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Veteran investor John Shaw, co-founder and CEO of the Austin-based company, has built a platform that can bring AI services directly to channel partners. "Some of these micro-solutions are $100 million businesses," Shaw told CRN.

The public sector powerhouse's board said in a filing with the SEC that it has determined the 'unsolicited' $7.2 billion proposal submitted by rival solution provider CACI cannot 'reasonably be expected to lead to a company superior proposal.'

Round 1 of the 2018 CRN Channel Madness Tournament of Chiefs has several head-to-heads that could come down to the wire.

The partnership will help World Wide Technology to find new ways to better work with customers on their digital transformation projects, says Philip Farah, the solution provider's digital transformation lead for global financial services institutions.

The bid is worth $7.2 billion and would give CSRA stockholders 55 percent ownership of the combined company.

With involvement from private equity firm Capital Square Partners, the combination of solution provider StarTek and India-based Aegis will create a $700 million company with more than 50,000 employees globally.

President Donald Trump named conservative economist and television pundit Larry Kudlow as the new director of the National Economic Council. Kudlow spoke to solution providers last fall at The Channel Company's Best of Breed conference about the impacts tax reform would have on the channel and other businesses throughout the country.

CRN's fourth annual Channel Madness Tournament of Chiefs begins with 32 of the industry's most influential channel executives, and ends with one. Prepare to choose your chief.

Robert Ochoa, a six-year Oracle channel veteran, is taking a job directing Apple's sales strategy for several large national solution providers including Zones, PCM and Insight, sources say.