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The 800,000-plus merchants on the Shopify platform can now talk to customers in real-time with Shopify Chat, VentureBeat聽reported on Wednesday Aug. 15 .聽The free chat interface lets merchants and customers talk to one another using a web browser on Android, via iOS devices or on a laptop.The company stanley uk is also planning to ro stanley cup ll out Shopify Chat to SMS and Android devices in the future, Shopify Product Director Michael Perry told the news outlet in an interview in San Francisco. Shopify Chat is going to stay focused on the online store because thats the nature. I think were looking and working on partnerships, like expand within SMS. Thats obvious stanley ca ly a clear play for us, because what weve done with Business Chat. Wed like to be able to recreate that in the inbox as well as through SMS, Perry said. Our goal is to have a basic default offering that reaches everybody. 聽Shopify recently introduced Apple Business Chat for exchanging messages with iPhone users and plans to help merchants with conversational artificial intelligence AI . Businesses without Apple Chat can still communicate with customers using Shopify Chat.Perry said businesses that chat with customers often see more sales. Conversation data can also be used to improve how automated bots perform.Shopify Chat is a major extension to Ping, which Shopify launched by in 2018 to field chat messages coming in from Facebook Messenger or SMS. Once enabled, Shopify Chat will appear on all pages of online stores, making it easy f Jfxx On-Demand Disruptors In T 038;E: Uber, Airbnb 鈥?And Craigslist
Call it the Uber effect: A record 139 New York City taxi medallions will be up for sale in bankruptcy auction this month as cab drivers continue to struggle to compete with ridesharing apps.Acco kubki stanley rding to The New York Post, bidders will be able to snag some of the medallions for a fraction of their original value 鈥?some might have cost their owners as much as $1 million or more apiece. Back in 2013, a medallion went for $1.3 stanley france million.Today, however, prices have dropped to between $160,000 to $250,000 each due to increasing competition from ridesharing apps such as Uber and Lyft.Last year, 46 medallions were reportedly sold at an auction in Queens for an average price of $186,000, bought by Connecticut-based hedge fund MGPE. This month, a聽minimum of 20 will be sold.Rideshare vehicles in New York have risen from 50,000 in 2011, when Uber first entered the New York market, to currently about 130,000.As a result, earnings for yellow cabbie stanley usa s have dropped, with full-time average annual earnings, before taxes, down from $45,000 as recently as 2013, to as low as $29,000 today.Earlier this year, a report revealed that聽Uber and Lyft have become more popular than yellow and green cabs in NYC.Analysis of data from the Taxi and Limousine Commission聽from blogger Todd Schneider found that in February 2017, ride-hailing services made 65 percent more pickups than taxis did. And the two companies combined now make more pickups per month than taxis did in any month since the data began being analy |
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