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Top Stories IBM and Cisco System Join Forces to Snuff Out Cybercrime VentureBeat (5/31) “The companies said they would more closely integrate their products and their customers’ systems to streamline the management of cyber threats. The companies’ security research teams will also begin collaborating.”
Salesforce Announces $50 Million Fund to Invest in Cloud Consulting Startups TechCrunch (5/31) “The team has a'strong commitment to our consulting partners to make sure that we continue to have the partners that we need to grow Salesforce solutions,' said Matt Garratt of Salesforce Ventures. The corporate venture arm is making a special effort to finance companies that are synergistic to the tech giant’s business.”
NXP Faces Investor Push to Renegotiate With Qualcomm Bloomberg (5/30) “Investors including Elliott Management Corp. are seeking to pressure NXP Semiconductors NV to renegotiate with Qualcomm Inc. to persuade the U.S. company to raise its $110-a-share purchase offer. Elliott is one of at least three large NXP shareholders agitating for a higher price.”
Intel Tries to Squash AMD Revival With New High-End Chips, Brand Bloomberg (5/30) “Intel’s only competition in PC processors, Advanced Micro Devices, has demonstrated its new Ryzen product outperforming Intel chips. AMD is trying to muscle in on one of the few attractive parts of the PC market with new products the company began offering in the first quarter.” Promoted Content Tech Content Marketing 2017: Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends Content Marketing Practice, Marketing Profs “Content Marketing Institute’s latest research shows technology marketers are more committed this year to increasing their content marketing efforts. However, only 24% of tech marketers say they are extremely or very successfulwith their overall approach to content marketing. So what specifically about their content marketing approach isn't working?”
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Industry Perspectives WWDC 2017 Wish List: New Features We Want in macOS 10.13 Macworld (5/31) “At WWDC, Apple will reveal what’s in store for macOS. Everyone has their gripes about macOS, even if they mostly like it. It’s the rough edges on a product that’s matured and refined over time that keeps scratching at us, though, making us ask for better. Here’s what the Macworld staff and readers would like to see.”
AOL CMO Allie Kline On Why Oath Will Be the P&G of Media and Technology The Drum (5/30) “AOL CMO Allie Kline will become CMO of Oath and recently spoke to The Drum about where the name came from – and why it is technically Oath: – as well as what Oath will do and why we should think of Oath as the P&G of media and technology.”
The Father of Android Is Back, and He’s Built the Anti-iPhone Wired (5/30) “As an engineer at General Magic, he built some of the world’s first internet-connected portable devices. As CEO at Danger, he created the Sidekick, a smartphone that defined the category before anyone had invented the term. And then, of course, Rubin created Android, the operating system found in more than two billion phones, televisions, cars, and watches.”
UK Pubs Enlist Bots to Fight Against Filter Bubbles Ahead of the UK Election Digiday (5/30) “British publishers are using Facebook Messenger bots as tools to arm voters against filter bubbles in the run-up to the general election on June 8. 'We were interested in thinking of how to deal with fake news in this election, and we wanted to find a way to deal with the issue of echo chambers,' said William Park, social media editor at The Times and Sunday Times.”
Global Media Spend Up 7.2%, Tops Consumer Price Gains MediaPost (5/30) “Worldwide consumer spending on media content and technology is growing at a faster pace than global inflation and consumer price index rates. PQ Media says there was a 7.2% gain in global average media consumer spending to $299.97 in 2016.”
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