Tesco Ireland was told to pay rival retailer Aldi (Ireland) pound 120,705 (euro 150,000) damages plus legal costs last week (December 7) to settle a row over an allegedly misleading price campaign. Tesco Ireland must pay Aldi pound ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office is to investigate claims that Tesco's website does not offer sufficient privacy protections to customers. The UK privacy watchdog's probe comes after security experts raised a number of privacy ...
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Five years after German retail giant Otto provided investment capital for a start-up analytics software supplier, it achieved a 40% improvement in demand forecasting from the resulting technology. Otto derives revenue of €11.6bn ...
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Winning Moves has hired David Ripley as its new chief operating officer to support the company's push into new products, licences and territories. The new role will cover general operations, supply chain capability, product sourcing and ...
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Every year David Letterman picks his favourite toys to appear on his famous talk show. This year, Wow Stuff's Attacknids have appeared on the legendary US talk show. The wily host first takes control of a single Attacknid, and then ...
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Enterprise software provider CA Technologies has appointed Michael Gregoire as its new chief executive officer after a six-month search. Gregoire, 46, has worked in the software and IT services industry for 25 years, most recently at the ...
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when the real blame lies with their security solutions providers,according to the founder and CTO of search engine tech firm Simplexo. Further reading Security:Adapt and loosen up,or die,says Gartner ICO to check out Tesco.com security ...
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When Andy Haywood says he is extremely busy, it is probably not an exaggeration. Eight months after joining the Co-operative Business Group (CBG) as group chief information officer (CIO), he is leading a full-scale IT transformation ...
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Axis and StopLift are working together to provide systems to detect scan avoidance at self-service checkout tills in supermarkets this Christmas Axis Communications is working with StopLift, a point of sale (POS) analytics ...
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UK retailer The Co-operative Group has appointed Kingfisher executive Euan Sutherland as its new CEO. Sutherland, 43, will take up the role in May next year, the UK's fifth largest grocer said today (19 December). Sutherland, COO at home ...
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Amazon is set to reinvent retail again, with the launch of the Kindle Fire 2. With a price tag of 159 for a 7-inch device that undercuts the Google Nexus and iPad rivals, Amazon is attempting to sell a service as much as it is selling a ...
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Tesco has launched a smartphone-friendly virtual supermarket online shopping system at Gatwick airport to enable travellers to place an order before they fly. While waiting for their flights, users can use their smartphones to scan ...
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"The glass curtain wall of the Ningbo Global Center exploded again", read a message posted by a microblog user called "Feng Feng sky" at 8 a.m. on 27th August. This is the third time that the glass curtain wall of the Ningbo Global Center ...
2 Sisters Food Group, an England-based chicken meat processing company, has unveiled San Marco Deeply Delicious, a new range of microwaveable pizza. The San Marco Deeply Delicious range features Pepperoni and four Cheeses variants, said ...
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UK-based supermarket chain Tesco has launched Rose veal, which will be available on meat counters in selected UK stores from this week. The company said that it has collaborated with pig farmer and presenter, Jimmy Doherty, on ideas to ...
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