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Reddit’s Strategic Play Lands it a $60M Content Licensing Deal Before IPO

IT Toolbox

Content licensing deal for AI training is thus the new business model on the block. They can offer a legal high ground and allow companies like Reddit to reduce their advertising dependency, much to the delight of users. The post Reddit’s Strategic Play Lands it a $60M Content Licensing Deal Before IPO appeared first on Spiceworks.

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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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IP Fabric expands network visibility, automation with platform update

Network World

advanced BGP analytics allow engineers to monitor route advertisements between devices in real-time, helping ensure routing policies are correctly implemented across the network. Bykov emphasized that IP Fabric does not have per-user license costs. Key updates in version 7.0 What multi-view dashboards bring to IP Fabric 7.0

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Is the open web dying, and is AI partially to blame?

CIO Business Intelligence

Similarly, services like OpenAI’s recent search technology license content from large sites and position links to the sites in the search results, but smaller organizations don’t have the power to enforce licensing fees or prominent placement, meaning they are denied both licensing revenue and advertising and traffic.

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Startup radar: Check out 4 up-and-coming tech companies from Seattle

GeekWire

Clockwise from top left: Privacy License founder Nabanita De; Mvue founder Payal Tiwana; Saturday founder Michelle Howe; and Pansophy founder Anshu Dwibhashi. Tiwana previously was a head of product for Microsoft Azure and led an advertising tech team at Amazon. Saturday Can tech help endurance athletes fuel up more effectively?

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India says not to preorder Starlink until it obtains a license

The Verge

As the report notes, the Indian government says that the company needs to obtain a license to operate in the country before it starts deploying its services. Public is advised not to subscribe to Starlink services being advertised,” a tweet from India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) reads.

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Amazon’s advertising business is surging amid industry-wide ad sales boom for tech giants

GeekWire

Amazon’s advertising business continue to grow rapidly as it is now one of the company’s key sources of revenue. Perhaps more importantly, advertising is a high-margin business, helping boost Amazon’s profits that grew to $7.8 (GeekWire Photo). The 87% growth rate is notable; that rate in the year-ago quarter was 41%.