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Agilitas IT Solutions has appointed Steve McMullan as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). McMullan has over 25 years of  experience in senior financial roles across the private equity, large corporate and PLC arenas. McMullan has over 10 year’s experience in private equity-backed business, including Lifeways Group, Aspirations Care, Kisimul …

Chris Blight, VP Demand at Anzu explores how to appeal to the target audience with in-game advertising. Anyone who has taken a mere glance at the gaming and esports world knows that the face of a gamer is no longer the unsocial teenager seeking a safe haven from the daily …

Christopher Wellbelove, Senior Marketing Consultant, Partner Plus at BT Wholesale explores enabling the modern channel through partner programme evolution. Digital transformation and its promised benefits are motivating businesses to adapt. This statement is also true when it comes to channel partners, who are eager to collaborate with experts and integrate …

A survey by BT has revealed that, given the opportunity, 69% of people would reskill and work in a different specialism, with technology (18%), health (17%) and finance (10%) topping the list of sectors that people wished they could switch to. Many employed UK adults dream of changing their situation, …

Google Cloud’s launch of Retail Search gives retailers the ability to provide Google-quality search on their own digital properties, as a part of Product Discovery Solutions for Retail. Retail Search has successfully supported global retailers to increase sales and improve product discovery for customers. This will help provide recommendations that …

Sensedia has appointed Gibson Nascimento, as Head of EMEA operations. Gibson has held technical and strategic management roles with the Brazilian-based firm. Sensedia’s 2022 target is to increase revenue by 100% and recruit a similar number of employees as 2021. He first joined Sensedia in Brazil, in 2011, as a …

Attacks on various crypto projects and ecosystems brought millions of dollars to hackers and scammers. According to the recent findings by the Atlas VPN team, blockchain hackers stole $682 million in 72 hack events throughout Q1 2022. In addition, hacks on Solana and Binance Smart Chain ecosystems attributed to more …

 ServiceNow is working with Lloyds Banking Group as part of its NextGen Professionals Program. NextGen addresses the talent shortages currently faced by companies and helps participants carve a path towards long-term employment from communities that are typically excluded from the workforce. Supported by customers and partner companies like Lloyds Banking …

Mike van Bunnens, Managing Director of Comms365 explains how eSIMS offer end users the ability to swap between mobile operators without having to physically remove and replace the SIM, which in turn, ensures more flexibility, choice, reduced costs and faster deployment. In theory, eSIMs offer end users the ability to …

Anzu has received funding from NBCUniversal, and HTC. The funding will go towards supporting Anzu’s marketing partners to run non-intrusive, in-game ads across Anzu’s cross-platform gaming inventory, using interactive, contextual, and programmatic in-game advertising solutions. “Everyone is talking about the impending metaverse, and we are starting to see it emerge …

Zoom Video Communications, Inc.’s newly launched Zoom Up Partner Program offers the resale of Zoom Phone with Zoom calling plans for qualified partners in select countries. Key benefits include: Launch of Zoom Phone with Native Capabilities: Enables qualified partners in select countries to sell the full suite of Zoom Phone …

PPDS is approaching its one-year anniversary since rebranding and repositioning the business. PCR speaks with Franck Racapé, Vice President EMEA – Philips professional displays at PPDS to find out how the company has evolved during this time, what’s been achieved and what to expect going forward.   How would you describe the response …