In Brief: Microsoft goes passwordless and provides users substitute sign-in technologies
New options are using the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email.
New options are using the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email.
It can be used across verticals including retail, consumer packaged goods, auto, travel, financial services.
You haven’t read here about Gartner’s July report that marketing budgets fell dramatically in 2021 because the result was so far out of line with other surveys that it didn’t seem worth mentioning. But Duke Fuqua’s latest The CMO Survey solves the mystery: like Gartner, they report that marketing budgets fell as a percentage of revenues, from 13.2% in 2020 to 8.6% in 2021 (Gartner’s numbers were 11% to 6.4%). Unlike Gartner, Duke Fuqua also reports marketing spend as a share of company budgets rose from 11.7% to 12.1%, clarifying... Read More >
It’s deal-making time for generative AI model builders and publishers who can provide them with quality data. Germany publishing giant Axel Springer is trading access to its data for Microsoft adtech, AI, and Azure hosting solutions. Meanwhile, The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to license its content with attribution of summaries and quotes.