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Revolutionizing Customer Retention: The Rise of Digital Top-Up Cards in the Global Market

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The global digital gift card market is expected to reach $724.3 billion by 2028, rising at a market growth of 14.2% The Brands that Benefit Brands across the spectrum, especially those in entertainment, telecommunications and retail, have capitalized on the flexibility digital top-up cards offer. In the U.S.,

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Ron Johnson’s Enjoy Technology Files for Bankruptcy, Set to be Sold

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Back in 2016, Ron Johnson was asked in a fireside chat at Shoptalk about the biggest mistake he had ever made. Six years later, Johnson might answer that question differently — his “commerce-at-home” startup Enjoy Technology filed for bankruptcy on June 29, 2022, after a series of setbacks including staffing shortages and dwindling liquidity.

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How NTI and Cisco Networking Academy are preparing Egypt for the IT jobs of the future

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But a challenge accompanies that, as there is an excess supply of young labor-market entrants with high education levels. For its efforts in workforce development and improvement in Egypt, Cisco Networking Academy partner, the National Telecommunication Institute (NTI), is a deserving winner of a Be the Bridge award.

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Utilizing the External Data Boom for Digital Shelf Optimization

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Publications about marketing often invoke the comparison of a digital shelf with a physical one. It can constantly and immediately change the way it is arranged to beat other shelves at capturing the customer’s attention. However, this isn’t enough even if the company is operating in a local market only.

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AWS to Invest an Additional $7.8B to Expand Ohio Facilities

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This includes a combination of actual Amazon employees and employees at local vendors that support the Amazon facilities, in sectors including telecommunications, software development, facilities maintenance and electricity generation. Since 2015, AWS already has invested $6.3

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Key Disaster Preparedness Takeaways for Retailers from an Eventful Summer

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Recently, Hurricane Idalia caused 350,000 outages in Florida and Georgia, while Hurricane Ophelia brought damage that left at least 140,000 people without power across Virginia and parts of North Carolina. Ed Spears is a technical marketing manager in Eaton ’s Critical Power and Digital Infrastructure Division in Raleigh, N.C.

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Cardlytics Bolsters Digital Advertising Offering with $275M Acquisition of Dosh

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Cardlytics runs banking rewards programs for financial institutions that are designed to allow marketers to identify new customers and increase loyalty from within banks’ online and mobile channels.