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.

MAXDigital Out to Stem 74% Turnover Rate Among Dealer Salespeople

( Ward’s Auto) Dealers are open to new technology that will lead to a more consultative salesprocess, and some 70% believe technology makes salespeople more successful and builds trust and confidence with customers.

HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) Cut to “Neutral” at UBS

( StockNewsTimes) HubSpot, Inc (HubSpot) provides a cloud-based marketing and sales softwareplatform.

Why Apple cares about mobile game developers

( VentureBeat) Greg Joswiak, vice president of iOS, iPad, iPhone product marketing at Apple, reinforced the importance of games in a rare interview with GamesBeat. He also recently talked about … We’ve done our best to support developers some pretty amazing technology, on both the hardware and software side.