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Bell | October 31, 2017

PTC today announced that Bell and Howell has selected the ThingWorx® industrial innovation platform to transform its service organization by enabling remote monitoring and service of its connected industrial mechatronic machines....

retaildive | November 08, 2017

Styles For Less on Monday became the latest teen apparel retailer to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to court documents submitted to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California. The company had liabilities between $10 million and $50 million, according to the filing. Styles For Less did not respond to a request for comment from Retail Dive....

retailworldmagazine | November 06, 2017

Australian retailers have now experienced three consecutive months of zero or negative growth, highlighting the very challenging environment they currently face. Australian retail turnover was unchanged (zero per cent) in September 2017, seasonally adjusted, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) retail trade figures. This follows a fall of 0.5 per cent in August 2017....

pymnts | November 10, 2017

Nicole Jass, Vantiv VP of Data Products, said in a recent interview with Karen Webster that data must be the core of that strategy. But not just any heap of data will do. It must be the right data, distilled and synthesized into something retailers can actually use to help aim their flying spaghetti. Everyone loves to talk about “Big Data,” but Jass said the biggest data in the world is of little use if merchants don’t know what to do with it. There is a trend toward collecting...