Best Buy Launches Nationwide Recycle-by-Mail Technology Boxes

Recycling your old electronics is about to become easier than ever. Best Buy is introducing a new nationwide, easy-to-use program that allows you to recycle all your old tech – by mail! Starting this month, you can order a prepaid Best Buy Technology Recycling Box and ship off your old electronics for recycling. Through the service, we will give your tech a second life or recycle it responsibly to protect the environment. “We continue to build on...

Board International still Market Leader in this year’s BARC Score for Integrated Planning & Analytics

Board International, a leading global provider of Intelligent Planning Solutions which help organizations to plan smarter, enabling actionable insights and better outcomes, is rated as Market Leader for the fourth successive year in this year’s BARC Score for Integrated Planning & Analytics, achieving the highest score in the portfolio capabilities axis which reflects functional and architectural criteria. The BARC report defines Market Leaders as “well-established vendors that drive strong market adoption, supported by technology innovation...

Perfect Corp. Launches New ‘AI Magic Avatar’ Feature for YouCam Perfect App, Empowering App Users to Generate Hundreds of Personalized Digital Avatars

Perfect Corp. (NYSE: PERF), the leading artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) beauty and fashion tech solutions provider, today announced the launch of a cutting-edge AI-powered avatar generator for its award-winning YouCam Perfect App for iOS and Android. The AI Magic Avatar tool is the latest addition to the comprehensive YouCam suite of apps, which also includes the YouCam Makeup and YouCam Nails apps, featuring thousands of AI and AR-powered beauty filters and fun...

Fivetran Supports the Automation of the Modern Data Lake on Amazon S3

Fivetran, a global leader in automated data movement, today announced support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with Apache Iceberg data lake format. Amazon S3 is an object storage service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security and performance. Apache Iceberg is a widely supported open-source data format that offers atomic, consistent, isolated and durable (ACID) transactions for data lakes. Fivetran is the automated data movement platform, anonymizing personally...

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Launches New Partner Programme for Worldwide Network of 3,400 Partners

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a leading provider of communications, cloud and networking solutions tailored to customers’ industries, has announced the launch of its new global partner programme, the 360 Partner Experience (360PX) that delivers a unique partner journey tailored to each organisation. The programme was developed to support ALE’s worldwide network of 3,400 partners and accelerate their proficiency and growth on the company’s end-to-end (E2E) portfolio spanning communications, network and CCaaS sold as on-premise, hybrid, or cloud...

LevaData Introduces New Industry-Leading Capabilities for Spend Intelligence and Lead Time Visibility

Today, LevaData, the company behind the industry-leading AI-powered supply management platform, announced the release of new features providing its customers with a significant upgrade for acquiring spend intelligence and lead time visibility. True to LevaData’s mission of empowering companies to make the smartest sourcing decisions for their direct materials spend, the new capabilities further differentiate the company’s AI-powered spend intelligence platform from other solutions on the market by providing uniquely deep insights down to the...

Softchoice to Participate in Laurentian Bank Securities Investor Conference

Softchoice Corporation (“Softchoice” or the “Company”) (TSX: SFTC) has announced its participation in the LBS Diversified Technology Conference being held virtually on April 12, 2023. Andrew Caprara, Softchoice’s President & COO, will be participating in individual meetings with institutional investors and a fireside chat. Once available after the event, a link to a recording of the webcast will be posted to the Company’s website at https://investors.softchoice.com/events-and-presentations/events.

Adthos Launches First-of-a-Kind Self-Service, 100% AI-Generated Audio Ads for Radio, Podcast & Streaming

From today, and for the first time anywhere, users of the Adthos Platform can generate complete audio ads from start to finish using AI technology. Advertisers simply submit a short briefing via a self-service portal, and using AI technology, Adthos will generate the script, adding AI voices, sound effects and music, resulting in a fully AI-produced ad that’s available for instant play-out instantly. The platform utilizes a dozen AI technologies including GPT-4, the latest language...

Western Digital Provides Information on Network Security Incident

Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today provided information regarding a network security incident involving some of its systems and the Company’s active response to this matter. On March 26, 2023, Western Digital identified a network security incident involving Western Digital’s systems. In connection with the ongoing incident, an unauthorized third party gained access to a number of the Company’s systems. Upon discovery of the incident, the Company implemented incident response efforts and initiated an investigation...

Unilever Goes Cloud-Only: Accenture and Microsoft Complete One of the Largest Cloud Migrations in Consumer Goods Industry

Accenture (NYSE: ACN), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Unilever (LSE: ULVR) have completed one of the largest and most complex cloud migrations in the consumer goods industry. The migration has helped Unilever—whose 400+ brands are used by 3.4 billion people daily—become a cloud-only enterprise. Accenture and Microsoft, together with their joint venture, Avanade, worked closely with Unilever to deliver the transformation in just 18 months with minimal disruption to business operations. It has not only helped...