Thursday 8th August, 2013

Danish e-invoicing B2B operator Tradeshift has launched Tradeshift Workflow, a cloud-based and mobile-friendly solution which aims to save time-strapped finance teams from repetitive tasks by automating them. In an acknowledgement of its efficiency and productivity savings, Tradeshift announced that Lear Corporation has chosen Tradeshift Collaborative Workflow for its worldwide operations.

Wednesday 7th August, 2013

London based payments provider, GoCardless have announced the launch of their free Sage 50 add-on. The new launch enables Sage users to enhance their cash flow and reduce accounting admin. The add-on provides a simple way to set-up and manage Direct Debit payments from directly within the Sage 50 accounting package.

Tuesday 6th August, 2013

Kofax has announced that it has acquired Kapow Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of data integration software. Kofax believes Kapow’s software will greatly simplify their ability to integrate smart process applications with third party software for content import and export purposes as well as data validation during a business process. On top of that the company believes it will significantly strengthen Kofax’s ability to penetrate the emerging electronic content transformation segment of the multichannel capture market, and is highly complementary to the recent acquisition of Altosoft’s business intelligence and analytics products.

Monday 5th August, 2013

According to Financial News, a Zurich-based private equity fund is this week due to sign a deal to invest $200 million in Avalon, a company that produces computer servers which “mine” the virtual currency called bitcoin.

The deal signals the latest escalation of what has become known as the internet’s first gold rush. The deal will also involve Taiwanese microchip-maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, which is set to supply the state-of-the-art microchips that will power the hardware.