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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

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It may not be as glamorous as D2C, but beauty tech is big money. For big brands and retailers, personalization is expected to be the top category for tech investment this year. Advanced virtual fitting rooms with VR/AR for fashion. Smart packaging with IoT and distributed ledger technology. More posts by this contributor.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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DS Smith sets a single-cloud agenda for sustainability

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British multinational packaging giant DS Smith has committed itself to ambitious sustainability goals, and its IT strategy to standardize on a single cloud will be a key enabler. Before we were quite fragmented across different technologies. Much of our digital agenda is around data.

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ST Engineering showcases applications of new technologies to stay ahead of disruption

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The advent of new technologies has accelerated the rate of innovation and disrupted the business landscape as we know it. As the pace of innovation speeds up, tomorrow’s front runners are those who readily embrace disruptive technologies to spearhead new business models and capture new avenues of growth.

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500 Global, GIZ establish bootcamp for accelerators in Africa to help them define sustainable business models

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r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) will train managers of leading accelerators in Africa over the next two years, to help them establish sustainable business models that commandeer greater influence in their ecosystems. However, being startups too, accelerators also face failure due to a couple of challenges including liquidity issues.

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IT leaders adjust budget priorities as economic outlook shifts

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“We haven’t changed our forecast in three quarters,” he says, noting that the US gross domestic product (GDP) is, technically, already in recession territory and has been for the past six months. That’s certainly the case in the corporate technology group at Illinois Tool Works (ITW), a $14.5

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This is not (just) another roundup of tech layoffs

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After a month that saw nearly 16,000 tech workers lose their jobs, June is off to a similar tumultuous start. This week, we’ll continue our round-up of layoffs in tech, but we’re not stopping there; we extracted a few common themes from the workforce reductions, especially focusing on nuances that may be lost from headlines.