Marc Ferranti

IDG News Service Editor in Chief

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

Great read on this groundbreaking case: When do the common stereotypes of being a teen cross into mental illness, and are parents responsible? https://t.co/HL73ou8D0s

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

My latest — and last! — IDG story: The top 10 tech stories of 2023! GenAI hit prime time, the Big Tech backlash gained momentum, war spilled into cyberspace. And that's my swan song to tech media, after three decades in the biz... New endeavors TK in '24! https://t.co/esB8GsJckm

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

So in the Google antitrust trial, Pichai concedes that default search boosts market share.... ummm, we knew this, right? https://t.co/kbfPcmNJF1

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

The FTC under legal superstar Lina Khan is looking for a breakup as a remedy for Amazon's anticompetitive tendencies — what are the chances? https://t.co/VFYKQT4Ny4

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

Hactivism is on the rise: CloudSek says #cyberattacks on government entities jumped 95% in the latter half of 2022. https://t.co/b7vp4b3oOv

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

The US-China chip war is a signal that the era of ever-increasing globalization is over, with trade restrictions wreaking havoc on the supply chain for all sorts of products, catching enterprises in the cross-fire between the two global superpowers. https://t.co/Jn625gZkmE

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

The technology sector's vulnerability to the vagaries of geopolitics and the macroeconomy became clearer than ever in 2022: here's Foundry's picks for the top tech stories of 2022. https://t.co/Bbk5s7dtrZ

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

Sources say that Amazon plans to lay off 20,000 people across all departments, twice as many as previously expected. https://t.co/eFpD0pO6wD

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

Did you miss Black Hat this year? No problem: here's CSO's picks for top products launched at the show: https://t.co/JtGGsdFnjF

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

Will #Broadcom give #VMware the opportunity to innovate 5G, SDN (software-defined networking), multicloud management and other networking tools? https://t.co/XHNyMyZ6Zs

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

The red-hot PostgresSQL market gets hotter with the launch of #GoogleCloud 's AlloyDB. Here's why Google, AWS and #Microsoft are competing for enterprise PostgreSQL users. https://t.co/keoDH1BkxE

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

Russia's cyberattacks on #Ukraine have disrupted a variety of sectors and are likely to escalate, including against sites outside of Ukraine, says Microsoft. https://t.co/KwOI24ZB39

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

Revenue from chip sales is going through the roof as demand continues to outstrip supply, with semiconductors for automobiles and #5G technology helping fuel the uptick. But supply and demand should start balancing out next year, Gartner says. https://t.co/V1FC8zGFP0

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

Question of the day: What will Elon Musk's self-proclaimed commitment to free speech mean for Twitter? https://t.co/DWco0Wlev0

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

There's been a lot of talk about a digital dollar -- here's what it would men (hint: it involves far more than just technology). https://t.co/EH7zcPIKV1

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

Hey all you developers out there: Here's how you can get up to speed on some app dev stuff and help out a good cause (non-devs can also contribute!) #DeveloperStudentClubs #appdeveloper https://t.co/pXKu00N4T1

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities could be the US' weakest link: https://t.co/3cnO6qk0cO

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

For the first time since 2018, the biggest-selling #semiconductors vendor in the world was not Intel, which lost the top spot to #Samsung in 2021, as global chip demand rose. https://t.co/m8ZCixwSef

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

Biden executive order on crypto could be a game changer for those who are tired of costly, and slow, fund transfers using the current financial system. https://t.co/gZPe3kEARr

[Marc Ferranti @marcferranti]

From South Africa, a thought-provoking story for International Women's Day, on how bias dampens expectations, and fortunes, of female founders of color running tech companies. #InternationalWomensDay #SouthAfrica https://t.co/IlnrTE53I5