Top 20 News Stories in April: Verizon, IBM Spinoff, Frontier, Proofpoint

Thanks to you, loyal reader, for making the merge of Channel Partners Online and Channel Futures a rousing success. You flocked to see tons of fresh content; the 20 articles featured in our countdown here represent the top channel news in April.

We figured we shouldn’t wait any longer in the month to get you your top stories countdown fix!

The Channel Futures team kept you going better than your daily buzz of caffeine. Among the highlights: We broke out our annual list of 20 top UCaaS providers, which made its Channel Futures debut. Also, our Q&A with Verizon’s (fairly) new channel chief featured a discussion around channel conflict. IBM’s new managed infrastructure services spinoff got an official name. And you were very interested to read the wide-ranging opinions the MSP community had on recent M&A activity.

We didn’t pluck our top 20 news stories in April out of thin air. We review our online traffic and combine it with popularity of these articles in our daily and weekly newsletters. You can pick your favorite from this list and get signed up now! Then, you can influence what makes next month’s countdown.

So what was No. 1? Check out our countdown above to find out.

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