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USA Today
09-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
UFC, PFL alum Chris Wade indicates retirement after 33-fight career
UFC, PFL alum Chris Wade indicates retirement after 33-fight career Chris Wade is at peace with his competitive career. An alumnus of the UFC and PFL, Wade (23-10) indicated he's done fighting in a Facebook post Monday. "There aren't many things in life harder than walking away from something you love," Wade wrote. "Something that became your identity, that provided adulation, dopamine, a sense of purpose. It's even a little more tough when you feel you are still very capable of being successful at the highest levels of the sport. I am making this post for all of my supporters who continue to nicely ask when my next fight will be. For a while my ego wouldn't let me detach myself from the possibility of getting back in the cage, but everyday that passes I am more at peace with the 13 year journey within the highest levels of Professional MMA." Wade, 37, hasn't competed since a split decision defeat to Gabriel Braga in August 2023. He was booked for a November 2023 bout, but it was canceled after he missed weight. Wade competed seven times in the UFC from August 2014 to July 2017 and went 5-2. He defeated the likes of Cain Carrizosa, Lipeng Zhang, Christos Giagos, and Mehdi Baghdad before losses to Rustam Khabilov and Islam Makhachev. Following his UFC release, Wade joined PFL where he'd finish out his career. He competed 18 times under the promotion's banner and went 11-7. Notable victories include Bubba Jenkins, Lance Palmer, Akhmed Aliev, and Kyle Bochniak. He also competed in the 2021 PFL featherweight world championship title match vs. Movlid Khaybulaev but came up short. Wade was never finished in his 33-fight pro career. Check out Wade's full Facebook post below.
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Is AI killing B2B marketing? The great AI debate to be settled live at B2B Ignite 2025
B2B marketing leaders to face off in a live, boxing-style debate, with the audience, and AI itself, deciding the winner B2B Ignite 2025 Graphic LONDON, June 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- It's a huge debate at the moment in the B2B industry: whether or not Artificial Intelligence is killing B2B marketing. At B2B Ignite – B2B Marketing's flagship conference and networking event – on 2 July 2025, a panel of experienced marketing experts will be debating both sides of this ongoing industry conflict. Some are vehemently against it, claiming that it dries up creativity, takes away the vital human touch, and ultimately means we are all outsourcing our brains to a machine. And it's a pretty compelling argument – audiences have reported that seeing droves of LinkedIn posts that all look and sound the same quickly becomes a turn-off. However, some are passionately for AI – they claim that if B2B marketers are using it in the right way, it can actually free up more time to get creative and strategic, and in doing so, improve the human touch that is so desperately needed. The 'for' side will feature: Rhiannon Blackwell, ABM Leader, Global Marketing Organisation, at PwC Ben Lee, Head of Data & AI at Bidwells Catherine Dutton, VP, Global Growth Marketing at Pegasystems The 'against' side will feature: Chris Wade, Chief Marketing & Product Officer at Gamma Alex Bacon, Marketing Director Luca Di Giuseppe, Head of Digital and Growth Marketing at Tata Consultancy Services But this won't be your average conference session. The Great AI Debate will be hosted in the style of a boxing match (without anyone throwing actual punches – we hope!). Each debater will have a strict time limit to answer a key question about AI, before a debater from the opposing side gets a chance to rebut. At the end, the audience will vote to decide which side's argument was more compelling. And there's a twist: there will be an extra debater, in the form of AI itself. For B2B marketers wanting to stay ahead of the curve in the age of AI, this session is a must-attend. You'll leave with a deeper understanding of AI's potential, but also the risks and blind spots to avoid. B2B Ignite takes place in London on 2 July 2025. Learn more and register here. Chloe Saunders Events Marketing Manager B2B Marketing +44 (0) 20 7014 4920 A photo accompanying this announcement is available at A PDF accompanying this announcement is available at in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data
Forbes
05-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Cellebrite To Acquire Phone Forensics Startup Corellium For $200 Million
Cellebrite and Corellium are providing new tools to police departments and intelligence agencies for getting data from cellphones. When trying to find a vulnerability in Apple iPhones or Android devices, many cybersecurity researchers now use a tool from Florida-based startup Corellium. Rather than risk breaking a physical device when they hack it, which they'd subsequently have to replace, they can create a virtual version of the phone in Corellium. Now, Cellebrite, one of the largest providers of phone forensics tools, has acquired Corellium for $200 million, a major merger that promises to give law enforcement unprecedented tooling for extracting data from seized electronics. The deal is a coup for founder and CEO Chris Wade, who in the last five years alone settled a major copyright lawsuit from Apple and received a pardon from President Trump for his role in providing proxy servers to a pair of spammers who were convicted of cybercrimes back in the mid-2000s. Wade avoided prison time, doing undercover work for the Department of Justice. 'The FBI and Department of Justice leaned on him to help secure the United States, that's a pretty bold testimonial.' Now, Wade will start a new chapter as the chief technology officer at Cellebrite, which is listed on the Nasdaq with a $3 billion market cap and posted over $400 million in revenue in 2024. The $200 million deal will consist of $150 million in cash, $20 million of restricted stock, and another $30 million in cash if certain, unspecified performance milestones are hit over the next two years. 'We've been a customer of Corellium for many years,' said Cellebrite CEO Tom Honan. As soon as he learned Wade was looking for a buyer earlier this year, Cellebrite 'jumped on that immediately and pursued being their ultimate home.' Wade told Forbes he was excited to work for a company whose technology is used on 1.5 million law enforcement investigations every year. 'That's a phenomenal statistic,' Wade said. 'Imagine the real world impact of that. That was something I wanted to be involved with.' Cellebrite and Corellium make for a good fit. Cellebrite offers a range of tools that come with the promise of accessing data on phones and PCs even when they're locked; its largest federal customer is Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), with its biggest order at $9.6 million in August last year. However, with devices like the iPhone continually adding layers of security, Cellebrite and rivals like Atlanta-based Grayshift have to find operating system flaws that can be exploited to allow them to bypass such barriers and get at data. Corellium's software makes finding those weaknesses easier by allowing the user to quickly spin up any make or model of a device within a PC app and test a given hack. For law enforcement, that means a cheaper and more efficient way to find exploits that could get them crucial evidence in an investigation. Corellium's software is also used by all manner of defensive and offensive cyber researchers probing software for vulnerabilities. While being sold direct into police agencies, Corellium will continue to be developed and sold to private customers like banking giant Santander and defense contractor L3Harris. The merged business also plans to debut a new beta product called Mirror that enables police to make a virtual version of a seized device and all the data that's on it. Wade thinks it'll help prosecutors show a jury exactly what's on a criminal's phone, presenting more compelling evidence compared to screenshots from technical-looking forensic tools. There's another benefit to Corellium's virtual devices. Sometimes forensics tools like Cellebrite's aren't compatible with certain mobile apps, meaning they won't retrieve data from them; Mirror will allow cops to look through those apps, says Wade, effectively giving them more complete access to what's on the device. Even before the deal, Cellebrite and Corellium had already been collaborating on an AI-powered service to detect government-made spyware on cellphones. The AI will look at a replicated version of a phone's operating system and identify 'deviations or any execution of foreign code on the device,' Wade said. 'This is something that's never been done before,' he said. 'It'll make it much easier to track down these kinds of state sponsored malware attacks.' While Wade's connections to Trump and the DOJ might turn heads, Cellebrite CEO Tom Hogan said he's not concerned about the optics. 'The fact that the United States government, the FBI and Department of Justice leaned on him to help secure the United States, that's a pretty bold testimonial,' Hogan added.
