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Two acquisitions over the last three months signal the meshing of the customer experience/marketing software worlds with those that offer collaboration, project management and workflow operations.
Adobe acquired Workfront in November. Salesforce acquired Slack in December. The acquirers sit at the top of the digital customer experience software worlds battling for attention â and dollars â from chief marketing officers, marketing departments and those charged with crafting digital customer experience programs.
And now they ve added workplace project management and collaboration. Enough to really signify an actual trend of the merging of front-end customer experience with back-end digital workplace/work operations where vendors offer all experiences under one roof?
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Ecoark Announces Executive Leadership Addition
Ecoark Holdings, Inc.February 18, 2021 GMT
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Ecoark Holdings, Inc. (“Ecoark” or the “Company”) (OTC: ZEST), is announcing the addition of Julia Olguin as Chief Executive Officer of its subsidiary, White River Holdings Corp (“White River”). Ms. Olguin is also expected to join the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Ecoark immediately upon the appointment of an additional independent director later this year.
Julia Olguin is a seasoned energy executive with an extensive career across the energy value chain, including trading and midstream operations. Ms. Olguin has held various leadership roles at a number of major and supermajor energy companies including BP, NextEra Energy, American Electric Power, and Southern Company.
The number of mergers and acquisitions has boomed in India since liberalisation, but few hostile takeovers have succeeded, primarily because of the concentration of promoter shareholding in companies and because takeover regulations favour promoters. Hostile takeovers would facilitate M&A growth, and the success of hostile takeovers is essential to facilitate corporate competence and foster capital market development. To be effective, the anti-takeover mechanisms in India should be practised as a protectionist measure and the takeover regulations must adopt a lenient approach towards hostile takeovers, as in the United States.
In recent times, India has seen a rampant increase in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) (
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PSG-Backed MAPAL Group Adds GetCompliant to Its Software Solutions and Expands Presence in the Nordics
February 18, 2021 GMT
MADRID (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 18, 2021
MAPAL Group, the European developer and provider of hospitality management software solutions, today announced the acquisition of GetCompliant, a leading compliance and operations management solution provider in the Nordics.
The acquisition is the latest in a series of investments by MAPAL Group in complementary hospitality technologies, with a view to combining solutions to create a powerful, integrated back of house multi-site operating system for the hospitality sector. This transaction follows the acquisition of UK-based Flow Hospitality Training in December 2019 and US-based Cloud Reputation in 2020.