Having moved over the last 5 years from a hardware company to a hardware-enabled SaaS platform, Airtame has a change in leadership. With Co-founder and CEO Jonas Gyalokay moving on to become the chairman of the board, Current CFO, Martin Wagner will fill his boots and take over as CEO of the company. Martin said, and I quote “With a strategic mindset and sharp operational management, we’re now preparing to fulfill our growth potential in a post-COVID world, where schools will return and businesses will reopen. I look forward to leading the team as we prepare for an exciting year ahead”.
The Irish-American financial services and SaaS company, known to help startups and enterprises alike to accept payments and manage their online business has struck a deal with Atlassian. Atlassian, known for its project management tool Jira and collaboration tools Trello and Confluence, help large numbers of companies to stay organised and focused. In a strategic effort to serve customers better, their CIO Archana Rao said in an announcement that, and I Quote, “We’re leaving all things payments to Stripe so our teams remain focused on strengthening our unique sales motion to bring products to markets for our customers,”
By exploiting a set of flaws in Microsoft’s Exchange software to break into email accounts and read messages without authorization, A network of Chinese hackers are suspected of hacking thousands of emails. Small businesses, government offices and schools in the U.S. as well as state and local governments were affected as a result of the targeted hack. The flaws further allowed the hackers to install unauthorized software on systems.
In Mergers and Acquisitions, Canadian company, Wecommerce is acquiring Stamped, a Singapore-based startup known for software that lets online sellers implement loyalty programs and manage customer reviews, for 110 million Dollars. WeCommerce is a listed Canadian company worth over $700 million that owns several Shopify-related services and softwares.
Co-founder of Optimizely Dan Siroker has a new startup and it transcribes what you say in your Zoom meeting. The startup is called Scribe, and though it is currently only available with Zoom, Dan and the team are looking to get it working with Google Meet and Microsoft teams and other meeting apps. Their goal, to get a “hive mind” set up for organisations, where ideas and thoughts that are voiced can be searched.