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How Max Fashions India increased assisted sales adoption by 4X
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Technology Decodes Indian Retail Business
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How Indian retailers are strengthening their outreach?
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How technology is changing the retail forever?
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How Shopholix will enable over 15 bn USD of sales in offline stores by 2020
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Need to establish legal infrastructure for India to take lead in AI field: Study
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How video analytics helps in analyzing retail store?
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How technology can boost event based sale activities!
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How technology can aid strategic expansion
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Woodland plans to add 60 stores by March 2017
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Indian Retail trends 2017
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How to procure fresh fruits & vegetables with mobile application
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Tech Mahindra launches NFC enabled mobile wallet MoboMoney
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Van Heusen opens its first digital store in Bengaluru
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Spice launches Nexian range exclusively on Flipkart
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Forget the Website, just Scan and Shop
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Myntra's Ex-COO Ganesh Subramanian plans a technology firm to track fashion trends
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Snapdeal launches its multi-lingual mobile interface in Hindi & Telugu
One of India’s largest marketplaces for retailers, Snapdeal, has recently launched its all new multi-lingual interface on its mobile site. The new…
Microsoft Ventures plans to incubate 500 startups in 5 years
Microsoft Ventures has recently indicated its plan of incubating around 500 startups in the coming five years. The company plans to create a…
Digital Transformation in Retail
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PayU Biz launches 'One Tap' Technology to ease online payments
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Toshiba aims to more than double its share to 15 percent in Indian MFP market
In one of its recent announcements, Japanese technology giant Toshiba said that it now aims to more than double its share to 15 percent in the multi-…
Omni-Channel: More than just a Buzzword
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Wait, Don't Go Hyperlocal Just Yet
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Dassault Systemes Launches My Retail Theatre Industry Solution Experience
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Wearable brand Mio Global enters India in partnership with Amazon.in
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Significance of IT in Retail in today's technology-oriented market space
Everything matters to the customer today unlike the mass appeal approach of the 80’s and 90’s. Digitised customers demand more and so there is a…
Snapdeal soon to come up with image search feature 'SnapSearch'
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Mahindra Comviva launches nearby deals offering app, Zerch
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Microsoft to partner with Indian startups to drive growth
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Ratan Tata to inaugurate country's largest technology incubator T-Hub
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Improve loss prevention in retail stores by applying Swarm Intelligence
In Retail, theft and intentional damage to merchandise is a common problem. Retailers have several loss-prevention solutions in place, but theft…
Identity + Management + Security = Enterprise Mobility
Today’s consumer has changed; he is very busy, impulsive, online and connected.  This has created a whole new world of opportunity for enterprises…
FabFurnish appoints Nimit Kumar as the Chief Technology Officer
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Customer adoption key to growing digital platforms in India
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Technology aided CRM
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