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CDC, IBM Announce Research Partnership Focused On Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence

CDC, IBM Announce Research Partnership Focused On Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence

In what we imagine will become one of the most quickly realized use-cases for blockchain technology, the CDC and IBM have partnered to research how the former can develop a blockchain-based system to allow health-care providers to more easily share information about individual patients, and data about burgeoning pandemics.

Ad Giant Interpublic Tumbles, Drags Sector Lower After Warning About State Of Ad Industry

Ad Giant Interpublic Tumbles, Drags Sector Lower After Warning About State Of Ad Industry

Amid the Dow Jones making fresh all time highs on the back of solid earnings by key Dow components, a largely unreported adverse development for the critical - for tech companies - ad sector has gone largely unnoticed this morning, when ad giant Interpublic reported a miss on 3Q adjusted EPS and revenue estimates, with CEO Michael Roth warning that "organic revenue was negatively impacted by broader trends that are being felt throughout much of the industry."

Interpublic now sees FY organic revenue growth of 1%-2%, below Jefferies' estimate of 2.1%.

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