British automaker Jaguar Land Rover is one-upping competitors’ attempts for an autonomous vehicle. The automaker has demonstrated in videos a number of technologies that will pave the way for a vehicle that can drive itself on all terrains, not simply on roads. As autonomous vehicles are met with both excitement and skepticism, illustrating the mechanics and offering a point of differentiation will help the company retain its fans.

“The Internet has become extremely good at doing what stores traditionally did: merchandise products, convey product information and process purchases,” says Doug Stephens, retail industry futurist and the founder of Retail Prophet. Indeed, e-commerce’s share of the shopping pie is growing. From 2000 to 2015, e-commerce jumped from 2 percent to 10 percent of all US retail sales. In the luxury sector, e-commerce is the only channel currently growing double digits and is expected to climb from 7 percent to 20 percent of global luxury consumption by 2025, according to Bain & Company. But unlike music, films or food, fashion is …

Parking management has become serious issue for cities that are already struggling with seemingly perpetual traffic congestion in their urban cores. Traffic tie-ups wastes time, hurts commerce and produces air pollution. Most cities would welcome an efficient way to dramatically reduce that traffic congestion if they could. And they can. Cities have been experimenting with traffic management solutions of one sort or another for decades. Potential solutions include smart parking meters, limits on available parking and recently, networked parking management systems that give motorists a way to find open spaces so they don’t have waste time and fuel cruising around looking …

StubHub’s ticket to mobile commerce success may be virtual reality. The online ticketing retailer recently updated its mobile app to enable consumers to see a 360-degreee view from potential seats in various arenas and stadiums via virtual reality goggles. In the StubHub app, a consumer can select the event and seats  she wants to purchase tickets for and then taps virtual viewer. She then loads her smartphone into a cardboard virtual reality viewer and can move her neck around to see what the view would be like if she were sitting in those seats. Consumers can buy a cardboard virtual reality viewer …

Alexa has a little something special for Amazon Prime deal seekers. Starting today, using your voice on Amazon Echo, Echo Dot or Tap, ask, "Alexa, what are your Prime Day deals?" and Alexa will give you a list of "exclusive" deals. Amazon said that today and through Prime Day (July 12), Prime members will receive $10 off their first purchase on any eligible order over $20 when they shop using Alexa. It's also worth mentioning that Amazon's Alexa-enabled Tap speaker is on sale today for $79, or $50 off, if you order via Alexa (and with the $10 discount it's actually $69).

An intelligent robot that helps the elderly detect intruders, gas leaks and other dangers is expected to be on the market by year's end at an affordable price, according to its developer. "It is small but complete in functions," said Zhou Fengyu, director of Shandong University's Cloud Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. The 62-millimeter-high service robot, dubbed Da Zhi or "smart", is the product of three years of hard work from Zhou and a team of 20 at the university.

Trak N Tell, an automotive telematics firm raised an undisclosed amount of money from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton.  We have raised money under a round of funding from a bevy of global business leaders including the likes of Brian Acton, co-founder, WhatsApp, the company in a statement said Monday. Trak N Tell is a part of Bits N Bytes Soft Private Limited is working on connected cars in the Internet of Things (IoT) segment. 

You forgot the beer. Or you think you might have, as you’re cruising home to a host a party for the Rio Olympics. So you press a button on your dashboard and up pops a live picture of your smart fridge with two twelve packs of craft ale on the bottom shelf. Crisis averted! A moment later, there’s a buzz on your doorbell. Your first two guests have arrived, one decked out in a Jamaican flag, the other sporting the Star-Spangled Banner. You see them on your dashboard as they push the doorbell again in frustration. “I’m running a few …

One of the biggest buzzwords of 2016 within the retail customer experience realm has been the steadfast advancement of Internet of Things technology, with IoT increasingly a focus of topic at conference and summits. To get some insight on where IoT is today and where it may be in the future retail customer experience Retail Customer Experience reached out to Kevin Meagher, former VP and general manager of Lowe's IoT Smart Home initiative. He led the program, including the development and deployment of connected products and services through stores. He also founded Intamac Systems, a U.K. company, providing a cloud …

Barclaycard is introducing bPay Loop, a small case comprising a contactless chip, so that wearable owners can transform their existing watches and fitness bands into vehicles for contactless payments, highlighting a new commerce opportunity. The Loop case can be slid onto any consumer’s fitness band or watch buckle, enabling that individual to make contactless payments totaling £30 and under at 400,000 locations across Britain. The new device rollout comes on the heels of several financial marketers’ recent innovations within the wearable industry, suggesting that their popularity and potential has not yet hit its peak.