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Jan 29, 2021 5:00 AM PT Like many companies in these pandemic-ridden days, the Smash My Trash group uses videoconferencing in its business dealings. The Smash group consists of Smash My Trash LLC, which uses mobile trash compactors to compress trash in customers' dumpsters, and Smash Franchise Partners, LLC, which sells the company's franchises. One potential franchisee, serial entrepreneur Todd Perri, used the information gleaned from Smash's videoconferences to help set up a direct competitor. Smash Franchise Partners last year filed suit in the Delaware Court of Chancery -- the Nation's pr...

'); //]]>//--> By Richard Adhikari Dec 1, 2020 5:23 PM PT CRM giant Salesforce on Tuesday signed a definitive agreement to purchase enterprise communications platform Slack, as widely expected. Under the terms of the agreement, Salesforce will pay $26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of its common stock for each share of Slack, for a total of about $27.7 billion. "Combining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be transformative for customers and the industry," Salesforce stated. "Stewart and his team have built one of the most beloved platforms in enterprise software history, with an incredibl...

More than 80 percent of 650 cybersecurity and IT professionals surveyed by Check Point Software Technologies in July said their traditional security solutions either do not work at all, or only provide limited functions in the cloud. This indicates that organizations' cloud migrations and deployments are racing ahead of their security teams' abilities to defend against attacks and breaches.

'); //]]>//--> By Richard Adhikari Jan 8, 2021 11:14 AM PT An international group of scientists is demanding scientific journals demand more transparency from researchers in computer-related areas when accepting their reports for publication. They also want computational researchers to include information about their code, models and computational environments in published reports. Their call, published in Nature Magazine in October, was in response to the results of research conducted by Google Health that was published in Nature last January. The research claimed an artificial intelligence ...

'); //]]>//--> By Richard Adhikari Jan 7, 2021 6:00 AM PT More than 80 percent of 650 cybersecurity and IT professionals surveyed by Check Point Software Technologies in July said their traditional security solutions either do not work at all, or only provide limited functions in the cloud. This indicates that organizations' cloud migrations and deployments are racing ahead of their security teams' abilities to defend against attacks and breaches, according to TJ Gonen, head of the company's cloud product line. "Their existing security solutions only provide limited protections against cloud ...