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CMOs top 8 martech stories for the week - 22 July 2021 All the latest martech, adtech and customer technology news from Salesforce, Slack, Zoho, SugarCRM, Zoom, Xandr, Braze, mParticle and UserTesting. Salesforce completes US$27.7bn Slack acquisition Salesforce has officially completed its acquisition of collaboration software vendor, Slack, seven months after announcing the US$27.7 billion deal. Together, Salesforce and Slack said they aim to deliver a Slack-first Customer 360 that gives com...

Profits sink for almost half of world’s top IT service providers Profits sink for almost half of world’s top IT service providers Data finds HPE, NCR and Atos bottom lines were hit the worst in 2020. Credit: Supplied Almost half of the world’s top IT service providers saw revenue and profits fall in 2020, according to new data from GlobalData.  The analyst firms figures revealed that 50 per cent of the top 20 IT service providers by revenue reported a year-on-year...

By - Associated Press - Wednesday, April 14, 2021 CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) - The St. Louis County Council has declared in a split vote that it has has no confidence in county Police Chief Mary Barton. The council’s 4-3 vote Tuesday fell along party lines, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The nonbinding resolution condemned Barton’s leadership, saying the chief was incapable of leading the St. Louis County Police Departm...

Emmaus Mossley gears up for second-hand superstore reopening Date published: 11 April 2021 The Emmaus Mossley community building and second-hand superstore Homelessness charity Emmaus Mossley is preparing to reopen its second-hand superstore after a 14-week closure due to the latest Covid-19 shutdown.   The large charity store, which sells second-hand furniture, upcycled items, household goods, bric-a-brac and clothing, will reopen on Tuesday (April 13) at 10am. During the shutdown period,...

One organ donor can save up to eight lives. According to the Health Resources and Services Administration’s website, organdonor.gov, as of February 2021, 107,000 individuals are on the national transplant waiting list. In Kentucky, 345 individuals received lifesaving organs in 2020, and 943 remain on the waiting list to receive organs, said the Executive Director of Trust for Life, Shelley Snyder. Although there are over 2 million donors registered in Kentucky alone, according to the Donate L...

iTWire Tuesday, 06 April 2021 02:37 Launch of Sky Connect will allow Sky to become a force in UK SME market: analyst Shares Gary Barton, analyst GlobalData Pay TV provider Sky’s launch of Sky Connect B2B gives the company the potential to become a force in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market, according to one analyst firm. Gary Barton, a Principal Analyst at GlobalData says, however, that Sky should not be too cautious, noting that Sky Connect has played to Sk...

Print To the editor: The two lead sentences in your editorial on green power go to the heart of our climate crisis. Limiting the damage from global warming means the survival of human civilization. If that sounds extreme, think of global food shortage resulting from disrupted agricultural production and the collapse of seafood production due to ocean acidification. More than a billion people depend on the water resources of the Himalayan mountains where the temperature is rising faster that the...

R.I.P. composer and pianist Chick Corea Photo: Timothy Norris (Getty Images) Chick Corea has died. A 23-time Grammy winner, Corea’s music helped shape the sound of jazz piano from the 1960s onward, both with his work with Miles Davis—including on the endlessly influential Bitches Brew—and in a series of solo and duet projects that spanned the entirety of his 60-year career. Per Rolling Stone, Corea died on Tuesday from a rare form of cancer. He was 79. Born in Massachusetts, and swiftly...

Right after Bill Nighbert was sworn in as president of the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) in 2002, he called his then five-year-old son Benton to the stage, and hoisted him above the podium showing the audience of KLC staff and city officials what drove him to public service. “This is why I do what I do … here is the reason I serve,” Nighbert told the audience recalled Kentucky League of Cities CEO/Executive Director J.D. Chaney in a Facebook post. Chaney noted that this moment said a lo...

GTT Enhances Portfolio of Managed Security Services Media Links McLean, VA, January 19, 2021 — GTT Communications, Inc. (NYSE: GTT), a leading global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, announced it has enhanced its portfolio of managed security services. Leveraging Fortinet’s next-generation Security Fabric, GTT is now able to deliver more advanced software-defined capabilities, including unified threat prevention (UTP), which integrates a range of security features, such a...