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Hyper-personalised marketing builds stickiness, helps ease inventory build-up.
VMware gets access to “product samples, product roadmaps, driver source code..."
"It extracts the most relevant data so you only compute what’s necessary"
Gil Shwed is an anachronism: A startup founder who has stayed CEO for three decades, carefully growing his brainchild from nothing into a $2 billion-by-annual-revenue powerhouse, whilst reporting a profit every single quarter along the way. (“Every quarter?” The Stack asks. “Every month,” Check Point’s CEO says softly.) Check
"Events unforeseeable for the contracting entity”
Voice Assistant, can you say ‘Kismet’? Turns out that when Microsoft completed its deal to buy Nuance Communications a little over a year ago for about $19.7 billion, the purchase may have been better than it anticipated at the time. Either that or part of a grand plan, because
Lightweight app-layer proxy protocol to power ads for billions of Chrome users