Cryptomining malware, also called cryptocurrency mining malware or simply cryptojacking, is a relatively new term that refers to software programs and malware components developed to take over a computer's resources and use them for cryptocurrency mining without a user's explicit permission. Unauthorized cryptomining is seeing exponential growth, since it actually doesn’t require significant technical skills and cyber criminals have increasingly turned to cryptomining malware as a way to harness the processing power of large numbers of computers, smartphones and other electronic devices to help them generate revenue from cryptocurrency mining. Ad blocking firm AdGuard, for instance, estimates that more than 500 million users are mining cryptocurrencies on their devices without realizing it. These users either get infected by a cryptomining malware program or visit websites that stealthily run cryptomining software in the background without the user's consent.

Cloudera, Inc., the modern platform for machine learning and analytics optimized for the cloud, announced the availability of Cloudera’s most powerful platform for data warehousing and machine learning - Cloudera Enterprise 6.0.

Cloudera also announced Cloudera Altus hybrid cloud innovations that unify control and governance of long-running and transient workloads on public clouds and data centers, managed by customers or as-a-service by Cloudera.

From a consumer perspective, companies have what it takes to save social media from the crisis of confidence. They see companies in a position to leverage their influence by compulsory heckling with the big social media platforms.

Recently, the AI-powered social media marketing platform Socialbakers released its 2019 Social Media Trends Report for industry professionals and brands who want to work smarter in social media. The comprehensive report offers detailed information about the state of social media engagement and advertising, as well as emerging themes for the year ahead, besides diving into demographics and brand trends, advertising effectiveness, engagement best practices, and emerging trends involving influencer marketing, as well as privacy and security issues.

A new report from Meltwater, titled E-commerce in SEA: Supercharging Holiday Sales Through Social Media, analyzed consumer sentiment during the year-end shopping period last year to help ecommerce companies better reach their audiences.

Some social media key performance indicators (KPIs) only relate to individual social media platforms while others have overall significance. Therefore, as with almost any social media target, the question arises how marketers can measure success - or failure.

Word has spread that in the increasingly digital world the importance of customers continues to grow explosively and there is general agreement on the importance of customer relations for the creation of value for a company’s success.

But why do customers then feel so little about all this and still not have the status they deserve?

Although the death of Snapchat has been predicted many times by now, in fact right after its listing at the stock exchange where is was considered overvalued, the company proves us once again wrong and shows that there is life in the old dog yet.

Google and Temasek just released the e-Conomy SEA 2018 report, highlighting Southeast Asia’s accelerating Internet economy.

RTB House has adapted its multi-layer brand safety mechanisms to tailor itself for each brand’s policies.

In a worldwide call for better respect for consumer privacy and relevant advertising experiences, a new report from MediaMath shows that although the majority of marketers understands the commercial importance of focusing on the consumer experience, many of them are still failing to adopt best practice.

Today’s challenge is no longer the availability of information but its abundance, bringing us the marketing issues we are dealing with now for decades. In all this noise, it is not only harder than ever to be found by customers, making things worse is the fact that the average attention span of today's media users has slipped below that of a goldfish.

In their insightful report Break Through the Hype: Uncover the Reality of AI, Oracle and Bronto point out that a growing number of commerce marketing software providers claim their systems use AI, explaining in a nutshell what this means:

Many website operators and shop owners have recently received an important email regarding the PHP update - which shouldn’t be disregarded, but considered important, not to make a mistake that can lead to the loss of your website and consequently revenue losses.