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    Hohenstein and Presize cooperate to reduce textile returns

    2022-01-24T12:00:00Z

    Hohenstein, a German provider of textile testing and a founding member of Oeko-Tex, has joined forces with digital pioneer Presize to offer an all-around service that ranges from size chart creation to digital scaling for automated size recommendations in online stores. The combination of classic size charts, reliable fit and ...

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    Former Sport 2000 CEO joins Dutch SaaS startup

    2022-01-19T18:06:00Z

    Former Sport 2000 GmbH CEO Markus Hupach is joining Dutch SaaS startup Arion as CEO, effective immediately. Arion’s parent, sports tech company Ato-Gear, claims to be ushering in “a revolution in athletic footwear” with Arion, a digital software/insole solution that aims to help people improve their performance and technique and ...

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    Fristads introduces online tool to calculate environmental impact of workwear

    2022-01-19T11:34:00Z

    Fristads, a Swedish workwear manufacturer that also expanded into the outdoor segment in 2020, has made it easier to be aware of the environmental footprint of its workwear by developing its so-called Green Calculator. The digital tool uses real data to calculate the difference that choosing eco-friendly workwear can make ...

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    Ecco releases 3D printed tooling for direct injection PU soles

    2022-01-10T16:37:00Z

    After extensive research into 3D-printed footwear and 3D-printed footwear tooling, Danish footwear company Ecco has announced that after three years of development, it is now ready to offer 3D-printed tooling for product development and commercial samples for the broader footwear market. The company intends to offer four different options, ranging ...

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    Higg and Centric support sustainable product design

    2021-12-10T13:31:00Z

    Higg entered into a partnership with Centric Software, a leading product lifecycle management (PLM) platform, to address the trend toward making product sustainability more transparent. After all, if the consumer goods industry can’t demonstrate data-driven reductions in environmental impact, Higg says, consumers will look elsewhere. As companies set quantitative sustainability ...

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    Signa Sports to launch AI-based virtual bike fitting engine

    2021-10-13T07:52:00Z

    Sports e-commerce and tech platform Signa Sports United (SSU) has entered a strategic partnership with Motesque, a Brooklyn, NY, and Cologne-based specialist startup for biomechanics, computer vision and AI, to launch the first-ever biomechanical AI-based virtual bike fitting engine for online bike shopping. Motesque was founded in 2015 by Professor ...

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    EKOÏ integrates Tocsen sensor into its bicycle helmets

    2021-10-10T17:41:00Z

    Following Uvex and Alpina, French brand EKOÏ will now integrate the Tocsen crash sensor into its bike helmets. In Germany, the Smart Crash Helmet Sensor from Tocsen, a startup founded in 2019 in Freiburg, has been in stores since 2020. It sends an emergency call to all emergency contacts in ...

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    ​Porsche subsidiary takes off with connectivity-driven e-bike brand

    2021-09-16T14:38:00Z

    Source: Porsche Digital Cyklaer Gravel Racer Porsche’s offshoot Porsche Digital has expanded its product portfolio with a new digital business model in the field of urban mobility called Cyklær. With the new brand, the company intends to build a platform for digital services around the cycling experience ...

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    PayPal acquires Japanese buy-now-pay-later venture

    2021-09-08T10:36:00Z

    U.S.-based payment platform PayPal Holdings has announced the acquisition of Paidy, a digital payment platform based in Japan. Paidy develops a two-sided payment platform and is also a provider of buy-now-pay-later solutions in Japan, a strategically important market for PayPal. According to the American company, almost three-quarters of all purchases ...

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    Intelligent warehouse robotics growing more than 20 percent annually

    2021-08-24T11:16:00Z

    According to a recent fee-based study by New York-based analyst firm ABI Research, revenue from the use of robots in warehouses will exceed $51 billion by 2030. According to the report, increased order volumes and pandemic-triggered labor shortages have significantly accelerated automation in warehouses. Along with technology solutions such as ...

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    Messe München and mobile operators to lay 5G network for IAA Mobility

    2021-08-17T11:09:00Z

    Messe München has announced that it will join forces with mobile operators Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica Deutschland/O2 to launch one of the world’s most advanced public 5G networks for the premiere of IAA Mobility (Sept. 7-12). The collaboration is designed to provide exhibitors with the necessary bandwidth both in the ...

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    Additional cash boost for Arevo allows for expansion of 3D printing facilities

    2021-08-12T15:34:00Z

    Silicon Valley-based technology company Arevo unveiled a 3D-printed bicycle frame at Eurobike 2019. In August 2020, the company began offering on-demand custom production using a high-speed printer and in August 2021, Arevo announced not only “the completion of the world’s largest 3D printing facility for carbon fiber composite additive manufacturing,” ...

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    Square acquires Afterpay in $29bn all-stock deal

    2021-08-03T08:17:00Z

    The American fintech Square has reached an agreement to buy the Australian firm Afterpay in an all-stock deal with an implied value of about $29 billion based on Square’s share price on July 30. Afterpay specializes in buy now, pay later (BNPL) services. The transaction is expected to close in ...

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    Houdini integrates connected Touchlink zippers into first garment

    2021-07-29T17:27:00Z

    Source: Houdini W’s One Parka The Touchlink interactive zipper, which debuted in October 2020, is the result of a collaboration between outfitting manufacturer YKK and wearable technology company Lifekey . Using Near Field Communication (NFC), the same technology that enables the “tap-to-pay” ...

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    Vision Quest Velocity secures $3.4 million in seed funding

    2021-07-29T10:22:00Z

    Vision Quest Velocity LLC, an early-stage virtual cycling start-up from the U.S., announced that it has received $3.4 million in seed round funding. Strategic financial partners led the investment round. Velocity will leverage Vision Quest Coaching’s more than 20 years of experience and knowledge to launch a unique and differentiated ...

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    ​Citrus-Lime, British provider of cloud-based retail systems, breaks the £1 billion barrier

    2021-07-28T06:45:00Z

    U.K.-based PoS solutions provider Citrus-Lime reports that customer sales processed through its End-to-End Retail Solution have broken through the £1 billion (€1.17bn-$1.39bn) barrier – a major milestone in the company’s history. More than half of that amount was transacted through the platform in the last 12 months alone, Citrus-Lime said. ...

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    GoPro allows third-party developers to integrate Hero9 Black into their solutions

    2021-06-23T08:00:00Z

    GoPro has just announced a new open API for third-party developers/apps called Open GoPro that will allow them to integrate with their cameras, starting with the GoPro Hero9 . The API (Application Programming Interface) enables a range of functions via wireless interfaces, including control as well as media ...

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    Live video shopping: Isbjörn pilots with Streamify, Go Instore sees popularity despite end of lockdown

    2021-06-09T09:54:00Z

    Even as more and more countries are reopening brick-and-mortar retail, store technology service provider Go Instore sees strong interest in its platform that enables virtual visits to retail stores since pandemic restrictions imposed temporary store closures across Europe. The London-based IT company recorded 2.4 million unique visitors to its offering ...

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    ​Shopify and Google deepen retail collaboration

    2021-05-31T09:47:00Z

    Shopify reports that it has expanded its partnership with Google to help merchants of all sizes benefit through improved discovery and a higher-conversion checkout while simplifying the onboarding process for Shopify merchants joining Google. Shop Pay , which Shopify says is the fastest and most secure way to ...

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    Nextiles introduces sewn-in circuitry to collect performance data through textiles

    2021-04-29T10:11:00Z

    Nextiles , a young company founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) alumni and supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation , has introduced a new Bluetooth-based, sewn-in sensor technology that captures human performance data for a variety of industries from professional sports to connected fitness, ...