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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

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When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. Tan published a long blog post defending the changes on April 15, suggesting that consumer concerns aren’t going away.

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SAP’s new generative AI pricing: Neither transparent nor explainable yet

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Enterprises subscribing to Rise with SAP, a bundle of services wrapped around the core S/4HANA Cloud ERP application, can now pay extra for Premium Plus, a package of some of SAP’s newest innovations. In other words, uncertainty abounds. In other words, uncertainty abounds.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

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When you think about all the blocking and tackling a CIO needs to do for regular applications, that especially applies to AI.” For example, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is emerging as a key technique to make LLMs useful to work with your own data — but you don’t want to feed in all your data.

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Top IT exec recuiters weigh in on talent trends today

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Dan Roberts: In our conversation during the podcast about the nature of work, Abhi Dhar, TransUnion’s chief information and technology officer, asked who you think will ‘win’ when it comes to the expectations mismatch between management and the workforce. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity.

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Employee engagement: 10 best practices for improving your culture

CIO

You can stop the quiet quitting by improving your work culture, so your people speak up before they nope out. Some people might want a quiet thank you; others prefer a public event. When you get rewards right, however, you will reap near instant benefits, according to Gallup. You don’t even need strong social skills.

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Post News, a Twitter alternative, gets funding from a16z

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The platform was rushed into a live beta, since its team wanted to go public in a time when the chaos of Elon Musk’s Twitter leadership was front and center in our collective headspace. Post News has some similar basic functions to Twitter: you make posts, you like and repost other people’s posts, you follow interesting accounts.

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Nigerian fintech Grey gets backing from Y Combinator

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company; how do you facilitate forex conversion from dollars to naira ? A few issues using third parties or a Bureau De Change, or BDC as commonly known in Nigeria, include inflated rates, you can only access them for specific hours, proximity and there are chances you’d get cheated.

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