We Mean Business Coalition’s chief executive officer Maria Mendiluce, Zapmap’s co-founder and chief operating officer Melanie Shufflebotham, and co-leader of the Green Party England and Wales Carla Denyer are among those to have been awarded an inaugural Women in Green Business Award celebrating their work driving the UK’s net zero transition. Announced at the end … Read more

Compatio AI has introduced the VFD System Configurator Model, specifically built for distributors and manufacturers in the Industrial Automation sector. This advanced model is the first to be released on the Compatio Configure platform, designed to streamline the process of selecting and configuring Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) and all necessary components for a complete, compatible … Read more

At GroceryShop, Bazaarvoice, the platform for full-funnel authentic user-generated content (UGC) and social commerce solutions, announced Bazaarvoice Vibe – a comprehensive solution designed to help marketers source, amplify and optimise user- and creator-generated content across all channels, all from one place. Global general availability begins 1 November.  “Bazaarvoice Vibe makes it easy for brands to … Read more

Itron, Inc. has released its 2024 Resourcefulness Insight Report (“the report”) that explores the current trends and future expectations of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on utility operations and strategies. The report, Exploring AI for Utilities: The Promise and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence, summarizes key findings from 600 utility executives from the United … Read more

Boeing Co. plans to slash its global workforce by about 10%, and announced $5 billion in charges across its commercial airplanes and defense businesses, underscoring the depths of the planemaker’s financial woes, which include a crippling labor strike. The cuts translate to roughly 17,000 positions, and will include executives, managers and employees, chief executive officer … Read more

Smart machines can provide manufacturers with invaluable real-time insights into shop floor productivity, inventory, and potential quality and maintenance issues. But buying new machinery to harness the Internet of Things (IoT) can be hard to justify, especially when interest rates remain high. An effective option to IoT success is to add sensors to existing equipment … Read more

Forter, the Trust Platform for digital commerce, has released findings from its 2024 Consumer Trust Premium Report, which explores the evolving relationship between consumer shopping habits and brand trust, based on 2,000 survey respondents in the US and UK.  Coined the ‘Trust Premium’, the report revealed U.K. consumers surveyed are now willing to spend 48% more, … Read more

Braehead Foods, one of Scotland’s largest food wholesalers, is using Podfather’s fleet planning, route optimisation and ePOD software to streamline deliveries following their partnership with national food service company Reynolds.  Braehead delivers quality produce across Scotland, and following the Reynolds agreement the company will use Podfather to help control costs, maintain service levels and respond to … Read more

Portnox, provider of cloud-native, zero trust access control solutions, today unveiled the results of its latest survey, ‘CISO Perspectives for 2025’, revealing critical insights into the challenges faced by Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) at large enterprises. The survey, which polled 200 CISOs from companies with annual revenues exceeding $500 million, highlights growing concerns around the … Read more

Boeing and unions arrived at a stalemate in the third week of a standoff over pay, with Boeing withdrawing a 30% pay offer for striking workers. The Guardian reports that the U.S. planemaker said it had removed its offer that would result in a pay increase by almost a third over three years for 33,000 … Read more