Nara, Japan – Sharp Europe detailed how it built a digital infrastructure for one of the world's most complex B2B operations on Drupal, managing 120,000 enterprise customers across 48 countries with 17 sites in 19 languages.
The electronics giant generates €13.5 billion in annual revenue, with 40% coming from B2B operations that serve vastly different audiences – from 110,000 small enterprises requiring low-touch transactions to mid-market companies needing sophisticated engagement.
"Big, complex, broad, deep," said Jason Cort, who leads European product management and marketing for Sharp. "That's what our martech stack has to support."
Image: Shigeru Kobayashi – COO Executive Officer, Head of B2B, Sharp
Nara, Japan – Sharp Europe detailed how it built a digital infrastructure for one of the world's most complex B2B operations on Drupal, managing 120,000 enterprise customers across 48 countries with 17 sites in 19 languages.
The electronics giant generates €13.5 billion in annual revenue, with 40% coming from B2B operations that serve vastly different audiences – from 110,000 small enterprises requiring low-touch transactions to mid-market companies needing sophisticated engagement.
"Big, complex, broad, deep," said Jason Cort, who leads European product management and marketing for Sharp. "That's what our martech stack has to support."
Image: Shigeru Kobayashi – COO Executive Officer, Head of B2B, Sharp
Every community has unsung heroes—people who show up, lend a hand, mentor newcomers, and make everyone around them better. In the Drupal community, we have a special way of recognizing these exceptional individuals: the Aaron Winborn Award.
Nominations are now open for 2026.
This isn't about code commits or issue credits as this award celebrates the human qualities that make our community truly special: service, integrity, kindness, and that rare willingness to go above and beyond.
When it was announced that leftist Catherine Connolly had won a record-breaking vote to become the new Uachtarán na hÉireann, or President of Ireland, the pearl-clutching headlines from the British right-wing press were foreseeable. Conservative columnists seemingly vied for the most hysterical. A Spectator columnist mildly wrote, ‘Catherine Connolly’s election is a low for Ireland.’ […]
In September, a new political organisation was launched in the UK, aimed at bringing together Labour members dismayed by the party’s rightward shift. Called ‘Mainstream’, the project describes itself as ‘the home for Labour’s radical realists — united by values, driven by change; for everyone who knows that to transform the country and take on […]
The Trump administration moved to designate antifa groups abroad as foreign terrorists — setting up the prosecution of their U.S. allies.
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Chemical traces in a royal vase suggest the narcotic may have been a routine part of life
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Flight-tracking is a powerful tool for government transparency. We’ll show you how to do it.
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A lyrical observation in verse turns out to be a glimpse at a star’s last gasp
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4:50 a.m. — Carmen arrives at the airport for her 6:15 a.m. flight.
4:53 a.m. — Carmen heads to security early, because she doesn’t have TSA PreCheck, CLEAR, or the subscription service where a man in a suit carries you, piggyback, to the front of the line.
5:03 a.m. — Carmen fills a plastic tray with her laptop, beeper, wallet, trench coat, and part of an ancient tombstone she stole back from England and is supposed to deliver to [REDACTED] before getting found by the kids on the show.
5:05 a.m. — Carmen’s luggage is flagged, and she has to go to the manual inspection table in only her leggings and the Backstreet Boys T-shirt she’s wearing under her trench coat, while a security team member inspects her belongings.
In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.
The post Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People appeared first on The Intercept.
Exchanges about Trump between a reporter and Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.
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PART I
THE BELIEVER: You’ve been in the poetry and publishing worlds for some thirty years now. What changes have you seen in that time?
KEVIN YOUNG: I think poetry itself has broadened and deepened. What I see, having edited The New Yorker anthology, is the way that poetry really, in the past forty years, has exploded in terms of who’s publishing and who’s able to publish and the outlets for publishing. At the same time, it once felt like there was a different kind of robust, smaller-press life, and you had these different outlets and magazines, some of which I miss. But in general, I think there are a lot of people writing who were always writing, but who are now getting published more.
You know me as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Over the past three years, I’ve tried changing the system from within. I’ve written increasingly urgent court opinions. I’ve even deployed symbolism. For President Trump’s second inauguration, I wore a massive cowrie-shell collar honoring my African ancestry and the strength and ingenuity it requires to overcome America’s darkest days. Nothing gets through to you people.
In the last court term, I wrote ten dissenting opinions, more than any other justice. Have you previewed the horror show on the docket for this term? Alito just winked at me and asked if it’s too soon to joke that I don’t have the brain processing power to do this job.
When grief and distraction spun my mind out of control, only the strain of my muscles could keep it intact
- by Nancy Uddin