WeDo Technologies, a worldwide leader in revenue assurance and fraud management, announced that TPx Communications, a US-based premier provider of unified communications, managed IT and network connectivity, has selected its RAID Fraud Management Solution (FMS) to protect its expanding network and its customers from fraud.
Cloud and Enterprise Business
European Commission fines Google €2.42bn for abusing dominance as search engine
The European Commission has fined Google €2.42 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. Google has abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its comparison shopping service, according to a European Commission statement. The company must now end the conduct within 90 days or face penalty payments of up to 5% of the average daily worldwide turnover of Alphabet, Google's parent company.
Accenture and Apple partner to create iOS business solutions
Accenture and Apple have partnered to help businesses transform how their people engage with customers through innovative business solutions for iOS. The partnership will take full advantage of the iOS platform, and Accenture's capabilities as a leader in industry and digital transformation, to help companies unlock new revenue streams, increase productivity, improved customer experience and reduce costs.
Visa launches first Everywhere Initiative in MENA to foster regional payments innovation and fintech entrepreneurship
Today, Visa announced that its Everywhere Initiative, an innovation program designed to encourage the development of the "next big thing" in payments, will expand into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Entrants in Visa's first-ever MENA Everywhere Initiative will have the opportunity to compete for a chance to win up to US$50,000 to support a development program with Visa, or through business partnership with Visa's clients, and potentially have access to Visa APIs, executive mentors and technologists.
ADVA Optical Networking posts Q2 revenues of EUR 144.2 million
ADVA Optical Networking announced financial results for its 2017 second quarter ended on June 30, 2017. The results have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity and Arkessa launch solution for IoT connectivity and security
Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity, a leading IT security provider, and Arkessa, a leading M2M managed services provider announced the launch of a joint multi-level IoT platform solution. It unlocks the full potential of IoT by enabling secure interactions across digital ecosystems of devices, people and systems.
Oracle to recruit 1000 new sales representatives across EMEA in 2017
Oracle announced 1000 new jobs in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Under the 'Change Happens Here' banner the company is hunting for the next generation of ambitious, driven, digitally savvy sales representatives to support the growth of Oracle's Cloud computing business.
CommScope forms multi-tenant data center alliance
The world’s increasing consumption of data, combined with the trend of businesses and service providers outsourcing their data center facilities rather than owning and managing them, has resulted in significant growth in multi-tenant data centers (MTDCs). In fact, one analyst firm has predicted that total operational square footage of global MTDCs can reach approximately 177 million by the end of 2018.
Cloud infrastructure reality is outperforming perception finds Oracle study
Businesses in Saudi Arabia are rapidly embracing cloud infrastructure (IaaS) to boost performance and innovation levels, new research from Oracle has revealed. While negative perceptions around security, complexity and loss of control still present barriers to adoption, they are shown to be outdated myths, with those that have moved to IaaS proving the reality is far more positive.
British Airways IT failure causes global chaos
British Airways was forced to cancel all its flights from London's two biggest airports on Saturday, May 27, after the company experienced a global IT system failure causing mass confusion and chaos. Thousands of passengers around the world were left queuing for hours trying to get information at airports, and planes were stranded on runways.