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News Analysis: Inside Disney's Earnings and Streaming Wars Among A Tech Market Rout

Disney's Performance Shows Strength and Depth Of Portfolio Quality balance sheets, predictable revenues are key to sustaining stock prices during this current market rout. Investors only care about future forecast guidance despite current quarterly performance. While Disney's Q1 2022 showed 23% YoY gains with $1.4 billion in operating profit, guidance has been muted in spite of the near pandemic comparables.
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Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Monday's Musings: Decision Velocity Will Determine Winners and Losers In A Digital Age

Speed Provides Exponential Advantage Speed has always been a critical success factor in winning wars on the battlefield. You need to move troops faster, reach targets more quickly, and strike with speed and precision. However, what is often not talked about is how the speed with which decisions are made plays a role in claiming victory.
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News Analysis: Apple Business Essentials Now Generally Available For Organizations With Under 500 Employees

Smaller Enterprises Can Now Affordably Manage And Secure Devices Like Large Enterprises On March 31st, 2022, Apple officially announced general availability of its Business Essentials offering for organizations with up to 500 employees. Business Essentials provides device management features such as setup, on boarding, backup, security, support and updates for devices such as the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Varying plan levels are based on number of devices and amount of storage.
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News Analysis: Goodbye FAANG, Hello MATANA

Goodbye FAANG, Hello MATANA. The FAANG stocks (i.e. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) have had a great run as the large cap digital giant leaders. However, with Facebook and Netflix facing massive declines in year over year subscriber growth, their valuations have taken a hit along with the macro conditions of rising interest rates and global instability.
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News Analysis: MIcrosoft Doubles Down On The Metaverse With $68.7 B Offer For Activision

Microsoft's Biggest Acquisition Is All About Moving To Metaverse On January 18th, 2022, MIcrosoft announced its intent to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in an all cash offer. As the metaverse economy heats up, this move gives MIcrosoft several advantages including:
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Apple Business Essentials

News Analysis: Apple Business Essentials Simplifies SMB Ownership Experience

Apple Launches New Business Essentials Service On Wednesday, November 10th, Apple introduced a new business service for companies up to 500 employees. Apple Business Essentials enables organizations to easily add users, onboard users, back up information, secure devices, receive 24/7 support, repair devices onsite, and manage the device lifecycle for deployment.
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Shopify Global ERP Program 2021

News Analysis: Shopify Launches Global ERP Program

Five Major Global ERP Vendors Join Shopify App Store Program On October 14th, 2021, Shopify announced a broad-based partnership with five leading ERP vendors to improve the data and workflow integration of Shopify Plus' commerce platform to key back office capabilities such as financials, order management, inventory, and supply chain.
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Cambridge Quantum QNLP

News Analysis: Cambridge Quantum Brings On Quantum NLP To Life

CQ IS First To NLP On Quantum Via The lambeq Toolkit On October 13th, Cambridge Quantum released lambeq, an open-source toolkit and library for Natural Language Processing on Quantum (QNLP), named after Joachim Lambek, the late pioneering McGill University professor in mathematics and theoretical computer science.
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Event Report: isolved Connect 2021

The First Of The In Person HR Tech Vendor Conferences Was A Resounding Success On September 19th, isolved kicked off its user conference isolved Connect at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. Amidst a very socially distant and pandemic protocol safe ballroom, more than 900 HR professionals, technologists,and partners gathered to hear the latest announcements and see the latest updates to the software.
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Big Idea: ESG Solutions Address the Impending ESG Imperative

This Big Idea report examines environmental, social, and governance (ESG) solutions and offerings. Growing interest in supporting a wide range of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has led to new frameworks that address areas from climate change to employee compensation. Early adopters should use this report to identify the key trends that provide ESG capabilities as well as the market trends and forces shaping the future of ESG
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