While food normally isn't the type of thing that fizzles, last week was, by all definitions, unusual. Uber pulled the plug on instant delivery in some markets, Square tried to unload Caviar and Blue Apron devolved into fight clubs. Okay, well, fight clubs might be putting too fine a point on it. Maybe bi-coastal brawling would be more accurate?   Read More...

Artificial intelligence is already having a bigger impact on the retail industry than most people realize. Thanks to an abundance of consumer data at their fingertips, retailers have slowly and subtly begun rolling out applications for many sectors of the retail industry, everything from using AI to offer better product recommendations, to chatbots that can carry on an (almost) lifelike conversation consumers (pushing them toward checkout), to AI being utilized in image recognition systems.  Read More...

In the latest roundup of bankruptcy filings, can add an update on embattled shipping giant Hanjin, plus Facebook Cofounder Eduardo Saverin is facing a lawsuit regarding the bankruptcy of a company that he was an investor in — and could Chico's and Lands' End be on the block for bankruptcy filing as well?  Read More...