Newsletter: TechTalk Tuesday

03/04/2011 - 11:32am
7-Eleven rolling out in-store TV network chainwide

Harris Corp. and Digital Display Networks are bringing one of the largest digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising networks in the United States -- 7-Eleven TV -- to full nationwide deployment.

03/03/2011 - 5:37pm
Teradata to acquire Aster Data Systems

Teradata Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aster Data Systems, a market leader and pioneer in advanced analytics and the management of a variety of diverse data that is not structured.

03/03/2011 - 2:19pm
Boot Barn relaunches e-commerce site on Demandware platform

Demandware announced that Boot Barn, the largest western wear retailer in the world, has relaunched its e-commerce site, BootBarn.com, on the Demandware Commerce platform.

03/02/2011 - 5:46pm
Report: Kmart offering paperless receipts

Kmart is now offering paperless receipts, according to a report in the Detroit Examiner.

03/02/2011 - 5:36pm
Epson awarded sustainability honor

Seiko Epson Corp. ("Epson") has been named a Sustainability Leader and awarded Silver Class status in the SAM "Sustainability Yearbook 2011.”

03/01/2011 - 5:39pm
Survey: Global PC-based POS market up

The global PC-based point-of-sale market grew a solid 6.9% in 2010, according to new research from IHL Group, a global research and advisory firm.

02/28/2011 - 5:52pm
VeriFone to supply its PAYware Merchant card payment service for Latin America McDonald's restaurant operations

VeriFone Systems announced it has won a contract to supply its PAYware Merchant card payment and settlement hosted service to Arcos Dorados, the largest restaurant operator in Latin America and the largest McDonald's franchisee in the world.

02/25/2011 - 11:37am
Collegiate Retail Alliance teams with Copia for social commerce solution

The Collegiate Retail Alliance, a coalition of more than 50 independent college stores, and social e-reading platform Copia Interactive announced Friday a partnership to provide Copia's social bookstore experience to the students, faculty and staff of universities served by CRA members.

02/24/2011 - 5:38pm
PeopleAnswers partners with RadioShack for talent assessment

Dallas -- Talent software firm PeopleAnswers said Thursday that RadioShack Corp. will utilize the PeopleAnswers talent assessment software for all positions in nearly 5,800 company-operated stores and kiosks as well as corporate offices across the United States and Puerto Rico.

According to the company, RadioShack will use PeopleAnswers to prescreen, assess and hire job candidates for all positions including sales associates, store and district managers and corporate positions. With RadioShack attracting approximately one million job candidates per year, the web-based tool has the scale to evaluate candidates as needed, 24/7, integrate with job boards and track candidates’ progress through the application and hiring process, said PeopleAnswers.

“RadioShack is focused on strengthening our brand and growing our business. People make the difference in executing our growth strategy,” said Mary Ann Doran, senior VP human resources, RadioShack.

RadioShack has been using PeopleAnswers for approximately 18 months as a tool to help select and hire district managers nationwide. For the last year, the company has used PeopleAnswers to hire its store managers and sales associates.

02/24/2011 - 5:37pm
Nike and HireVue team to roll out campus recruiting program

Video interviewing solution-provider HireVue said Thursday that Nike has selected it to support its campus recruiting program, adding HireVue’s video interviewing platform to Nike’s recruiting process.

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