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☆ 'Machine customers' are already among us, and they number in the billions
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Bob Violino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Gartner forecasts that number will rise to 15 billion by 2028, and the firm's research shows that CEOs estimate 15% to 20% of their revenue will come from machine customers by 2030. Machine customers can receive messages such as advertising, offers, email and information from the surrounding environment, Scheibenreif said. And Italy-based iProd has a platform that can accommodate the requests of machine customers located in a manufacturing environment. How to get ready for machine customersIT executives should put in place a game plan for supporting machine customers now, if they haven't already. CIOs and other technology leaders need to determine how machine customers might change their companies' go-to-market approach.

Persons: They're, Don Scheibenreif, Scheibenreif, iProd, Vishal Gupta, Gupta, Lexmark Organizations: Gartner, Machine, Amazon, Walmart, IT Locations: Italy, Lexmark

☆ Fact-Checking Haley and DeSantis in Their Race to Rival Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Angelo Fichera | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

DeSantis even voted to fast-track Obama’s Chinese trade deals.”— A pro-Haley super PAC, SFA Fund Inc., in an adFalse. There is no evidence Mr. DeSantis directly gave “millions” to Chinese companies; the ad was referring to technology purchases by state agencies. Florida used those companies before Mr. DeSantis’s tenure, too, and SFA Fund provided no evidence that Mr. DeSantis himself directly approved the purchases. Mr. DeSantis previously served as the board chairman of a public-private economic development organization known as Enterprise Florida. As governor, Ms. Haley rebuffed calls to increase South Carolina’s gas tax as a stand-alone measure.

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