Anyline, the Austrian startup that provides OCR tech, picks up $12M Series A and heads to the US Image source : techcrunch.com Anyline, the Vienna-based provider of optical character recognition (OCR) technology that developers use to build OCR functions into their websites and apps, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The company has
The concept of airport duty-free has expanded from a small luxury shop in Ireland to one of the highest-earning sectors of the retail industry. ADELE BERTI asks: how did duty-free shopping at airports reach this height, and what does its future hold? Duty-free shopping was the brainchild of Irish businessman Brendan O’Regan, who worked at the country’s
Spain-based Zara, the world’s largest clothing retailer and owned by Inditex, is introducing an augmented reality experience in its stores. Shoppers can engage their mobile phones to see models wearing selected fashions when they click on sensors in the store or displayed on AR-enabled shop windows. Initially launched in 120 stores worldwide, such technology is irresistible digital-honey to
H&M is a Swedish mass-market brand of fashion clothes and accessories. Experimenting with mobile technologies, it’s searching for new ways to improve the virtual experience of finding, trying on, and purchasing clothes. One of the examples is the Perfect Fit app. The app is now being tested in Sweden. With the help of Perfect Fit, customers