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Priceline CTO Marty Brodbeck on improving developer experience

CIO Business Intelligence

CIO Contributing Editor Julia King sat down with Brodbeck at CIO’s recent Future of Cloud summit to discuss the challenges and successes of scaling cloud deployment, his focus on making developers’ work easier, and lessons learned along the way. What follows are edited excerpts of that conversation.

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EA takes a big step into mobile with acquisition of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood developer Glu

The Verge

EA is making a big move into the world of mobile gaming with the acquisition of Glu Mobile, a developer best known for its work on celebrity-focused titles, based on stars like Katy Perry and Kim Kardashian. Its portfolio also includes popular titles like Design Home , Covet Fashion , and MLB Tap Sports Baseball.

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Finding startup opportunities in the pandemic; Windows 11 launch; Defending the Blue Yeti mic

GeekWire

. “Look for opportunities where there is either some major technology shift or some macro trend that either surfaces and old problem, or enables you build a solution in a unique fashion that could not be done before,” Nadkarni says. million net loss in 2020. In the news this week … Microsoft announced an Oct.

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"CIO Master" Book Tuning #132: The Noble Purposes of IT Performance Management

Future of CIO

Measuring IT performance to enable business growth and development: Contextually, the measurement method is to persuade management the progress of strategy execution. And develop a set of measures to stimulate IT performance for achieving such a noble business purpose. The narrower the gap then the more Customer Centric (CC) you are.

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Digital IT Sense of Achievement

Future of CIO

Digital CIOs need to help the business top line growth and improve the net profit: It’s not sufficient to run IT to keep the lights on only. More critical than ever, businesses require IT to help drive revenue growth and business innovation -developing innovative products or services that the business can offer to customers to grow revenue.

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How to Transform IT from a Cost Center into a Profit Creator

Future of CIO

Listen: The best way to achieve partnership is to listen to what the business says they need , develop and socialize a strategic business plan that aligns both business strategies and technical direction. A CIO must also be able to develop and optimize the IT operational function within itself.

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Beyond the IoT Buzz Is A New Horizon of Embedded Intelligence, Information Flows and Seriously Smart Apps

CTOvision

However, while IoT is super exciting for sure, most (useful) enterprise information is still generated via people in old-fashioned transactional systems, Web interactions, social media and other channels. Look beyond the IoT buzz. But this doesn’t mean that businesses have to get all their devices online and monitor them before passing go.

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