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...These include KKR’s BMC Software and Thoma Bravo’s Hyland Software. Higher interest rates and investor risk aversion will make straightforward refinancings extremely hard....
...Brooke Masters and Harriet Agnew report on asset managers pouring money into tech platforms, in a bid to emulate the success of BlackRock’s software as a service....
...We are a software as a service business. We charge banks a transactional fee. Every loan that we analyse is a transactional charge....
...Lynch loses Autonomy fraud caseMike Lynch, the billionaire founder of software maker Autonomy, has lost a fraud case brought by Hewlett Packard Enterprise....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Players of Fortnite, developed by Epic, were able to purchase an in-game currency known as “V-bucks” online, but these credits would not show up when playing on the iPhone....
...Autocab, which struck the deal with Uber in August last year, provides taxi operators with booking and dispatch software and connects drivers with trips via an online marketplace. 3....
...The details: Tuesday: Software giant Microsoft and chipmaker AMD report....
...The latter is based on the open-source Risc-V architecture....
...“The spread of RISC-V in China could be the gateway to global adoption,” said Shumpei Kawasaki, chief executive of foundation member Software Hardware Consulting, a chip design concern with Japanese, American...
...Five of them were profiled in the 20-page letter, including a software development engineer identified as D.O. in the brief, who came to the US from Mexico at age eight....
...Their exposure to the Software and Services sector is also around 20ppt higher....
...Next year Hatsune Miku, a 16-year-old virtual pop star — or, more precisely, a piece of voice synthesising software developed by Crypton Future Media — will go on a global tour, appearing to her fans as...
...The company said it sold 7.3m copies of Battlefield V during the fiscal third period, about 1m fewer than hoped....
...On Tuesday, KKR announced it would buy BMC Software, which makes software used to run mainframes, from a group of buyout funds led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital....
...The in-house team at Siemens Canada had long been interested in whether legal software could speed up their work without compromising quality....
...Bain and Golden Gate bought BMC, a software provider that helps companies run their IT operations, for just under $7bn in 2013....
...Nearly five years after its release, Grand Theft Auto V keeps kicking into high gear, bolstering publisher Take-Two Interactive’s quarterly revenue and sending its shares to an all-time high on Friday....
...Just look at US chipmaker Broadcom’s proposal to buy software company CA Technologies for $19bn. Broadcom does not feign expertise in software. It has not even specified a target for synergies....
...CA has been linked to a number of potential software mergers over the years, thanks to the reliable earnings thrown off by its legacy mainframe business, coming close at one point to combining with BMC....
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...a rival browser and software markets....
...Even though Google’s Android Wear software has been adopted by watchmakers from Fossil to Tag Heuer, the devices tend to be bulky and the software still feels like a work in progress....
...If you are still tempted by spherical photography, I do recommend the Ricoh Theta V....
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