Research firm Gartner predicts that by 2026, B2B sales organisations that unify commercial strategies and leverage multithreaded commercial strategies will realise revenue growth that outperforms the competition by 50 per cent. But, to do so, sales leaders will have to rethink their go-to-market strategies with what Gartner calls orchestrated customer engagement to better align to […]
abillion, a social commerce platform designed to help people and businesses around the world be more sustainable, has successfully closed a US$10 million Series A financing round. The Series A was led by NYC-based venture fund 1/0 Capital. Speaking on their investment into the Singapore-based company, Ziggy Jonsson, Senior Partner, said, “We’re delighted to support […]
Vibes, a mobile marketing solutions provider, recently launched Mobile Wallet as a Channel as part of its dynamic mobile wallet solution. Mobile Wallet as a Channel lets companies use Apple Wallet and Google Pay on consumers’ mobile devices to deliver personalised and dynamic mobile experiences for marketing, loyalty, and servicing. With this launch, Vibes enables […]
Socrates.ai, an employee experience platform, announced its new partnership with Mercer, a global talent consultancy and a fully-owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Under the terms of the relationship, the Mercer Belong platform will now automatically include Socrates.ai chat functionality to support all 150+ existing Belong customers as well as any new Belong […]
ServiceNow and Qualtrics have partnered to create a joint solution that combines ServiceNow’s digital workflows with Qualtrics’ experience management technology. The partnership will enable organisations to harness and act on customer and employee experience data in the Now Platform, in real time. Organisations can now import customer experience data from Qualtrics into the Now Platform […]
Nextech AR Solutions Corp. a Metaverse Company and provider of augmented reality (AR) experience technologies and services announced that it has integrated Stripe with its events platform Map Dynamics. This integration will provide an additional, no-touch projected $760,000 annual revenue stream for Nextech through a 2 per cent platform percentage fee when Stripe is used […]
Rebag, the authority for buying, selling and trading luxury, announced $33 million in a Series E funding round. The funding was led by private equity firm Novator, with participation from existing investors including General Catalyst. This brings the company’s total funding raised to $101 million. Following a strong year driven by technological advances and category […]
WILsquare Capital, a private equity firm, announced the acquisition of TekBrands, LLC (“TekBrands”), a designer and eCommerce-based marketer. Steve Nabity, who co-founded the company with his wife Lynette in 1990, said: “I am thrilled to see WILsquare as the new partner for TekBrands. WILsquare immediately recognised and values what the leadership team has built and […]
Retailers in the UAE raked in a total of $71 billion in sales last year, helping the country’s retail sector secure its position as one of the most resilient globally, according to new data released by consultancy Kearney. The UAE, which has the highest GDP per capita among the emerging markets at $58,753, also leads […]
Aveva has expanded its Middle East executive leadership team with the appointment of Nayef Bou Chaaya as the company’s Vice President Sales and Head of Middle East and Africa (MEA). The new appointment strengthens Aveva’s partner and customer relations at a time when the company is facilitating digital transformation for an increasing number of industrial […]
