Author: CXM Editorial

‘Love At First Sight’: The Bizarre Story of How Amazon’s Deal for Whole Foods Went Down

Amazon shocked the world last week when it announced a $13.7 billion deal to buy organic-grocer Whole Foods — a warning shot that officially put competing grocers on notice and sent their shares tumbling. In a town hall meeting the day the deal...

Facebook Teaches Bots How to Negotiate. They Learn to Lie Instead

The chatbots came up with their own original and effective responses – including deceptive tactics Facebook’s 100,000-strong bot empire is booming – but it has a problem. Each bot is designed to offer a different service through the Messenger app: it...

Google Launches Exclusive Play Music Feature for Galaxy S8

Samsung Galaxy S8 owners who are enjoying Google’s Play Music streaming service may have noticed a new feature rolling out to the app recently, called New Release Radio. At the moment, this appears to be an exclusive feature within the...

INTRODUCING THE 101 RISING STARS OF UK TECH SCENE

Welcome to BusinessCloud’s inaugural list of the country’s most promising tech start-ups. Last week we brought you the hottest disrupters, companies already using tech to shake up traditional industries. You can view that full list here. And today it is the turn...

Amazon Just Spent $13.7 Billion to Prove Once Again That It’s the Most Dangerous Company in Tech

It’s no secret by now that Amazon, the so-called “everything store,” has zero hesitations or compunctions about entering a new market and completely upending it. Amazon did it with books. Amazon Web Services did it with the IT department. Now, with its...

A New Amazon Patent Stops You From Checking Prices Online While You Shop in a Physical Store

Amazon has been granted a patent designed to stop you from visiting a shop to buy something but then looking for a cheaper version online while you’re there. The patent, which we first saw via The Verge, would essentially try and intercept you if you made...

Which Companies Make The Most Revenue Per Employee?

ON AVERAGE, COMPANIES IN THE ENERGY SECTOR MAKE AT LEAST 2X PER EMPLOYEE THAN OTHERS The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. The world’s largest companies have many similarities, but the size of their respective org...

Tesco Enjoys Best Quarterly Sales Growth Since 2010

The supermarket giant reports figures ahead of City expectations in the latest sign of improvement under boss Dave Lewis. Tesco has reported its best quarterly sales growth in seven years as it said it was holding back inflation pressures to keep...

HSBC Announces New £1bn Fund to Support Yorkshire SMEs

HSBC has launched a £1bn lending fund to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Yorkshire. The fund is the largest package of support to be announced by HSBC for SMEs in Yorkshire and is a significant increase on the £850m...

Amazon Launched a New Barcode-scanning Gadget With AI Assistant Alexa Built in

Amazon has unveiled a new version of its barcode-scanning gadget, the Dash Wand — and it now has the company’s AI assistant Alexa built in. The device brands itself as a “wifi enabled kitchen assistant” that will “[revolutionise] how you shop...