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Microsoft is digging deep into its pockets to stake a landgrab on the metaverse.

Microsoft is digging deep into its pockets to stake a landgrab on the metaverse.
The British Government has announced ‘Superfast Broadband For All!’, more times than we can count. And it seems its latest efforts are falling short of what is needed.
Is it time to retire the chatbot and prioritize human customer service engagement? Colin Crowley of Freshworks considers what we've learned about customer satisfaction in the pandemic - and what makes consumers happy.
HubSpot’s vision of a small business media network is something every brand should be thinking about.
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Modern BI is a work in progress - and dashboards have limitations. How can BI fulfill its promise to business users, and can embedded analytics play a vital role? I dive into this with Yellowfin's Michael Hollenbeck.
Privacy campaigners argue that the government is trying to scare people into giving up valuable end-to-end encryption features that support online privacy.
Target's Brian Cornell picks up the National Retail Federation Visionary award.
The public sector demonstrated that it can respond quickly to change in a crisis - Justin Wilson of Mulesoft explores how digital leaders in UK government services can build on this momentum to change and innovate at scale.
This week - retailers extract lessons from the (omni) holiday reckoning. The future of work irrevocably distributed, and low-code (hype) is surging into 2022. Your whiffs include: the worst of CE revisited, and hacked Teslas doing the Rick Roll.