Amazon carved up its national fulfillment network into 8 regions that will each be self-sufficient, doing so in order to lower costs and speed up delivery times. CEO Andy Jassy told investors about the change in his annual letter to Read more
eBay once again turned to university students to help it solve real-world problems. This week, the company announced the winners of its 4th Annual Machine Learning Challenge. Last year, eBay tasked students with helping it improve the delivery estimates it Read more
Reducing the packaging of an order can save in materials and in shipping costs, and at Amazon’s massive scale, saving even a penny or two per package adds up to big bucks. But it appears the retail giant is going Read more
Pitney Bowes acquired CrescoData, calling its state-of-the-art technology “a perfect complement” to Pitney Bowe’s SendPro shipping portfolio. CrescoData explains it uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Machine Learning to intelligently process and connect products to commerce, and says it helps customers Read more
Mobile shopping app Mercari wants to make selling online even easier than buying, and it’s turning to two MIT professors for help. Mercari opened an engineering office in Cambridge, Massachusetts where two renowned professors at the adjacent Massachusetts Institute of Read more
Amazon is holding a conference on Artificial Intelligence called re:MARS where speakers will demonstrate the practical applications of AI behind Alexa, AWS services, Amazon Go, Prime Air, Lab 126, and Robotics. It is somewhat surprising given the usual secrecy with Read more
eBay said it has added “Why to Buy” signals to its mobile app to tell shoppers the reasons they should buy items they are look at – the feature has been running on the desktop version of the site since Read more
Amazon is opening a new research and development center in Barcelona next year focused on Machine Learning. Amazon is using the technology to forecast customer demand, translate product information, and in automatic speech recognition. Amazon expects to create 100 new Read more
eBay is using machine learning and “deep learning” to help determine what a shopper is looking for when they enter a search term. eBay researcher Hassan Sawaf heads the team tasked with developing tools and services in language technology – Read more
