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Vista Equity Partners Invests in BlueConic, ActiveCampaign Adds Apps and More News
Catching up on the news of the week in customer experience and digital marketing software circles, leading with a large investment for BlueConic.
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Google Cloud Invests $1 Billion in CME Group, Begins Decade-Long Partnership
CME Group and Google Cloud announced a 10-year strategic partnership along with $1 billion investment in CME Group by Google.
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Here Is Where Businesses Are Spending Their Money on Customer Experience
There are no shortages CX-related technologies in which companies could invest their money and resources. Here is where they are actually spending their money.
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Where Is the ROI in Artificial Intelligence Deployments?
Businesses are turning to AI for a competitive edge. However, AI is expensive, requires considerable investment and ROI is not guaranteed.
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The Digital Opportunity for Investment Banks
Investment banking has become an increasingly challenging business in today’s environment of digital disruption.
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Investing in Civic Technology for the 'Common Good'
Since it opened its doors in New York City's Silicon Alley in 2015, Civic Hall has fostered collaboration between "social entrepreneurs, change-makers, government employees, hackers, academics, journalists and artists" who share a common mission: to use technology for the common good.
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3 Reasons Why Corporate IT Investments Fail
Here’s a fact about corporate IT investments: All investments made in hardware and software, development and deployment are sunk cost, never to be recovered. That is why IT investments need to start generating as much business value as possible from day one.
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Google Digs Deeper into European IT
Google has offered the surest sign yet that Europe and its IT sector are starting to shrug off the recession. The sign comes in the shape of a new venture capital fund that will “invest in the best ideas from the best European entrepreneurs.” The news was confirmed this morning
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What Else Could Hatch from the Google Nest?
Google put down a big marker for the Internet of Things with its Nest acquisition, having previously invested in the company via Google Ventures. We take a look at what the other companies Google is backing and what its portfolio could bring to the race to be the
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Twitter Closes US$ 800M Funding, Will Need to Look Into Monetizing 100 Million Users
While there isn't much doubt that Twitter is playing ball in the big leagues, the microblogging service's management has confirmed they are currently counting just over 100 million active users. The company has likewise raised two rounds of financing worth US$ 400 million each. The two-round $800 million series G financing involves "more
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Dropbox Rumored to be Raising Capital at Massive Valuation
Cloud storage is big business and Dropbox (news, site ), one of the bigger names, is heading for a massive valuation if rumors are to be believed.
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Privacy, Investment Affect the Future of Mobile Enterprise Innovation
Mobile technologies seem to develop at an advanced pace. A little over a year ago, we were introduced to the iPad and, since then, it’s been non-stop mobile innovation.
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Web CMS Vendor EPiServer Acquired by a Surprising Buyer
After a failed attempt to go public, EPiServer's (news, site ) future possible routes included either trying the IPO again or selling to someone. They chose the latter. The buyer is IK Investment Partners, a European private equity firm, with a surprising business focus.
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Asia Pacific Companies Bullish on IT Investments for 2011
In the wake of global economic recovery, businesses worldwide are gearing towards increased investment in IT for 2011. The Asia Pacific region is seen as more aggressive in terms of upgrading enterprise systems. The question here lies with the kinds of IT activities that organizations are expected to undertake.
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