Block's content creator stint
For more crisp and insightful business and economic news, subscribe to The Daily Upside newsletter. It's completely free and we guarantee you'll learn something new every day.
Block wants to help its merchants flaunt their assets (and sell them, too).
The company is looking to patent a platform for customizable e-commerce tags in "realtime multimedia content." This tech uses computer vision and speech recognition techniques for multimedia analysis to detect when a product is in a video, and pull up an "e-commerce tag," or a pop-up box that displays more information and allows purchases for that product.
Source Fool.com
