Retailers have gained an advantage over consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) companies thanks to data-driven insights and low growth among big brands. These fundamental shifts require CPG manufacturers to rethink the way they manage key. accounts. Adopting customer-portfolio management and developing new capabilities in their sales organizations can help CPG companies thrive.There’s no denying that t...

It's sleek and discreet, until you try paying for a Coke by waving your hands in the air (because you clearly just don’t care).For those making their way to this year's Olympic games in Rio this August, Visa will be the only card accepted at official venues -- a pretty sweet deal for the payment provider. But, rather than be satisfied with exclusive access to the wallets of a half million tour...

Helpshift has made it easy for companies to deal with millions of customer support engagements on mobile devices. Now the company has raised a $23 million venture funding round to fuel its in-app customer support for the masses. And one way it will do that is by creating chatbots that can help solve customer support questions automatically.San Francisco-based Helpshift was able to raise the rou...

Harvard's metalens relies on domino-shaped elements that direct light to compose an image.[Harvard's metalens relies on domino-shaped elements that direct light to compose an image.]A new grain-of-sand-sized lens could one day compete with those enormous DSLR lenses to create sharp pictures.A group of scientists at Harvard University debuted their new "metalens" in Science last week, and hope i...

Fuel3D has unveiled their very first custom enterprise solution which takes the form of the new CryoScan3D Foot Scanner which has been created for foot orthotics. The Fuel3D foot scanner should make designing customised orthotics much easier and faster by providing a more accurate 3D scan of the person’s foot. John Stimpson, President of Cryos Technologies explains a little more about the new...

One startup, Conversable, which launches today with an enterprise SaaS offering, aims to help usher in this new era for ecommerce across multiple messaging platforms, SMS, and Twitter.Conversational commerce is coming. Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker declared it “messaging’s secret sauce” in this year’s Internet Trends report. Ernst & Young’s David Nichols sees it as the next evolution b...

Vengo Labs will reach 45 campuses this fall By Christopher Heine.Here is an example of a digitally-enhanced vending machine on NYU's campus. Vengo LabsCollege students on some 45 campuses this fall will notice wall-mounted vending machines that sell a variety of products. But what will likely stick out the most are the digital ads streaming on the machines from the likes of Hershey, Kiehl's and...

Clerkenwell Design Week 2016: Benjamin Hubert's design studio Layer has expanded and updated its Cradle collection for Italian furniture brand Moroso, featuring a stretch-mesh material made using new digital knitting techniques.Originally launched in Milan in 2013, Hubert's Cradle chair collection now features seat backs made from a stretch mesh created using similar knitting technology to Nike...

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