Based on the logical principle that every business wants to save money on purchases and reduce waste costs, a family business in Rockport, east of Gananoque, has developed software that offers organizations the ability to reduce, to reuse and recycle.

“We provide zero-waste tools that increase the value of surplus items and materials, converting them from liabilities to assets,” says Norm Ruttan, President of iWasteNot.

The company has developed several software applications that it markets to various organizations, companies and institutions. ReCap (short for recapture) helps organizations reuse items internally instead of paying to dispose of them and spending to replace them. The Surplus Marketplace platform does the same thing, but between organizations.

Finally, the Recyclopedia is a guide to “what to do with it when you’re done with it”. As the name suggests, it is an encyclopedia of items that can be recycled and are in the region of the person subscribing to the software.

“So there are topics like ‘paper’ or ‘aluminum cans’ and then the topic connects to solutions, so it’s supposed to be a very easy process for the user,” says Ruttan’s son James. Ruttan, CEO of iWasteNot. The software uses a translation service in 100 languages ​​and is designed to be accessible.

“We put the service online and keep it running 365 days a year…and we usually give the customer an admin panel, so they can manage it and answer their questions,” says Norm. Ruttan.

The Recyclopedia allows any organization in the recycling business to log on to the site for free and list services, hours of operation and limitations. Registration must be approved by the organization subscribing to the software.

“Then, the rating organization that enters his information has control of it and once a year the system sends him an e-mail asking him: ‘Is this information still good?’, adds James Ruttan.

Customers include the Recycling Council of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and the University of Manitoba, which use ReCap software to recycle office furniture within the university community and track waste diversion.

“We use waste data collected through the swap function on the website to track the weight of furniture and the number of items we divert from landfill via reuse within the university community,” says Allison. MacIntyre, zero waste coordinator at the University of Manitoba. .

The software is customized for the client. “iWasteNot has tailored our website to work for our specific needs, including adding item weights, item measurements, and disposal forms specific to our campus operations,” adds MacIntyre.

iWasteNot Systems has a team of seven programmers and a total staff of 17 employees across Canada, Mexico and Bangladesh. “Part of what we want to do is not just what we achieve in the marketplace, but we want to be a great place to work,” says James Ruttan.

In operation since 2004, the journey has not always been easy for iWasteNot. At one point, the company ran into connectivity issues that nearly caused it to leave the Municipality of Leeds and the Thousand Islands.

Once that was fixed, it reached a point where it had to completely revamp its products. “We got to the point that, rather than keep changing the software to try to make it work with the new, updated internet, we went back to square one and started rebuilding it from scratch,” says Norm Ruttan.

It took a huge investment of dollars and time and by then other free platforms like Kijiji and Facebook Marketplace had sprung up and many of iWasteNot’s original customers had disappeared.

“We felt we were so close to launching new software that we could be proud of it. We just simmered, kept our costs low, plugged in…and waited to see if we could take a break,” laughs Norm Ruttan. .

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WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News/Sputnik – August 26, 2022) Canadian software giant OpenText has announced that it will acquire Britain’s Micro Focus International in a deal valued at $6 billion.

“OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX), (TSX: OTEX) today announced that it has reached agreement on the terms of an all-cash recommended offer to be made by Open Text Corporation (the Company), through through its wholly owned subsidiary, OpenText UK Holding Limited (Bidco), to acquire all of the issued and to be issued share capital of Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO) and (NYSE (ADS): MFGP) at a price of 532 pence per share (the Acquisition), involving an enterprise value of approximately $6.0 billion on a fully diluted basis,” the company said in a press release on Thursday.

OpenText will pay $6.30 in cash for each Micro Focus share, the statement said, adding that the $6 billion agreement between the two companies takes into account Micro Focus’ debts.

Micro Focus is one of the largest software companies in the world and generated approximately $2.7 billion in revenue year-over-year between April 2021 and 2022.

Canadian OpenText is one of the country’s largest software companies. The merger of the two giants would create a potential market of 170 billion dollars.

“Micro Focus brings significant revenue and scale of operation to OpenText, with a combined total addressable market (TAM) of $170 billion,” OpenText CEO Mark Barrenechea said in the release, adding that the company would enable stronger operations and generate significant cash flow.

The multi-billion dollar deal is expected to be formalized in the early months of 2023, the statement added.

Last week, the Third Circuit reversed a summary judgment ruling in favor of Harriet Carter Gifts and NaviStone for alleged violations of Pennsylvania’s wiretapping and electronic surveillance law, or WESCA. See Popa v. Harriet Carter Gifts, Inc., Case No. 21-2203, 2022 WL 3366425 (3rd Cir. August 16, 2022). This lawsuit is one of many recent putative class action lawsuits seeking to enforce decades-old wiretapping laws against websites and their service providers. The named plaintiff is a consumer who allegedly made purchases on the Harriet Carter Gifts website while NaviStone’s marketing software was installed on the website. The plaintiff argued that the defendants violated WESCA by simultaneously sending its interactions with Harriet Carter’s website to NaviStone.

The district court entered summary judgment in favor of the defendants, finding that there was no interception at law because NaviStone was a direct recipient of the plaintiff’s communications. In coming to this conclusion, the court relied on Pennsylvania state court cases involving undercover law enforcement who were not found liable for wiretap claims while they were the direct recipients of the communications, even if they were not the intended recipients. The district court also found that while there was an interception, it did not occur in Pennsylvania, but rather in Virginia, where NaviStone’s servers were located.

The Third Circuit disagreed, finding that NaviStone’s position as the direct recipient of Popa’s communications did not allow it to escape liability under WESCA. The court explained that since the state court cases the district court relied on were decided, the Pennsylvania legislature amended WESCA to include an explicit exception for covert law enforcement. This changed language prohibited a broad reading of state court cases beyond the circumstances of law enforcement, so that NaviStone could not rely on the direct addressee exception. The court also rejected the argument that the interception occurred outside of Pennsylvania on NaviStone’s servers in Virginia; instead, the court found that the interception occurred on Popa’s browser, although the court noted that the record did not show whether she was in fact in Pennsylvania at the time. The court was not persuaded by defendants’ arguments that the ruling would mean websites could never use cookies or third-party marketing companies to analyze customer data. The court noted that consent is a clear exception to wiretapping liability under WESCA, but declined to address the parties’ consent arguments as these had not yet been decided by the lower court. .

CHICAGO – August 24, 2022 – (Newswire.com)

PriceLabs, the provider of dynamic pricing and revenue management solutions for the hospitality industry, today announced the acquisition of Rental Scale-Up. The latter, a media company, produces a short-term rental industry news and analysis website, and a newsletter.

This acquisition is in line with PriceLabs’ accelerated pace of product innovation, such as the world’s first MinStay recommendation engine launched in June 2022, in fundraising, with $30 million raised in August 2022, and now in industry thought leadership.

“The STR industry has started to mainstream. As property owners and managers continue to invest and grow their business, we have seen a lack of quality content to keep them up to date on the industry. They are always on the lookout for reliable information, as their companies demand that they track so much information,” said Richie Khandelwal, co-founder of PriceLabs. “Rental Scale-Up is one of the most respected voices and the go-to destination for in-depth news analysis for the STR industry. Together, we will be able to better serve the needs of the industry by providing vacation rental business practices, market insights and technology news. »

Concurrent with the acquisition, Thibault Masson and the team will join PriceLabs. “Thibault has years of experience in product marketing, acquired at Booking.com and in consulting work. He will help us better articulate the value of PriceLabs solutions and develop educational programs for owners and managers. property managers,” he added.

“I started Rental Scale-Up with a mission to give STR operators, from people like me who own a vacation rental home to those who manage hundreds of properties, the information they need to make the right decisions. By joining the PriceLabs team, we are amplifying the reach of our voice while helping one of the industry’s most innovative software companies better educate hosts about revenue management,” said Thibault Masson, Founder from Rental Scale-Up “I’ve known the PriceLabs team since launching their beta in 2014. We share a commitment to creating high-quality tools and content to help hospitality professionals succeed.”

About Price Labs

PriceLabs is a leading provider of easy-to-use dynamic pricing and revenue management solutions for the accommodation industry. PriceLabs offers a data-driven approach, automation rules, and customizations to manage pricing and stay restrictions that help vacation rental owners and managers increase revenue efficiently and easily. Learn more at www.pricelabs.co.

About Tenancy Scaling

Since 2013 as RentalPreneurs and then as Rental Scale-Up, the website and newsletter provide weekly actionable insights into the STR industry. They cover strategic changes in major vacation rental listing sites, market data in key regions, and innovations in vacation technology. Learn more at www.rentalscaleup.com.

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Blackbaud, a Charleston-based cloud software company, has acquired business-based engagement platform Kilter.

The acquisition will allow Blackbaud to expand activity-based peer-to-peer fundraising engagement and expand the ways individuals can connect to the causes they care about through activities they love, according to A press release.

Blackbaud will leverage Kilter to support activity-based fundraising for Blackbaud TeamRaiser, an event-based fundraising software, the press release says. Kilter will also support Blackbaud’s YourCause CSRconnect platform, which companies leverage to achieve their social responsibility goals.

Kilter is a playful activity-based engagement app. Kilter extends activity-based engagement beyond the familiar options of running, walking and biking, allowing users to track popular and personally relevant new activities, from pickleball to meditation to motorcycling, says the press release.

“Kilter empowers nonprofit organizations to turn the daily health and wellness activities of their supporters into opportunities to raise funds for their cause,” Seth Braddock, founder and CEO of Kilter, said in the release. “We couldn’t have found a more perfect home for Kilter than Blackbaud, a global leader in software solutions for social good and a team that shares our passion for empowering people to engage in ways that matter to them. .”

Kilter’s activity tracking app will be offered as a feature to Blackbaud TeamRaiser customers at no additional subscription cost, the statement said. It will be available in the coming months.

“Our acquisition of Kilter will allow us to serve nonprofits by expanding the ways they can engage with their supporters to prepare for their existing fundraising walks, runs and rides, and to create brand new ones. types of engagement opportunities that are not tied to a specific date or location,” Blackbaud President and CEO Mike Gianoni said in the press release. “It will also provide a one-stop solution for businesses , as employers take a more active role in supporting the health and wellness activities of their employees within the remote and distributed workforce.”

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Taiger, a Singapore-based software company, is increasing corporate debt with a new offering. The proposed financing is guaranteed by an alternative investor Percent. Taiger – in business since 2016 and funded by venture capital – is developing state-of-the-art “AI-based document processing software”.

In the words of the company’s website, Taiger’s products make work easier “by automating complex cognitive tasks by building your own cognitive models in our no-code AI platform to understand any type of document, classifying or extracting precisely in a structured way the information you need.

This global natural language processing (NLP) market is expected to reach $42 billion over the next four years. That would be an increase from $13 billion in 2020 with “an expected compound annual growth rate of 21.5%,” as forecast by Percentage.

According to Pitchbook, Taiger’s products are “intended to provide information access and retrieval services for the finance, insurance and government industries.”

Taiger hopes to raise up to $5 million at an annual percentage return of 15% to 17% through the Percent platform, where accredited investors can fund the loan with a minimum investment of $500. Percent, the software company raised more than $20 million in Series B equity funding three years ago.

The offering is designed to provide investors with exposure to the growth seen in the software and NLP solutions industry that Taiger represents.

The company’s venture capital investors include Intelak Hub, ICT Fund, Investment Partners of McMinnville, ITEA 3 and Mastercard Start Path Accelerator, among others.

Taiger has received numerous awards in its field, including “IDC Innovator” in 2019, Efma-Accenture Banking Innovation Award in 2019 and Gartner Cool Vendor in 2017.

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Myesha Luster Aroga is co-founder and COO of Analog Teams, a software development and talent recruitment company. Launched in 2018 by Aroga, Oladosu Teyibo and Yao Adantor, the company has developed software products for businesses and three products of its own.

Analog Teams is behind Research Bookmark, a search engine for product teams, Polifresh, a tool that breaks policies down into easily understandable briefs, and The Native App, a real-time messaging and translation tool.

Additionally, the company offers Technical Recruitment as a Service where it connects talent from underrepresented backgrounds with quality job opportunities around the world.

“With this, we are supporting Series B and C companies with the talent sourcing needed for aggressive scaling and effective product development; bridging the gap between businesses and the talent they need across industries,” co-founder Aroga told Face2Face Africa.

She also reveals that her company recently launched its Scrum School to help companies and individuals facing task management challenges by using Scrum to simplify complex problems while producing high-end results in a short time.

Face2Face Africa interviewed Aroga to explain her journey as a founder. Below is the full interview.

Can you introduce yourself?

My name is Myesha Luster Aroga. Chief Operating Officer At Analog Teams, a mother boy, woman, and advocate for using the Scrum framework to change and solve any problem you can think of 99.99% of the time. I’m an audiobook lover and a huge Drake fan as well.

Tell us about your business.

Analog teams are actually a dream come true. Many great dreams start as a simple idea in your head. Analog Teams as a dream come true started when I landed in the tech space, which was completely by accident, and I just fell in love with the technology.

I didn’t grow up, in a home or in an environment where computing was at the forefront. We haven’t talked about technology other than being a consumer of it. So when I landed a tech role as a business analyst to start on a scrum team, that was art for me.

When I think of an artist, I think of someone who creates things from scratch; something you’ve never seen before. This is what I feel like technology; produce things that we’ve never seen before and know that when you get into technology you realize that there are other artists like you, creating these unique, unseen things. Knowing that I could be part of producing art that had never been seen before was a dream come true.

Analog teams, my dream come true, fueled my desire to see more people like me in tech. We want to use technology to foster a better connection between black people around the world, especially black people born and raised in the United States, and those born and raised in Africa. In my experience, there has been a lot of misunderstanding about who we are.

So I wanted to build a company that could bridge that gap so we could see real proof of what it’s like to be in Africa as a Black American; was born and raised there. And on the other hand, as a black person in the United States, to see the different versions of black America that exist because there’s more to both sides. So having a company that built bridges between Black Americans and Africans in Africa, and doing it with technology, was a dream come true.

How did you fund your business?

My co-founders and I, Yao Adantor and Oladosu Teyibo, started the business from the ground up. We just invested until we had customers.

Much of how we’ve been able to start the business for so long owes a lot to our willingness to bend, not break. We had this vision, software development was our path. But we happened to have customers who wanted something different that we knew we could offer. So instead of trying to bend our customers to software development, we said, well, if we can do it, why not?

We have customers here who want something we know we can deliver, without marketing or acquisition cost. So instead of saying no to this client, because we only wanted software development clients, we complied and now those clients happen to be some of our oldest and most important clients. And that’s how we got into talent recruiting by leveraging our existing technology.

Share some of your successes and challenges as an entrepreneur.

One of our great successes is our people. Our original intention was to build bridges between black people in America and black people in Africa and have black people work together more and learn more about each other rather than just getting to know each other from this that others have shown or told us. Now we see it happening for real, but this time in a better dimension. Different people from different parts of Africa who have never worked together are now working together. We are building bridges, even within Africa.

We hear people say ‘I have never worked with someone from South Africa’, ‘This is the first time I have worked with someone from Nigeria’.

Initially, we didn’t even think that there were also bridges in Africa that we could build. For me, it was a success that I hadn’t anticipated or thought of and it feels really good.

Challenges

Every entrepreneur faces challenges and we’ve had our fair share. We’ve had challenges where we’ve had to let people go, and we’ve had clients who let us down even though we were trying our best. As a company, we thought we would now be in a different situation, but we are redefining these challenges into opportunities. The word “Challenge” is scary, which makes you see things as difficult, but what we analog teams choose to see instead is “the opportunity to give our time, our energy, our patience and our desire”. If you really want something to work, you have to put time and energy into it and, of course, be patient. it will happen.

So we’ve certainly seen challenges and great successes, but we’re still moving forward.

What can the government do to support entrepreneurs like you?

I saw something in the news but didn’t dig all the facts. The US government decided to hire 87,000 IRS agents to audit Americans and their finances. My question is, why don’t you hire 87,000 people instead to help business owners get it right?

It’s almost like you’re reacting to the problem instead of solving it.

So instead of repercussions being a reactive response to the problem, why not hire 87,000 government-certified people to help business owners better navigate the waters?

So let’s get to the root of the problem and solve it from there.

Where do you see your business in the short and long term?

As a business you do a lot of bidding when you start because you don’t have a lot of money, you accept jobs that are not what you intended to do. So, as a company, I see us becoming more stable. By this I mean that we accept clients who match us and what we want to do, and if we have to comply, we only do it because we want to.

The good thing is what we do with technical recruitment, the Scrum school and Research Bookmark; a search engine we built for product teams, are closely aligned with our new intentions.

So as we move forward, I see analog teams building more bridges. Not just in Africa, but in Asia, the UK and beyond.

For others who want to be like you, what message do you have for them?

I would start by saying, don’t try to be like me. By that I mean using parts of my journey, my story, as inspiration to figure out what you love because you are unique as a person.

Sometimes a person needs to be inspired by other people who have been there; do that and it’s good. If you want to be COO, take that part of my journey and make it part of who you are, part of who you are, and make things happen for you.

Is there anything you would like to add that I haven’t asked?

One thing I would like to add is the need for people to use their imaginations. Your imagination is your strength. As a kid growing up in the 80s without a phone, you couldn’t just pick up a phone and play video games; you had to imagine it. You literally had to use your imagination to entertain yourself.

What I see these days is a lot of people taking people’s ideas, copying them entirely, and not using their imaginations at all. These ideas are meant to be inspirations for you where you take these ideas and merge them with your imagination to produce something stellar.

The first thing I would like people to understand is that “your imagination is always there; Use it. Second, if you see something you like, don’t feel the need to duplicate it word for word, picture for picture. Take it as an inspiration, then go into your imagination and personalize it. Put a bit of yourself into it.

Well, I would just say, aim for perfection. Aim for perfection and enjoy the progress. Live and breathe the fact that you progress. But you have to start by striving for perfection. People think perfection is impossible because they don’t even try.

Keep in mind that the first attempt is mostly worse than the first draft.

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, Aug. 22, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — ZertID, an identity and access management tool developed by Australian start-up Sysintegra, has just been noted as one of only 30 in the world by Gartner as the “primary” Identity Governance and Administration Provider.

Arun Nair, CEO of Sysintegra, ZertID’s parent company, described this as fitting recognition of their dedication to client-based solutions in the face of the ever-growing threat of enterprise-level identity breaches.

Nair said: “We are one of the few vendors worldwide to achieve this recognition and we have done so alongside the big players in this space. This speaks to the team’s innovative approach and customer-focused outlook. »

He continued, “It’s an exciting journey for us, and we’re excited to stand with our customers as we work to protect their identity and access issues.

ZertID is an “all-in-one identity security platform”, but without the typical complexity – a complete IAM + IGA + PAM solution, built on the ServiceNow platform.

Enterprise-level identity breaches are a real and active threat, 24/7. The solution is to assess the risk and then adopt an access management system that works and that people will use.

ZertID solves these problems cost-effectively, quickly and with simple “no-code” installation.

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The British government has blocked the sale of British chip design software to a Chinese company, citing national security. The move is the latest move by the government in its increasingly defensive stance against foreign ownership of UK tech companies.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng announced the move in an official notice posted on the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) website this week.

The brief notice says the Business Secretary issued the final order under the National Security and Investment Act of 2021 (NSIA), which came into effect earlier this year. This has the effect of preventing the sale of Bristol-based Pulsic Limited to Super Orange HK Holding Limited, which sought to acquire the entire share capital of Pulsic.

Pulsic is an electronic design automation (EDA) company that manufactures planning, placement, and routing tools used in the design and development of circuit layouts for chips. The company says its products are suitable for the “extreme design challenges of advanced nodes.”

In the official notice, BEIS states that the sale was considered a potential national security risk because the tools developed by Pulsic and the expertise they contain qualify as dual-use technologies, meaning they could be used in the creation of “advanced integrated technologies”. circuits that could be used in a civilian or military supply chain.

Many technologies could meet such a dual-use test, so why Pulsic’s chip design software is considered such a security threat is unclear, unless the reason is simply that the UK government – like its American counterpart – sees the development of an advanced semiconductor industry in China as a threat in itself.

However, Bloomberg reports that Super Orange HK Holding Ltd was only founded in Hong Kong last year by a company called Nanjing Puxin Software, which in turn appears to be 100% owned by Shanghai UniVista Industrial Software Group, a company backed by China’s IC industry. Investment fund.

It is a state-owned investment vehicle founded in 2014 to boost the development of China’s semiconductor industry and known in China as “The Big Fund”.

Although the National Security and Investment Act only came into force earlier this year, the UK government has already invoked it in several cases involving foreign investment in UK tech companies.

It investigates the growing ownership of BT shares by French telecommunications tycoon Patrick Drahi, who is now the UK telecommunications company’s largest shareholder. The acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab, the country’s largest chip factory, by Nexperia, a Dutch company which is in turn owned by a Chinese company, is also under consideration.

The UK government also reportedly considered using the NSIA to persuade SoftBank to list chip designer Arm on the London Stock Exchange as part of its public offering, and last month blocked the University of Manchester from licensing of robotic vision technology to a Chinese company. ®