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This New Online Marketplace Caters to Creators

TrovaPage, a new global open internet marketplace, helps creators and other entrepreneurs focus on marketing without detracting from their creativity ...

How to Avoid the Cost of Churn With Better Customer Experiences

Customer churn is costing mid-market companies an average of $5.5 million per year. Retailers need to avoid the costly mistakes that result in such disastrous churn, according to a recent CRM and Sales Impact Report from SugarCRM. ...

Open Source Joins Efforts to Create Gene Therapies for Rare Diseases

Some 400 million patients worldwide are affected by more than 7,000 rare diseases; yet treatments for rare genetic diseases remain an underserved area. More than 95 percent of rare diseases do not have an approved treatment, and new treatments are estimated to cost more than $1 billion ...

Digital Payments Lead March Toward a Cashless Society

From coin shortages and curbside operations to contactless transactions, how consumers pay for their purchases has been completely transformed during the pandemic. Marketers expect that transformation to continue and expand ...

REVIEW

New Netrunner 21.01 ‘XOXO’ Worthy of Hugs and Kisses

When I last visited the ever-changing Netrunner distribution, I said that Netrunner Linux still went its own way. That was its twentieth rebirthday upgrade over its then 10-year history in late February 2020 ...

Need More From Your Digital Ad Spend? Adopt Contextual Alignment

A recent study of eBay ads found that digital brand search ad effectiveness is overestimated by up to 4,100 percent. A similar analysis of Facebook ads yielded a number of 4,000 percent ...

How Fixable Is the Unsafe Internet?

The larger the Internet superhighway of information grows; the more users get run over by privacy abuses and stolen data. If only we could rebuild the Internet's infrastructure to make data's journey safer and more secure is a common cry of IT and cybersecurity experts ...

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Tax Benefits That Can Help Small Tech and Entrepreneurs Now

The ominous looming deadline for filing 2020 federal income tax returns has been extended from April 15 to Monday, May 17, 2021. ...

Fortune 500s Hit by MS Exchange Breach Maybe Still Unaware

Jonathan Cran, founder and CEO of Intrigue, a cybersecurity startup based in Austin, Texas, used his company's network security tools to compile a list of Fortune 500 companies still exposed to last month's Microsoft Exchange breach. Potentially, many of those companies may not know their networks are compromised ...

Intrigue Funded to Develop New Attack Surface Management Platform

Startup information security firm Intrigue on Tuesday announced a US$2 million seed round led by LiveOak Venture Partners for a new attack service management platform that helps secure enterprise networks. The Intrigue tools scan all public, exposed attack surfaces inside and outside a company ...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Social Platforms Now Central in the Commerce Spectrum

Social commerce -- selling products or services on social media platforms -- is a marketing tactic that can boost retail revenue with relatively little effort without overly adding to the advertising spend ...

Google’s Vested Interest in Linux Security

Google is now paying developers more money to work on securing their Linux kernels this year. The gesture may well be the start of the company's bid to enforce a tighter grip on open source ...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

How to Ride the ‘Consumer Wave’ to Better Customer Experiences

If your business does not provide customers with self-service options, you might be encouraging potential customers to go elsewhere ...

Sophisticated CRM Now at the Core of Customer Success

Over the course of the past year, adjusting to the challenges of the pandemic on business has made the customer relationship management system an essential tool for maintaining and growing a customer base. As a result, CRM platforms have evolved into something more than just a digital Rolodex to manage customer contacts ...

Made in China, Sold on Amazon: The Numbers are Skyrocketing

One of the most successful direct-to-consumer shopping outlets for China-based vendors outside of China's own Alibaba e-commerce platform is Amazon. This trend has been accelerating for years ...

REVIEW

Latest LinDoz: An Ideal Windows-to-Linux Crossover

MakuluLinux is an unusually creative operating system that developer Jacque Montague Raymer is constantly changing with each major upgrade. Some of these changes are radical and innovative ...

SECURITY

Cybersecurity Fears Trigger Migration From the Public Cloud

Cloud cybersecurity -- or a lack of it -- is feeding a frenzy of companies out of the public cloud. A similar concern about managing compliance obligations is keeping organizations from moving to the cloud in general ...

New Dev Tool Brings Automation to Code Changes

Sourcegraph on Wednesday launched Batch Changes, an automated internal coding tool that allows enterprises to automate and track large-scale code changes across all repositories and code hosts. For software developers, this is game-changing ...

E-Gift Cards Fitting the Bill for Consumers, Retailers

Consumer shopping patterns continue to settle into new options after holiday digital and e-gift card sales soared at the close of last year ...

AI, ML Not Yet a Plug-and-Play Proposition for Marketers: Study

Personalization and automation, two of the hottest buzzwords in the lexicon of CRM practitioners, are all the rage for marketers these days. But only 14 percent of organizations are using artificial intelligence and/or machine learning to automate their marketing campaigns ...

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