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Why retailers need to own their digital visibility

For years, retailers have competed on price, product range and customer experience. Those things still matter, but they are no longer enough on their own. Increasingly, success depends on whether customers can discover a retailer in the first place.

That is becoming more difficult. AI-powered search, changing platform algorithms and rising advertising costs are reshaping how people shop online. Customers no longer follow a straightforward journey from search engine to website. Instead, they move between marketplaces, social media, review platforms and increasingly AI-generated recommendations before deciding where to buy.

Commercial Director for UK & Ireland at team.blue.

More than a third (35.1%) of UK businesses say reaching customers online has become harder over the past two years. At the same time, while 81.3% have a website, only 12.4% accurately track how website visitors become leads or customers. Almost half (45%) do not track this at all.

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Xiaomi’s new Redmi phone lasts for three days on a single charge

The 9,210mAh dual-cell battery in the new Redmi Note 17 Pro Max is the biggest that Xiaomi has fit in any phone it’s sold in Europe — and remarkably, in some other markets the phone comes with an even larger 10,000mAh single-cell design. As you can probably guess,

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Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller

Elderly Aids made 758,000 unwanted calls a year selling gear to stop unwanted calls The UK’s data protection watchdog has fined a nuisance call blocking biz £190,000 ($258,000) for bombarding elderly people with hundreds of thousands of - you guessed it - nuisance calls. Elderly Aids

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AI has exposed the biggest knowledge gap in business. Hint: it isn't technical

Of the expected $2.5 trillion that corporates are due to spend on AI this year, over $1 trillion is set to be allocated to IT services and dedicated software. That is a huge chunk of change for a technology that many are still grappling with and trying to understand

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Yamaha's new compact hi-fi streamers have all the wired and wireless hi-res connections you could want for a smart small stereo system — and one doubles as an amp too

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Yamaha's new compact hi-fi streamers have all the wired and wireless hi-res connections you could want for a smart small stereo system &mdash; and one doubles as an amp too

Yamaha's new compact hi-fi streamers have all the wired and wireless hi-res connections you could want for a smart small stereo system — and one doubles as an amp too