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Retail tech trends: Metaverse tops Twitter in Q1 2022

Metaverse leads as Retail Insight Network lists the top five terms tweeted on retail tech in Q1 2022, based on…
CPaaS is the key to omni-channel success for retail businesses

Communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) looks set to revolutionize the omni-channel customer experience. This means supporting customers across different channels, with a…
Future of servers, storage and networks: Ten companies predicted to succeed

Google parent Alphabet, Intel and Amazon are the three IT companies best placed to succeed in the servers, storage and…
Amazon moves from strength to strength in the UK

Amazon’s full-year 2018 results show no sign that the online behemoth is slowing down, with UK revenue rising 23.3% against…
Beauty companies turn to technology for greater market share

With beauty at the forefront of this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, 2019 can expect to see a…

Home router security is a ticking time bomb

Securing the home network used to be about restricting access and setting up firewalls. Now it’s about fighting elusive black…
Online retailers brace for hard Brexit

What will a hard Brexit mean for UK online shoppers? In a nutshell – higher costs and most likely a…
Cable says forget 5G, we’ve got 10G broadband

At the world's largest technology show, CES 2019, held in Las Vegas earlier this month, the cable industry staked its…
How are digital payment solutions transforming smaller retailers?

Smaller retailers, street traders, corner cafes, and cabbies have relied on the cash economy for decades, and could not afford…
Toys R Us is to close all of its stores – will other UK retailers follow suit?

This year has started with a range of bad news for retailers — including Toys R Us and Maplin — in…