More bad news for physical retailers going into a Black Friday that seems to be successfully collecting yawns from consumers this year.

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New research from Deloitte points to a perhaps unexpected segment of technology as one that is among the market’s fastest-growing and most disruptive today.
Reports by Business Travel News on Monday (Nov.

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As an accounts payable solutions provider, commercial payments firm AOC Solutions knows well the challenges and needs of corporate buyers and procurers.

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Tap. Pay. Give.
That’s how Android Pay and Google have promoted its latest way to not only push Android Pay further into the consumer market, but also as a mode to provide charitable donations.

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This week we take a closer look at some seasonal stories in retail security as the industry prepares to kick off the season that will account for as much as 20 percent of its sales.

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The massive disruption of the retail space has plenty of merchants scrambling after things like social commerce without quite knowing what exactly they should be doing to help their businesses.

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Check out over 55 tools that can help you with every aspect of your content marketing, from blogging to social media and more.

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If you’re like me, you probably use Google many times a day. But chances are, unless you’re a technology geek, you probably still use Google in its simplest form. If your current use of Google is limited to typing in a few words and changing your query until you find what you’re looking for, then I’m here to tell you that there’s a better way — and it’s not hard to learn.

On the other hand, even if you are a technology geek and can use Google like the best of them already, I still suggest you bookmark this article of advanced Google search tips. Then, you’ll then have the tips on hand when you’re ready to pull your hair out in frustration watching a neophyte repeatedly type in basic queries in a desperate attempt to find something.

The following advanced Google search tips are based on my own experience and things that I actually find useful. I’ve kept the descriptions of the search tips intentionally terse, as you’re likely to grasp most of these simply by looking at the example from Google anyway.

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Shopping will happen in moments, not marathons, this holiday season. Rather than relying on daylong trips to the mall or camping out overnight during Black Friday, shoppers will be turning to their mobile phones in hundreds of micro-moments, every day, all season long.

In fact, 54% of all holiday shoppers say that they plan to shop on their smartphones in spare moments throughout the day, like walking or commuting.1 These shorter mobile sessions that occur throughout the day are visible in the data: shoppers now spend 7% less time in each mobile session, yet smartphones’ share of online purchases has gone up 64% over the last year. The days of “look on mobile but buy on the laptop” are changing: 30% of all online shopping purchases now happen on mobile phones.2
 
As we head into this year’s holiday shopping season, we’ve taken a closer look at how the rise of micro-moments and mobile video will affect retail trends. If you’re looking for holiday insights, here are three retail predictions for the 2015 shopping season, based on Google data and a survey from Ipsos MediaCT….

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