Exactly comes with Winter Release 2019 for more efficiency and cost savings
In its annual Winter Release for the entire product portfolio, version 2019 this time, Exact has added features that enable SMEs to monitor their costs in an efficient way. For the first time, the products of the recently acquired companies ProQuro and SRXP have been included in the joint update. Ac... Read more
Atlassian first records more than $1 billion in sales
Atlassian, a provider of business software, has had a good second financial quarter of 2019. The company did better than expected and for the first time booked a calendar year in which it converted more than 1 billion dollars (878 million euros). Not only was the turnover last quarter higher than ex... Read more
Infor’s raising $1.5 billion, a prelude to an IPO?
Infor has announced that it has received an investment of no less than 1.5 billion dollars (1.3 billion euros). The expectation is that the company will prepare itself for an IPO and that this will take place within 12 to 24 months.
The value of Infor is likely to be high as a result of this new in... Read more
O2 claims huge damages from Ericsson for network problems
Last week in the United Kingdom there was a major failure on the O2 network. That company is now claiming tens of millions of pounds' worth of compensation from the Swedish network giant Ericsson. The failure was caused by an expired software certificate.
That's what The Telegraph says in a message.... Read more
“Slack goes public in 2019 and assumes a valuation of 10 billion dollars.
Slack is going to take a step that analysts have long believed it was getting ready for: it will go public next year. It is reported that Slack has now hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to lead the IPO.
This is reported by Reuters press agency based on sources within the business messaging platfor... Read more
U.S. court also upholds after appeal ban on Kaspersky software
Kaspersky Lab has lost an important lawsuit. The American Court of Appeals finds that the decision of the American government to prohibit the use of the software of the Russian cybersecurity firm by federal governments can be upheld.
This leaves an earlier decision of the district court. In 2017, K... Read more
GroenLinks and VVD don’t want Chinese systems in the police and other emergency services.
As far as GroenLinks and the VVD are concerned, the Netherlands should refrain from plans to purchase Chinese Hytera as a replacement for the current communication system for police and other emergency services. The C2000 system used so far is outdated and in need of replacement. However, the tender... Read more
Autodesk, developer of AutoCAD, acquires PlanGrid for $875 million
Autodesk, developer of design software, plans to acquire PlanGrid. This startup from San Francisco is involved in the construction sector and cloud software. It is a company that can be an interesting addition to Autodesk's portfolio.
Founded in 2011, PlanGrid offers cloud-based project management s... Read more
Malware Trickbot now also uses Excel file to steal login codes
Trickbot, the malware that had previously conventionally gone after bank details, now uses a Microsoft Excel file to capture user login codes. The new module is called pwgrab32 and tries to steal autofill data, browsing history and usernames and passwords from browsers and various other apps via a M... Read more
“Quantity of Android malware continues to rise sharply.
The amount of malware, specifically for Android, continues to grow. That's what researchers at G DATA SecurityLab are reporting today. The number of types of mobile malware increased by forty percent in the third quarter of 2018 compared to the same period last year.
The G DATA researchers registere... Read more