Global flat panel market to hit $178B

January 1, 2020

The global flat panel display market is expected to reach $178.4 billion by 2025, according to a report by ResearchandMarkets. During this time, it will grow…

Adams Outdoor taps Vistar Media for programmatic DOOH

December 31, 2019

Adams Outdoor Advertising, an OOH media supplier, has partnered with Vistar Media to integrate programmatic technology into AOA's nearly 300 digital billboards…

Self-checkout kiosk replaces manned store at rail station

December 26, 2019

A snack and souvenir shop at a Japanese rail station that closed due to a lack of workers recently reopened with a self-checkout system that takes cashless…

Researchers: Printed masks can fool facial recognition systems

December 24, 2019

Researchers at Kneron, an artificial-intelligence provider, said they fooled facial recognition systems using a printed mask showing a different person's face…

Perfect Corp. partners with Sally Beauty on AI hair color experience

December 23, 2019

Perfect Corp., a beauty technology solutions provider behind the YouCam Makeup virtual reality app, has teamed with Sally Beauty Holdings Inc., to power its…

Epson debuts 'all-in-one' thermal printers

December 20, 2019

Epson America Inc. has introduced the OmniLink TM-T88VI-DT2 and OmniLink TM-T70II-DT2 all-in-one thermal receipt printers, according to a press release.

Anytime Fitness taps LG as display vendor

December 19, 2019

Anytime Fitness, has selected LG Business Solutions USA as its preferred display vendors for more than 2,800 locations in the U.S. LG will deliver the displays…

Nets trials facial-recognition payments

December 18, 2019

Under the tagline "Hungry? Face it," Nets, a Nordic provider of digital payment services, has launched a pilot testing facial recognition as a payment method…

Biometrics to secure $2.5T in mobile payments by 2024

December 11, 2019

Biometric authentication will be used to secure $2.5 trillion in mobile payment transactions by 2024, a tenfold increase from the $228 million forecast for…

Retail Business Services teams with UST Global on unattended store

December 9, 2019

Retail Business Services, the services company of Ahold Delhaize USA, has announced a frictionless store technology, piloted under the name lunchbox, which…

CaixaBank debuts facial recognition system for payments at Nestle Market

December 6, 2019

CaixaBank, based in Spain, announced the launch of a payments system trial at a Nestle Market, marking the first time that a grocery or retail store uses…

Dave & Buster's debuts mobile guest engagement commerce app

December 5, 2019

Dave & Buster's is launching a guest engagement app experience that lets guests tap their smartphones on games, provides instant reloading capability for…

The Vitamin Shoppe debuts interactive kiosks to drive product trials

December 5, 2019

The Vitamin Shoppe, an omnichannel retailer of nutritional products, has included Vengo Labs' interactive sampling technology in its new innovation store in…

Cyber Monday reveals mobile driving ecommerce train

by David Jones — Editor, Networld Media Group

December 5, 2019

A record holiday shopping performance on Cyber Monday was driven by heavy use of mobile by retailers looking to take advantage of the short holiday season.

Interactive wayfinding kiosks to post free ads for small retailers

December 4, 2019

Small businesses in Aurora, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, can post ads for free on the eight recently installed CityPost interactive touchscreen kiosks…

Sensory experiences boost sales by 10%

December 3, 2019

Mood Media has recently conducted a study entitled "Quantifying the impact of sensory market," which showed that sensory marketing techniques such as displays…

California grocer launches custom online shopping portals

December 2, 2019

Smart & Final, a California-based retail grocer, has launched redesigned e-commerce portals to provide shoppers, as well as business clients, an integrated…

Fashion designer taps New Generation Computing for supply chain visibility

November 29, 2019

Fashion designer, Nicole Miller, is teaming up with longtime tech partner, New Generation Computing, Inc., which provides cloud-based solutions for product…

Confirmit names Howard Lax as CX consulting leader

November 29, 2019

Howard Lax has been named principal director, CX consulting, at Confirmit, which provides software-as-a-solution for multi-channel customer experience…

Metromatics installs MetroSpec LCD digital bus stop displays in Australia

November 28, 2019

Metromatics has installed its lastest digital bus stop displays for the South Australian Department of Planning under brand name MetroSpec in Adelaide.