Both Microsoft and AWS are to increase investment and data center portfolios in the Telangana region of India. The two cloud companies already have existing facilities and cloud regions in development and/or operation in the region, centered in Hyderabad, and are to significantly increase their investments there.
I no longer use Twitter, but apparently it has become the “free-for-all hellscape” that Elon Musk promised to avoid. Advertisers who support this can limit the damage to their brands with new services from Double Verify and Integral Ad Science. Both measure the content that’s adjacent to brand ads, although they’re only reporting after the damage is done.
TCS Customer Intelligence & Insights (CI&I) for Retail 3.0 has been introduced by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to assist retailers in deepening relationships with consumers through hyper-personalized engagement at every step of the customer journey. At key physical and digital touchpoints, the software generates insights, predictions, and recommended actions, resulting in higher returns on marketing investments, higher customer satisfaction, and increased customer lifetime value.
Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.