| | Editor's Pick March 23, 2021 | | Arts and Culture's Virtual Survival Story: The Show Must Go On | | The arts have seen a shift in the last year away from in-person gatherings, but that doesn't mean that performances, showings, and other creative activities have stopped. Rather, they've been transformed, becoming increasingly virtual and digital. We spoke with experts in the arts, design, and marketing to see how these fields have changed and might continue to evolve. | | SPONSORED Investors have $20 billion to acquire businesses. Is yours one of them? | | Our Technology M&A: 2021 Outlook gives owners, founders and entrepreneurs insight into why e-commerce is dominating technology acquisitions, what this means for multiples, when investors are looking to allocate capital and more. | | Tech Think Tank Calls for $40B Reverse Auction to Boost Rural Broadband | | Nearly one-in-five rural Americans don't have broadband Internet access, but that could change with the use of carefully targeted subsidies through a process known as a reverse auction. | | Advance Strategies to Eliminate E-Commerce Chargebacks | | Half of consumers who originally planned to return to their pre-pandemic in-store shopping routines once coronavirus is under control now plan to stick with online shopping. That shift in preferences means that e-commerce merchants must keep up with trending ways to market, sell, and prevent fraud. Let's look at a few of the most important developments and see where they're going. | | Once the Big Tech Battler, Open Source Is Now Big Tech’s Battleground | | A cadre of tech giants have created the Rust Foundation. This is neither the first nor largest contribution to an open-source project by private tech vendors. Still, the creation of this new body marks another noteworthy instance in which proprietary software companies took the initiative to found and steward a nonprofit project. It's not groundbreaking, but it doesn't happen every day. | | New Threat Report Finds Email Prime Vehicle for Malware | | Malicious online actors used email as their prime vehicle for delivering malware to their victims in the last quarter of 2020. The HP-Bromium Threat Insights Report found that 88 percent of malware was delivered by email into its targets' inboxes, many times evading measures at email gateways to filter out the infected correspondence. | | Nvidia + Arm and the Challenges of Building a New Type of Tech Company | | Nvidia is in the process of working through regulatory approvals to buy Arm from SoftBank -- a technology holding company with mixed success husbanding its acquisitions. Let's explore this acquisition, the most significant regulatory hurdles the effort needs to overcome, and what might result once the two firms are one. We'll close with the product of the week: Nvidia's GeForce Now. | | TRENDING ON ECT NEWS NETWORK | | Young Adults, Seniors 75+ Most Susceptible to Cyber Fraud The most vulnerable cybercrime victims are young adults and adults over 75, according to the latest research revealed in the LexisNexis Risk Solutions biannual Cybercrime Report. Read more www.technewsworld.com | | | | | | New Social Platform Seeks to Swell Ranks With Talk A new social media platform called Swell is based on voice messaging. According to its developers, Swell is the first social platform to focus exclusively on asynchronous audio conversations, where audio clips up to five minutes in length can be... Read more www.ecommercetimes.com | | | | | | New Customer Experience Needs and Commerce Trends for 2021 Commerce analysts do not see consumers shedding their newfound buying options in the wake of a post-pandemic marketplace. Concerns for health safety, social distancing, and remote working will remain priorities for many shoppers. Read more www.crmbuyer.com | | | | | | Rise of Open Source: Pandemic, Economy, Efficiency, Trust Those familiar with open source know that it works and comes with many benefits. 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