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Friday, 26 February 2021, 3:04 pm
HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND: An award-winning
expert in Microsoft and Unity 3D, 2D, augmented and virtual
reality technologies has joined New Zealand Agile software
specialist Company-X.
Five-time winner of the
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Developer Technologies
award, Jiadong Chen, recently joined Company-X.
Chen
is one of 3,000 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award
winners internationally, recognised by Microsoft as one of
the technology industry’s best and brightest five years in
a row.
Nominations for the award are made by Microsoft
executives and existing winners.
Chen’s awards
recognise his passion for technology, willingness to help
others, and commitment to the international technology
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PerimeterX Raises $57M For Geographic, Vertical Growth
‘Our investors deeply believe in our vision of protecting the modern web apps that fuel today’s digital businesses with a single platform that works across hybrid edge-based infrastructure,’ says PerimeterX CEO Omri Iluz in a statement. By Michael Novinson February 23, 2021, 10:16 AM EST
Application security vendor PerimeterX has raised $57 million to expand its reach beyond the retail e-commerce vertical and strengthen its presence in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
The San Mateo, Calif.-based company said the funding round led by AllianceBernstein will allow it to move into new industries such as financial services where it’s seeing strong customer interest. The funding comes after two of PerimeterX’s top bot management competitors Distil Networks and Shape Security were sold to Imperva and F5 Networks, respectively, in recent years.
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47% ranking increase YoY for London-based digital transformation leader with a focus on the Fortune 500
Adaptavist Ltd, a digital transformation leader, has been ranked 56th in the 12th Annual Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200. This 47% increase in ranking (up from 126 last year) is based on global revenue growth, including international sales an average sales growth of 63% over the past three years. We re incredibly proud of what we ve achieved. The business has continued to grow through diversifying our products and services, and making strategic acquisitions in the IT space. Even with the pandemic, we have managed to expand our global reach, staff count and customer base. These are exciting times at Adaptavist and we re poised to scale our business even further in 2021, states Simon Haighton-Williams, CEO of Adaptavist.