Next May, the luxury giant will award a prize for the best customer experience solutions for the group’s labels to a start-up. Eligible start-ups must have less than 10 years in business and 100 employees.

Virtual beauty app owner Perfect Corp has unveiled a "Beauty 3.0" vision that will allow app users to personalize their platforms in real time using artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) technologies.

The German e-tailer has trialled a delivery service that allows online shoppers to receive their orders even when they are not at home using a smart door lock.

Perfumery label Guerlain is keen to target digital natives, and has launched the Olfaplay site in France, with podcasts giving scent lovers the chance to talk about their olfactory memories.

The online menswear destination has unveiled a chatbot designed to help customers find the right Christmas present for themselves or their loved ones.

Apple Watch Series 4 owners will now be able to monitor their heart's rhythm by installing the newest software update, the tech company announced on Thursday.

The Coty-owned haircare brand has unveiled a Google Assistant tool for Google Home, that is designed to guide consumers through the at-home coloring process, from start to finish.

The luxury group, together with start-up accelerator Plug & Play, has launched the Kering Prize for sustainable innovation in China, awarding €100,000 to the winning local start-up.

​Using artificial intelligence has helped to increase email revenue from hyper-personalised marketing communications by as much as 28% at retailer Footasylum.

The B2B wholesale e-commerce platform announced on Wednesday that it has received $15 million in Series C financing, funds that the company said it will put toward accelerating product innovation and growing its team.

The tech solutions provider is rolling out a new end-to-end product personalisation platform, Fashion on Demand, globally from January 2019, following Amazon's patenting of an on-demand manufacturing warehouse last year.

Facebook users can now use the site to find out what gifts friends and family want this holiday season, as the social media network announced it is rolling out a new sharing feature for its content collection tool.  

​Global threads giant Coats Group said Tuesday that it has become a strategic investor in Twine Solutions, an Israel-based technology start-up “that has developed a revolutionary digital thread dyeing system.”

Amazon.com Inc is testing its cashierless checkout technology for bigger stores with larger spaces and experimenting the technology in Seattle, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

Designer Kim Jones took to the runway in Tokyo on Friday evening, the first time that a catwalk for a pre-collection for the menswear line has ever been staged.