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Picanova rebrands as “The Customization Group” Marketing News 

Picanova rebrands as “The Customization Group”

Wall-decor company Picanova Group announced its rebranding as The Customization Group, which “reflects the company’s significant growth, diversification, and expansion into new products and sales channels, including textiles, apparel, paper goods, accessories, and more.” The Customization Group operates five production sites worldwide, capable of producing more than 500,000 customized products daily. With over 1,000 people working for the company across... Read More
Meta looking to trim Instagram staff in London News 

Meta looking to trim Instagram staff in London

Bloomberg News reports Instagram will cut or relocate its 100-person London staff as part of an overall staff reduction at parent company Meta Platforms Inc. Reporter Sarah Frier, citing “a person familiar with the matter,” said the London office, which opened in 2013, recently became an important hub for the app when its CEO, Adam Mosseri, relocate there last year.... Read More
CEWE fills vacant board position News 

CEWE fills vacant board position

CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA announced Jörg Waskönig, 65, managing partner of Waskönig+Walter Kabel-Werk GmbH u. Co. KG, will fill the vacant Board of Trustees position of Neumüller CEWE COLOR Stiftung. Waskönig was appointed to the four-year term by the Office for Regional Development Weser-Ems (Foundation Supervisory Authority), at the request of the Board of Trustees. A graduate engineer, he... Read More
Imgur cracks down on explicit content News Updates 

Imgur cracks down on explicit content

Ubiquitous photo-sharing site Imgur has changed its terms of service to remove explicit images and old content, effective May 15. The move brings the entire site’s policies in line with Imgur’s Community Rules, which already banned nudity and explicit content. “Explicit/Pornographic content was previously permitted to be on Imgur, but not when submitted as a comment or as a gallery... Read More
Jostens joins Minneapolis office space downsizing trend News 

Jostens joins Minneapolis office space downsizing trend

School ring maker, yearbook, and school photography company Jostens has become the latest corporation to join the office downsizing trend, announcing Wednesday it will sublease two of its three floors of headquarters space in a Bloomington, Minnesota, building, according to the Star Tribune. Jostens, which has been in the Minnesota Center building since 2018, has hired Monarch CRE to sublease... Read More
Mylio Photos adds support to Frame.io Camera to Cloud News Updates 

Mylio Photos adds support to Frame.io Camera to Cloud

Photo organizing platform Mylio announced an update to Mylio Photos will offer seamless integration with video and photography creative apps to the Frame.io storage and collaboration platform. For media production teams and individual contributors using Frame.io Camera to Cloud, Mylio Photos can serve as an easy-to-use and efficient hub, the company said. Cameras with native C2C integration include Fujifilm’s X-H2S... Read More
Sky News: Kodak Alaris owners are shopping the company News 

Sky News: Kodak Alaris owners are shopping the company

Sky News reports Britain’s Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is poised to put Kodak Alaris, the photographic and document imaging group, up for sale. Sky News city editor Mark Kleinman writes the PPF, which has owned Kodak Alaris since 2020, “has kicked off talks with bankers about an auction of the company behind the ‘Kodak moments’ made famous by its multinational... Read More
vAIsual, Dragonimages partner to offer Asian images for AI training News 

vAIsual, Dragonimages partner to offer Asian images for AI training

vAIsual Inc., the company behind the largest visual dataset collection in the world, signed a content deal with Vietnam-based Dragonimages, which will license its collection of images showing the Asian diaspora to companies training machine learning for various purposes. The partnership is a win for increasing diversity and representation in AI output, as well as ensuring copyright owners are compensated... Read More
DJI debuts Inspire 3 cinema drone News 

DJI debuts Inspire 3 cinema drone

  DJI announced the all-in-one DJI Inspire 3, a streamlined, full-frame 8K cinema drone. The drone features a sleek integrated design, a 161° ultra-wide FOV night-vision FPV, and the O3 Pro transmission and control system. The Inspire 3 is DJI’s only cinema-grade drone, that supports both RTK-powered Waypoint Pro and omnidirectional sensing to perform flight missions more safely and with higher... Read More
Canon debuts sub-$1,000 24-inch printer with built-in scanner News 

Canon debuts sub-$1,000 24-inch printer with built-in scanner

Canon U.S.A., Inc. announced the imagePROGRAF TC-20M, a new large-format, multifunction, 4-color pigment inkjet printer supporting both roll paper and cut-sheet media. The compact, desktop printer is the first Canon imagePROGRAF large-format model equipped with an integrated contact imaging sensor (CIS) flatbed scanner that assists in digitizing originals (to cloud or USB), as well as offering the ability to produce... Read More
Urbanimmersive integrates ChatGPT with UiMeet3D Avatar Greeting Bot News 

Urbanimmersive integrates ChatGPT with UiMeet3D Avatar Greeting Bot

Urbanimmersive Inc. announced having integrated ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) technology, with their UiMeet3D Avatar Greeting Bot available in all its 3D tours subscription. UiMeet3D is Urbanimmersive’s proprietary technology enabling viewers to engage in immersive, real-time interactions with other 3D avatars (visitors) within 3D virtual tours. Each 3D avatar, is represented by the viewer’s webcam video streaming. UiMeet3D Avatar Greeting... Read More
Best Buy announces mail-in tech recycling program Marketing News 

Best Buy announces mail-in tech recycling program

Best Buy announced a nationwide program where consumers can recycle old electronics by mail. Starting this month, consumers can order a prepaid Best Buy Technology Recycling Box and ship off their old electronics for recycling. “We continue to build on our commitment to be there for our customers throughout the entire lifecycle of their products by making recycling simple and... Read More
Think Tank launches new travel luggage focused brand identity News 

Think Tank launches new travel luggage focused brand identity

Santa Rosa, Calif-based Think Tank is launching a refreshed brand identity with a new focus on travel luggage leading off with the tagline: Venture, Observe, Connect. Think Tank is a manufacturer of camera bags, backpacks, and rolling luggage designed for professional photographers and photo enthusiasts. With the launch of its new brand identity, Think Tank says it is expanding its... Read More
NRF: Full effect of Federal Reserve’s monetary tightening has not shown up News 

NRF: Full effect of Federal Reserve’s monetary tightening has not shown up

National Retail Federation (NRF) Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz said NRF’s 2023 retail sales forecast was one of the most difficult he has ever prepared. “The broad economic environment in the United States today is anything but normal,” Kleinhenz said, noting that unemployment is near historic lows and consumers have excess savings even though interest rates are increasing rapidly and both the... Read More