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Cybersecurity spending slows amid economic headwinds: report

CFO Dive

Average security budget growth was lowest in cyber-mature sectors, such as tech, finance and healthcare, according to the research.

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Overcoming Challenges to Economic Freedom in States

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People point to tax burdens and over-regulation as the reasons for economic decline. Look no further than the Fraser Institute’s latest report to see how states rank for economic freedom based on government spending, taxes, and labor market regulation. . But the real question is: why should we care about economic freedom?

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Union Budget 2022| Impactful long-term growth-oriented Budget: Mohit Malhotra, CEO, Dabur

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s shortest Budget ever may not have met the general expectations of being a short-term consumption booster, but it surely has all the right ingredients for becoming an impactful long-term growth-oriented move. Also Read | Union Budget 2022: Solar PLI scheme corpus grows over five times to Rs 19,500 crore.

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Budget 2022 focuses on futuristic growth: Vidit Aatrey, CEO, Meesho

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lakh crore in the next fiscal will percolate down to the real engines of our economic growth — the MSMEs. Resilience, inclusive growth, and technology-enabled development – the Budget 2022 by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman aims to create an enabling framework to achieve these three benchmarks. Stepping up capex to Rs7.5

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Exploring the Overlap: Cost Optimization and Digital Transformation

Speaker: Alex Jiménez, Managing Principal, Financial Service Consulting for EPAM

Global economic conditions are soft at best. From a budget standpoint, US banks are feeling the pinch. The largest banks have increased reserves to protect against deteriorating economic conditions. Many US banks are bracing for increased defaults and lower demand for mortgages and other loans as interest rates have increased.

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Budget 2022: A thumbs-up for Digital India

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The Indian technology sector saw several major announcements in the Union Budget 2022, with a few misses in the startup segment. Budget 2022’s announcements on manufacturing, sustainability, electronics, digital currency, innovation and startups with technology as the cornerstone are expected to give a fillip to the tech industry. “The

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Holding Onto Your Marketing Budget in a Downturn

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If you’re a chief marketing officer (CMO), the current economic uncertainty undoubtedly creates anxiety for you, your team, and your agencies. The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has demonstrated the tight correlation between advertising spend and economic indicators like GDP growth by looking at historical data.

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