At Microsoft’s Ignite conference, CEO Satya Nadella and his company announced major partnerships with Adobe and Renault-Nissan to expand Microsoft’s Azure platform in marketing and connected cars as Microsoft looks to keep pace in the increasingly competitive cloud race.

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Ghazi Shami’s Empire Distribution was a small startup in 2010. Now it’s a go-to digital distribution company for independent artists and record labels to get their music out onto major platforms.

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Snapchat now has more than 60 million daily active users in the U.S. and Canada — a third of Facebook’s daily user base in the same region.

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What if it was possible for the people you know to join you on your travels, to see what you see and hear what you hear, without leaving the comfort (and budget-friendliness) of their own home?

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Last Tuesday, September 20th, YouTube announced another site change via the video above, and many YouTubers, predictably, reacted with outrage and fear. This new site change is a moderation program called “YouTube Heroes” where users gain points for captioning, flagging and reporting videos. It is essentially moderation via gamification.    

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We’ve got lawsuits, slower check-outs and confusion, and not a whole lot more security than we had before the transition to the EMV standard. And the holiday season is coming soon.

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The emergence of “ugly” shoes in fashion says a lot about how today’s brands vie for our attention.

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Ryan Gill eschews the word “traditional.” In fact, the work that he does as the president of Calgary marketing services firm Cult Collective is anything but. Cult Collective is devoted to giving brands a cult-like following, building from the ground up using the most cutting edge technologies. Gill has created an agency unlike any other with his six main philosophical points that catapult companies into cult status.

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According to a PwC survey, Hispanics continue to be highly digitally savvy and early technology adopters, making for prized consumer segment.

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has recently been highlighting Twitter’s live video streaming ambitions. Disney’s expertise in cable TV, its largest business, would help Twitter advance its video strategy.

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