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Formula One, NFL, NHL Work on Their Hustle With AWS (IW)
Three major sports leagues discuss ways they leverage machine learning for internal efficiency as well as improved connections to fans.... More
Mobile Marketers Intensify Focus on Contextual Signals Amid Privacy Changes (MD)
While the top priorities for mobile advertisers remain the same — paid social, display and search — several burgeoning areas are expected to attract more ad dollars, including ... More
LaLiga, Microsoft Expand Partnership for Digital Transformation (The Record)
LaLiga will use Microsoft Azure’s AI and machine learning capabilities for its LaLigaSportsTV OTT platform and Mediacoach platform, as well as developing a range of new technolog... More
IBM Think 2021: AI, Automation, Hybrid Cloud, Practical Innovation (eWeek)
The company is focused on helping enterprise customers and partners survive the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and prepare them to thrive as business and daily life resumes.... More
5 Ways to Meet Today’s Customer Expectations With Intelligent Commerce (Avanade Insights)
Customer expectations that were mounting over the last few years – for relevance, empathy and timeliness - have accelerated during the pandemic. The necessity of online shopping ... More
Building an AI-Ready Infrastructure to Fully Deliver the Value of Data (Equinix Blog)
AI is poised to unleash the next wave of business transformation, particularly amid the current pandemic. Impacted by supply chain disruptions and continuing social distancing meas... More
User Behavior Analytics: What it is and How it Advances Digital Security (Security Intelligence)
With UBA, security personnel can leverage automated visibility into user behavior to minimize certain threat categories confronting their employers.... More
Why Data Center Automation is Accelerating: It’s in Everyone’s Best Interest (ZDNet)
Data center automation is likely to accelerate due to a series of trends--hardware as a service, cloud, multi-cloud and agility--that are all converging.... More
Machine Learning in Cookieless Solutions: Q&A With Simon Halstead, Verizon Media (EW)
Halstead: "Cookies did a lot of things, so moving beyond the current use of cookies for publishers and buyers is going to involve quite a lot of change. There’s no single solutio... More
7 Ways to Fuel Your AI Projects (TCS Blog)
Unclear business cases, lack of quality data, and technical infrastructure challenges are some common barriers to successful AI implementation. Here are seven ways how enterprises ... More
Is China the Future of Professional Mobile Gaming? (Protocol)
Mobile games used to be hailed as a perfect way to pass the time while standing in line. But along with a rise in competitive gaming, there's been a rise in competitive mobile gami... More
5th Kind Connects With Box to Streamline Production in the Cloud
The new integration is part of 5th Kind’s new Script-to-Screen initiative streamlining production workflows from pre-production through post and beyond. (more…)... More
Salesforce Upgrades ICDP With Better Segmentation, Tighter Integrations (AdExchanger)
Salesforce rolled out a revamped version of its customer data on platform with additional bells and whistles in the form of smarter segmentation, deeper integrations with Tableau a... More
AWS Releases Tool to Open Source That Turns On-Prem Software Into SaaS (TechCrunch)
AWS is releasing a tool called AWS SaaS Boost as open source distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The tool, which was first announced at the AWS re:Invent conference last year... More
Going Global in e-Commerce With International Marketplaces (A TransPerfect World)
For all retailers, international marketplaces are a great way of entering a new market. In 2020, the top 100 online marketplaces worldwide sold $2.6 trillion worth of products. Wit... More
The Most Resilient Businesses Let Intelligent Data Speak for Itself (Forbes)
Today’s business process intelligence is emphatically not yesterday’s approach to increasing efficiencies. Take robotics, which are hardly revelatory. What’s brilliant are th... More
Why Automation and Zero Trust Go Hand-in-Hand (Security Intelligence)
Zero trust can reshape how businesses approach digital security. The idea is to distrust by default, regardless of whether the information is located inside or outside the corporat... More
How Video Games Could be the Next Frontier in the WFH Revolution (City A.M.)
By this time last year, most of us were already experiencing Zoom fatigue. A month of working remotely had taken its toll and the endless queue of video meetings seemed to exemplif... More
Imagining a New Digital Workspace (Fast Company)
Bluescape enables complex collaboration amid transformative times. The platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider helps far-flung teams collaborate within a central digital workspace—... More
Why Developers are Writing Apps on the Akamai Edge Platform
We believe the edge is where new applications and new business models will come to life, where intelligence will be built into how data is collected and analyzed, where the promise... More