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Microsoft And Activision Blizzard Extend Deadline To Complete Acquisition To October

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Microsoft and Activision Blizzard now have until October to complete their merger.  More specifically, Activision Blizzard and Microsoft have jointly agreed to extend the merger agreement from July 18 to October 18, 2023, giving both companies roughly three months to sort through this purchase. As for why, Microsoft says it is “to allow for additional…

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HR software and strategies to combat staff attrition

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Low employee engagement costs the global economy $8.8tn per year, the equivalent of 9% of global GDP, according to workplace consulting and research firm Gallup. Part of this huge bill boils down to the fact that at a time of widespread labour and skills shortages, many employees simply choose to move on if they are…

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Future Cyber Threats: The four ‘horsemen of the apocalypse’

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As a CISO and cyber specialist, I am often asked what I see as the big cyber threats of the future. Whilst I’m not a fan of crystal ball gazing for its own sake, nevertheless it can be helpful to think about what may be coming – and what we can do about it. So…

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The Crew Motorfest Preview – Competent And Familiar

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The Crew, Ubisoft’s racing franchise akin to Microsoft’s Forza series and EA’s Need For Speed, has been around for nearly a decade. And since its inception, it has struggled to make a cultural dent in the racing genre, despite sales greenlighting a sequel and, now, a threequel in The Crew Motorfest. I went into a…

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Activision Blizzard Esports Hit With Layoffs As Overwatch League’s Future Remains Undecided

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Activision Blizzard has laid off around 50 employees, according to a new report from The Verge.  This news arrives the same day Activision Blizzard released its Fiscal Year 2023 Q2 results, which highlights a murky future for the company’s esports efforts despite an otherwise financially successful quarter for the Overwatch 2 maker. Activision Blizzard’s results show…

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Google Cloud chalked up higher growth rate in 2022 than AWS and Microsoft, Gartner data shows

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Google Cloud achieved higher growth on a year-over-year (YoY) basis between 2021 and 2022 than the other top four public cloud firms, Gartner’s latest global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market tracker data shows. The IT analyst giant’s shows while Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to lead the public cloud market, with 40% share, fourth place Google has…

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Microsoft’s Nadella sees massive growth opportunity in AI

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Microsoft kicked off its annual partner conference, Inspire, with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella discussing the immense opportunity that artificial intelligence (AI) offers the IT sector. He believes AI will be as transformative as the graphical user interface. “We’re in the midst of a massive platform shift with the new generation of AI that’s…

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CMA gives Broadcom/VMware deal provisional thumbs-up

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Following its investigation into the $61bn deal between Broadcom and VMware, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally found the deal does not weaken competition. The independent CMA panel looked at concerns that the deal could harm the ability of Broadcom’s rivals to compete if the merged company were to make their products work…

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Five non-traditional talent pools that will help CIOs plug skills gaps

6 minutes of reading / AI, automation, ChatGPT, cybersecurity, Git, Microsoft, social media, Square, Tech / By

The technology market continues to be hampered by severe skills gaps and talent shortages, a problem which shows no sign of abating. In the 2022 Nash Squared Digital Leadership report, 70% of digital leaders said skills shortages are preventing them from keeping up with the pace of change. Everything from data analysts to cybersecurity specialists…

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We have lift off… The opportunities and risks of generative AI

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It feels like we’ve been talking about the potential of AI and machine learning for years. So much so, that some people may have become sceptical about the extent to which it will all actually happen. But now, the remarkable rise of generative AI shows that it’s here and it’s real.  ChatGPT and other generative…

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