Google began as a humble research project out of a garage in 1996. Today, that same garage experiment is on a mission to organize the world’s data. By commanding ~70 percent of the search engine market share, Google has managed to collect immense amounts of data. Google is quite hush-hush when it comes to how ...

A-commerce is not new. In fact, you’ve undoubtedly experienced it a few times with self-checkouts in retail outlets or when suggestions are made based on what you view while shopping online. A-commerce, or Automated Commerce, refers to the automation–and often–customization of a consumer’s retail experience through the use of devices, big data, algorithms, deep learning, ...