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Benefits of CRM Software and How to Choose a Platform

Forming and maintaining relationships with customers is one of the most important aspects of any business. Without positive relationships, it’s hard to thrive in any industry and long-term success can be jeopardized. That’s why it’s so advantageous to implement a customer relationship management (CRM) system into your operations. Let’s

What is CRM Software and How Can it Help My Business?

As small businesses begin to prosper and thrive, sustainability is bound to be an issue — particularly where customer satisfaction is concerned. After all, as your company grows, priorities and processes tend to change. If left unsupported, those changes could ultimately fracture your company’s relationship with its

Why Angels Like Software Startups

Since 2002, when the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire first reported the results of its annual survey of angel investment activity, software has been the number one industry sector for angel investments in every year. And our friends in the Granite State

Software Copyright Back Before Federal Circuit: Time for the Court to Get it Right

Should a company be able to shut down competition by asserting copyright in a collection of software commands? Tech giant Cisco Systems thinks so: it’s gone to court to try to prevent its competitor, Arista Networks, from building competing Ethernet switches that rely in part on commands

FTC approves settlement with Lenovo over advertising software

Eric Risberg / AP The Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday it has given a final approval to a settlement with Lenovo regarding the company’s practice of preinstalling an advertising software program on some laptops that caused “serious security vulnerabilities” in order to show ads to consumers. What this means: In

Baidu to Use BlackBerry Software in Self-Driving Platform

Baidu to Use BlackBerry Software in Self-Driving Platform (photo for representation, image: Reuters) BlackBerry Ltd and Chinese internet search firm Baidu on Wednesday signed a deal to work jointly on developing self-driving vehicle technology, sending BlackBerry’s Toronto-listed shares up 8 percent to an over four-year high. BlackBerry,

Apple Acquires Canadian Software Startup

Apple Inc. will acquire a Canadian startup that specializes in creating software development tools for coders.  Buddybuild disclosed the deal in a blog post on Tuesday in which it indicated that its staff will join Apple’s Xcode engineering group. (See also: Apple Needs Its Own Streaming Service: Bernstein.) The acquisition is in

Google’s smart storage app – Files Go – accidentally leaks

Google has been working quietly on an in-house file manager. Development of such an app has not been known to the public, until today, that is. A new app called “Files Go” has accidentally been posted to the Google Play Store long enough for someone to re-upload

Google, IBM launch open API for auditing and governing software pipelines

Google and IBM have announced the launch of Grafeas, an open-source project providing developers with a standardised way of auditing and governing their software supply chains. The project provides an open API that collects and aggregates the metadata generated at each stage of software supply chain, according

Swiss banking software has Swiss cheese security, says Rapid7

Rapid7 has gone public with news of an e-commerce SQL injection vulnerability, saying it couldn’t raise a response from the vendor. The software in question, SmartVista, is an e-commerce and financial product from BPC Banking, and in this post, Rapid7 says it told the company about the issue