As Black Friday and Cyber Monday approach, marketplace operators face a familiar dilemma: how do you spend aggressively on campaigns without gambling the entire quarter’s budget on a guess? The answer increasingly comes down to one discipline, audience-proof campaigns. Rather than launching a promotion and hoping it lands, smart marketers are testing how different audience […]
A fresh robotics funding round is turning heads across the tech investment world. Enigma, a startup working to make robot control as intuitive as turning a volume knob, just closed a massive $71 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with Sarah Guo’s Conviction Partners also joining in. For a seed stage […]
A fresh legal challenge is putting Section 301 tariffs back in the spotlight, and logistics operators should be paying close attention. Two businesses have filed a lawsuit arguing that these tariffs, originally tied to forced labor enforcement, are being used as a substitute for duties that were previously rolled back. The outcome could reshape how […]
Deckers Brands, the parent company behind Hoka and Ugg, just posted a Q1 that topped Wall Street forecasts. Yet instead of pure celebration, the results have sparked a quieter conversation among analysts: is a Hoka growth slowdown starting to show up beneath the surface? For a brand that has spent years as the fastest-growing name […]
A new AI lab called Prentis is reportedly in talks to raise $100 million, and its founders think the next big wave of artificial intelligence will not be about writing code. Instead, the startup, co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is wagering that AI task automation, handling the repetitive computer work that fills most […]
Just weeks after hopes rose for calmer waters in the Middle East, renewed fighting in July has thrown plastic supply chains back into turmoil. A brief ceasefire in June had raised expectations that the Strait of Hormuz would reopen fully and that virgin material flows would stabilize. Instead, the conflict flared again, and the industry […]
Michaels has rolled out an AI shopping assistant called Ask Mike, designed to help shoppers move past basic keyword searches and toward recommendations tailored to what they actually want. Instead of typing rigid search terms and sorting through filters, customers can describe a project or a need in plain language and get suggestions back. It […]
The generative media space just got a new layer of infrastructure. Runway has introduced an AI model router, a tool that automatically picks the best image, video, or audio generation model for a given task depending on whether the priority is quality, speed, or cost. For small business owners trying to keep up with an […]
Conagra Brands is putting real money behind the idea that supply chain resilience is no longer optional for large manufacturers. The company plans to invest $125 million with the goal of keeping service levels high while trimming excess inventory and rethinking which products it prioritizes. For an industry that has spent years wrestling with unpredictable […]
While much of the retail conversation over the past few years has centered on ecommerce and online marketplaces, one discount retailer is doubling down on a different strategy. Ross Stores is pushing forward with an aggressive brick-and-mortar expansion, adding nearly 50 new locations as part of a broader plan to open around 110 stores this […]
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