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How SAP Helped a Leading Apparel Manufacturer Stay in Fashion with International Customers

CIO Business Intelligence

In the apparel industry, what’s in fashion one day may be out of fashion the next. So, if you’re an apparel manufacturer, you need the most efficient, responsive, and innovative operation possible. Every year, Crystal delivers more than 450 million pieces of apparel — and we’re not talking about just sweaters.

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CLOAK and swagger: Apparel brand teams with Microsoft for ‘Minecraft Dungeons’ fashion line

GeekWire

A “Minecraft Dungeons” cloak available from the apparel company CLOAK. Microsoft and Mojang Studios have partnered with apparel brand CLOAK to take care of that. Ten percent of all proceeds from apparel sales will go to the United Nations Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization.

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Brooks Sports vs. Brooks Brothers: Menswear maker’s social slogan adds new wrinkle to dispute

GeekWire

Brooks Sports, the Seattle-based athletic footwear and apparel company, is escalating its legal battle against Brooks Brothers by challenging the menswear maker’s recent “Back to Brooks” social media and marketing campaign. District Court for the Western District of Washington.). In an updated complaint, filed Nov.

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Twitter is the latest social media network to combine shopping and livestreams

The Verge

Twitter is hosting its first shopping livestream on November 28th at 7PM ET, the company announced today as it becomes the latest social media platform to embrace the trend. Twitter’s livestream shopping interface. Image: Twitter. Image: Twitter. The components of the shopping interface.

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Why avatar-based social gaming app Rec Room doesn’t consider itself a ‘metaverse’ company

GeekWire

They can then use those avatars to travel into one of a few million player-created “rooms,” where they can play games, create custom experiences, and socialize with other users. Despite its status as a virtual social space, Rec Room doesn’t consider itself a “metaverse” company.

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How social justice slideshows took over Instagram

Vox

But in a time of social unrest, these text-based slideshow graphics have found new resonance and an eager audience on the platform, which has been notorious for prioritizing still images over text. The way Hu describes it, in spite of the massive interest toward social justice slideshows, Instagram’s algorithm “actively fights against it.”

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Razer, the gaming lifestyle brand and hardware supplier, opening new store in Seattle

GeekWire

Razer, which was founded in 2005, sells gaming hardware such as laptop and desktop computers, headphones and controllers, as well as apparel, bags, chairs and more. Gamers can also use an “unboxing station” to record “the perfect social media story.” The RazerStore in London. Razer Photo).

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