Transform Your Business and Maximize Profits by Focusing on This Customer Retention Factor

June 28, 2024

The traditional method of judging success — ever-growing year-over-year sales increases — is antiquated. What matters more is Guest Lifetime Value, the amount of repeat business from loyal customers who visit more often and order more with no additional cost to the franchisee.

Remote access giant TeamViewer says Russian spies hacked its corporate network

June 28, 2024

The remote access giant linked the cyberattack to government-backed hackers working for Russian intelligence, known as APT29.

Simplify Complex Problems with Microsoft Visio — Now Just $20

June 28, 2024

Easily create and share data-linked diagrams among your team members and collaborators.

I Started My Business with $1,000 — It’s Now Worth Billions and Serves Over 163 Million People. These 7 Principles Were My Secrets to Success.

June 28, 2024

How seven simple principles can you help you build the business of your dreams.

Here are the hottest product announcements from Apple, Google, Microsoft and others so far in 2024

June 28, 2024

We’ve poked through the many product announcements made by the biggest tech companies and product trade shows of the year, so far, and compiled them into this list.

The Download: AI video games’ research potential, and US government website redesigns

June 28, 2024

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How AI video games can help reveal the mysteries of the human mind Video gaming companies are applying large language models to generate new game characters with detailed backstories—characters that could engage with…

How AI video games can help reveal the mysteries of the human mind

June 28, 2024

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. This week I’ve been thinking about thought. It was all brought on by reading my colleague Niall Firth’s recent cover story about the use of artificial intelligence in…

Feather raises €6 million to go pan-European with its insurance platform for expats

June 28, 2024

As a foreigner, navigating health insurance systems can often be difficult. German startup Feather thinks it has a solution and raised €6 million to help some of the 40-plus million expats working and living in Europe. It is not that there are no options for foreign nationals to get insurance; there are plenty. But it […]

Rohlik rolls up $170M to expand in European grocery delivery and sell its tech to others

June 28, 2024

The salad days of fresh grocery delivery startups are over, but those that have stayed the course, and have built businesses that are seeing gains, are still here and are hungry for more growth. On Friday, one of those survivors, the Czech grocery delivery company Rohlik, announced $170 million in new funding. Rohlik – which […]

‘Changes Are Imminent’: Walgreens to Shutter a ‘Significant’ Number of Stores

June 27, 2024

The chain reported its fiscal Q3 2024 earnings on Thursday.

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