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Survey: Marketers embrace AI at expense of metaverse investments

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In a testament to its growing importance, 80% of marketers have experimented with or deployed the burgeoning technology, in some cases redirecting budgets from last year’s forays into the metaverse. In fact, 9 in 10 marketers surveyed remain eager to learn about and deploy new technologies.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Psychedelic investor survey, 6 issues VCs look for, hiring on a budget

TechCrunch

Hiring top startup talent on a budget during the Great Resignation. Budgeting and planning for your first digital product. Budgeting and planning for your first digital product. “But if you’re a Series A or a seed startup, and they’re also interviewing at Google and Netflix and Facebook, there’s something off there.”.

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IT Teams Need to Do More With Increased Budgets

DevOps.com

A survey of 600 C-suite and IT decision-makers published today found the majority of organizations are trying to make increased IT budgets stretch even further as costs rise and the number of workloads deployed continues to increase steadily.

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This week in TechCrunch Experts: Don’t blow your Q1 2022 marketing budget

TechCrunch

With the new year almost upon us, I interviewed several of the experts we’ve identified through the Experts program and asked each of them how they’d manage a small Q1 2022 marketing budget, and on Wednesday, Senior Editor Walter Thompson hosted a Twitter Space with Octane.ai Software consulting. Find a full recap below.

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Generative AI gold rush drives IT spending — with payoff in question

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According to a Gartner survey conducted in late 2023, 42% of CIOs planned to deploy generative AI tools by the third quarter of this year, with 55% planning to roll out some other type of AI or machine learning in the same timeframe. It takes more than just installing software to make gen AI work,” McDonald said. What does AI give me?

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. Here’s how.