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  • Disrupting Retail 2013

    In March 2013, we gathered a few folks who might be open to thoughtful exploration of ecommerce, social media and big data and we sat in a room room for a few hours to discuss and debate the implications for the retail industry.   Video 1: What is Disrupting Retail As a consumer, the hum…

  • The Web is the Market

    Retailers become Marketplaces Historically retailers performed three functions: 1) curation of products from an array of suppliers, 2) moving physical product from supplier to consumer and 3) breaking bulk. This required a retailer to maintain substantial infrastructure and stock investment. Today almost all barriers to entry have been removed by online suppliers directories, drop-ship vendors,…

  • Future Trends Forum: The Six C’s of Social Technologies

      The Six C’s of Social Technologies By Andreas S. Weigend, Gam Dias, and Anthony Chow (Social Data Lab and First Retail, Inc.) In this foreword to the proceedings, we revisit and consolidate the most exciting ideas that emerged during the three days. We frame our observations by casting our minds back 8 years ago…

  • Gartner Cool Vendor 2012

    We’d like to thank you for your interest and support since we founded First Retail two years ago. We are now turning our technology into products. We look forward to realizing our vision where all big data, structured and unstructured, can made available to your downstream analytic and transactional applications. Best regards First Retail Team…

  • Gartner Cool Vendor

    Gartner Cool Vendor 2012 – Analytics and Business Intelligence

    FIRST RETAIL NAMED ONE OF FIVE “COOL VENDORS IN ANALYTICS AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE” First Retail Selected for its coolness in adding structure to unstructured content through semantic matching, tagging and machine learning PALO ALTO, Calif., May 7 2012 – First Retail, a company servicing the information needs of next generation e-businesses, today announced it was…

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