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Is VMware really becoming the new mainframe?

CIO Business Intelligence

Everybody says VMware works as advertised, but they have a problem with how Broadcom has changed the way you purchase and use VMware. Concerns about price hikes surfaced when Broadcom moved VMware away from perpetual licensing terms and onto a subscription model that bundles multiple products together.

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The spy in your living room

Vox

Over the course of the next 15 years, Roku would grow its hardware business to include streaming sticks, which are basically just smaller set-top-boxes; wireless soundbars, speakers, and subwoofers; and after licensing its operating system to third-party TV makers, its own affordable, Roku-branded smart TVs. It could even be used to train AI.

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SharePoint Premium highlights the hard road CIOs face with generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Back in the day, when its assumptions, methodologies, and overall culture were formed, IT suffered from a serious case of ratio inversion, focusing something like 80% of its budget and efforts on the 20%, leaving 20% of its attention to help with the unstructured 80%. Imagine it works as advertised, without the usual v.1

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Microsoft stock rises 4% as tech giant beats expectations with $52.9B in Q3 revenue

GeekWire

However, the overall 7% revenue increase represents the second straight quarter of single digit growth as Microsoft navigates various macroeconomic headwinds, including a pullback in business technology budgets and more cautious customer spending for cloud services and software licenses that drive the bulk of Microsoft’s business.

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Say goodbye to your favorite podcast promo codes

The Verge

McNeil is one of many direct response advertisers who’ve found a home in podcasting. McNeil, for example, says the cost to advertise doubled on one of his brand’s go-to shows after it was acquired — although so far, they’ve honored his prior price point. Advertisers say the experience of buying and distributing an ad is getting worse.

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The ad industry is going all-in on AI

Vox

At Cannes Lions advertising festival in 2023, AI dominated the conversation. The Cannes she was referring to isn’t the one you’ve probably heard of — the film festival — but rather Cannes Lions, a similarly swanky festival celebrating advertising instead of cinema. But everyone wants a reason to party and make deals at Cannes Lions.

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Gaming opportunities for investors in 2023: Generative AI, low-code, metaverse, and more

GeekWire

One argument made at the time was that video games, despite a high initial cost of entry, can be a surprisingly efficient dollar-to-hour use of consumers’ entertainment budget. Free-to-play games’ audience share expanded rapidly in 2022, which has led to a new wave of interest and investment in in-game advertising methods.

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