SS&C Technologies (SSNC) Lowered to “Hold” at Zacks Investment Research

(Source: registrarjournal.com) According to Zacks, “SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. delivers investment and financialmanagement software and related services focused exclusively on the financial services industry. The Company provides a broad range of specialized software, software enabled-services and software as a service (SaaS) solutions for …

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Westpac’s Kasada deal points to ‘cyber security as a service’

(Source: The Australian Financial Review) The software, known as Polyform, stops automatic bots. This can be used to prevent malicious attacks on websites designed to break into customer accounts, and also to prevent inappropriate “scraping” of websites by competitors. It is an “out of the box” solution, for a much smaller monthly fee compared to cyber software …

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Santander to Launch Ripple-Based International Money Transfer App

(Source: Finance Magnates) Santander first invested in Ripple back in 2015 through its venture investment arm Santander Innoventures, shortly after concluding that it was only a matter of time before distributed ledger technology would be adopted by banks. Santander has collaborated with Ripple several times since then, including with a partnership …

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Horizon Technology Finance Corp (HRZN) Announces $0.10 Monthly Dividend

(Source: StockNewsTimes) Horizon Technology Finance logo Horizon Technology Finance Corp (NASDAQ:HRZN) announced a monthly dividend on Thursday, March 8th, Wall Street Journal reports. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 17th will be paid a dividend of 0.10 per share by the investment management company on Friday, June 15th.

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One piece of the Dell puzzle becomes clearer as Pivotal files for an IPO with revenue of $509M

(Source: GeekWire) Ever since Dell bought EMC in the largest transaction in tech history, it seems like Michael Dell has been looking for a way to reduce the massive debt taken on to finance the transaction. Dell Technologies announced earlier this year that it was “exploring strategic options” for its businesses, and it has been reported that it is …

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Spotify says about 2M users suppressing ads without paying

(Source: AOL) March 23 (Reuters) – Music streaming service Spotify Technology SA said on Friday about 2 million of its non-paying users were suppressing advertisements, highlighting a potential revenue … Sign up for Finance Report by AOL and get everything from retailer news to the latest IPOs delivered directly to your inbox daily!

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Dropbox shares surge 40 per cent at debut

(Source: NEWS.com.au) Dropbox’s debut marks an end to a long dry spell in the US IPO market for big names in the technology sector. The last so-called tech unicorn to hit the market was Snapchat owner Snap Inc last March. The pop in price may bode well for music streaming service Spotify, valued at roughly $US19 billion in the private market, …

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SunSpec Alliance to hold Orange Button developer’s conference in Apri

(Source: Solar Power World) Orange Button taxonomy including solar and financial terms; Orange Button OpenAPI; Orange Button XBRL API; Orange Button API to proprietary API data translation; JSON, XML, and XBRL encoding; application software for the Distributed Energy finance lifecycle: asset management, construction management, CRM, …

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