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Cibo acquires customer experience agency HYDRANT
February 20, 2014
Integrated brand experience agency Cibo recently announced the acquisition of HYDRANT, an established customer experience agency based in San Francisco. The…
read nowSurvey says: Data breaches not changing shoppers' behaviors
February 20, 2014
Despite concerns over the security of their personal information in the wake of massive retail security breaches, many American shoppers still aren't taking…
read nowSLI Systems launches product recommendation engine
February 19, 2014
SLI Systems has announced the launch of its Learning Recommendations product, an add-on to its Learning Search site search solution, to give e-commerce…
read nowAustin pharmacy testing iBeacon marketing
February 19, 2014
Shelfbucks Inc., provider of an iBeacon-based promotion platform for retail stores, announced it has finalized the roll out of its solution in Austin's…
read nowLowe's to hire 25K seasonal employees
February 19, 2014
Lowe's announced today it plans to hire approximately 25,000 seasonal employees at its stores in the United States during spring, the busiest time of year in…
read nowOpt-out registry takes aim at location-based marketers
February 19, 2014
The Future of Privacy Forum, a Washington-based think tank seeking to advance responsible data use and consumer privacy, and The Wireless Registry Inc., a…
read nowFashion retailer using traffic tech to study customer behavior
February 19, 2014
Tyco Retail Solutions has announced that FJ Benjamin, a group of global luxury and lifestyle brands across Asia, has successfully implemented Tyco’s Traffic…
read nowFoot Locker elects J.M. Smucker president to board of directors
February 19, 2014
Foot Locker Inc., the New York-based specialty athletic retailer, announced today that its board of directors elected Steven Oakland as a director of the…
read nowNational Gift Card launches eCard API
February 19, 2014
National Gift Card Corp. announced today that it has launched its first proprietary application programming interface to provide customers with electronic gift…
read nowNearly half of Americans who receive a tax refund will save rather than spend it
February 19, 2014
Having a plethora of options for how to use their tax refunds, more Americans this year are opting to stash their cash away for a rainy day. According to NRF's…
read nowMerchant Warehouse announces partnership with Teamwork Retail
February 19, 2014
Merchant Warehouse, a provider of payment technologies and merchant account services, has announced a new partnership with Retail Cloud Technologies, maker of…
read nowSurvey: UK shoppers are now 'habitual deal seekers'
February 18, 2014
Retail service provider parago has released its second U.K. shopper study, "Let's Make a Deal." According to the company, the results reveal that regardless of…
read nowWine.com snags executives from Williams-Sonoma, Shutterfly
February 18, 2014
Wine.com, a leading online wine retailer, today announced the addition of Peter Elarde as CMO and Greg Tatem as VP of engineering to the Wine.com executive…
read nowOnline shopping up 8 percent in the week before Valentine's Day
February 14, 2014
IBM today released new data from its Digital Analytics Benchmark to capture online shopping trends during the week leading up to Valentine's Day 2014 (Feb. 7 …
read nowMarketLive launches new partner program MarketLive Connect
February 14, 2014
Commerce platform MarketLive has announced MarketLive Connect, a partner network of technology providers who contribute a wide range of commerce solutions to…
read nowIBM unveils 'Ready for Smarter Commerce' tech ecosystem
February 14, 2014
At this week's PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, IBM unveiled the "Ready for Smarter Commerce" program, a new ecosystem that it says gives clients access to…
read nowIDC publishes 'maturity model' for big data and retail
February 13, 2014
IDC Retail Insights has announced a new report, "Business Strategy: IDC Maturity Model Benchmark – Big Data and Analytics in Retail in North America," which…
read nowNRF: Severe winter weather cripples retail sales
February 13, 2014
Consumers leveled off post-holiday shopping and spending in the beginning of the year due in part to severe winter weather in much of the country. According to…
read nowMerchant Warehouse supports Isis SmartTap in Boston
February 13, 2014
Merchant Warehouse, a provider of payment technologies and merchant services, has announced it is bringing Isis SmartTap capabilities to the point-of-sale…
read nowConsumer spending slowed in January
February 13, 2014
First Data Corporation has released its First Data SpendTrend analysis for Jan.1, 2014, through Jan. 31, 2013, compared to Jan. 1 2013, through Jan. 31, 2013.
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