🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-04-27
This week highlighted NexusTek's expansions, alumni successes, and market insights!
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📈 Markets Monday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: What is moving markets and why does it matter for the week ahead?)
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Get fast unfiltered thoughts on news of the day with just a dash of snark.)
🤪 Wacky Wednesday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Catch up on the wild and wooly memes from a variety of deep web #random channels.)
🔙 Throwback Thursday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Examine recent news in a thought provoking Shot and Chaser format.)
✅ Final Thoughts Friday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: A clear eyed look back on the week that was and could have been.)
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Steady and sober unpacking of the slow news day where muted press releases and disclosure stories try to get buried before the weekend takes all the attention.)
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Recap
This week was a big week! 🎉
NexusTek Expands Secure by Design Solutions to Accelerate Innovation in Life Sciences
/PRNewswire/ -- NexusTek, a leading provider of secure, scalable IT solutions, has announced the expansion of its Secure by Design portfolio to meet the...
NexusTek Recognized on CRN's 2025 MSP 500 List
/PRNewswire/ -- NexusTek, a top national cloud, managed IT services, and cybersecurity provider, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has...
More to come... 🤓
#OpenToWork Weekly
I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. Previously, I participated in a #JSC for a year after leaving IBM, rebooting Cuthrell Consulting, and joining NexusTek.
Since late last year, I’ve also been highlighting those in my network that are #OpenToWork by linking to their LinkedIn and quoting their LinkedIn About section. This week I’m simplifying as the About section updates were not getting updated (by me) in a timely fashion.
Week over week, the list grew until I had to add an Alumni 🎉 section this week for those that have transitioned from #OpenToWork to their next career adventure.
Alumni 🎉
Congrats Paul Lysko 🎉
Congrats Bob Lima, PMP 🎉
Congrats Rich Green 🎉
Congrats Sheri Gearhart 🎉
Congrats Shianna Maxwell 🎉
Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉
#OpenToWork
Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:
- Kelly Britt - Experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist
- Jarrod Weise - Strategic Partnerships & Business Development Leader
- Dan Kelleher - Program & Technical Project Manager | CSM
- Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR - Strategic HR Leader | Employee Engagement Expert
- Andrew Webber - Proven Leader | Consumer Product Innovation & Scaling
- Lida Tohidi - Award-Winning Product & Marketing Leader | Startup Advisor
- Nathan Clyker - Strategic Sales & Business Development | IT Solutions Expert
- Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal - Global Product Marketing Manager | Technical Content Strategist
- Janel Van Beek - Business Strategist & Master Coach | Leadership & Change Expert
- Greg Phillips - Cloud Platform & Strategic Marketing Leader
- Tamera Rousseau King - Technical Program Manager | Agile Product Owner | People Leader
- Ricardo Perez - Virtualization Architect | PowerFlex & VxRail Specialist
- Mike Berteletti, CISSP - Experienced IT Professional | Infrastructure & Security
- Chris Mojica - Technical Sales & Solutions Architect
- Matthew Leib - Data Center, Cloud & Storage Architect | Technical Writer & Analyst
- Michael Joffe - Global Technology Leader | P&L Management | SaaS & OEM
- Colleen Coll - Event Technology & Digital Media Specialist | Live Reporting
- Karl Edwards, PMP - Technical Program Manager | Network Strategy | Telecom & Tech
- Thomas Chatham - Engineering Leader | SaaS & Converged Infrastructure
- Sam Aiello, Ph.D. - Cybersecurity & Technology Strategist | Pre-Sales Leadership
Hot Fudge Daily Digest
📈 Markets Monday for 2025-04-21
As a reminder, this is an end of day snapshot…
Quick Recap
For Market Monday, I continue to look at the same key indicator that I take from a simple Yahoo Finance webpage each week. It’s how I look at things through the lens of the closing bell on Monday.
Last week:
This week:
Previously, I decided on a view from Yahoo Finance. For example, this was a view of intraday in Technology which usually gets around a dozen or so interesting companies when the market is moving and a smaller handful of companies when the market is not moving as much.
If you are using Yahoo Applied Filters for Stocks screener you can bookmark your own heat map view.
% Change in Price (Intraday):greater than 4
Region: United States
Market Cap (Intraday): Mid Cap and Large Cap and Mega Cap
Price (Intraday):greater than or equal 5
Volume:greater than 15000
Sector: Technology
Industry: Software—Infrastructure and Information Technology Services and Computer Hardware and Software—Application and Communication Equipment and Electronics & Computer Distribution and Consumer Electronics and Electronic Components and Scientific & Technical Instruments and Semiconductor Equipment & Materials and Semiconductors
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-04-22
Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.
🔥 + 💰 There’s always money in the banana stand applies to open-source alternatives to wildly successful platforms.
Techmeme: Supabase, an open-source alternative to Google's Firebase that's used by 2M developers, raised a $200M Series D led by Accel at a $2B valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
By Allie Garfinkle / Fortune. View the full context on Techmeme.
✅ + 💰 There’s also a never ending battle against the digital bad guys.
Techmeme: Bethesda, Maryland-based AuthMind, which offers observability-based identity protection services to enterprises, raised a $19.3M seed led by Cheyenne Ventures (Dan Primack/Axios)
By Dan Primack / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-04-24
Three years goes by fast and one story caught my eye this week.
Are you verified?
By...
LinkedIn?
Techmeme: LinkedIn expands its free verification system to the wider web, letting sites display LinkedIn verification, starting with Adobe's new Content Authenticity app (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
By Dominic Preston / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
Just two years ago, LinkedIn opened identity verification by company emails on a global basis.
Techmeme: LinkedIn announces free identity verification via company email for all users globally and via a government ID and phone number for US users using CLEAR (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
By Aisha Malik / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
And only three years ago, LinkedIn entered the identity verification space.
Techmeme: LinkedIn starts letting users verify their profile with a work email address or phone number and plans to alert users if a message they receive seems suspicious (Clare Duffy/CNN)
By Clare Duffy / CNN. View the full context on Techmeme.
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-04-25
🔐 + 💰 The stories that caught my eye this week were both ends of the security spectrum: Agentic AI advisory vCISO to attestation for a software supply chains
Techmeme: Chainguard, which helps companies secure software supply chains, raised a $356M Series D led by Kleiner and IVP at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.12B in 2024 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
By Allie Garfinkle / Fortune. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: London and Tel Aviv-based Cynomi, which offers a “virtual CISO” for SMBs, raised a $37M Series B, sources say at a $140M+ post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
By Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-04-26
Ah, the Friday news dump. Let’s see the memes!
By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
Techmeme: Leaked letter: interim US Attorney for DC Ed Martin accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status (Gabe Kaminsky/The Free Press)
By Gabe Kaminsky / The Free Press. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
Techmeme: A US DOJ official says Tyler Buchanan, a 23-year-old from Scotland, and an alleged Scattered Spider cybercrime group member, was extradited from Spain to the US (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)
By Margi Murphy / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
Techmeme: Deel sues Rippling for alleged defamation, libel, and deceptive trade practices, says Rippling placed an insider within Deel, is not tax compliant, and more (Dan Primack/Axios)
By Dan Primack / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme
Techmeme: Google says it will end support for 1st- and 2nd-gen Nest thermostats on October 25, and won't launch new models in Europe due to its “unique” heating systems (Chris Welch/The Verge)
By Chris Welch / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
Techmeme: Sources: XAI Holdings, the newly combined entity housing xAI and X, is in talks to raise roughly $20B, or possibly more, valuing the company at more than $120B (Bloomberg)
From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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