A Physicist Helps Amazon Reduce Package Weight
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 […]
Tag: Machine learning
Pitney Bowes Acquires Ecommerce Integrator CrescoData
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, […]
Mercari App Gets Schooled on Making Selling Easier
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 […]
Amazon to Open Up about Advanced Technologies
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 […]
eBay Brain Sends Signals Telling Shoppers Why to Buy
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 […]
Amazon to Open Machine Learning Research Center in Spain
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 […]
How eBay Search Engine Deduces User Intent
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 […]