Born in the mid-nineties and raised with smartphones, apps and social media, the Generation Z is cultivating an almost natural approach to modern technologies. In order to find out what attitudes and expectations, but also fears, this generation, that right now puses for the job market, is bringing to work, Dell Technologies conducted a study, revealing the following:

The trending topic in IT, Blockchain, keeps the tech industry currently on its toes, as the distributed, decentralized database of blocks is considered impossible to get hacked: Many different servers verify algorithms for storing and uploading information, besides allowing all users of the network to see all the histories of changes or adjustments to a file or a block. Due to the security of decentralized storage and the elimination of third-party verification of transactions, processes can be automated.

Cryptomining malware, also called cryptocurrency mining malware or simply cryptojacking, is a relatively new term that refers to software programs and malware components developed to take over a computer's resources and use them for cryptocurrency mining without a user's explicit permission. Unauthorized cryptomining is seeing exponential growth, since it actually doesn’t require significant technical skills and cyber criminals have increasingly turned to cryptomining malware as a way to harness the processing power of large numbers of computers, smartphones and other electronic devices to help them generate revenue from cryptocurrency mining. Ad blocking firm AdGuard, for instance, estimates that more than 500 million users are mining cryptocurrencies on their devices without realizing it. These users either get infected by a cryptomining malware program or visit websites that stealthily run cryptomining software in the background without the user's consent.

Navigating a business successfully through the ever-changing digital marketing world is a huge challenge for many decision makers, especially when resources are tight. Co-operations with experienced and competent digital partners are indispensable and the selection of the optimal service provider is crucial for further growth and positioning in the market. A wrong decision can not only quickly blow up the budget, but also damage the brand image. That’s why you should be aware of the most important parameters for a selection.

Many website operators and shop owners have recently received an important email regarding the PHP update - which shouldn’t be disregarded, but considered important, not to make a mistake that can lead to the loss of your website and consequently revenue losses.

As you can imagine, the digital disruption in sales stirs up existential fears, even among long-established distributors, since intelligent sales support in the form of software, apps and artificial intelligence are often not in place. The traditional methods of conducting sales negotiations need a fresh push as well this year, considering that analogue and digital communication will at best converge to a 360-degree dialogue competence. So, expect the winners of disruption in distribution to be companies and vendors that recognize this development potential and acquire new strategies.

From a consumer perspective, companies have what it takes to save social media from the crisis of confidence. They see companies in a position to leverage their influence by compulsory heckling with the big social media platforms.

Today, most shoppers are researching information on the internet - even in the business-to-business (B2B) context. Around 90% of all B2B purchases are already influenced by the website of the provider. In modern inbound marketing, B2B companies can significantly increase the effectiveness of marketing and sales through automated lead management, making it worthwhile to set up their own lead management for some simple reasons:

One of the world's leading provider of open source solutions, Red Hat, announced the general availability of Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.3, the latest version of its enterprise framework for automating and orchestrating IT operations. It includes an updated user interface, improved scaling and the ability to run Ansible Tower on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat’s enterprise-grade Kubernetes container application platform.

In the classical marketing model, marketing is deemed to a funnel: at the beginning of the process (in the "awareness" stage) there are many branches competing for the attention of the customer, and this number is reduced through the different purchasing stages. Marketing is an action of "pushing" the brand through few touch points (for example through TV ads).

Buyers tend to seek as much autonomy and independence as possible during their buying decision-making process. As a result, far more than 50% of all purchase decisions have already been made before potential buyers appear on the radar of the sales department, making it difficult to actively influence them.

Cloudera, Inc., the modern platform for machine learning and analytics optimized for the cloud, announced the availability of Cloudera’s most powerful platform for data warehousing and machine learning - Cloudera Enterprise 6.0.

Cloudera also announced Cloudera Altus hybrid cloud innovations that unify control and governance of long-running and transient workloads on public clouds and data centers, managed by customers or as-a-service by Cloudera.

According to a study of the consulting firm Bain & Company, 80% of CEOs are convinced to offer their customers an excellent Customer Experience (CX), however only 8% of their customers felt the same way, which describes the dilemma.

To get the best possible results with Google Ads, marketers create sophisticated campaigns based on search terms, products, users' location or devices. Now even more efficient results can be achieved with the new AI-driven Google algorithm, that delivers data-driven decisions and better campaign results with the same budget. Best of all, these results can be topped with the Triple-A Approach (Audience, Automation, and Attribution) that has been incorporated into the algorithm, developed by the pure Google Ads agency Smarketer.