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Chartered Institute of Professional Certifications ( www.charteredcertifications.com) is excited to announce the launch of a new program and designation for social media and marketing leaders — Certified Viral TikTok Marketing Manager (CVTM™). This certified program, available through on-demand and live training, will train social media and marketing professionals in the art of creating and executing viral TikTok marketing campaigns.

Everyone right now is going crazy about how good AI is and its capability. Industry leaders, tech leaders, celebrities, and every single news channel in the world are all talking about AI right now… because with Chatbot GPT and DALL:E, AI just went up a level.

Nota announced today that it has entered into a partnership agreement with The Arena Group, a tech-powered media company home to more than 250 brands, to test and improve effective AI-enabled tools specifically for publishers and newsrooms. Nota is a SaaS company using AI-enabled tools to streamline publishers' content creation and distribution.

OneSignal, the world's leading customer engagement platform, today announced a new strategic investment from ServiceNow Ventures, extending the company's recent $50M Series C investment announced in September 2022. The additional funds will be used to accelerate OneSignal's go-to-market initiatives with a focus on omnichannel messaging and orchestration capabilities.

Tealium, the largest independent and most trusted customer data platform (CDP), today released iQ Events, a no-code feature that allows users to better collect and utilize zero and first party data. Part of the Tealium IQ Tag Management (TIQ) solution, iQ Events functions without requiring hundreds of lines of code and is both developer- and marketer-friendly, providing even more flexibility for organizational alignment and dynamism.

We’re launching a pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT, a conversational AI that can chat with you, answer follow-up questions, and challenge incorrect assumptions. The new subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, will be available for $20/month, and subscribers will receive a number of benefits: General access to ChatGPT, even during peak times.

Enter Packshot Pro -1'st Fully Automatic AI Tool for image enhancements. This revolutionary app uses artificial intelligence to optimize product photography for any online marketplace with stunning accuracy.

LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) announced today the launch of a new partner solution for AWS Clean Rooms by Amazon Web Services (AWS). This solution allows customers to use LiveRamp’s transcoding and identity resolution capabilities within AWS Clean Rooms, reinforcing LiveRamp’s commitment to help businesses improve their customer intelligence through more accurate and secure data collaboration. “We’re delighted to bring our mutual customers the capability to more securely collaborate with one another in AWS Clean Rooms to derive insights, deliver more personalized customer experiences, and more effectively measure marketing outcomes leveraging LiveRamp’s market leading identity resolution capabilities” Last November, at AWS re:Invent 2022, AWS Clean Rooms was announced as a new analytics service that helps companies across industries and their partners easily and securely analyze and collaborate on their collective datasets—without sharing or revealing underlying data.

Rise Broadband, a leading provider of broadband services across 16 states, today announced it has completed an acquisition by GI Partners, a leading US-based investor in data infrastructure businesses. In addition, GI Partners is committing meaningful new capital to improve customer experience and accelerate Rise Broadband's rollout of fiber-to-the-home services for rural American homes and businesses.

Yobi, the AI-focused customer communications app catering specifically to the small business community, today announced that it has raised a total of $2.37M as part of its oversubscribed seed round. Investment firms include HRC2139 Investments LLC and IRA Capital, along with angel investors Charles Annenberg Weingarten, VP and Director of the Annenberg Foundation and Founder of Explore.org, Keith Donald, Co-Founder of SpringSource, Jason Young, Partner at Totally Human, and other angel investors.