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Top 5 Tech Trends from CES 2016
176,000 attendees and almost 3,7000 companies including 400 start-ups. It can only be CES (The International Consumer Electronics Show), where trends at the very cutting edge of the tech industry are brought to life in the deserts of Nevada. Amidst the sea of awesome gadgets and gizmos on display, making sense…
Visitors and residents can now enjoy FREE unlimited WiFi in Newport city centre
Newport’s City Centre public wireless network has been officially launched, thanks to a partnership between North, Ruckus and Purple, the intelligent spaces company. NewportCityConnect will provide users with unlimited 24/7 free WiFi access across key city centre locations including Upper Dock St, Corn St, Skinner St, Riverfront Theatre, train station,…
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’s top 6 digital marketing trends for 2016
2016 is the year of the customer. But wait a minute, wasn’t 2015 the year of the customer? In fact, for several years it’s been all hail customer centric marketing. But 2016 really does feel as though it could be the year we begin to put the customer up front…
What’s next for the Internet of Things?
“So why is it called the Internet of Things?” Was the question from my five year old when I told him what I was writing about –” it sounds awesome”. Maybe he’s been watching too much YouTube, maybe he’s right? It is pretty ‘awesome’, by giving objects, animals or people…
Purple launches new capability based channel partner program
February 29th, 2016: Purple WiFi last month rebranded as Purple, the intelligent spaces company, reflecting a wider scope of focus. Coinciding with this, Purple has introduced a new Partner Program to enable partners to gain easy entry into a range of customers, including enterprise targets. Promising new recurring revenue streams,…
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…
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,…
Cisilion paints the world Purple
New partnership between the global system integrator and intelligent spaces company Thursday 10th March, 2016: Purple, the intelligent spaces company, today announced its partnership with Cisilion, the global system integrator delivering next generation IT infrastructure that transforms the way businesses work. Purple’s platform allows Cisilion to deliver real-time analytical insight…
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 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 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…
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…
Retail experts join Purple’s Board of Directors
Our CEO Gavin says that the only constant is change, and that’s certainly true here at Purple. We don’t just deal with change as it happens; we seek it out. Change is part of the journey. It shapes us and the direction we take to reach our vision – Intelligent…