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Microsoft's CEO urges retailers to jump into the 'technology intense era'

New York - During his inaugural speech at National Retail Federations’ 2020 Vision conference on Sunday, the CEO of Microsoft urged retailers to embrace the imperative of “tech intensity”. “What I always tell retailers is that you can’t be cool by association, by riding along with somebody else’s technology,” said Nadella, asking the audience to...

14 Jan 2020

Retail INTERVIEW

Interview: what Stitch Fix can teach us about the future of retail

“Data is the new oil and artificial intelligence is the oil drill”. These words, uttered by senior ecommerce strategist Jorij Abraham, closed the last IAF World Fashion Convention, held in the Netherlands in October. They followed a seminar in which all panelists unanimouslyurged retailers to gather datato understand their customers and offer...

14 Jan 2019

Fashion

Nike collaborates with Matthew Williams in data-driven training collection

A new training collection is to be launched later this week by Nike. Designed in partnership with American designer Matthew M Williams, the creative director of Alyx, the pieces incorporate computational design and computer data which analyzed motion, heat and sweat zones. Nike decided to invite Williams to design a collection after launching...

9 Jul 2018