Afternoon Coffee: Ivalua boosts ESG effort, joins UN’s sustainability compact; Amazon Business sets dates for virtual procurement events for US, EU, Japan; e-commerce firm Gooten raises $15 million, changes leadership

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Afternoon Coffee: Ivalua boosts ESG effort, joins UN’s sustainability compact; Amazon Business sets dates for virtual procurement events for US, EU, Japan; e-commerce firm Gooten raises $15 million, changes leadership

The source-to-pay suite provider Ivalua has joined the United Nations’ Global Compact to further the company’s ESG efforts and support the UN’s initiative on corporate sustainability goals.

“The way consumers, businesses and public institutions spend significantly impacts the sustainability and social agenda of supply chains globally,” Ivalua said in a press release. “By digitally transforming spend management, Ivalua’s platform empowers customers to manage their supply chain more efficiently, sustainably and responsibly to deliver better environmental and social outcomes.”

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Ivalua Founder and CEO David Khuat-Duy said Ivalua has pledged to internally have a positive social and economic impact — and also will help customers do the same with Ivalua’s solution.

“As we strengthen our global sustainability platform, Ivalua’s most impactful contribution will emerge from the successful implementation of our spend management solutions with some

Comcast raises prices for TV packages, internet-only plans

As if inflation and higher utility bills weren’t enough, Comcast is raising TV and internet prices starting in late December.

Tens of millions of Xfinity cable customers will see their bills rise 3% nationwide, on average, a company spokesperson said Tuesday. Customers in Philadelphia have received notices that price increases will start Dec. 20.

The Philadelphia cable giant is increasing prices for some TV packages. The increases don’t affect promotional prices, which are locked in during the promotional period. But even if your promotion hasn’t expired, you’ll likely still pay more for TV service next month. That’s because Comcast is again hiking fees for broadcast television, local sports, cable boxes, and remotes — charges that are often just a few bucks more but together drive up the overall bill.

And as consumers increasingly rely on internet connections to work and study from home, Comcast is raising prices for broadband plans,

Lovo AI Raises $4.5M for Artificial Voice Generator and Marketplace

on August 26, 2021 at 3:00 pm

Artificial voice startup Lovo has shut a $4.5 million pre-Sequence A funding spherical led by Kakao Entertainment, as to start with described by TechCrunch. Lovo presents a system for these wanting to discover or create AI-produced speech dependent on actual people’s voices, which the company refers to as voice skins. The new funding gives the startup a improve as applications for artificial speech proliferate at an accelerating amount.

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Lovo caters to the mounting range of businesses and other companies that are trying to get strategies to use voice AI for needs ranging from advertising films to shopper support. Personalized AI voices that can go through out any script also function as branding instruments that they can use to stand out in their industries. The business counts academic institutes, enterprise executives, simply call centers, and entertainment producers between its consumers.

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