This post was written with Avdhesh Paliwal of Oldcastle APG. Oldcastle APG, one of the largest global networks of manufacturers in the architectural products industry, was grappling with an inefficient and labor-intensive process for handling proof of delivery (POD) documents, known as ship tickets. The company was processing 100,000–300,000 ship tickets per month across more…
Published September 10, 2025 Revlon Consumer Products LLC has renewed its fragrance license agreement with global music superstar and seven-time Grammy Award winner Christina Aguilera, extending a partnership that has spanned more than a decade. Revlon renews fragrance license with Christina Aguilera. – Christina Aguilera The long-term agreement comes more than 20 years after the…
On September 8, 2025, attackers compromised a set of 18 widely used npm packages—including chalk, debug, ansi-styles, and strip-ansi—collectively downloaded over 2.6 billion times per week. Through a targeted phishing campaign against a maintainer, the attackers published malicious versions containing obfuscated JavaScript designed to intercept cryptocurrency transactions. Any organization pulling these versions into builds risked…
Published September 10, 2025 E-commerce giant Shopify has formed a strategic alliance with Dublin-based e-tail tech solutions giant ESW to “empower enterprise brands and retailers to scale, localise, and optimise their e-commerce presence in more than 200 markets worldwide”. Reuters This means those enterprise brands using Shopify can now leverage ESW’s international expertise in managing…
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published September 10, 2025 Olivier Theyskens is back in the spotlight with a new fashion house. Boloria, as it is called, has just been created in Antwerp by Belgian entrepreneurs Manu and Michiel Beers, founders of the famous electronic music festival Tomorrowland and owners of the events and lifestyle company…
General summary Google made many AI advancements in August. You can now use AI Mode in Search in more countries and Deep Think in the Gemini app. Google also released new Pixel hardware with advanced AI features and made AI learning tools free for college students. Summaries were generated by Google AI. Generative AI is…
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published September 10, 2025 After years of accelerating marketing strategies and driving up prices, luxury houses may now have more to gain by returning to the fundamentals. How? By refocusing on product quality, durability and authenticity — while offering meaningful, experience-driven connections with their customers. These are the key takeaways…
By Europa Press Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published September 10, 2025 The CEO of Inditex, Óscar García Maceiras, has highlighted the “acceleration” of store and online sales at the beginning of the third quarter, the “solid performance” of the group, with “satisfactory” sales in “a complex environment” and the “significant” growth opportunities. Inditex “It…
This post was co-authored with Jingwei Zuo from TII. We are excited to announce the availability of the Technology Innovation Institute (TII)’s Falcon-H1 models on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. With this launch, developers and data scientists can now use six instruction-tuned Falcon-H1 models (0.5B, 1.5B, 1.5B-Deep, 3B, 7B, and 34B) on AWS, and have access…
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published September 10, 2025 Several groups in the textile and clothing sector in Portugal have announced the closure of production units and the dismissal of hundreds of employees. The associations that represent them are calling for emergency measures, such as layoffs and revitalization plans, so that companies can be genuinely…
