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Contio Launches to Transform Every Meeting Into a Decisive Moment That Accomplishes Great Things
NewsJan 29, 2026

Contio Launches to Transform Every Meeting Into a Decisive Moment That Accomplishes Great Things

Contio has launched MeetingOS, the world’s first Decision Acceleration Platform, to turn inefficient meetings into decisive, outcome‑driven sessions. Powered by the Contio Intelligence Engine, the platform automatically drafts agendas, surfaces real‑time insights, and generates detailed notes and action items. Three...

By MarTech Series
The State of Browsing in 2026: Why Digital Burnout Is Now a Marketing Problem… and Opportunity
NewsJan 29, 2026

The State of Browsing in 2026: Why Digital Burnout Is Now a Marketing Problem… and Opportunity

Shift’s 2026 State of Browsing Report finds digital burnout now prevalent in browsers, with 62% of U.S. adults reporting recurring fatigue. Users juggle many tabs—one in five has 11+ open—and experience frequent attention loss, costing significant time. Marketers are implicated...

By MarTech Series
Adcom Transforms Communication Training with Its AI-Enabled Communication Labs
NewsJan 29, 2026

Adcom Transforms Communication Training with Its AI-Enabled Communication Labs

Adcom Designs, a Bay Area learning firm, launched AI‑Enabled Communication Labs that replace lecture‑based training with hands‑on, practice‑focused sessions. The labs integrate artificial intelligence from the start, offering customized workshops lasting two hours to two days for groups of ten...

By MarTech Series
On Appoints Frank Sluis as Chief Financial Officer
NewsJan 29, 2026

On Appoints Frank Sluis as Chief Financial Officer

Swiss sportswear brand On announced the appointment of Frank Sluis as chief financial officer, effective May 1. Sluis arrives from Ahold Delhaize, where he served as CFO for Europe & Indonesia, and previously held finance roles at Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever and Hoogwegt Group. He...

By The Retail Bulletin
OpenX Elevates Key Leaders Across Strategy, Marketplace Quality, and Product to Build the Industry’s Most Intelligent SSP
NewsJan 29, 2026

OpenX Elevates Key Leaders Across Strategy, Marketplace Quality, and Product to Build the Industry’s Most Intelligent SSP

OpenX Technologies promoted three senior leaders—Andrew Goode to SVP of Strategy, Chris Hallenbeck to VP of Marketplace Quality, and Rich Calkins to VP of Product—to accelerate its AI‑driven, performance‑focused roadmap. The appointments leverage Goode’s agency and LLM expertise, Hallenbeck’s 25‑year...

By MarTech Series
StackAdapt Achieves EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework Certification
NewsJan 29, 2026

StackAdapt Achieves EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework Certification

StackAdapt announced it has earned certification under the EU‑U.S. Data Privacy Framework, the European Commission‑approved mechanism that legitimises transatlantic personal data flows. The certification confirms the platform’s GDPR‑aligned privacy program and eliminates the need for supplemental transfer tools such as...

By MarTech Series
Strong Revenue Performance Sends IBM Stock Soaring After-Hours
NewsJan 29, 2026

Strong Revenue Performance Sends IBM Stock Soaring After-Hours

IBM reported a 9% fourth‑quarter revenue jump, the strongest in three years, driven by rapid software and infrastructure growth. Software now represents 45% of the company’s revenue, up from 25% in 2018, and free cash flow rose to $7.6 billion, a...

By SiliconANGLE
Toolstation Launches New Small Format Store Concept
NewsJan 28, 2026

Toolstation Launches New Small Format Store Concept

Toolstation has unveiled Toolstation GO, a new small‑format store aimed at high‑street locations. The first outlet opened in London’s Battersea, offering plumbing, electrical, power tools and DIY essentials both in‑store and via click‑and‑collect. Self‑service kiosks let customers bypass queues, while extended...

By The Retail Bulletin
Food Waste Cuts that Protect Margins Witha Shelf-Life Strategy
NewsJan 28, 2026

Food Waste Cuts that Protect Margins Witha Shelf-Life Strategy

Food waste in U.S. grocery stores stems from ambiguous date labels, poor rotation, and cold‑chain lapses, turning sell‑through potential into costly shrink. A shelf‑life strategy that standardizes dating rules, embeds FEFO rotation, and enforces repeatable temperature checks can cut write‑offs...

By Retail Insider Canada
Acoustic Launches Native Integrations with Leading Commerce Platforms
NewsJan 28, 2026

Acoustic Launches Native Integrations with Leading Commerce Platforms

Acoustic announced native, bi‑directional integrations with Shopify, BigCommerce and WooCommerce inside its Acoustic Connect platform. The connectors deliver real‑time catalog, order and behavioral data sync, giving retailers a continuously updated view of each customer. Marketers can now trigger omnichannel journeys...

By MarTech Series
Dmr Advertising Chooses Pentaleap to Modernize Its Retail Media and Accelerate Growth
NewsJan 28, 2026

Dmr Advertising Chooses Pentaleap to Modernize Its Retail Media and Accelerate Growth

Retail media marketer dmr Advertising has selected Pentaleap as its technology partner to modernize its retail media operations for DocMorris. The transition began with a collaborative upgrade alongside the incumbent system, delivering immediate relevance and user‑experience improvements, before expanding to...

By MarTech Series
Drupal Reinvents Open Source Content Management with Launch of Drupal Cms 2.0 — New Visual Builder, AI and Templates Redefine...
NewsJan 28, 2026

Drupal Reinvents Open Source Content Management with Launch of Drupal Cms 2.0 — New Visual Builder, AI and Templates Redefine...

Drupal Association unveiled Drupal CMS 2.0, the most significant upgrade in its 25‑year history. The new version adds Drupal Canvas, a visual drag‑and‑drop builder, and pre‑configured site templates that can be installed in under three minutes. Optional AI tools let...

By MarTech Series
MNTN’s Latest Innovation, QuickFrame AI, Scales Rapidly With New AI Video Features Including Consistent Characters, Products, and Locations Across Campaigns
NewsJan 28, 2026

MNTN’s Latest Innovation, QuickFrame AI, Scales Rapidly With New AI Video Features Including Consistent Characters, Products, and Locations Across Campaigns

MNTN unveiled major upgrades to its QuickFrame AI platform, enabling brands to generate professional TV and social video in minutes. The new release introduces reusable brand building blocks for products, characters, and locations, director‑level controls, an effects library, and an...

By MarTech Series
Incubeta Launches New Agentic AI Products to Help Brands Understand What Truly Drives Marketing Performance
NewsJan 28, 2026

Incubeta Launches New Agentic AI Products to Help Brands Understand What Truly Drives Marketing Performance

Incubeta unveiled two agentic AI solutions—Creative Performance Index (CPI) and OutperformBI—to give marketers clearer insight into what truly drives campaign results. CPI analyzes granular creative elements such as branding, calls‑to‑action, and emotional cues, linking them directly to live performance data...

By MarTech Series
Purple Launches ‘Engage’: The All-in-One CRM and Email Platform to Help Venues Turn Visitors Into Regulars
NewsJan 28, 2026

Purple Launches ‘Engage’: The All-in-One CRM and Email Platform to Help Venues Turn Visitors Into Regulars

Purple has unveiled Engage, an all‑in‑one CRM and email marketing platform that turns venue Wi‑Fi connections into a compliant customer database. The solution bundles data collection, segmentation and automated email campaigns in a hardware‑agnostic interface designed for small cafés to...

By MarTech Series
Kddi Selects the Digital Vending Machine® From Bango to Power Content Offering for Povo2.0 Pre-Paid Subscribers
NewsJan 28, 2026

Kddi Selects the Digital Vending Machine® From Bango to Power Content Offering for Povo2.0 Pre-Paid Subscribers

KDDI, one of Japan’s largest telcos, has partnered with Bango to integrate the Digital Vending Machine (DVM) platform into its povo2.0 prepaid service. The DVM will let KDDI instantly bundle leading streaming subscriptions with mobile plans, giving prepaid customers a...

By MarTech Series
Sokin Secures $100 Million Debt Facility
NewsJan 28, 2026

Sokin Secures $100 Million Debt Facility

Sokin, a global business‑payments platform, secured a $100 million long‑term debt facility from Oxford Finance. The capital will accelerate its expansion across North America, Asia, the Middle East and South America and fund new embedded‑payments products. The deal follows a $50 million...

By Finextra
Fasturtle Rebrands as FT Media, Marking 25 Years of Growth and the Launch of a New Era in Marketing and...
NewsJan 28, 2026

Fasturtle Rebrands as FT Media, Marking 25 Years of Growth and the Launch of a New Era in Marketing and...

Fasturtle has rebranded as FT Media, marking its 25‑year anniversary and a shift toward integrated digital marketing, sales automation, and CRM solutions. The new FT Media brand introduces DealRx, a proprietary CRM platform that unifies lead management and pipeline tracking...

By MarTech Series
NAYEE Launches CountriesDB, a Developer-First Global Country Data Platform with Widgets and API
NewsJan 28, 2026

NAYEE Launches CountriesDB, a Developer-First Global Country Data Platform with Widgets and API

NAYEE LLC unveiled CountriesDB, a developer‑first platform delivering ISO 3166‑1 and ISO 3166‑2 compliant country and subdivision data via a modern API and embeddable widgets. The service includes framework‑agnostic widgets translated into more than 50 languages, allowing instant localization of geographic inputs....

By MarTech Series
AMIQ EDA Gives AI Agents Access to Essential Design and Verification Data
NewsJan 28, 2026

AMIQ EDA Gives AI Agents Access to Essential Design and Verification Data

AMIQ EDA launched the Design and Verification Tools (DVT) MCP Server, a new product that exposes a compiled database of semiconductor design and verification data to AI agents. The server connects AI assistants to project‑specific context, supporting Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL...

By MarTech Series
Best IT Managed Services for Large Enterprises
NewsJan 28, 2026

Best IT Managed Services for Large Enterprises

Large enterprises are shifting IT from a support function to a strategic growth engine, and the article outlines the criteria that define the best managed services for this scale. It highlights five enterprise‑tier attributes—strategic partnership, transparent governance, proactive operations, comprehensive...

By HackRead
Endee.io Open Sources Its High-Performance Vector Database for Scalable AI
NewsJan 28, 2026

Endee.io Open Sources Its High-Performance Vector Database for Scalable AI

Endee.io has launched Endee, an open‑source high‑performance vector database aimed at AI‑driven semantic search, retrieval‑augmented generation, and recommendation workloads. The platform promises high recall, sub‑millisecond latency, and markedly lower infrastructure costs by optimizing memory and compute usage. Endee is positioned...

By MarTech Series
Top Web Design Trends for Dallas Businesses in 2026: Blacksmith Agency Report
NewsJan 28, 2026

Top Web Design Trends for Dallas Businesses in 2026: Blacksmith Agency Report

Blacksmith Agency, a Dallas‑based web design firm, released a 2026 research report identifying eight web‑design features that are driving higher engagement for local B2B, real‑estate, and finance brands. The study highlights that more than 65% of regional traffic comes from...

By MarTech Series
Building Pipeline Through High-Quality Conversations: Why Accoil Sponsors SaaStock
NewsJan 28, 2026

Building Pipeline Through High-Quality Conversations: Why Accoil Sponsors SaaStock

Accoil, an Australian customer‑engagement platform for B2B SaaS firms, sponsored SaaStock USA and Europe in 2025, securing ten hosted meetings and a booth at each event. The hosted‑meeting format delivered 80‑90 qualified leads and several warm introductions, highlighting the value...

By SaaStock
Bell Integration Expands AI Center of Excellence to Strengthen Enterprise AI Skills Development Across the UK
NewsJan 28, 2026

Bell Integration Expands AI Center of Excellence to Strengthen Enterprise AI Skills Development Across the UK

Bell Integration has expanded its AI Center of Excellence across the UK, adding a comprehensive Starburst Data & Analytics training suite to its portfolio. The new programs deliver hybrid, role‑specific AI and data engineering courses to enterprises in London, regional...

By MarTech Series
New Report Finds Communication Teams Unprepared for AI, Despite High Urgency and Organizational Pressure
NewsJan 28, 2026

New Report Finds Communication Teams Unprepared for AI, Despite High Urgency and Organizational Pressure

A Breuklander Communications study reveals communication teams view AI as urgent (7.4/10) and valuable (8.1/10) but lack confidence, scoring only 4.2/10 in self‑assessment. Internal confidence gaps of four to nine points within the same team are identified as the greatest...

By MarTech Series
Terillium Launches Oracle AI Strategy Workshop to Help Organizations Turn AI Vision Into Business Value
NewsJan 28, 2026

Terillium Launches Oracle AI Strategy Workshop to Help Organizations Turn AI Vision Into Business Value

Terillium has introduced an Oracle AI Strategy Workshop designed to help enterprises uncover, prioritize, and operationalize artificial‑intelligence use cases within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. The hands‑on engagement delivers a detailed AI Assessment Readout, outlining business value propositions, efficiency gains, cost‑reduction...

By MarTech Series
Digital Element Announces NAT Detector — Industry’s New Standard for Accurate IP Geolocation and Risk Intelligence
NewsJan 28, 2026

Digital Element Announces NAT Detector — Industry’s New Standard for Accurate IP Geolocation and Risk Intelligence

Digital Element launched NAT Detector, a new feature in its NetAcuity IP intelligence platform that identifies Network Address Translation (NAT) and Carrier‑Grade NAT connections. The tool flags shared‑IP environments, helping advertisers, security teams, DRM providers, and fintech firms interpret IP...

By MarTech Series
UserTesting Unveils UserTesting for Figma, Embedding AI-Powered Customer Insights Directly Into Design Workflows
NewsJan 28, 2026

UserTesting Unveils UserTesting for Figma, Embedding AI-Powered Customer Insights Directly Into Design Workflows

UserTesting announced a new Figma plugin that lets designers generate AI‑driven test plans and launch live user tests directly from their prototypes. The tool creates complete scripts—including tasks, instructions, and follow‑up questions—in under a minute and streams success metrics, behavioral...

By MarTech Series
PubMatic Expands Commercial Leadership Team to Accelerate Buy-Side and Publisher Growth
NewsJan 28, 2026

PubMatic Expands Commercial Leadership Team to Accelerate Buy-Side and Publisher Growth

PubMatic announced a major expansion of its commercial leadership, appointing Joseph Dressler as SVP of Advertiser Solutions (Brands) and Bill McLaughlin as SVP of Advertiser Solutions (Agencies). The new team will accelerate adoption of PubMatic’s AI‑driven AgenticOS and Agentic Accelerator...

By MarTech Series
MetaRouter Strengthens Executive Leadership Team to Accelerate Global Growth in AI-Ready Marketing and Commerce Infrastructure
NewsJan 28, 2026

MetaRouter Strengthens Executive Leadership Team to Accelerate Global Growth in AI-Ready Marketing and Commerce Infrastructure

MetaRouter announced three senior executive hires—Ana Laura Zain as chief marketing officer, Jason Bagg as chief financial officer, and Jon Flugstad as chief business officer—to strengthen its leadership as it scales a privacy‑first, AI‑ready data orchestration platform. The appointments bring...

By MarTech Series
TikTok Partners with Fluency to Grow Its New Automotive Ads Category
NewsJan 28, 2026

TikTok Partners with Fluency to Grow Its New Automotive Ads Category

TikTok has teamed with Fluency to embed its new automotive ad category into Fluency’s Digital Advertising Operating System. The integration lets agencies and brands launch, manage, and optimize TikTok automotive ads—such as Product Cards and Multi‑link Carousels—directly from a single...

By MarTech Series
Qlik Joins Snowflake & Industry Leaders to Support Data and AI Interoperability Across the Ecosystem Through the Open Semantic Interchange
NewsJan 28, 2026

Qlik Joins Snowflake & Industry Leaders to Support Data and AI Interoperability Across the Ecosystem Through the Open Semantic Interchange

Qlik announced its participation in the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), an open‑source effort led by Snowflake to create a vendor‑neutral specification for semantic metadata. OSI aims to harmonize data definitions across business intelligence, data engineering, and AI tools, reducing metric...

By MarTech Series
Calabrio’s “Voice of the Agent” Report Finds the Modern Contact Center Balancing Empathy and AI in a Time of Transition
NewsJan 28, 2026

Calabrio’s “Voice of the Agent” Report Finds the Modern Contact Center Balancing Empathy and AI in a Time of Transition

Calabrio’s 2025 "Voice of the Agent" report, based on over 500 contact‑center professionals in Europe and North America, shows the industry is shifting toward a blend of human empathy and AI‑driven tools. Agents report higher pride and purpose, with 75%...

By MarTech Series
GASPARD PREMIER Charts Measured Growth as Niche Fragrance Maker Leans on Small-Batch Model
NewsJan 28, 2026

GASPARD PREMIER Charts Measured Growth as Niche Fragrance Maker Leans on Small-Batch Model

GASPARD PREMIER, a Montreal‑based niche fragrance and skincare label, has sustained growth by producing ultra‑small batches of natural, botanical‑based products. Founder Raphaël Gaspard keeps production, bottling and distribution under one roof, resulting in frequent sell‑outs, including two December launches. The...

By Retail Insider Canada
Inside Amazon’s Big Bet on Harris Farm
NewsJan 28, 2026

Inside Amazon’s Big Bet on Harris Farm

Amazon Australia has partnered with premium grocer Harris Farm Markets to bring fresh produce, meat and berries to its platform, marking the first time fresh food is available on Amazon.com.au. The rollout starts in more than 80 Sydney inner‑city suburbs,...

By Inside Retail Australia
Harris Technology Takes ‘Another Leap Forward’ in Sales Growth
NewsJan 28, 2026

Harris Technology Takes ‘Another Leap Forward’ in Sales Growth

Harris Technology reported $4.4 million in sales for the October‑December quarter, a 16% increase over the previous period. Refurbished technology drove the growth, with each month surpassing $500,000 in sales for the first time. Gross margin improved to 37.2% and operating...

By Inside Retail Australia
What Jaimee Vilela Learnt Building a $3m Haircare Business
NewsJan 28, 2026

What Jaimee Vilela Learnt Building a $3m Haircare Business

Jaimee Vilela grew Cooki from $179,000 to $3 million in revenue by keeping the business capital‑light and founder‑led. She limited growth channels to Meta advertising for acquisition and email for retention, avoiding agencies, investors and extra staff. A strategic rebrand from...

By Inside Retail Australia
ShopTalk Luxe: How Luxury Leaders Are Redefining Growth in Volatile Markets
NewsJan 27, 2026

ShopTalk Luxe: How Luxury Leaders Are Redefining Growth in Volatile Markets

At ShopTalk Luxe in Abu Dhabi, Chalhoub Group CEO Michael Chalhoub detailed how the 14,000‑employee luxury retailer navigated sudden missile threats in Qatar and Bahrain, placing employee safety above all else. He highlighted the firm’s historic resilience, having rebuilt after...

By Inside Retail Australia
Toro Steel Buildings Backed by over 85,000 Successful Builds
NewsJan 27, 2026

Toro Steel Buildings Backed by over 85,000 Successful Builds

Toro Steel Buildings, with over 40 years in business, has supplied more than 85,000 prefabricated steel structures across North America. Its kits are fully engineered to meet local snow, wind, seismic and hurricane codes, ensuring reliable performance in diverse climates....

By Retail Insider Canada
Reliability at Sea: Why Vancouver’s Shipping Giants Invest in Strategic Maintenance
NewsJan 27, 2026

Reliability at Sea: Why Vancouver’s Shipping Giants Invest in Strategic Maintenance

Vancouver’s shipping operators are treating vessel upkeep as a strategic business function rather than a routine expense. By leveraging engine analytics, repair logs and local dry‑dock access, companies like Ignition Marine align maintenance windows with commercial calendars, turning reliability into...

By Retail Insider Canada
UPS Exits Volume Race, Bets on Healthcare, Cross-Border and B2B
NewsJan 27, 2026

UPS Exits Volume Race, Bets on Healthcare, Cross-Border and B2B

UPS announced the completion of its strategic reduction of low‑margin Amazon package volume, cutting it by more than 50% as part of a multi‑year margin‑focused plan. The carrier is redirecting growth toward higher‑margin segments such as healthcare, small‑and‑medium‑business, automotive and...

By PYMNTS
Revolut Business Launches Subscriptions to Unify Revenue Operations
NewsJan 27, 2026

Revolut Business Launches Subscriptions to Unify Revenue Operations

Revolut Business has launched Subscriptions in the UK, an in‑app solution that lets merchants create, automate and manage recurring payment plans without additional billing software fees. The feature consolidates billing, payments and customer data, offering instant reconciliation, API access, free‑trial...

By Fintech Global
Velera to Provide Card Processing Services to Ohio-Based Kemba Credit Union
NewsJan 27, 2026

Velera to Provide Card Processing Services to Ohio-Based Kemba Credit Union

Ohio-based Kemba Credit Union, with 14 branches in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, has selected Velera to provide debit and credit card processing services beginning in August. Velera, a credit union service organization serving more than 4,000 financial institutions across North...

By PYMNTS
HeyMarvin Launches Industry’s First Agentic AI Search for Customer Research
NewsJan 27, 2026

HeyMarvin Launches Industry’s First Agentic AI Search for Customer Research

HeyMarvin unveiled Agentic Ask AI, the first enterprise‑level, multi‑agent search platform for customer research. The system deploys specialized discovery, analysis, validation, citation, and synthesis agents that autonomously break down queries, cross‑check evidence, and surface insight‑backed answers from millions of data...

By MarTech Series
Plotly Challenges Legacy BI Tools with the New AI-Powered Plotly Studio
NewsJan 27, 2026

Plotly Challenges Legacy BI Tools with the New AI-Powered Plotly Studio

Plotly unveiled Plotly Studio, an AI‑native analytics platform that merges traditional BI with Python development. The tool can connect to any Python‑accessible data source, including Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery, and generate interactive, production‑grade dashboards in under a minute. AI agents...

By MarTech Series
The B2B Experience Test: How Many Systems Does It Take to Serve One Customer?
NewsJan 27, 2026

The B2B Experience Test: How Many Systems Does It Take to Serve One Customer?

The article highlights that typical B2B enterprises rely on six to ten disparate systems to support a single customer journey, leading to fragmented experiences and slow commercial change. It argues that true unified commerce is not about consolidating all functions...

By TechBullion
GRIN Opens Instant, Self-Serve Access to Its Creator Marketing Platform
NewsJan 27, 2026

GRIN Opens Instant, Self-Serve Access to Its Creator Marketing Platform

GRIN, a leading creator management platform, introduced instant, self‑serve access with month‑to‑month pricing, eliminating demos, contracts, and long‑term commitments. The new offering includes a 30‑day free trial and credit‑card billing, allowing brands of any size to launch and scale creator...

By MarTech Series
Afiniti Introduces Outcome Orchestration, Defining a New Standard for Enterprise AI
NewsJan 27, 2026

Afiniti Introduces Outcome Orchestration, Defining a New Standard for Enterprise AI

Afiniti announced Outcome Orchestration, a new enterprise‑AI category designed to unify and steer contact‑center data, intelligence, and decision‑making toward measurable business outcomes. The solution sits alongside existing tools, acting as an overarching intelligence layer rather than replacing infrastructure. Built on...

By MarTech Series