It's easy for a small business to get lost in the center of the universe. In the big apple, small business is big business – but the competition is as fierce as the fashion. According to New York's Small Business Development Center, small businesses make up 99 percent of all New York businesses. Getting neighbors to like you, and come back often, is the lifeblood of small retailers everywhere, but New Yorkers are an especially tough crowd. We found one NYC retailer looking to grow exponentially over the next two years – turning to technology to literally lead the way.

Deep Learning in Retail & Advertising Summit London The Deep Learning in Retail & Advertising Summit is a multidisciplinary event bringing together data scientists, engineers, CTOs, CEOs & leading retailers to explore the impact of deep learning and AI in the retail and advertising sector. Applications include computer vision for sizing; image analysis for shopping efficiency; and natural language processing for personalised shopping experiences. The Deep Learning in Retail & Advertising Summit is a multidisciplinary event bringing together data scientists, engineers, CTOs, CEOs & leading retailers to explore the impact of deep learning and AI in the retail and advertising sector. Applications include computer vision for sizing; image analysis for shopping efficiency; and natural language processing for personalised shopping experiences.

Spark's popularity means the field is expanding in terms of both use and capability. Faster than Hadoop and MapReduce, but compatible with Java, Scala, Python, and R, this open source clustering framework is becoming a must-have skill. Spark: Big Data Cluster Computing in Production goes beyond the basics to show you how to bring Spark to real-world production environments. With expert instruction, real-life use cases, and frank discussion, this guide helps you move past the challenges and bring proof-of-concept Spark applications live.

In 2005, retailers coined the term "Cyber Monday" to describe a surge in web purchases on the first work day after Thanksgiving by people who had spent the weekend browsing in stores. Now, increasing number of online shoppers, particularly those buying over their phones, are skipping the stores entirely. Shoppers didn't wait until Cyber Monday to do their online shopping with purchases setting retail records. Black Friday became the first day in retail history to drive over one billion dollars in mobile revenue and jumping 33% over last year according to Adobe. The digital solutions company based their findings on data from 22.6 billion visits to retail websites.

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Artificial intelligence is the key to the future of online retail, business bosses have said, providing a crucial way to help shoppers find what they want. Alex Baldock, chief executive of Shop Direct, which runs very.co.uk and Littlewoods, told the Telegraph Festival of Business in London that artificial intelligence was the company's "big bet". "You have three seconds to seize the shopper's attention – it's called thumb stopping, the three-second audition," Mr Baldock said. "That's where personalisation comes in." Shop Direct is owned by Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, proprietors of Telegraph Media Group, the publisher of the Daily Telegraph.

Holiday shoppers have an infinite digital world of products available for viewing at their fingertips. Stepping into a brick-and-mortar store seems to have lost its appeal. In reality, 85 percent of customers still preferred to shop at physical store last year according to Time Trade. Though that's positive news for brick-and-mortar retailers, many brands still aren't doing enough to meet consumer demands that rival the online experience. Last year, our research showed only a small percentage of retailers met consumer's expectations.

The lines between Black Friday and Cyber Monday are more blurry than ever this year, and many of the "Cyber Monday" deals are really the same deals we saw on Black Friday, and all weekend between the two. Indeed, many of these deals are live now and many have been for some time. Regardless, here are the best Cyber Monday video game deals at several of the biggest retailers out there. Amazon and GameStop take center stage in this list (no links yet to Gamestop deals) but Walmart and Best Buy have some good stuff as well. PlayStation 4 Slim 500GB Console with Uncharted 4 ($249, save $50) PlayStation 4 Pro 1TB Console Extra Controller ($373.98,

Fashion stylists have had their heyday: From Rachel Zoe to Monica Rose, it's been all about how to woo the press without making a gaffe and making sure their clients elegantly rep high-end brands. But not anymore: SK Planet's Machine Intelligence Lab is set to debut a search engine for fashion products that relies upon artificial neural networks by late 2016, as first reported by Quartz. The machine SK Planet built understands how to match clothes and sizes, and has a sense of what's considered stylish, as it's learned to copy looks from photos of outfits put together by big stylists. For online retail, this means that many of the headaches surrounding what consumers want might be alleviated. This new tool comes on on the heels of other recent machine learning news.

More U.S. shoppers are rushing to their phones and tablets rather than to physical stores on Black Friday than ever before. U.S. consumers spent a record $1.2 billion via mobile on Friday, according to a new report from Adobe. This represents a generous 33% increase from last year. Online spending as a whole also blasted through previous records, with shoppers spending $3.34 billion overall, a 21.6% jump over last year. The best-selling electronics on Black Friday were Apple iPads, Samsung 4K TVs, Apple MacBook Air, LG TVs and the Microsoft Xbox, according to the report. It appears that video games and consoles were hot-ticket items, with the Nintendo NES Classic, the Playstation VR bundle, and the Playstation 4 Call Of Duty: Black Ops bundle being quick to sell out.