CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

Generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) are paving the way for this evolution. For Gareth Hemming, chief distribution officer for UK retail business at Hiscox, AI is currently streamlining the underwriting process in retail and high-net-worth home insurance, with the potential to provide more value to long-term clients.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Artificial intelligence: Driving ROI across the board AI is the poster child of deep tech making a direct impact on business performance. Other retailers are rapidly following suit, deploying autonomous robots and piloting delivery drones. According to a recent IDC study, companies using AI are reporting an average of $3.70

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Ahmer Inam is the chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO) at Pactera EDGE. Ahmer Inam. Contributor. Share on Twitter. He has more than 20 years of experience driving organizational transformation. His experience includes leadership roles at Nike Inc., Wells Fargo, Sonic Automotive and Cambia Health Solutions.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2023

In a bid to help retailers transform their in-store, inventory-checking processes and enhance their e-commerce sites, Google on Friday said that it is enhancing Google Cloud for Retailers with a new shelf-checking, AI-based capability, and updating its Discovery AI and Recommendation AI services.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The future of retail is omnichannel The last three or four years have changed retail forever. 1 But despite some of the benefits of online sales, this isn’t all good news for retailers. 2 Dell Developing omnichannel omniscience requires edge data insights Now, more than ever, the edge is valuable territory for retailers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

For years grocery retailers have been using data driven forecasting to help them predict demand to figure out which products to reorder to keep shelves stocked. ” “And because that is the opinion … until now, for the most part, retailers have just relied upon people to do this part.” That’s nothing new.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

While these factors are largely out of retailers’ control, we’re seeing a few emerging companies that have adapted by entrenching with existing customers and building their organic brand. The new retail challenge. The new retail challenge. retail sales in Q4 of 2021, down from 13.6% of total U.S. in the previous year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

During the pandemic, retailers were forced to embrace e-commerce. That’s why Purva Gupta launched Lily AI , an AI-powered platform that connects a retailer’s or brand’s shoppers with products they might be looking to buy. ” Prior to co-launching Lily, Gupta served in various roles at Eko India and UNICEF. .

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The startup creates what it calls “practical collaborative robots” — or “cobots,” for short — to work alongside humans in sectors like manufacturing, healthcare, retail and more. In April, Santa Clara, California-based Collaborative Robotics locked up a $100 million Series B. It seems safe to assume that list will grow.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

Simultaneously, increases in compute power have made it easier to implement AI use cases at the retail edge. That’s a perfect opportunity for some long-awaited retail use cases to turn prime time. RFID has several other beneficial uses in clothing retail.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While some things tend to slow as the year winds down, artificial intelligence fundraising apparently isn’t one of them. xAI , $5B, artificial intelligence: Generative AI startup xAI raised $5 billion in a round valuing it at $50 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. Let’s take a look. came from Europe.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

For instance, an e-commerce platform leveraging artificial intelligence and data analytics to tailor customer recommendations enhances user experience and revenue generation. Similarly, Voice AI in call centers, integrated with back-office systems, improves customer support through real-time solutions.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

As they take stock after the year-end frenzy of shopping the holiday season always brings, retail CIOs attending the National Retail Federation’s annual show, NRF 2024, may be wondering how they can improve their IT systems’ performance over the next 12 months. year on year in the first 11 months of 2023, AI or no AI.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Shipium is building that tech stack so that e-commerce retailers can have that supply chain coordination layer that enables them to have fast and cheaper shipping, too. We have come in with technology for retailers that have assets, but are not leveraging them because they are lacking in technology,” he added.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Retail giant Walmart announced this morning it’s acquiring the Tel Aviv-based startup Zeekit , which allows consumers to virtually “try on” clothing when shopping online. The goal is to provide a similar experience to trying on clothing when shopping online as you would otherwise have had when in a retail store.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Enter Bumpa, a Nigerian retail automation platform that wants to do the heavy lifting for companies eyeing more digital operations. The buy now, pay later platform now has a new creator app for retailers and influencers to collaborate on features and shoppable video, Lauren writes. The TechCrunch Top 3. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

consumers now have the choice to use Klarna’s “Pay Now” service to pay immediately and in full at any online retailer where Klarna is available. This adds to the global retail bank, payments and shopping giant’s stateside offerings, where Klarna has doubled its customer base to more than 21 million customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

is developing a tool that leverages computer vision and artificial intelligence to create a better online dressing room experience. million seed round to help it grow faster and appear more mature to large retailers. of fashion retail sales in 2020, and the market’s value is expected to reach $100 billion this year.

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 3, 2022

At the heart of this shift are AI (Artificial Intelligence), ML (Machine Learning), IoT, and other cloud-based technologies. There are also significant cost savings linked with artificial intelligence in health care. Even though it’s still in its preliminary stages, a good start has already been made.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Steve Desjarlais told me that the startup’s goal is to allow retailers to support more automation and more personalization in their online customer interactions, while co-founder and CMO Etienne Merineau described it as an “all-in-one unified customer messaging platform.” million Canadian ($5.1

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Shelf Engine ’s mission to eliminate food waste in grocery retailers now has some additional celebrity backers. The company has already helped retailers divert 1 million pounds of food waste from landfills, Stefan Kalb, co-founder and CEO of Shelf Engine, told TechCrunch. “Our

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

This forced retailers to accelerate their online strategies, finding new ways to capture shoppers’ attention without in-store samples. ’s technology is also used for in-store retail, e-commerce and social media tools. Virtual beauty try-on technology, like the ones developed by Perfect Corp., Perfect Corp.’s

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 26, 2025

Amazon, in an effort to infuse generative artificial intelligence across a wider swath of its e-commerce universe, recently began testing a shopping assistant and a health-focused chatbot with a subset of users.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Despite not being public yet, the company has been driving revenue from day one, having secured over 1,000 retailers as it aims to grow its engineering team and customer acquisitions with the new funding. We are the browser level, so when they download Sleek, it is everywhere and works everywhere.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Online retailers get this, which is why they offer both addictively scrollable listings and very fast checkout. The San Francisco startup offers retailers and brands tools that allow their offerings to be discovered via natural language semantic searches as well as keyword queries. Most of us spend quite a bit of time shopping.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

The shift to personalized customer experiences will fuel investments in AI, logistics, and payment solutions in the retail sector. How do you foresee artificial intelligence and machine learning evolving in the region in 2025? Cybersecurity continues to be a significant concern globally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Weng, who previously worked at Walmart, where he was involved in the retail giant’s China import business , told TechCrunch that he’s acquainted with a lot of American supplement manufacturers and is thus able to cut middleman costs. “But vitamins aren’t that expensive to produce. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Prior to starting the company, the co-founders were already working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and e-commerce at companies like Flipkart and Truefit. While the company’s moniker is indeed the name of a “Star Wars” character, CEO Prateek said they chose it more for name recognition than a passion for the movies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Enter Kuona , a Mexico-based SaaS company using machine learning to look across all of those promotions to show consumer packaged goods companies and retailers which ones are doing well and to automatically optimize product prices and inventories in connection with the promotions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Today, the company, which adds artificial intelligence to sales engagement, exited its beta phase with $6.7 ” 10 proptech investors see better era for residential and retail after pandemic. Zuma wants to ensure that any reach out for information is answered in minutes versus days.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

million in new funding, is feeding all that data, like transactions, marketing and inventory, and combining it with other data, like social media trends and even the weather, to spit out predictive inventory recommendations using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Syrup Tech , now armed with $6.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

It also uses artificial intelligence to detect fraud and abnormal user behavior. The startup plans to tout its marketing tools and payments solutions to retailers in the U.K., “Chinese SMEs going global are rising, but there aren’t many friendly tools to support their business,” said Ma.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

Artificial intelligence has generated a lot of buzz lately. Popular AI techniques like computer vision and object recognition have revolutionized the scope of working across healthcare, science, retail, and education to improve the accuracy of success. The promise of a better-engineered workforce.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Reducing waste is key to meeting environmental milestones, and some retail firms have narrowed in on a unique approach to minimize what their customers throw away: personalization. For big brands and retailers, personalization is expected to be the top category for tech investment this year.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2025

3] Meanwhile, ABANCA, a Spanish retail bank, has used SS&C Blue Prisms intelligent automation, generative AI, and NLP to automate over a thousand tasks, which improved customer and employee experience and allowed it to respond to customer inquiries 60% faster. [4] 4] On their own AI and GenAI can deliver value.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

MARCH 19, 2025

Here's what retailers need to know. When you think of AI chatbots on retailer sites, Consumers are turning to AI for shopping advice more and more.

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CIO

APRIL 12, 2024

prides itself in delivering “legendary” customer service, and it has turned to artificial intelligence to assist with that goal. The rural lifestyle retailer, with more than 2,200 stores across the US, caters to the needs of rural residents with a wide variety of products on its shelves. Tractor Supply Co.

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