TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Schwarz Group , an EU-based retail company, announced today that it has acquired Israeli security startup XM Cyber for $700 million. “For XM Cyber customers, this means that with the financial backing of Schwarz, we will be able to accelerate product innovation, scale and extend our global reach.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

To remain competitive, retailers must embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-driven innovation. It allows retailers to optimize both front-end and back-end operations, addressing key business challenges and creating new opportunities for efficiency.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The “native retail” startup announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Accel. What a time to take a leap and start a company at the intersection of hospitality and physical retail, two industries that were getting decimated,” he said. Then it’s delivered to your home in a few days.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Our brand is very disruptive on the shelf, and so we believe that retail is important in our discovery. DTC is going to be a much smaller portion than we expected while we use retail as more of the beginning of a funnel.” “They’re excited to touch and feel and discover new products.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

CEOs, CIOs and CFOs are finding that deep tech is actively driving business innovation and profitability. Specific use cases illustrate how AI drives value: Customer engagement and sales: Retailers and banks use AI-driven personalization to recommend products and services, increasing conversion rates and customer loyalty.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

For instance, a mid-level clothing retailer will now be able to provide, say, a Nordstrom-style tailor to follow a customer and advise them about suits on any number of factors, from their own style and fit to preferred pricing. Prediction #3: Superior guardrails and governance will spur innovation.

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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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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2025

Taking a holistic approach to enterprise AI However, when AI is implemented effectively it can dramatically enhance productivity and innovation while keeping costs under control. Meanwhile, AI-powered tools like NLP and computer vision can enhance these workflows by enabling greater understanding and interaction with unstructured data.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Cat adoption really outpaced dog adoption, so we expected the category to heat up and that there would be more innovation at this point. In addition to the cat café, which will open in New York in the fall, and retail launch, the new capital enables Smalls to grow its headcount by 25%. That was a surprise to us.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Years ago, Americans spent most of their disposable income on food but consistent investment in retail infrastructure has changed that. The continent’s retail markets are highly fragmented and mostly made up of small and informal retailers and intermediaries, which is why a ton of tomatoes that costs around $100 in the U.S.,

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2023

We spoke with Siddhartha Gupta, Global Head of Application Modernization on Azure at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , about this trend and what financial services organizations need to do to improve their capacity for agility and innovation. They must adopt innovations as soon as they become available.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Technology has shifted from a back-office function to a core enabler of business growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. Senior business leaders and CIOs must navigate a complex web of competing priorities, such as managing stakeholder expectations, accelerating technological innovation, and maintaining operational efficiency.

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CIO

JULY 7, 2024

With AI at the epicenter of innovation today, bringing AI into Industry 4.0 From plant automation and predictive maintenance in manufacturing to delivering hyper-personalized shopping experiences in retail, edge AI offers a range of possibilities and encourages innovation across industries.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

AI and Machine Learning will drive innovation across the government, healthcare, and banking/financial services sectors, strongly focusing on generative AI and ethical regulation. These trends underscore the Middle Easts ambition to become a global technology hub through strategic investments, innovation, and partnerships.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“Ensuring you have a deep understanding of your partners’ business, taking extreme ownership of challenges, and being vulnerable are all tenants of building tight partnerships,” observes Andrew Palmer, CIO for global retail markets at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Failing to align IT and business interests gradually erodes hard-earned trust. “It

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

A savvy CIO must go beyond traditional expectations, driving innovation and aligning technology with business strategy to deliver measurable business value. The next step is to blend this understanding with technology-driven innovation to create new revenue streams, strengthen the companys competitive position, and leapfrog the competition.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Startups digitizing B2B e-commerce and retail in Africa continue to grab the headlines after the pandemic paved the way for widespread offline retail and commerce disruption. In the past five years, TradeDepot’s main work centred around building out the supply chain with technology and onboarding retailers one at a time.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The models of these B2B companies mirror their retail e-commerce counterparts such as Wasoko and TradeDepot, as they use tech-enabled solutions to digitize medicine distribution to underserved pharmacies, drug shops, clinics, and hospitals. So we wouldn’t expect them to be raising large sums just yet.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2024

For this reason, paying down technical debt while innovating and supporting growth is one of the greatest challenges for the modern CIO. Our business will continue to have the appetite for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, so how do we accommodate these integration needs, while still providing product innovation and cost management?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Also over the past year, the company modified its retail model, adding high-tech touch points throughout the store, including the “Clair Corner,” a self-service kiosk where customers can receive an instant price quote on the item they are selling.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Fyllo has acquired DataOwl , a company offering marketing and loyalty tools for cannabis retailers. Fyllo said it already works with 320 cannabis retailers across 25 states (plus Puerto Rico and Jamaica). The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. 2020 was a defining year for cannabis: What comes next?

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Xebia

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Middle East payments industry is rapidly evolving, driven by several key innovations. These innovations are paving the way for a more efficient, secure, and integrated payments ecosystem in the Middle East, with significant implications for businesses and consumers across the region.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Lo hace, además, de la mano del gigante español del retail : Zara. El live shopping emigra desde Asia para hacer las delicias de los consumidores digitales españoles.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Individuals or businesses buying furniture in Africa can purchase from local furniture stores or global furniture retailers like IKEA. Taeillo , a Lagos-based startup innovating around these issues relating to time, quality and cost via its online furniture e-commerce store, has raised $2.5 Made.com raises another $56 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

This is in addition to making sure that we have the right assortment of products all the time,” Koko Networks co-founder and chief innovation officer Sagun Saxena told TechCrunch. Koko Club is a technology-enabled retail platform targeting consumers in low-income neighborhoods. Image Credits: Koko Networks.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Taking the lead Dr. Norman Jacknis, professor of practice, innovation, and entrepreneurship at Northeastern University notes that leadership and intellectual curiosity about AI is crucial: “As CIOs, you need to be open to surprises in this world of AI.” The computer is only learning from the data that you put into it,” Jacknis observes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The company was founded in 2015 by Roy Avidor, Mor Lavi and Gilad Zirke, driven by their passion for eCommerce and a realization of the challenges faced by brands and retailers in digital commerce. The platform was built to connect brands with retailers and/or marketplaces.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

trillion part of our economy which is why more than $200 billion is spent by retailers, marketplaces and brands each year on new commerce-related technology to better capitalize on all this opportunity. Retailers and brands are going to have to adapt to this new reality and fast. What does this mean for commerce at large?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Commerce is as old as humanity, and yet innovation in how to build better and more efficient companies not only continues, but is accelerating. Retailers are a familiar example of marketplaces, because they aggregate products from multiple manufacturers (“supply”) and offer the aggregation to consumers (“demand”).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The company, which was founded in 2019 and counts Colgate and PepsiCo among its customers, currently focuses on e-commerce, retail and financial services, but it notes that it will use the new funding to power its product development and expand into new industries. Image Credits: Noogata.

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CIO

JUNE 13, 2024

Over the past year, generative AI – artificial intelligence that creates text, audio, and images – has moved from the “interesting concept” stage to the deployment stage for retail, healthcare, finance, and other industries.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Respondents represent 12 industries, among them banking, investment and insurance, manufacturing, automotive, retail, healthcare and the public sector. The need for responsible innovation is paramount, as is balancing GenAI ambitions with an organisation’s sustainability goals.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Digital transformation initiatives have picked up in the retail sector in recent years as store chains compete for brand awareness and sales in a rapidly evolving market. By 2026, retailers’ global investments in digital transformation tools are expected to reach $388 billion , growing by 18% a year. And online ordering accelerated.

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2025

They have to take into account not only the technical but also the strategic and organizational requirements while at the same time being familiar with the latest trends, innovations and possibilities in the fast-paced world of AI. It is an interdisciplinary approach that aligns technological innovation with business requirements.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Those that innovate now to introduce adjacent services will emerge as winners in the next few years, with some inevitably becoming billion-dollar companies. From product discovery through the checkout process, a consumer buying a bag of licorice looks nothing like a retailer buying 100,000 bags of licorice from a distributor.

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