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The male-dominated tech industry will see a change in the future because more women are getting involved with technology . Women have been scarce in the tech industry for the past few decades, but avenues are opening up for them. The global Tech Up for Women Conference is an all-day event to help women advance their careers by hearing experts speak about the future of tech and connecting with other women in the tech business. “This event started with a woman who said she wanted to learn new technology to advance her career,” said Dawn Pratt, Tech Up For Women’s founder and managing partner. The Tech Up for Women organization is also a larger platform that hosts career and recruitment fairs and conducts the Tech Up Talks webinar series, which is focused on helping women advance their tech knowledge. “Technology is constantly growing and is an important factor to career growth,” said Pratt, “the mission of Tech Up for Women was to spread the belief that knowledge of tech is critical fo

  THE DAILY SCOPE, 11/18/21: If the proliferation of drugstores on nearly every other corner gets you down, then you’ll be happy to know that CVS will be closing 900 locations over the next three years. It’s part of parent company CVS Health’s strategy to transform its brick-and-mortar retail stores from being merely pharmacies that also sell sundries, consumer packaged goods, groceries, batteries, chargers, cables, cameras, and other small electronics into bonafide medical health facilities.  Remaining stores will be reimagined and redesigned as HealthHUBs where consumers can see their primary care physicians and mental health specialists and get diagnostic tests. Suddenly Abbott President and CEO Robert Ford’s keynote at CES 2022 doesn’t seem so out of place, because a big part of retail’s future will also be healthcare. It’ll be interesting to see how CVS implements self-check-out style technology for diagnostics—that only seems like a matter of time as increasingly telemedicine-sav

THE DAILY SCOPE, 11/16/21: No surprise to anyone in the CE or appliance retail sector, but retail sales were up for the third straight month in October. At 1.7 percent, according to the Labor Department, the rise was the highest since March. This of course is in tandem with the fastest rise in prices in 30 years, but it was still good news for most retail entities from the National Retail Federation to Home Depot, which saw a 9.8 percent jump in sales for Q3 and Walmart, which reported a 9.2 percent increase in comparable sales in Q3 2021 versus 8 percent in Q3 2020. The rollercoaster ride continues. Some beneficiaries of stock scarcity are products that may have seemed more niche just a couple of years ago. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has sold 10 million Oculus Quest 2 headsets, which is an impressive number for a metaverse communications and gaming console (also known as a VR headset). The news was shared by Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon at the semiconductor company’s

  Have the inside scoop on what products are making big waves in the consumer electronics industry ? Let us know and nominate them for Dealerscope’s 2022 IMPACT Awards. Dealerscope is looking for groundbreaking tech that’s drawing consumers into stores and pioneering solutions for the future. Once all nominations have been received, we will have a team of esteemed judges to pick the winners. Also our editors will pick their “Editors Choice Award” as well.” The winners will be recognized with a physical award and featured in Dealerscope’s special CES Digimag issue and will be announced during CES. We will also take a closer look at the winning products in our February issue as well. Embargoed products can be entered since no announcements will be made until CES.