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Will E-Commerce Benefit from Machine Learning or Face a New Threat?

Kissmetrics

The e-commerce revolution was built on the back of digital advances and automation, but is the next generation of machine learning and AI friend or foe? Machine learning is the method today’s systems use to learn about you and the fundamental things that make you who you are. It looks beyond generalizations and characterizations on your age or gender and realizes that you’re a huge fan of cartoon dogs and emojis, but only the ones that have the same hair as you.

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Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday: It’s All About the Consumer

ChannelAdvisor

Black Friday sure isn’t what it used to be. Yes, Thanksgiving and Black Friday raked in a whopping $7.9 billion in online sales, according to Adobe Analytics , which is almost an 18% increase from 2016. Black Friday also served as a personal milestone for Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, whose net worth exceeded the $100 billion mark for the first time ever. Record growth.