Synapse Financial Technologies, Inc. (SynapseFI), an API-based banking platform for financial institutions, yesterday announced a $17 million Series A investment led by Trinity Ventures and Core Innovation Capital. . Schwark Satyavolu of Trinity Ventures and Arjan Schütte of Core Innovation Capital joined the SynapseFI board of directors. Since its founding in 2014, the company has processed approximately $10 billion in transactions for...
Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) announced this month that the U.S. Air Force has selected the company to provide a package of digital workplace services through which it will securely manage, maintain and monitor the Air Force’s end-user desktop, laptop and mobile devices. The $76 million award covers an engagement that will run for one year. This...
IAOP, the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals last month announced a strategic alliance with Business Process Enabling South Africa (BPESA). The relationship will leverage both organizations’ expertise to collectively advance impact sourcing as a business practice that impacts local communities by creating jobs in the BPO industry in underserved areas. “Employment for high potential but...
With just over a month to go, the Digital Transformation Andes Summit, held at the Habitel Hotel & Convention Center in Bogotá near the El Dorado International Airport has announced exciting new speakers relevant to executives charged with making key strategy and IT decisions in their enterprises. Amikam Yalokevsky from global technology giant Mediatek will...
Sam Gross is the founder of ChoiceWORX, the company behind Aptinuum, the first of its kind AI fueled automation-as-a-service platform for end user application and devise support. The company also applies AI (Artificial Intelligence) to IT infrastructure management and methods to use AI to manage RPA (Robotics Process Automation) environments across endpoint, application & infrastructure...
20 years ago, PayPal was a scrappy startup, a FinTech disruptor. 2 decades later, the company is a financial giant, in some ways part of the financial establishment it initially took on. Still, the industry continues to evolve, and new technologies threaten even currency itself. Cognitive Business News founder and publisher Loren Moss recently was...
The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) just included global customer experience provider Teleperformance (EPA:TEP), in the 2019 Best of The Global Outsourcing 100 list by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). Teleperformance is generally recognized as the largest contact center outsourcing provider in the world. The Best of The Global Outsourcing 100 honors outsourcing service...
Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced that Unisys Chairman and CEO Peter Altabef has been honored as the 2019 industry recipient of the Eagle Award for his significant contributions to federal government IT in the US. Two winners of the Eagle award – one from government and one from industry – are selected each year from among the...
Chevron Technology Ventures LLC (CTV) today launched Fund VII, a new $90 million fund established to sustain Chevron’s (NYSE: CVX) continued venture capital investment across the energy industry. Investments from this newest fund are expected to target early- to mid-stage companies as well as limited partnership funds. Further, Fund VII investments will focus on high-tech,...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced in Bogotá yesterday that it would activate an edge location in Colombia by the end of 2019, making Colombia Amazon AWS’s first Latin American network access point outside of North America or Brazil. The cloud services and retail giant also announced a collaboration with SENA, Colombia’s national community...