Business
TCS Renews NYC Marathon Rights, Will Spend $280M on Race Sponsorships (CNBC)
The deal gives the race’s title rights to TCS through 2029. The company plans to spend up to $40 million per year on global race sponsorships in that time frame. TCS also sponsor... More
Positioning the Equinix Channel for Success (Interconnections)
In a way that mirrors the evolving nature of our digital landscape, we are evolving our business at Equinix to meet changing customer and partner needs. With these changes, we are ... More
Amazon Web Services Simplifies AWS Partner Training Program (CRN)
Amazon Web Services is revamping its AWS Partner Training Program to make it easier for customers to engage with one partner for all their training needs.... More
EditShare Announces Record Second Quarter, Executive Promotions
EditShare wrapped up second-quarter 2021 results with 45% growth over the second quarter of the previous year. Significant contributions to growth include an increase in cloud depl... More
Cognizant Acquires TQS Integration to Enhance Smart Manufacturing Offerings
Cognizant agreed to acquire TQS Integration, a privately owned global industrial data and intelligence company based in Lismore, Ireland. TQS delivers manufacturing data intelligen... More
Wasabi Technologies Appoints George Neble to Board of Directors
Neble brings to Wasabi more than 40 years of accounting and auditing experience working with a broad range of public and private technology and science leaders — companies in lif... More
Salesforce: Retailers Will Pay $223B Extra for Goods in the Second Half (CNBC)
The amount represents a 62% increase from last year. It’s comprised of an additional $12 billion spent with suppliers, $48 billion more in wage expenses and $163 billion extra in... More
Alibaba Provides Cloud Pin at the Olympic Games
Alibaba Group, the Worldwide TOP Partner of the International Olympic Committee, has unveiled the Alibaba Cloud Pin, a cloud-based digital pin, for the broadcasting and media profe... More
New Study Reveals 15% Increase in Meeting Efficiency as a Result of Bluescape Platform
Bluescape released a commissioned study conducted by Forrester that reveals that organizations using Bluescape can increase meeting efficiency by 15% and reduce the time spent sear... More
Veritone Redact to Help Law Agencies
Veritone announced all law enforcement agencies which acquire body-worn cameras (BWCs) through the recently announced Bureau of Justice Assistance grant are eligible for six months... More
TCS Wins Two Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards
Tata Consultancy Services has won two 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards – Azure Intelligent Cloud in France and Dynamics 365 Field Service in the US, for demonstrating ex... More
Verizon Media Appoints Yahoo Content Director (Ad News)
Verizon Media has appointed Euan Black as Yahoo's director of content for Australia and New Zealand. Black is currently head of news, sport and lifestyle at Yahoo Australia. In his... More
Ad-ID Names Yonah Levenson VP, Group Director of Information Services
Ad-ID, the industry standard for identifying advertising assets across all media platforms, has announced the appointment of Yonah Levenson as VP and group director of information ... More
5th Kind Announces Investment Round With HCAP
Los Angeles-based 5th Kind announced its first funding round. The investing partnership provided by HCAP Partners will help accelerate the company's growth to support increasing de... More
Fast-Growing Analytics Startup Amplitude Files to Go Public (Forbes)
Spenser Skates, Curtis Liu and Jeffrey Wang founded the San Francisco-based firm in 2014. Demand for Amplitude’s product spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic as companies had to f... More
Splunk Announces New Senior Leadership Appointments
Effective immediately, Sendur Sellakumar has been named to the newly created role of SVP and Chief Cloud Officer; Claire Hockin has been appointed SVP and Chief Marketing Officer; ... More
Anuvu Renews 5-Year Contract With Gulf Air
Anuvu’s five-year agreement will provide Gulf Air with a bespoke content strategy, allowing its passengers to enjoy the best Hollywood, Arabic, Bollywood, international new and c... More
Salesforce Debuts Advertising Sales Management for Media Cloud
Salesforce announced Advertising Sales Management for Media Cloud, a new industry-specific application for managing cross-channel advertising sales. With Advertising Sales Manageme... More
The Changing Face of Content Aggregation (NAGRA Blog)
Stéphane Le Dréau, SVP & GM, Asia Pacific, NAGRA, explores the topic of content aggregation and how it can help re-shape traditional business models and deliver business bene... More
TCS Expands in Arizona
Tata Consultancy Services plans to expand its operations in Arizona, investing more than $300 million by 2026 and hiring more than 220 employees by 2023, to meet the digital transf... More
