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Google Launches Exclusive Play Music Feature for Galaxy S8

Samsung Galaxy S8 owners who are enjoying Google’s Play Music streaming service may have noticed a new feature rolling out to the app recently, called New Release Radio. At the moment, this appears to be an exclusive feature within the...

INTRODUCING THE 101 RISING STARS OF UK TECH SCENE

Welcome to BusinessCloud’s inaugural list of the country’s most promising tech start-ups. Last week we brought you the hottest disrupters, companies already using tech to shake up traditional industries. You can view that full list here. And today it is the turn...

Amazon Just Spent $13.7 Billion to Prove Once Again That It’s the Most Dangerous Company in Tech

It’s no secret by now that Amazon, the so-called “everything store,” has zero hesitations or compunctions about entering a new market and completely upending it. Amazon did it with books. Amazon Web Services did it with the IT department. Now, with its...

7 Ways Modern Knowledge Management Performs Customer Experience Miracles

An old proverb “knowledge is power,” was initially derived from a closely related Latin aphorism first used in a work by Sir Frances Bacon then later published verbatim as scientia potentia est, by his secretary Thomas Hobbes in his original...

A New Amazon Patent Stops You From Checking Prices Online While You Shop in a Physical Store

Amazon has been granted a patent designed to stop you from visiting a shop to buy something but then looking for a cheaper version online while you’re there. The patent, which we first saw via The Verge, would essentially try and intercept you if you made...

Which Companies Make The Most Revenue Per Employee?

ON AVERAGE, COMPANIES IN THE ENERGY SECTOR MAKE AT LEAST 2X PER EMPLOYEE THAN OTHERS The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. The world’s largest companies have many similarities, but the size of their respective org...

Tesco Enjoys Best Quarterly Sales Growth Since 2010

The supermarket giant reports figures ahead of City expectations in the latest sign of improvement under boss Dave Lewis. Tesco has reported its best quarterly sales growth in seven years as it said it was holding back inflation pressures to keep...

Bots over Bodies – Who Cares?

The era of bots has truly begun. At its recent F8 developer conference, David Marcus, CEO of Facebook Messenger announced that the company’s platform had grown to 100,000 bots, with 2 billion messages sent between consumers and businesses each month. Facebook...

HSBC Announces New £1bn Fund to Support Yorkshire SMEs

HSBC has launched a £1bn lending fund to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Yorkshire. The fund is the largest package of support to be announced by HSBC for SMEs in Yorkshire and is a significant increase on the £850m...

Long live the High Street!

Retailers resigned to a significant drop in footfall this year should take advantage of multi-sensory innovations to draw consumers back in-store, research suggests. A new report commissioned by Mood Media found that over 60% of retailers expect their footfall to drop...