By Jonathan Capriel ( April 9, 2025, 11:15 PM EDT) — A widow has hit the medical device manufacturing subsidiaries of Bracco SpA with a wrongful death lawsuit in Mississippi federal court, claiming among other things that subsidiary ACIST Medical Systems Inc. suggested fixing a defective product with “crazy glue” or “Sharpie” after it caused her husband’s death…. Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of fast-moving legal issues, trends and developments so you can act with speed and confidence. Over 200 articles are published daily across more than 60 topics, industries, practice areas and jurisdictions. A Law360 subscription includes features such as Daily newsletters Expert analysis Mobile app Advanced search Judge information Real-time alerts 450K+ searchable archived articles And more! Experience Law360 today with a free 7-day trial. source

The good: 93% of VP+ B2C marketing and advertising decision-makers say they have a formal marketing operations function, according to Forrester’s Q1 2025 CMO Pulse Survey. The bad: Many B2C marketing operations functions are usually limited to a handful of marketing disciplines (or sometimes just a single discipline). For example, in Forrester’s Marketing Survey, 2025, B2C marketing operations functions are mainly responsible for marketing technology and strategy management (top-ranked response, at 54%), followed by planning and budget management (second place, 42%). The beauty: For B2C marketing operations functions to mature, they must shift from tactical problem-solvers to integral business decision-makers that enable all of marketing — and not just a portion of marketing. Consider that B2C marketing operations functions can be responsible for a wide range of critical marketing elements and disciplines across: Planning and budgeting management: aligning cross-functional revenue planning with marketing investments Customer data strategy and management: owning marketing data strategy, stewardship, and team enablement Creative development and asset management: driving creative ideation to execution for marketing content Marketing technology strategy and management: establishing a martech vision and guiding roadmap development Measurement and analytics management: overseeing metrics interpretation, analysis, insight, and forecast modeling Process design and agile marketing management: enabling organizational agility and adaptability Marketing operations team design: designing the marketing operations function to ensure that the function can accomplish its responsibilities (note that this isn’t a job for the marketing operations function itself) Where to begin? If you’re a Forrester client, be sure to check out our latest tools, adapted from our B2B marketing research, to help you further your B2C marketing operations function. More questions? Schedule a guidance session or inquiry with us! source

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By Craig Clough ( April 10, 2025, 6:28 PM EDT) — An attorney for Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster urged a California federal judge Thursday to rethink his tentative opinion to keep alive an antitrust case alleging monopolization of the concert ticketing market, saying the judge did not consider a recent Ninth Circuit decision in favor of Amazon that “maps 100%” to the case…. Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of fast-moving legal issues, trends and developments so you can act with speed and confidence. Over 200 articles are published daily across more than 60 topics, industries, practice areas and jurisdictions. A Law360 subscription includes features such as Daily newsletters Expert analysis Mobile app Advanced search Judge information Real-time alerts 450K+ searchable archived articles And more! Experience Law360 today with a free 7-day trial. source

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google has heated up the app-building space, today rolling out a generative AI-powered end-to-end app platform that allows users to create custom apps in minutes.  Today at Google Cloud Next, the tech giant introduced the full-stack AI workspace Firebase Studio.   Devs and non-devs can use the cloud-based, Gemini-powered agentic development platform to build, launch, iterate on and monitor mobile and web apps, APIs, backends and frontends directly from their browsers. It is now available in preview to all users (you must have a Google account).  As of this posting, Firebase Studio was experiencing “exceptionally high demand,” so VentureBeat has not yet had the opportunity to test it out. However, early reaction has been largely positive.  “Google Just COOKED AGAIN! Firebase Studio beats Lovable and Bolt?” wrote one YouTube user offering up a tutorial video. “This could be a GAME CHANGER for developers who want to quickly prototype and build production-ready applications with AI assistance.”  “Feels like Cursor AI meets v0, but free. ?,” another posted to X.  Yet another user reacted: “? It’s like lovable+cursor+replit+bolt+windsurf all in one testing catalog.”  How users can create apps in minutes with Firebase Studio Firebase Studio combines Google’s coding tools Genkit and Project IDX with specialized AI agents and Gemini assistance. It is built on the popular Code OSS project, making it look and feel familiar to many.  Users just need to open their browser to build an app in minutes, importing from existing repositories such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or a local machine. The platform supports languages including Java, .NET, Node.js, Go and Python, and frameworks like Next.js, React, Angular, Vue.js, Android, Flutter and others.  Users can choose from more than 60 pre-built templates or use a prototyping agent that helps design an app (including UI, AI flows and API schema) through natural language, screenshots, mockups, drawing tools, screenshots, images and mockups—without the need for coding. The app can then be directly deployed to Firebase App Hosting, Cloud Run, or custom infrastructure. Apps can be monitored in a Firebase console and refined and expanded in a coding workspace with a single click. Apps right can be previewed in a browser, and Firebase Studio features built-in runtime services and tools for emulation, testing, refactoring, debugging and code documentation.  Google says the platform greatly simplifies coding workflows. Gemini helps users write code and documentation, fix bugs, manage and resolve dependencies, write and run unit tests, and work with Docker containers, among other tasks. Users can customize and evolve different aspects of their apps, including model inference, agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), UX, business logic and others.  Google is also now granting early access to Gemini Code Assist agents in Firebase Studio for those in the Google Developer Program. For instance, a migration agent can help move code; a testing agent can simulate user interactions or run adversarial scenarios against AI models to identify and fix potentially dangerous outputs; and a code documentation agent can allow users to talk to code.  During preview, Firebase Studio is available with three workspaces for regular users, while Google Developer Program members can use up to 30 workspaces. Gemini Code Assist agents are on the waitlist.  source

In an era when artificial intelligence (AI) and other resource-intensive technologies demand unprecedented computing power, data centers are starting to buckle, and CIOs are feeling the budget pressure. To address these issues, IT organizations are increasingly migrating workloads to the cloud to gain operational efficiency and agility. There are many challenges in managing a traditional data center, starting with the refresh cycle. Server equipment, power infrastructure, networking gear, and software licenses need to be upgraded and replaced periodically. Purchasing, deploying, provisioning, and maintaining all of these pieces is expensive, creating a complex budgeting puzzle that’s difficult to manage. In addition, enterprise IT must build its infrastructure to manage a maximum load. Unfortunately, for most of the year, a significant portion of equipment may go unused — waiting for peak usage times — such as when an auto manufacturer launches a new model. How cloud eases IT challenges When organizations migrate their workloads to cloud platforms, this burden shifts dramatically. In this new paradigm, the underlying hardware becomes transparent to users. Hyperscale cloud providers upgrade and replace equipment behind the scenes without affecting workloads. Just as important, IT pays only for the resources it’s using, and when it needs to scale up, it can easily burst to accommodate dramatically higher loads. Then there’s the cost of supporting servers. “For every kilowatt-hour of required server power, traditional data centers may require up to 80% more power for cooling and peripherals,” says Matthias Schorer, head of the Research and Insights Platform at Google Cloud. Because cloud providers operate at such a massive scale, they can achieve significantly better power usage effectiveness. Not only does this reduce costs but it also translates to a reduced carbon footprint, helping organizations meet sustainability goals. Migrating workloads to the cloud can also accelerate new development. Take, for example, IT’s plans to deploy a new AI-powered application, which, like many other AI workloads, is hungry for highly performant hardware. IT must determine the resources required; send requests for proposals; negotiate with suppliers; await delivery; and, finally, deploy and provision the new gear. This could take weeks or, more likely, several months to accomplish. Cloud platforms eliminate these delays, empowering IT to spin up new infrastructure rapidly without complex negotiations or capital expense approvals. This agility is particularly valuable for AI initiatives, especially since they often require rapid scaling. Making cloud even easier The partnership between Broadcom and Google Cloud has made it simple to achieve these goals. IT can nondisruptively extend its on-prem environments to the cloud and run its VMware workloads in Google Cloud VMware Engine without downtime or rearchitecting. In addition, the partnership enables VMware license portability between on-prem and Google Cloud environments, providing the enterprise with significant flexibility to move VMs wherever they’re needed. Admins can maintain a consistent operational view, using the same tools IT has already deployed for on-premises management, which eliminates the need to retrain on new management systems. Additionally, when new updates or patches are available for accessing new functionality, Google manages these requirements for customers as part of the service. “By moving from a do-it-yourself model to a service model in the cloud, IT frees itself from the burden of managing and maintaining a data center,” says Schorer. “This enables the enterprise to apply the operational savings to future innovations, such as actually determining how to take advantage of AI — instead of spending so much time and money deploying and supporting it.” Find out how easy it is to migrate your virtual workloads to the cloud to achieve greater operational efficiency with Broadcom and Google Cloud. Find more information by clicking here. source

By Sydney Price ( April 9, 2025, 9:23 PM EDT) — Executives and directors of California-based voice recognition technology company SoundHound Inc. were hit with a shareholder derivative suit alleging they failed to disclose material weaknesses related to accounting for two acquisitions completed last year…. Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of fast-moving legal issues, trends and developments so you can act with speed and confidence. Over 200 articles are published daily across more than 60 topics, industries, practice areas and jurisdictions. A Law360 subscription includes features such as Daily newsletters Expert analysis Mobile app Advanced search Judge information Real-time alerts 450K+ searchable archived articles And more! Experience Law360 today with a free 7-day trial. source

More Americans see the president favoring Russia too much than striking the right balance The sign on the U.S. Agency for International Development’s headquarters building in the District of Columbia is removed on Feb. 7, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this study to gauge Americans’ views of the second Trump administration’s earliest foreign policy actions. The issues covered in this report include withdrawing from global agreements, ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, trade and tariffs, and U.S. territorial expansion. This analysis builds on the Center’s previous study of Americans’ opinions on the most pressing foreign policy issues of the day going back decades, such as on major world conflicts, trade and tariffs, U.S. military decisions and other related developments of the times. For this analysis, we surveyed 3,605 U.S. adults from March 24 to 30, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly. This kind of recruitment gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection. Surveys were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP’s methodology. Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and its methodology. President Donald Trump is pursuing a markedly different foreign policy strategy than former President Joe Biden. He has withdrawn the United States from international agreements, is working more closely with Russia to end the war in Ukraine, has discussed taking over foreign territory and has imposed tariffs on trade partners. Many of these early foreign policy actions receive mixed or negative reviews from Americans, according to a survey of 3,605 adults conducted March 24-30, 2025. For example, more Americans disapprove than approve of the U.S.: Leaving the World Health Organization Leaving the Paris Climate Agreement Ending most U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) programs Russia and Ukraine, Israelis and Palestinians Many Americans also don’t see Trump’s handling of the Russia-Ukraine relationship as balanced: A 43% plurality says he is favoring Russia too much. Roughly three-in-ten say he’s striking about the right balance between Russia and Ukraine and 3% say he’s favoring Ukraine too much. Another 22% are unsure. We also asked the public’s opinion on whether Trump is striking the right balance when it comes to U.S. relations with Israelis and Palestinians. Here, opinions are more mixed. Similar shares see him favoring the Israelis too much (31%) and striking the right balance (29%), with 37% unsure and 3% saying he’s favoring the Palestinians too much. (The survey was conducted prior to Netanyahu’s April visit to the U.S.) Greenland and Gaza Americans are divided over how likely it is that Trump will pursue the U.S. taking over Greenland or Gaza. Around one-in-five Americans think Trump is extremely or very likely to pursue taking over Greenland or Gaza, with more saying these actions are not too or not at all likely. Still, by more than a two-to-one margin, Americans oppose rather than favor the U.S. taking over these territories. More Republicans support (41%) than oppose (28%) Trump’s proposal to take over Greenland, though around three-in-ten (31%) are unsure. But, in the case of taking over Gaza, more Republicans oppose (44%) than support (27%) the idea. Tariffs on China Tariffs are another key part of Trump’s foreign policy. Increased tariffs on China, specifically, receive more negative than positive evaluations. (The survey predated the detailed announcement of widespread global tariffs – including further tariffs on China – on April 2, as well as China’s retaliatory response. But Trump had already increased tariffs on China before the survey was fielded.) Many more think the increased tariffs on China will be bad for the U.S. than say they will be good, though around a quarter either see them having no effect or are unsure. Views of the tariffs’ personal impact are similarly negative: Americans are about five times as likely to say the increased tariffs on China will be bad for them as they are to say the tariffs will be beneficial. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say increased tariffs on China will be good for the U.S. and good for them personally. Still, when it comes to the personal impact of these tariffs, Republicans are more likely to say the impact will be bad (30%) than good (17%), even as substantial shares express uncertainty or anticipate the tariffs will have limited personal impact. Jump ahead to read about views on: The U.S. withdrawing from the WHO and Paris Climate Agreement, ending most USAID programs Within the first days of his second administration, Trump moved to withdraw the U.S. from both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris Climate Agreement. The administration also took action to end most activities of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Each of these policies are more unpopular than not, though the share saying they are unsure ranges from 16% to 22%. Views by party 64% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents support ending most USAID programs, compared with 9% of Democrats and Democratic leaners. 60% of Republicans support the U.S. leaving the Paris Climate Agreement; 7% of Democrats say the same. 58% of Republicans support the U.S. leaving the WHO, as do 8% of Democrats. For each of these policies, Republicans are also more likely than Democrats to say they are unsure. Views by age Generally, older adults are more likely to approve of Trump’s early foreign policy actions than younger adults. For example, around four-in-ten Americans ages 50 and older approve of the U.S. leaving the Paris Climate Agreement, compared with 32% of those ages 30 to 49 and 24% of those under 30. (Younger adults are also more likely to say they are unsure.) Older Republicans are

German startup ARX Robotics has announced plans to invest £45mn into a new UK facility, where it will build autonomous battlefield robots for deployment in war zones around the world. Located at an undisclosed site in southwest England, ARX expects the plant to produce 1,800 ground-based drones each year once up and running. ARX’s battlefield robots look like small tanks — but without guns. The vehicles drive around on treads and can be fitted with equipment such as radar, mine-sweeping devices, or medical stretchers.  The largest of ARX’s machines carries military payloads weighing up to 500kg — including injured soldiers — across the battlefield. Another model acts as a moving target-practice device, while another carries aerial drones into combat.  The robots are modular, built using off-the-shelf components. They’re designed so soldiers can fix them on the battlefield within minutes, without tools. The drones move around autonomously, but military personnel can also control them remotely from a tablet. Limited offer: Bag 2 tickets for the price of 1! Register for TNW Conference by 15 April and get another ticket totally free! Soldiers can control the robots with a tablet. Credit: ARX Robotics The armed forces of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, and the UK have already conducted field tests of ARX’s technology. In February, the company delivered 30 of its war bots to Ukrainian Armed Forces units engaged in active combat.   Marc Wietfeld, ARX’s CEO — who will speak at TNW Conference in June — said the facility in Britain would contribute to the “long-term technological sovereignty” of both the UK and broader Europe. He noted that we live in an “increasingly volatile and fast-moving world.”  “This is about strengthening European resilience, through technological sovereignty, scalable autonomy, and the modernisation of land forces,” he said. Defence tech rising in Europe ​In response to escalating geopolitical tensions, European nations have pledged substantial increases in defence spending in recent months.  In March 2025, EU leaders endorsed the “ReArm Europe” plan, aiming to mobilise up to £683bn (€800bn) over the next four years to enhance military capabilities. Similarly, the UK government has committed to raising defence spending to 2.5% of GDP and wants to spend at least 10% of its defence budget on “innovative technologies”.  ARX looks to capitalise on this political momentum.  The UK Secretary of State for Defence, John Healey, said he “warmly welcomed” the startup’s £45mn investment into the UK. “It will create highly skilled jobs and support European security,” Healey said. Wietfeld founded ARX in 2022 alongside fellow German army veterans Stefan Röbel and Maximilian Wied. Last year, the company raised £7.7mn (€9mn) in seed funding from NATO’s innovation fund.  Marc Wietfeld will share his insights at TNW Conference, which takes place on June 19-20 in Amsterdam. Tickets for the event are now on sale. Use the code TNWXMEDIA2025 at the check-out to get 30% off the price tag. source