Sales enablement is the content, training, coaching, tools and analytics that equip sellers for buyer conversations, run by a team between marketing and sales.

Series A is the first major priced venture round after seed, in which investors buy preferred stock that fixes the valuation, board seats and payout rights.

Instructional design is the discipline of planning courses and training so people reach defined skills, using models such as ADDIE, Bloom's taxonomy and Gagne.

Brand equity is the extra value a brand name adds to a product beyond its function, built in buyers' minds and estimated in money by rankings and ISO standards.

Syndicated research is market data collected once by a research firm and sold to many subscribers, such as consumer surveys, purchase panels and TV ratings.

COBRA is the 1986 US law letting workers who lose job-based health cover keep the same group plan for 18 to 36 months, paying up to 102% of the total cost.

An acqui-hire is a deal done mainly to hire a startup's team, now often a licence-plus-hiring pact used by AI firms and examined by competition authorities.

Purchase intent is a measure of how likely a person is to buy a product, captured in surveys or inferred from searches and browsing to target and measure ads.

Eye tracking measures where a person looks and for how long using cameras; in advertising it shows whether ads are seen and trains attention prediction models.

Litigation and regulatory overhang deterred bidders, its banker says, and Disney has already paid $7.5m. Can a rival top the deal before the December 17 deadline?

Ad revenue rose from $0.5m to $2.5m a month in 13 months while compute took 45% of costs. Can a buyer save the chatbot app before the December 17 deadline?

Many bystanders never notice recording LEDs, and AI training on their images faces a hard GDPR test. What do EU regulators now expect from smart glasses makers?

Skadden filed for Disney with $7.5m of its money already paid to the debtor, reserving setoff and recoupment. What could Disney still contest before Dec 17?

Twelve D&O policies make up 88% of a $5.2m insurance program a Delaware judge reviews on October 14. Which items from the sale case are left off that agenda?

Global views fell from 24.8M to 13.7M as a 49-week-old country song retook the US No. 1. Official videos drew a median 64% of song views - where was the rest?

Camera video sits end-to-end encrypted in iCloud+ for 10 days, with prices from $39.95 to $399.95. The EU gets none of it - so where does that leave HomeView?

Siri AI reaches the speaker only in a later update, in English, in eight countries, while pre-orders span 25-plus markets. What do the others actually get?

Siri AI on Apple TV reaches eight English-language markets at launch, none in the EU. Pre-orders open in 30 countries. What does voice search mean for TV ads?

Gentle Monster and Warby Parker frames come in 26 versions, with US sales set for November. Pricing is still absent, and Samsung has not confirmed the specs.

Opportunity queries list grounding queries where other sites are cited and a site is not, in ranges. Small sites may not see the beta. How reliable is the data?