
Synthesis Energy Systems Announces its Australian Platform Company, Australian Future Energy, Names Kerry Parker Chief Executive Officer
( GlobeNewswire) For the past two decades of his nearly 30-year career, Mr.

Spotify’s Churn Rate and Inactive Subscribers: Should the Music Industry Be Concerned?
( Billboard) Churn is a vital metric for measuring a SaaS company’s health, in part because it is much more expensive to acquire new customers than to keep existing ones.

The best tax software
( Engadget) Its biggest drawback isn’t the software itself, but Intuit’s presentation of upgrade opportunities—and, more broadly, in some of the business practices the company has engaged in since it started selling accounting software in 1983.

TravelSky Announces 2017 Annual Results; Total Revenue up 8.2 % to RMB6,734.2 Million
( AsiaOne) In 2017, revenue of aviation information technology (“AIT”) services increased by 10.9% to RMB3,878.5 million, accounting for 57.6% of the total revenue. Revenue of accounting, settlement and clearing services increased by 7.2% to RMB555.19 million, accounting for 8.2% of the total revenue.

SS&C Technologies (SSNC) Lowered to “Hold” at Zacks Investment Research
( registrarjournal.com) According to Zacks, “SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. delivers investment and financialmanagement software and related services focused exclusively on the financial services industry.

Westpac’s Kasada deal points to ‘cyber security as a service’
( The Australian Financial Review) The software, known as Polyform, stops automatic bots. This can be used to prevent malicious attacks on websites designed to break into customer accounts, and also to prevent inappropriate “scraping” of websites by competitors.

Santander to Launch Ripple-Based International Money Transfer App
( Finance Magnates) Santander first invested in Ripple back in 2015 through its venture investment arm Santander Innoventures, shortly after concluding that it was only a matter of time before distributed ledger technology would be adopted by banks.

Horizon Technology Finance Corp (HRZN) Announces $0.10 Monthly Dividend
( HRZN) announced a monthly dividend on Thursday, March 8th, Wall Street Journal reports. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 17th will be paid a dividend of 0.10 per share by the investment management company on Friday, June 15th.