The software industry is littered with acquisitions. You would be forgiven for postulating over whether there might eventually be just a handful of IT firms in a couple of decades. But what happens to the technical employee skill base when mergers and acquisitions (M&A) go ahead?

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Many brands and retailers were dreaming about geofenced locations where they could offer consumers special coupons at brick-and-mortar stores. With Amazon Go, this dream is over.

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The convenience store concepts boasts technology to allow customers to bypass checkout that grocery chains have talked about for years but failed to field, and what appears to be a spot-on product selection.

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Gift this, not that: The Zvox Accuvoice TV Speaker does a much better job at amplifying dialogue than an ear trumpet ever can.

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Is Google aware that Voice First devices will break the pay-per-click business model? This question was originally answered on Quora by Brian Roemmele.

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Hankook, a major South Korean tire maker, has ambitions for the top tier, which it wants to pursue partly via high tech “smart” tires.

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Amazon’s new cashier-less store, Amazon Go, is all hype.

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The technology that the company has developed to allow customers to skip checkout at its forthcoming convenience stores could drastically change not just food retailing, but every segment of retail.

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What is it like to have synesthesia? This question was originally answered on Quora by Alexandra Pell.

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