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How online retailers can harness live shopping on social media with modern commerce — and boost massive growth

CIO Business Intelligence

As shoppers become increasingly eager to buy via live shopping on social platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, retailers face new challenges: How to capture the shoppers’ attention on social media when the urge to buy hits? Live shopping is one of the most exciting retail experiences in a long time.

Retail 98
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DARPA offers $42 million for ‘revolutionary’ research on social media analysis

Trends in the Living Networks

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (slogan: Creating and Preventing Strategic Surprise) is offering $42 million in funding for “revolutionary&# research into social media in strategic communication. Recognize persuasion campaign structures and influence operations across social media sites and communities.

Analysis 144
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The Radiant Group Acquires HumanGeo to Advance Data Analytics and Open Source Capabilities

CTOvision

HumanGeo provides advanced data analytics and agile software development services to more than a dozen organizations across defense, intelligence, and commercial markets. Since its founding in 2011, HumanGeo has worked to turn information into insight and create innovative technology that provides customers with "leap ahead" capabilities.

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Sysco’s recipe for growth centers on IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Like most companies, Sysco traditionally ran its B2B e-commerce business in a bulk reordering fashion. But the ability to employ the agility and flexibility of the cloud, combined with personalization microservices for each customer, has been very good for business.

B2B 94
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Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market

Cloud Musings

Although cloud compute service and application management were the primary reason for migrating to the cloud, the rapid growth of unstructured data (Social media, Hadoop, Big Data Analytics) significantly heightened the importance of cloud-based storage. biometrics, social media analytics, dynamic data streams).

Storage 79
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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

All Things Distributed

A well know application area that makes use of the advanced network infrastructure in Japan is social gaming, and it shouldnt be surprising that some of the early customers of the new AWS Tokyo Region are large gaming companies like Gumi and Zynga Japan.

Cloud 114
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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Take the example of industrial manufacturing: in prototyping, drafts for technologically complex products are no longer physically produced; rather, their characteristics can be tested in a purely virtual fashion at every location across the globe by using simulations. The German startup SimScale makes use of this trend.

Data 79