Technology insights for the sporting goods industry – Page 10
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News briefsSuuntoPlus Guides bring new, dynamic features to Suunto watches
About ten years after Suunto’s first app platform, Suunto AppZone, the Finnish GPS sports watch and dive computer specialist is now bringing the new SuuntoPlus Guides to its Suunto 9, Suunto 5 and Suunto 3 watch models. The new SuuntoPlus Guides provide athletes with personalized real-time guidance from their favorite ...
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News briefsiFIT launches iFIT Adventures, offering real-life excursions to iFIT workout destinations
iFIT, a specialist in connected fitness software, content and equipment, has announced the launch of iFIT Adventures, a new series of in-person travel fitness experiences that allow members to explore destinations around the globe. iFIT Adventures, led by iFIT’s in-demand trainers, are all-inclusive travel experiences that enable members to move ...
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News briefsPolartec sponsors 3D design online training with Portland Apparel Lab
In October 2021, Polartec launched a partnership with 3D solutions provider Browzwear and is now pushing further into the 3D design space. Starting in April 2022, the fabric specialist is sponsoring three design courses by the Portland Apparel Lab (PAL) to certify designers in VStitcher software, an industry-standard program from ...
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News briefsTrusTrace starts new software solution for real-time traceability from fiber to product
Software service supplier TrusTrace, based in Stockholm and Coimbatore, India, has launched its new TrusTrace Certified Material Compliance platform, a software solution that aims to link all purchase orders to production steps, certificates, supplier declarations and quality reports for real-time traceability. The new TrusTrace Certified Material Compliance service wants to ...
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Skechers plans experiential store in Metaverse's fashion district
Lifestyle brand Skechers is entering the Metaverse. According to a company release, the Californian brand is the first to sign a lease in the fashion district of Decentraland. Michael Greenberg, president of Skechers, states that the new investment helps to explore “creative ways for our brand to engage with new ...
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News briefsAmazon acquires e-commerce software provider; European business growth slower than in 2020
It has just been disclosed that Seattle-based Internet giant Amazon acquired Veeqo last November, a software startup based in Swansea, Wales, founded in 2013. Veeqo provides software that helps retailers manage their online businesses across e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify and Walmart – from shipping orders and returns ...
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News briefsAviron raises $18.5 million and hires COO
Toronto-based connected fitness company Aviron announced $18.5 million in Series A funding led by Chris Carey and Stripes, also an investor in the running brand On. Additional investment comes from Global Founders Capital, Formic Ventures and 24-Hour Fitness founder Mark Mastrov. Aviron is the developer of a gaming-led, smart rowing ...
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News briefsSlinger closes PlaySight Interactive acquisition
Shortly after completing its acquisition of Gameface.ai, connected sports technology company Slinger, formerly Slinger Bag, has added the final building block to its “Watch, Play, Learn” strategy with video capture and analytics company PlaySight Interactive. PlaySight was founded in 2014 and is now firmly established in the U.S. team sport ...
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News briefsBusiness with the metaverse to exceed $100 billion in 2022
Management consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG) expects a strong surge in growth for products and services for the so-called metaverse. “The market for augmented reality will exceed the 100 billion US dollar mark this year,” said BCG partner Tibor Mérey in an interview with the German business magazine Capital. The ...
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News briefsKlarna and Good On You make sustainable products suggestions
Klarna, the Swedish retail banking, payment and shopping service, in collaboration with Good On You, has unveiled its first set of sustainable collections in the Klarna app that can be shopped on an ongoing basis. Good On You is a platform for rating the sustainability of fashion brands. Using more ...
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News briefsPracticing yoga in the Metaverse with Alo
Alo, a yoga brand founded in Los Angeles in 2007, has just entered the Metaverse with the launch of an “immersive wellness experience” on Roblox, an expansive global platform that brings together a worldwide community through shared virtual encounters. The virtual Alo Sanctuary is a place designed to serve as ...
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News briefsKettler launches fitness app
Fitness equipment provider Kettler, whose licensing rights have been held by Swiss distributor Trisport since 2019, wants to get involved in the (paid) connected fitness sector. For this purpose, it just launched the new English-language HOI by Kettler Fitness App, which customers can test for free until May 2022. Access ...
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Garmin partners with Intermap on innovative golf applications
Garmin has signed a worldwide multi-year joint development agreement with Intermap Technologies, a company specializing in geospatial content development and intelligence solutions, headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Intermap’s proprietary 3D, high-resolution NEXTMap Digital Terrain Model (DTM) will enable Garmin to deliver precise terrain information for 42,000 golf courses around the world. ...
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News briefsAS Roma signs €36 million product partnership to support DigitalBits blockchain
AS Roma and U.S. fintech Zytara Labs have signed a three-year exclusive product partnership worth €36 million with the support of the DigitalBits Foundation (formerly XDB Foundation). The partners plan to use the DigitalBits blockchain to create official ASR blockchain-based digital assets, establish the digital assets as new purchasing methods, ...
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News briefsiFIT acquires endurance experience company 29029
Utah-based company iFIT, a global brand for connected fitness software, content and exercise equipment (including the brands NordicTrack, ProForm and Freemotion), active in 120 countries, has acquired 29029, a company offering endurance hiking events. The acquisition delivers a new endurance athlete segment to iFIT’s community of over six million members ...
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ArticleBig business on social media: Where digital natives shop
The plain “Buy now”-button seems to be a thing of the past. Online shopping is reducing friction, getting more intuitive, more fluid – and more social. “Social commerce” – or “social shopping” – is the fastest-growing distribution channel worldwide. Shoppable posts and stories allow brands and users to tag specific ...
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Aetrex is launching a new fast and useful foot scanner
Aetrex is releasing a 3D foot scanner with two selling points: size and cost. Using a proprietary computer system called FitGenius, the Albert 3DFit will complete a foot scan in “less than 10 seconds” and is accurate to within one millimeter, the company claims. The system then compares the scanned ...
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Helly Hansen overhauls its IT
Helly Hansen is overhauling its computer system to smooth operations, cut costs and come into compliance with regulations in various countries. The Norwegian sports apparel and gear producer is stringing together the Infor M3 enterprise resource platform (ERP), the Salesforce customer resource management (CRM) platform, the Front Systems point-of-sale system, ...
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Peloton sets up a health advisory council
Peloton has established a Health and Wellness Advisory Council to find ways to foster the “physical, mental and emotional wellbeing” of its subscribers worldwide. The council’s five members are doctors, researchers and other specialists in cardiovascular medicine, cardiopulmonary exercise, neurology and neuroscience. According to the company’s president, William Lynch, Peloton’s ...
