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Zulily hit with lawsuits from vendors and more layoffs in latest trouble for struggling retailer

GeekWire

(GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Zulily is laying off more employees and facing two lawsuits over alleged unpaid invoices, in the latest signs of trouble for the Seattle-based online retailer since it was acquired by a private equity firm earlier this year.

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Portland startup Candid lands $2M to help brands and retailers run their wholesale business online

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Candid is a software program meant to help retailers with their online wholesale efforts. based startup Candid raised $2 million to help retailers and other businesses run their wholesale efforts online. They were former colleagues at Stack Development, a Portland software development firm. Candid Photo).

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Best eBook Software: Tools to Create Your Digital Bestseller

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Why business resilience depends on software agility

CIO Business Intelligence

In a world where companies are defined by the digital services they can deliver, software agility IS business agility, and in turn results in better business outcomes. With our comprehensive Tanzu and Aria platforms, VMware has become a trusted partner to help organizations become more agile and responsive in software development.

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‘Just infuriating’: Online retailer Zulily flip-flops, now plans to lay off employees amid holidays

GeekWire

GeekWire first reported last week that the online retailer planned to shut down three offices, including its Seattle headquarters, and lay off more than 800 people in total. Qurate, the parent company of QVC, previously known as Liberty Interactive, acquired the retailer in 2014 for $2.4

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO Business Intelligence

The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change.

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The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements

CIO Business Intelligence

With all the articles about all the amazing AI developments, there’s plenty of hand-wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. The real problems are usually centered around what the software is supposed to do.