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OnBuy.com has launched a major national TV advertising campaign with ITV to increase awareness with consumers ahead of its Black Friday sale and the busy Christmas period. The online marketplace has invested £1 million into the campaign that aired for the first time on ITV on Monday 23rd November, just before …

Paul Lipman, CEO at Cybersecurity company, BullGuard explains how its newly released product line is offering multi-layered cybersecurity using adaptive machine learning Machine learning (ML) has become such a commonplace term in corporate marketing that it has crossed into buzzword territory. So many companies are using these terms in their …

Builder Expert has released a new guide Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2020: How To Set Up Your Store For Success. 2020 has been a transformative year for ecommerce – 62% of US consumers shop online more now than before the pandemic, and one UK survey even found that 74% of respondents across all age …

Serviceaide, Inc., has acquired Wendia, worldwide provider of enterprise service management solutions. A specialist and pioneer in AI-powered service management, Serviceaide offers enterprises around the world the Luma Digital Service Management Suite.  Luma includes a Virtual Agent, an intelligent chatbot and service automation platform that uses artificial intelligence, machine learning …

Morphean CEO, Rodrigue Zbinden, considers the uptake in cloud services as a result of the global pandemic, and explores the evolution of physical security in a more connected world.  Cloud-enabled technologies have seen a huge increase in use across Europe. As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold and people were forced …

Consenna has created a new Director-level role with responsibility for leading its expanding product solution portfolio.  The appointment comes as Consenna expects to exceed £10.5m in turnover in the current financial year. Simon Yates will join Consenna in early January 2021, having amassed over 15 years within the IT sector at both …

Onfido has revealed the results of its survey  “Customer attitudes to digital identity: meet the expectations of tomorrow”* which evaluated the online behaviour of over 4,000 respondents in the United Kingdom, United States, France and Germany in August 2020. The survey found that UK consumers are more actively using online …

Black Friday is one of the busiest days on the retail calendar. Due to the UK’s second lockdown, this year’s event will take place exclusively online. With online retail association IMRG predicting sales to grow between 35-45% during the event versus last year’s sales, we spoke to technology experts to …

Urb-it is partnering with order management platform Fluent Commerce to improve the omni-channel experience for their customers. Fluent Commerce’s technology will allow retailers to synchronise their inventory across distribution channels. Through this ability to fulfil from anywhere, retailers can not only increase sales, but also use their store networks as …

Novatech Ltd. have overhauled their line-up of custom gaming PCs with the latest and most exciting hardware offerings from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel, giving gamers, streamers and content creators the ability to play, edit and stream without limits. Designing two brand new gaming PCs featuring NVIDIA’s RTX 3070, Novatech’s Reign …

NortonLifeLock has made dark web monitoring available in the UK as part of Norton 360 Deluxe and Premium plans, as well as within a brand new gamer edition of its Cyber Safety tech – Norton 360 for Gamers. The new solution patrols the Dark Web and alerts UK users if their …

In a new study from McCarthy & Stone looking at the nation’s typical Christmas spending habits, it has been revealed that on average we’ll be spending over £100 less on the festive season than we did in the 2019 and 2018. In a UK-wide survey from the retirement housebuilder – which asked …