Upstream Commerce, the leader in real-time pricing intelligence and analytics for online and multi-channel retailers, announced several recent milestones tied to its mission to provide retailers with a best-in-class Cloud platform to drive ...
IBM today launched the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge(www.ibmwatson.com),a first of its kind,global competition to encourage developers to create mobile consumer and business apps powered by Watson.IBM announced the challenge at ...
We're in the beginning of a world in which everything is connected to the Internet and with one another, while powerful yet relatively cheap computers analyze all that data for ways to improve lives. Toothbrushes tell your mirror to ...
Tags: Service, Consumer Electronics
Online retailing has been one of the biggest buzz words in the retailing landscape in recent years, with major players and smaller retailers alike investing in new infrastructure and updating their online presence in an attempt to secure ...
Tags: Increasing logistic costs, Pressure on service levels, inventory
It's been a busy week for Panasonic Australia.Last Friday the company announced the impending retirement of managing director Steve Rust and the appointment of new MD Paul Reid,effective from April.Today,the appointment announcements ...
Tags: Panasonic, CEG director, CEG
Popping its way into the hearts and hands of snack lovers nationwide, the Smartfood brand introduces Smartfood Delight popcorn, a brand of reduced-fat popcorn perfect for health-conscious consumers looking for smarter snacking options. ...
In a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface scientists have found that whilst mass connectivity through social media and the internet makes us look smarter it might be making us stupider. Copying other people has ...
Tags: social media, experiment, copy
Bauer Performance Sports Ltd. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Easton Baseball/Softball business for US $330 million in an all-cash transaction, subject to a working capital adjustment. Easton-Bell Sports also indicated ...
Norway's Statoil on Friday postponed its 2020 output guidance of 2.5 million barrels/day of oil equivalent by up to four years, as it reported a fall in fourth quarter output and an 8% cut in planned investment to $20 billion/year for the ...
Tags: Norway's Statoil, Mineral
In 1984, with only $25,000 in Chinese government funding and a dusty 20-square-metre bungalow as their headquarters, a small group of scientists in Beijing founded a firm called New Technology Developer Inc. Thirty years later, the tech ...
Tags: Lenovo, Global Ambitions
At the Mobile World Congress 2014, Sensirion AG is presenting its latest humidity and temperature sensor SHTW1, which opens up new possibilities in the weara-ble and mobile market with its chip-scale packaging technology. This global ...
Tags: sensors, mobile market, consumer market
True Fit announced that it will partner with Hudson’s Bay and Lord & Taylor to offer True Fit’s patented fit personalization technology to consumers at TheBay.com and LordandTaylor.com. True Fit is a big data technology company ...
Admittedly, when I saw that Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas president Ed Smith would give an “Unplugged” presentation at last fall’s Electronic Components Industry Association Executive Conference, I smiled thinking ...
Tags: Industry Change, Electronics
Using arm sensors that can "read" a person's muscle movements, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have created a control system that makes robots more intelligent. The sensors send information to the robot, allowing it to ...
Image courtesy of Wikimedia. German supermarket chain ALDI is setting its sights on Western Australia, and is inviting local suppliers to learn more about the opportunity of working with ALDI Australia. ALDI Australia is holding a ...
Tags: ALDI, ALDI Australia, Smarter Shopping approach, supermarket chain