Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team!  Missed the last Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. Thomson Reuters acquires majority stake of Sweden’s Pagero Thomson Reuters has announced that it has raised its offer to acquire Sweden’s Pagero, a provider in e-invoicing and indirect tax solutions.  The company initially offered 40 Swedish crowns (SEK) per Pagero share, and raised it yesterday to 50, valuing the company at 8.1 billion SEK. As a result, T ..read more

Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. Accenture and Microsoft deepen partnership to accelerate generative AI adoption Last week, Accenture and Microsoft announced an expanded partnership, along with their joint venture, Avanade, to co-develop new industry and functional generative AI solutions. This builds on Accenture’s US$3 billion investment in AI, announced earlier this month. “Generative AI is dr ..read more

Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. Clik2Play announces new plugin Clik2pay has announced a new plugin for WooCommerce which enables any business on WooCommerce to enable Clik2pay on their online store. Instead of using a credit card, this plugin now gives WooCommerce users a direct-from-account payment option, allowing for secure debit payments. This new method of online payment reduces processing ..read more

Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. PulseIR announces official launch of its mobile technology & communications  Investor relations and communications company PulseIR has announced the official launch of the mobile technology and communications platform, ParcelPal. PulseIR says this new platform will deliver “a data-driven, digital IR marketing platform to enhance IR communications and inve ..read more

Popular Ottawa-based ecommerce company Shopify announced in a staff memo yesterday that it is laying off 20 per cent of its workforce and selling its logistics division to California-based supply chain management company, Flexport. Affected employees were notified right after the announcement, and have received a severance package that Shopify says, “will attempt to make it the best possible version of a bad day.”  That includes a minimum of 16 weeks severance, medical benefits, access to Shopify’s employee assistance program, and optional outplacement services. Laid off employees al ..read more

StoreConnect, an e-commerce solution, is helping small to medium businesses consolidate all their marketing, sales and support channels into one system.  The company is a point of sale and content management system built on Salesforce. It targets companies that don’t have the budget to go after the enterprise level solutions that Salesforce offers.  According to Mikel Lindsaar, chief executive officer of StoreConnect, the platform aims to help SMBs save time and costs while also enhancing customer experience. “Small businesses don’t have any time, and this is one of the reasons I act ..read more

Coveo Solutions Inc., a Montreal-based artificial intelligence (AI) company set on transforming digital experiences, has announced that its AI-powered search and recommendation platform for SAP Commerce Cloud – Coveo AI Search and Recommendations – is now officially endorsed by SAP and available in the SAP Store. In its announcement, Coveo explained that SAP-endorsed applications are a select category of solutions from SAP’s partner ecosystem. This is a premium invitation-only certification. Applications that achieve it are characterized by increased security and are thoroughly tested to ensur ..read more

Today, Shopify Inc and Google Cloud have announced an integration that allows retailers using Commerce Components such as Shopify’s enterprise retail solution to leverage Google-quality search capabilities and artificial intelligence (AI) innovations.  New research from a Google Cloud-commissioned Harris Poll survey found that when a shopper searches for a product on a retailer’s website or mobile app but doesn’t find what they are looking for and leaves the site, known as search abandonment, it costs the retail industry over US$2 trillion annually globally. This new integration with Goog ..read more

Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. What’s new this week Government of Canada announces new Indigenous Council to lead clean energy projects in Indigenous and remote communities The government of Canada has announced the selection of seven Indigenous leaders to make up a new Indigenous Council for Wah-ila-toos to help guide the transition to clean energy in Indigenous, rural, and remote communities ..read more

Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. What’s new this week TELUS donated C$125 million in 2022 TELUS has announced that it donated C$125 million, or 5 per cent of its pre-tax profit, to charity in 2022, the highest it has ever given in one year. Contributions went towards supporting Canadian youth and marginalized communities as well as to foreign humanitarian relief. Since 2000, TELUS has donated C$1 ..read more