Mobile Technology

Adam Brotman, Starbucks Coffee Company's Chief Digital Officer, was named CDO Club's 2015 U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year. The CDO Club is a community of C-suite digital leaders with over 1,000 members.

AFS Retail Execution aims to provide the flexibility and configurability sales executives need to respond to an ever-changing consumer goods market landscape.

Consumer goods manufacturers can now benefit from offline-capable Chatter embedded within Spring Mobile Solutions cloud-based sales and merchandising mobile applications.

Alongside interacting with print and electronic advertising, instant purchases can also be completed online through PowaTag on both mobile and desktop.

The partnership is expected to deliver image recognition capabilities as part of its consumer goods retail execution apps.

The MIT Enterprise Forum of New York announced the launch of the second annual Dream it. Code it. Win it. contest. The student coding competition rewards and promotes creativity, diversity and literacy in the field of computer science. Estee Lauder will sponsor the women's prize.

Target is strengthening its efforts to become a channel-agnostic retailer with mobile serving as the "front door" to its brand, while cutting thousands of jobs is part of a plan to save $2 billion over two years.

Mondelez International has sold Betabox, LLC to VaynerMedia as part of its Mobile Futures initiative to create and incubate new mobile ventures in 90 days.