{"id":6084,"date":"2015-08-14T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=6084"},"modified":"2015-08-13T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T12:56:00","slug":"why-the-next-great-online-retail-experience-you-have0814151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/why-the-next-great-online-retail-experience-you-have0814151\/6084\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Great Online Retail Experience You Have Won&#8217;t Be On Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"It was in the third week of July when a startup in the online retail technology space, SmarterHQ, blipped briefly across the industry\u2019s radar. Simon Venture Group, the venture capital arm of the shopping center owner Simon Property Group, had led a financing round for the company, helping it secure $8 million. There was a flurry of headlines about the deal and then it was on to the next big thing. Which, quite ironically as you will see in a moment, was about Amazon\u2019s quarterly earnings and how the e-commerce giant turned a profit in large part because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/why-the-next-great-online-retail-experience-you-have0814151\/6084\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was in the third week of July when a startup in the online retail technology space, SmarterHQ, blipped briefly across the industry\u2019s radar. Simon Venture Group, the venture capital arm of the shopping center owner Simon Property Group, had led a financing round for the company, helping it secure $8 million. There was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[291,516],"class_list":["post-6084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-amazon","tag-smarterhq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6087,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6084\/revisions\/6087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}