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Category: Purple WiFi
Tomizone & Purple Announce Major Technology Partnership
May 4th, 2016 – Tomizone Limited (ASX: TOM) – the premier provider of managed, paid and free WiFi connectivity services to enterprises, brands and public venues – today announces its partnership with the intelligent spaces company Purple. The alliance with Purple, which is the leading global provider of WiFi-based social…
ROI Case Study: Shopping Mall generates $61 per visitor
Purple is working in partnership with Networxs Software to provide a guest WiFi and analytics solution for malls in Australia. One such installation is at Waterford Plaza, a mall in Perth, Western Australia. Networxs installed Purple’s content filtering, enabling Waterford Plaza to become the first venue in Australia to achieve the…
Using public WiFi, security tips and Passpoint
WiFi access is everywhere. And with millions of public WiFi hotspots there’s no excuse for not staying connected. WiFi hotspots are great for when you’re out and about and need to access the internet to reply to your emails, check the train times or simply stream some music. Public WiFi…
Purple Appoint Mike Greig VP, Americas
Purple, the intelligent spaces software company, today announced the appointment of Mike Greig, as VP Americas. Mike joined Purple in July 2015 as VP Service Providers, Americas. He has over 20 years of experience in technology and, before joining Purple, was VP Sales, Americas & EMEA at Smith Micro Software.…
C2i Woking Digital and Woking Shopping turn Purple
Purple have teamed up with Arcom IT to provide services to C2i Woking Digital and Woking Shopping (managers of Peacocks and Wolsey Place Shopping Centres). Together the partnership has delivered: Project objectives 1. To realise C2i Woking Digital’s vision of making Woking a key economic and digital hub in the south-west of…
Purple expands further into Europe with Madrid office
Gonzalo Sánchez appointed Regional Sales Manager March 14th, 2016: Purple, the intelligent spaces company, today announced the opening of a new office in Madrid, Spain. Gonzalo Sánchez has been appointed to the role of Regional Sales Manager, reporting to Roberto Aguirre, Sales Director, EMEA who is also based in the…
Purple IoT Hackathon – the results are in
Our dedicated tech team gave up their weekend to come into the Manchester headquarters to take part in the inaugural Purple Hackathon. The night owls worked 24 hours straight to explore how we can harness the Internet of Things to help our customers better understand and interact with their physical…
Purple A/NZ show 500% growth of customer base in just one year
Painting it Purple in A/NZ Purple has been recruiting like crazy following a $5m investment announced in January 2015. We raised the investment to accelerate our product development and also to recruit a global sales team. One of the key regions in our expansion plan was Australia and New Zealand,…
Purple Appoint Petah Green VP, Asia Pacific
March 7th, 2016 Purple, the intelligent spaces software company, today announced the appointment of Petah Green, as the new VP for Asia Pacific. Petah joins Purple from Microsoft. Prior to joining Purple, Petah was the Head of Microsoft’s Enterprise and Public Sector Sales for Australia and New Zealand and their Specialist…
Get to know Purple People: Kirsty Reilly, Customer Success Manager
1) What is your very first memory? Sneaking out of our apartment with my sister, I was 5 and she was 3, to play in the sand pit at 5:30am while our parents slept. 2) What were you doing before you joined Purple WiFi? Before Purple I worked at JD…
Purple WiFi partners with Net-worxs Software in Australia
January 11, 2016: Purple WiFi, the cloud-based Social WiFi platform, today announced its partnership with Net-worxs Software, based in Australia. Net-worxs Software has established itself as the premium provider of emerging digital platforms for marketing and advertising businesses. Boasting a varied portfolio of products such as custom digital branding, mobile,…
What’s new for Purple in 2016?
The mince pies are banished for another year. The Christmas tree has been taken down. The office fridge is bursting with boxes of salad, mine included. But the atmosphere at Purple Towers isn’t suffering a post-holiday downer. With last year’s success fresh in our minds, we’re feeling quietly contented and…
Our 4 key takeaways from the 2015 Mobile Shopping Report
According to Tech 21, 50% of consumers would rather leave home without their wallet than without their phone. And it’s not surprising when we consider what mobile devices are now capable of. We can browse online stores, compare prices and make purchases online all via our phones. We can even…
Purple WiFi partners with Softcat to expand customer acquisition opportunities
Purple WiFi, the cloud-based Social WiFi software company, today announced a partnership with Softcat, a leading IT infrastructure provider to corporate and public sector organisations. Softcat provides customers with core IT platforms, encapsulating software licensing, client computing, data centre infrastructure, networking and security, and IT services for on-going support and…
5 key takeaways from Bob Willett’s ‘Presenting to Retail’ global partner webinars
We recently invited all of our global partners to an exclusive webinar with Purple WiFi investor and former CEO of Best Buy International, Bob Willett. “Bob Willett is an example of an executive who started on the shop floor.He began at Marks & Spencer in his native United Kingdom in…