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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Not to be confused with the ordinary sense of rent as a charge for temporary use of property, economic rents are the income above a competitive market rate that is collected because of asymmetries in ownership, information, or power. Attention is all you need What is the source of big tech market power? The market was maturing.

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LayerX Security Raises $24M for its Browser Security Platform, Enabling Employees to Work Securely from Any Browser, Anywhere

CIO Business Intelligence

The new capital will be used for corporate growth across talent and increasing global market presence. Yet, these fundamental work activities expose organizations to a wide range of security risks, like data leaks, identity and password theft, malicious browser extensions, phishing sites and more. “As

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IRM Market Visionaries and Challengers Join Forces to Battle Leaders

John Wheeler

In the span of a week, the integrated risk management (IRM) technology market has experienced significant consolidation. Four vendors from Gartner’s inaugural 2018 IRM Magic Quadrant have joined forces to evolve their legacy governance, risk and compliance (GRC) offerings to better compete in the IRM market (see figure below).

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO Business Intelligence

billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019. In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. 31 what amounts to $428 million a year.

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Microsoft signs $2.8B cloud deal with London Stock Exchange Group

CIO Business Intelligence

This strategic partnership is a significant milestone on LSEG’s journey towards becoming the leading global financial markets infrastructure and data business, and will transform the experience for our customers,” said David Schwimmer, CEO of London Stock Exchange Group, in comments published alongside a Microsoft blog post announcing the news.

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4 Reasons Why GRC Is a Useless Term

John Wheeler

It has been 5 years since Gartner embarked on the journey to enhance our coverage of the risk management technology marketplace. That journey included in-depth survey research and countless interactions with our end-user clients to understand their need to better manage strategic, operational and IT/cybersecurity risks.

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A Year After: Has Blockchain Changed Advertising by 2022?

Smart Data Collective

Now that we’ve marched into 2022 it’s time to recollect those talks, inspect the current market and finally understand if blockchain really brings some changes into ad tech and martech scene. Sure, right now crypto markets are not being in the best of times – the growing cryptotrading markets recently crippled in China.