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By Charlie Pool, CEO, Stowga.

The World Cup is up and running. With nations of the world going head to head, retailers will be facing a different competition of their own: their supply chains being able to cope with increased customer demand.

Formpipe Lasernet, a specialist provider of document output management solutions, has signed a contract with a leading Polish Microsoft Dynamics 365 reseller to the retail and hospitality sectors, MS POS Poland.

Channel services provider, Agilitas IT Solutions, has signed a multi-year agreement with IBM that will provide reseller, MSP and systems integrator customers with access to global multi-vendor channel services, helping to improve operational efficiencies across its customers' IT infrastructure.

Swiss high-tech company Morphean, the cloud analytics and Security-as-a-Service solutions provider, reports that it has opened a new chapter in its development.

Amplience and RichRelevance, the provider of Experience Personalisation, have launched a joint solution called the Open eXperience Cloud (OXC) that gives brands the power to deliver richly personalised 1:1 shopping experiences.

Giada has introduced the VM23, a versatile PC optimised for digital signage, desktop virtualisation, and noise sensitive situations.

A fifth of US consumers (21%) find that going shopping makes them feel stressed, while more than 1 in 10 experience high stress levels while buying online.

Dark web monitoring specialist RepKnight has entered into a pan-EMEA distribution agreement with StarLink, a $200 million True Value-Add Distributor that currently supports over 2,200 enterprise and government customers globally.

ThinkSmart Limited has announced that Aurum Group will be launching ClearPay, ThinkSmart's first to market, interest-free digital payment solution designed for millennial shoppers, on WatchShop.com, the online watch and jewellery store.

Businesses that are focused on tapping into the fast growing online retail market need to ensure they have the correct equipment and procedures in place to effectively handle rising sales or risk customer satisfaction taking a hit, says Midland Pallet Trucks.

Almost a million UK businesses do not backup their company data and a further 2.8 million firms risk losing valuable information by storing electronic copies in the same location as the original data, according to new research from Beaming, the business ISP.