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https://www.themiddlemarket.com/articles/microsoft-acquires-bethesda-for-7-5-billion-to-boost-xbox

Microsoft acquires Bethesda for $7.5 billion to boost Xbox

The deal Microsoft’s Xbox business a much-needed infusion of titles such as The Elder Scrolls, Doom and Fallout.

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An Analysis of the Cultural Impact of POPOLOGY® to the Society

POPOLOGY® is the study of popular culture and its influence on society. It’s a field that looks at the way popular culture affects people’s thoughts, behavior, and lives in general. POPOLOGY® examines how popular culture shapes our world, from music to television to social media.

POPOLOGY® is a fun and engaging way to learn about popular culture. It allows us to explore different aspects of our culture that we may not have considered before, while still having fun in the process. POPOLOGY® has something for everyone and is an excellent tool for both educators and students alike. With its interactive activities, POPOLOGY® provides an enjoyable learning experience that can bring new insights into the world of popular culture, and your place in it.

WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON?

https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/stanford-in-new-york/coursefinder/stanford-new-york/disrupting-news-how-technology-transforming-media

How Technology is Transforming the Media

Technology has transformed the way news is produced, delivered and consumed around the world. From disruption in business models to changes in readership and access, digital platforms make journalism more vibrant and also more fragile. It is rare to find an industry that has been able to expand its market so rapidly and develop dynamic new ways to interact with consumers — and yet find itself facing an existential crisis. This dissonance is what makes the nexus of media and technology so fascinating.

GLOBAL CURRENT EVENTS

https://pwc.blogs.com/deals/2019/11/aiming-higher-reaching-further-why-its-time-to-rethink-dealmaking-in-financial-services.html

Aiming higher, reaching further: Why it’s time to rethink dealmaking in a disrupted financial services marketplace – Deals – PwC UK blogs

By Michael Magee. Opportunistic deal targeting and pursuit of short-term cost savings can only go so far in equipping your business to compete in a financial services market that is facing once in a generation transformation.
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UPDATES FOR CULTURE

https://cmo.adobe.com/articles/2019/5/entering-the-platform-economy-why-apis-and-integrations-are-crucial.html#gs.hfdgzk

The Platform Economy: Why APIs And Integrations Are Crucial

The platform economy, driven by the rise in big data, new algorithms, and cloud computing, has been on the uptick for years now. Individual platforms are built on Web application programming interfaces (API). Described as the “glue that holds the Web together,” APIs enable a standard mechanism to share data and functionality.
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Latest In Aggregation

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-aggregate-based-on-latest-value/140737

How to aggregate based on latest value?

Elastic 7.13 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch offering to include all of the new features in this latest release. You can also download the Elastic Stack and our cloud orchestration products, Elastic Cloud Enterprise and Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes , for a self-managed experience.This is the classic “bucket explosion” problem when trying to do behavioural analytics on raw log data. Likely you’ll need to create an “entity centric” index to sit alongside your event store.