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Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT), the Answers Company, today announced it has joined the MACH Alliance, a not-for-profit industry body dedicated to advocating for open, best-of-breed technology ecosystems. Inclusion in the MACH Alliance certifies that Yext meets the MACH standard of modern technology: microservices based, API-first, cloud-native SaaS, and headless.

Splio, CRM expert and developer of the SaaS Individuation® marketing platform, is proud to announce the acquisition of Tinyclues, the specialist in SaaS predictive marketing based on deep learning AI. This acquisition fulfills a shared ambition to enable brands to easily orchestrate large-scale, hyper-personalized marketing plans.

Predictive Maintenance techniques are designed to help determine the condition of in-service equipment in order to estimate when maintenance should be performed. This approach promises cost savings over routine or time-based preventive maintenance carried out as suggested by estimations of the degradation state of an item.

The Board of New York Interconnect, LLC (NYI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Kandel as Chief Executive Officer, effective March 20. Kandel succeeds Ed Renicker, who retired as CEO at the end of 2022 and currently serves as an advisor and consultant to support the transition.

Morgenrot, the leading cloud-based distributed computing provider, is proud to announce the launch of Ai Pool™, a cutting-edge service that empowers businesses of all sizes to rapidly customize, train, tune, deploy, and host their AI models with ease.Ai Pool™ is the world’s first fully customizable service allowing businesses to unlock the limitless possibilities of artificial intelligence.

WALLDORF, Germany March 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP), today announced it has agreed to sell all of its 423 million shares of Qualtrics International Inc. as part of the acquisition of Qualtrics by funds affiliated with Silver Lake (collectively, "Silver Lake") as well as Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments). At a purchase price of US $18.15 in cash per share, the transaction corresponds to a Qualtrics equity value of approximately US$12.5 billion on a fully diluted basis, representing a 73% premium over the 30-day average trading price prior to SAP's announcement to explore a sale (approx. 62% premium relative to the unaffected closing price on January 25, 2023).

Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST) (“Nexstar”) today announced that it has reached a comprehensive multi-year distribution agreement with YouTube TV to launch 59 stations on its platform, including its 29 CW-affiliated television stations, its 26 MyNetworkTV affiliates, and its four independent stations in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Oklahoma City, and Baton Rouge. The agreement also renews and extends YouTube TV’s carriage of America’s fastest-growing cable news network, NewsNation, which is home to such shows as “Cuomo,” “Dan Abrams Live,” and “Banfield. ” In addition, Nexstar extended carriage of all of the Company’s CBS-affiliated stations on YouTube TV.

LinkLive, a leading cloud-based Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) provider, has partnered with Kasisto, creators of KAI, the leading digital experience platform for the financial services industry, to embed KAI into the LinkLive platform. This deeper partnership of two best-in-class platforms will accelerate the adoption of both platforms at financial institutions across the U.S. and help these clients to deliver exceptional customer experience through every digital channel. “We are very excited to embed KAI into the LinkLive library of AI capabilities and to expand the digital customer service features for our clients,” said Perry Price, CEO of LinkLive. “By combining the secure, digital-first nature of LinkLive with the intelligence of KAI, we enable our customers to deliver personalization at scale, reduce costs and maintain the human touch essential for regional banks and credit unions.” This partnership is ideal for financial institutions facing challenges on three fronts: staffing shortages, high customer expectations and the potential for a recession.

Digital experience company Acquia today announced new integrations for its digital asset management platform, Acquia DAM (formerly Widen Collective ®), to enable customers to create a more efficient, automated content supply chain. These new integrations give customers more control over brand consistency, extend the value of content and data created in other systems, and help marketers and content creators become more productive.

Openstream.ai, the leading provider of Conversational AI and Virtual Assistant solutions, today announced that Gartner has named Openstream.ai and its Enterprise Virtual Assistant (Eva ™) as the only “Visionary” in the analyst firm’s 2023 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms 1. Gartner evaluation is based on specific criteria that the firm used to analyze Openstream.ai’s overall completeness of vision and ability to execute.