and Starbucks plays with augmented reality.
Telecom's resistance hints at more mobile payment fragmentation, criminals take the "swipe" part of "swipe-and-pay" literally, and Starbucks uses augmented reality to create a viral marketer's dream. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between O'Reilly and PayPal.)
Top Stories: November 21-25, 2011
The danger of SOPA, lessons from a Starbucks social experiment, and why the real world is writable.
This week on O'Reilly: Alex Howard explored the implications of SOPA and PROTECT IP, Jonathan Stark looked back on his Starbucks card experiment, and Terry Jones explained how APIs can help publishers.
Jonathan's Card: Lessons from a social experiment
What happens when everyone has access to your Starbucks card? Jonathan Stark found out.
Jonathan Stark raised eyebrows last summer when he made his Starbucks card available for anyone to use. Here, Stark looks back on the "Jonathan's Card" experiment and examines its lessons.
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