All Technology articles – Page 236
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AnalysisInnovation watch: Urban Outfitters app boosts engagement with teenagers
The UO app from fashion retailer Urban Outfitters aims to keep the company connected to teenage consumers and build the brand’s relevance to changing lifestyles.
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NewsRetail and consumer innovation hub to launch next week
TrueStart, a sector specialist retail and consumer innovation hub set up by retail experts, is to officially launch next week.
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OpinionRetail surgery: Should I convert to mobile PoS or keep a degree of fixed PoS?
Should I convert to mobile PoS or keep a degree of fixed PoS?
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NewsJon Rudoe promoted to Sainsbury's digital and technology director
Sainsbury’s online director Jon Rudoe has been promoted to digital and technology director, joining the retailer’s operating board and taking overall responsibility for the business’ technological development.
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AnalysisAnalysis: 6 retail R&D labs and their innovations
More retailers are developing their own departments to innovate, analyse data and create new technologies. Katie Deighton looks at some of the front runners
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NewsTesco reveals online grocery profits as it builds multichannel offer
Tesco has revealed it made £127m of trading profit in its UK online grocery arm last year, lifting a shadowy veil from one of the biggest unanswered questions in grocery.
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NewsEcommera attracts £25 million funding from investors including WPP
Software-as-a-service and big data company eCommera has secured £25 million in Series C funding from investors including advertising giant WPP.
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NewsVolvo trials service that delivers online orders to shoppers' cars
Volvo Cars is piloting a ‘roam delivery’ service which will enable car owners to have online deliveries left in or picked up from their cars.
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OpinionComment: Smart data is the core of modern retailing
Big data has always been one of retail’s greatest strengths - after all, the Tesco Clubcard is arguably the predecessor of big data as we know it today. It is also one of the biggest challenges retailers face.
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AnalysisAnalysis: New ways to use Facebook's evolving platform
Facebook’s evolution over the past 10 years has been significant – even in the past year, the platform has experienced some huge changes and retailers have had to change the way they use the network.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How many retailers could you buy for the price of WhatsApp?
Facebook’s acquisition of messaging app WhatsApp sent the technology world into a frenzy yesterday, not least because the social network paid a whopping $19bn for the app.
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NewsJeweller Beaverbrooks upgrades systems to enable multichannel growth
Beaverbrooks the Jewellers selects K3 Retail to fulfil multichannel ambitions.
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OpinionComment: Imagine a world where nothing has a price tag
This world already exists in the high-priced, high-end markets: crazy 24 bedroom houses with their own cinemas, moats and swimming pools list ‘Price on Application’; fancy jewellery stores or performance motor cars choose not to be as vulgar as to talk about price, reminding shoppers of the saying ‘If you have to ask, you can’t afford it’.
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GalleryIn pictures: Euroshop gives retailers a vision of the future of stores
Euroshop in Dusseldorf is in full swing and currently thousands of visitors are walking the many massive halls of the Messe in search of the next big thing.
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OpinionComment: Why you should buy into virtual reality
Virtual reality is one of those terms we’ve heard for a really long time, but it has always seemed like tomorrow’s technology. However, it’s actually here, now, and starting to gain some real momentum.
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OpinionBlog: My Topshop virtual reality front row experience
If you’ve wandered up to Oxford Circus over the past three days, you could have been forgiven for thinking Kate Moss was in the window of Topshop given how many people were crowded around peering in.
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OpinionReview: Marks & Spencer's new website - editorial, shopper inspiration and good design
Marks & Spencer has launched its new ecommerce site, having spent two years moving from its Amazon platform. Rebecca Thomson takes a look.
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NewsVideo: Take a tour of Marks & Spencer's new website
Marks & Spencer has today taken a step towards achieving its multichannel ambitions. Take a tour around the new features such as magazine-style editorial presentation, greater range editing and curation, and enhanced product detailing.
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Rakuten opens first European research and development centre in Paris
Rakuten has opened its first European research and development centre in Paris to add to its research facilities in Tokyo and New York.
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NewsMarks & Spencer unveils new website as it switches from Amazon platform
Marks & Spencer has today taken a step towards achieving its multichannel ambitions with the much-anticipated relaunch of its website.