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Competition to build retail mindshare and customer loyalty has never been more fierce. Brands must continually evolve their products and deliver a personalized approach to win the hearts and minds of customers. Delivering the technology that helps them do exactly that, Portugal Country Leader Bruno Morais, and Mike Webster, senior vice president and general manager Oracle Retail, unveiled a new Innovation and Technology Center in Porto. The center will focus initially on delivering breakthrough retail innovations leveraging the latest technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. "Oracle Portugal is delighted to see Oracle's Global Retail business unit's commitment to and investment in people and technologies in Porto. Similarly, we are delighted to contribute to the development of Porto through the creation of this global technology and innovation hub," said Morais.

Chiniki Guard, a Nigerian Information Communication Technology (ICT) startup application has won the best prize of 10,000 USD in the Artificial Intelligence category competition at the ongoing Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX). GITEX is a global annual and biggest technology gathering in the Middle East,North Africa and South Asia with theme "Synergising the Mind and Technology Economy."aqq Chiniki Guard is an Artificial Intelligence security solution for retail stores,supermarkets to monitor,detect and alert shop owners of shoplifting as well as suspicious behaviour in real time. Chiniki Guard is among the 34 startups in the category of the Supanova finalists at the GITEX Futurestars competition. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)Mr Abdulhakim Bashir,the Founder of Chiniki Guard, said the opportunities at GITEX had accorded him the win and would enable him widen the scope of his business.

One Drop, a New York City-based provider of digital therapeutic solutions for diabetes and other chronic conditions, today announced that its wireless glucose meter kit and supplies are now available at hundreds of Walmart stores in the United States. Each kit includes a Bluetooth glucose meter, lancing device, carry case, test strips, and lancets, as well as one year of free access to One Drop's certified diabetes coaches for 24/7 support. In addition to being sold at US Walmart stores and on walmart.com, One Drop's wireless glucose meter is currently available at select Apple retail locations, and on getonedrop.com, One Drop's integrated platform offers an easy and effective way for people to track and manage a variety of health conditions.

Online retail, eCommerce, frequently falls victim to fraud conducted by malicious customers (fraudsters) who obtain goods or services through deception. Fraud coordinated by groups of professional fraudsters that place several fraudulent orders to maximize their gain is referred to as organized fraud. Existing approaches to fraud detection typically analyze orders in isolation and they are not effective at identifying groups of fraudulent orders linked to organized fraud. These also wrongly identify many legitimate orders as fraud, which hinders their usage for automated fraud cancellation. We introduce a novel solution to detect organized fraud by analyzing orders in bulk. Our approach is based on clustering and aims to group together fraudulent orders placed by the same group of fraudsters. It selectively uses two existing techniques, agglomerative clustering and sampling to recursively group orders into small clusters in a reasonable amount of time. We assess our clustering technique on real-world orders placed on the Zalando website, the largest online apparel retailer in Europe1. Our clustering processes 100,000s of orders in a few hours and groups 35-45% of fraudulent orders together. We propose a simple technique built on top of our clustering that detects 26.2% of fraud while raising false alarms for only 0.1% of legitimate orders.

I vividly remember my first undergraduate class in artificial intelligence (AI). My father had worked for years on "expert systems," and I was at MIT to learn from the best how to perform this wizardry. Marvin Minsky, one of the founders of the field, even taught a series of guest lectures there. It was about midway through the semester when the great disillusionment hit me: "It's all just a bunch of tricks!" There was no "intelligence" to be found; just a bunch of brittle rules engines and clever use of math.

It was a major international merger, and the clock was ticking. The CFO had to determine if the framework and operating model they developed would ensure the pending merger and acquisition (M&A) is a success. This scenario is an indication of the CFO's changing charter. Tacking onto their traditional focus of managing financial health, compliance and risk, the modern CFO's responsibilities is focused on growth and efficiencies, identified through new business models and revenue streams. CFOs now play an increasingly pivotal role in strategy formulation and execution, including M&As, which have grown exponentially over the last two years.

The attention span of individuals and organizations is becoming ever shorter. There are only brief windows that can be devoted to any given transaction. Expectations around situational knowledge, updated in real-time, are compounding. Customers expect the applications they interact with know where they are, what they are looking for and what their preferences are in terms of price, value, design and timeliness of delivery. If the proper options aren't provided immediately, the customer will move on to another provider.

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WALMART is a giant retail organization that managed to keep up with its customer's changing needs in the digital era, delivering groceries and everyday essentials as efficiently as delivering on expectations. At a recent conference, Business Insider heard Walmart Chief Digital Officer Bill Groves talk about the organization's journey to digital. Groves revealed that Walmart employs roughly 1,500 data scientists and 50,000 software engineers who support the 100,000-odd artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) projects that the organization currently runs. "I do more work in the AI and [machine learning] space then I have ever done in my life. We're involved in robotics, we're involved in micro-personalization, we're involved in probably the biggest supply chain in the world." The important thing, however, is that Groves said that Walmart's success rate with AI and ML projects is 75 percent.