ORLANDO, Fla., October 15, 2018 Top 10 Gartner, Inc. today highlighted the top strategic technology trends that organizations need to explore in 2019. Analysts presented their findings during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, which is taking place here through Thursday. Gartner defines a strategic technology trend as one with substantial disruptive potential that is beginning to break out of […]
Breach news to share with your customers! This week, ransomware shuts down a food bank, Canadian patient data is leaked via employee email, and Australian universities get schooled on cybersecurity. Dark Web ID Trends: Top Source Hits: ID Theft Forums Top Compromise Type: Domain Top Industry: Finance & Insurance Top Employee Count: 51 – 100 Employees […]
PUBLISHED SAT, JAN 5 2019 11:09 AM ESTUPDATED SAT, JAN 5 2019 1:20 PM ESTJennifer Schlesinger@JENNYANNE211Andrea Day@ANDREADAY KEY POINTS Cybercriminals can now use a type of phishing to get around two-factor authentication, typically a code sent your cellphone that is needed to log in, according to cybersecurity firm KnowBe4. KnowBe4 used LinkedIn for its demo, but said […]
Greg Petro Contributor In my last post, “ALDO On The Changing Role Of The Chief Marketing Officer,” I outlined the challenges facing today’s CMO and how the consumer is outpacing retailers when it comes to how they use technology to make purchase decisions. A shopper carries an Aldo Group Inc. bag at the Palm Beach […]
Inspired by a recent presentation at SMX West, columnist Sherry Bonelli discusses why small businesses and local search marketers need to be thinking about voice search. Sherry Bonelli on May 1, 2017 at 10:32 am The way people search for information online is changing. Increasingly, people are using voice search on their smartphones, tablets or voice […]
Everyone can agree that technology is exploding at an exponential rate. It is changing so fast, and from so many directions, we can’t really tell how, when, or where, it is going to impact us. One thing is for sure, winter is coming. In the copier business they talk about the decline in print. Decline […]
Buy a single item at CVS and you can end up with a 4′–6′-long ribbon of register tape, a kind of orgy of coupons and come-ons. The phenomenon of the farcically long CVS receipt goes back to 2008 or so, when the company started buying data-mining services to plumb its customer loyalty card data, generating coupons […]
Michael E. Porter Victor E. Millar HBR Harvard Business Review FROM THE JULY 1985 issue The information revolution is sweeping through our economy. No company can escape its effects. Dramatic reductions in the cost of obtaining, processing, and transmitting information are changing the way we do business. Most general managers know that the revolution is […]
By Jacob Kastrenakes@jake_k Mar 7, 2019, 10:15am ESTSHARE Five paragraphs into the monster blog post that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published yesterday afternoon, he makes a damning, strangely understated admission: “frankly we don’t currently have a strong reputation for building privacy protective services.” That one line is the context for the rest of Zuckerberg’s 3,500-word post in which he discusses […]