Merkle, a leading technology-enabled, data-driven performance marketing agency, has promoted Ben Gott to lead its rapidly expanding analytics practice across EMEA. Merkle’s mission is to enable orchestrated and valuable customer interactions across all marketing and service touchpoints. This can only be achieved through mastery of data, analytics and the customer identity. This in turn requires […]
Uber Technologies, announced an agreement to acquire majority ownership of Cornershop, a leading online grocery provider in Chile, Mexico, and more recently in Peru and Toronto. The investment is expected to close in early 2020, subject to regulatory approval. “Whether it’s getting a ride, ordering food from your favorite restaurant, or soon, getting groceries delivered, […]
Standard Cognition, an autonomous retail startup which helps retailers compete with Amazon’s checkout-free stores, has purchased the assets of automated kiosk startup DeepMagic. DeepMagic’s computer vision technology enables people to swipe their payment card upon entering kiosks or stores, pick up what they’re there for, and walk out without having to visit a checkout. Some of […]
The London, Munich and Paris-based specialist for post-checkout communication, parcelLab, has successfully completed its Series B financing. In addition to a number of existing investors, including venture capital investor Coparion, Capnamic Ventures is joining the start-up as lead investor. With this new capital, parcelLab will invest further in technology. However, the primary focus will be […]
Digital ordering company, Preoday has formed a technology partnership with Kafoodle. The partnership gives clients access to its pre-order and pay functionality alongside allergy information, stock management and promotion software designed to increase customer footfall. Unique to this integration is an additional level of functionality allowing design agencies and third-party developers to build-out their own […]
UK organisations are not innovating fast enough, and business leaders cite public nervousness as their main barrier to adopting emerging tech, according to new research. 58 percent of UK public and private sector leaders say that public nervousness around new technologies is holding them back, according to Fujitsu’s ‘Driving a Trusted Future in a Radically […]
Customer engagement company Airship announced that it has acquired Apptimize, the most adopted solution for testing and innovating user experiences across mobile apps and other digital channels. This move provides marketers and developers with a single solution to optimize the entire user experience across messaging channels and digital properties. Airship enables businesses to send relevant messages at the […]
Teads, the global media platform, announces an exclusive UK partnership with TI Media to deliver inRead advertising technology. Under the partnership, Teads will implement both video and viewable display advertising via Teads demand across all TI Media’s premium brands, with the goal of increasing ad monetisation scale and delivering the optimum user experience. TI Media is at […]
Reliance Jio, the mobile network operating subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has penned a deal with Microsoft to help accelerate digital transformation in India. The 10-year agreement will see the pair work to offer Indian businesses technology solutions across data analytics, AI, cognitive services, blockchain, internet of things, and edge computing. Jio will provide its own […]
inMarket, the leader in digital advertising for the physical world, announced plans to acquire Thinknear, a premier provider of location-based services, from Telenav. The acquisition will have Thinknear’s team and intellectual property join inMarket in exchange for Telenav receiving a minority equity interest in the fast-growing company. Following inMarket’s 10 years of bootstrapped expansion and […]