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Amazon turns to AI to help customers find clothes that fit when shopping online

TechCrunch

After recently turning to generative AI to enhance its product reviews, e-commerce giant Amazon today shared how it’s now using AI technology to help customers shop for apparel online.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate. Addressing the ensuing sprawl was no quick fix.

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Walmart acquires virtual clothing try-on startup Zeekit

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The company leverages a combination of real-time image processing, computer vision, deep learning and other AI technology to show shoppers how they would look in an item by way of a simulation that takes into account body dimensions, fit, size and even the fabric of the garment itself. EVP of Apparel and Private Brands, in an announcement.

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Fashinza, a B2B supply chain marketplace for fashion brands, raises $100M

TechCrunch

. “Even though brands were marking up their retail price at 75% to 80% margins, they were still making only around 8% to 10% profits and losing money due to high inventory wastage or going out of stock. They] struggled with … opacity due to multiple middlemen and their manufacturers being thousands of miles away.”

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Using Technology to Improve Supply-Chain Resilience

Harvard Business Review

In the apparel sector, for example, buyers must place peak-season orders six months in advance. This article discusses how today’s supply chain technology can help businesses build more resilience into their supply chains moving forward. What they need is a more modern, more responsive supply chain platform.

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Teeny EV startup Arcimoto hooks up with defense contractor

TechCrunch

” Matbock also sells hunting gear, camo travel bags and an apparel line that might appeal to someone like Volodymyr Zelensky. Arcimoto is due to share its latest financials with investors on August 24. ” The U.S. military is among the planet’s worst climate polluters. million offering earlier this month.

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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

TechCrunch

Josh Kaplan and Dee Murthy, both founder and co-CEO of the Los Angeles–based company, started Ghost in 2021 after previously working together at Four Five Group, a men’s apparel business. Naturally, they started in apparel but are also seeing opportunity in beauty and home goods. Last week, Syrup Tech raised $6.3

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