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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO Business Intelligence

A solid business continuity plan is one of those foundational elements. Every business should have the mindset that they will face a disaster, and every business needs a plan to address the different potential scenarios,” says Goh Ser Yoong, head of compliance at Advance.AI What is a business continuity plan?

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Avalara continues acquisition spree with purchase of property tax compliance company CrowdReason

GeekWire

Earlier this month Avalara acquired Track1099, which helps businesses manage IRS form filing requirements. Other recent Avalara acquisitions include DAVO Technologies, Business Licenses, Transaction Tax Resources, INPOSIA Solutions, and Impendulo Limited. In August Avalara added $959.9

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

In space, no-one can cancel your software license NASA is a scientific marvel that does all sorts of cool and inspiring space stuff; it’s also a sprawling government bureaucracy with thousands of employees and computer systems under its umbrella. Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Generative AI, IT Strategy

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Avalara nabs nearly $1B in debt securities to fuel growing tax compliance software business

GeekWire

Seattle-based Avalara is getting a large cash infusion as its business continues to benefit from the e-commerce boom and increasing regulatory obligations. Avalara said last week that it added $959.9 million to its cash balance after issuing short-term debt in the form of convertible senior notes, according to a filing.

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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

CIO Business Intelligence

AWS launched its first Region in the Middle East with three availability zones in 2019, enabling Middle East organizations to meet business continuity and disaster recovery requirements and build available, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications from Bahrain.

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Tech Moves: Rad Power Bikes co-founder resigns; WRF CEO Ron Howell to retire; and more

GeekWire

The organization supports life science and technology through grants, commercialization, and licensing technologies from universities and other nonprofit research institutions. University of Washington, for example, has earned more than $445 million in licensing revenue through WRF.

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Amazon’s advertising business is surging amid industry-wide ad sales boom for tech giants

GeekWire

Amazon’s advertising business continue to grow rapidly as it is now one of the company’s key sources of revenue. Olsavsky added that the advertising business is part of the company’s “flywheel,” noting that Amazon wants to help customers find products they wouldn’t have seen otherwise.