February 2020

Badly Trained Spam – Only A Quarter of Brits Train their Spam Filter

6 February 2020, London: British email users want to have as little to do with spam as possible! Only a quarter of Brits (25%) mark suspicious emails as spam or move them to the ‘Spam’ Folder, while the majority (55%) delete potential spam unread. Nearly seven percent (7%) read the email first and then delete it and four percent (4%) simply leave the spam unopened in their inbox. Fewer than 1% of users say that they reply to the spam. These are the findings of a representative survey of 2,000 people in the UK commissioned by German email service providers GMX.

Tips to Consider before Picking the First SEO Keywords for Your Business

The growth of a business depends on numerous factors and one important factor that cannot be ignored is undoubtedly search engine optimization. Search engine optimization helps in giving a better rank to your website on the search engines and this can help in building trust and credibility. However, you need to know that keywords are considered to be important components of the strategy of search engine optimization. How you are adjusting the keyboards and their distribution will help you to change the campaigns with time. To gain success, you have to begin by choosing the appropriate keywords.

Cornerstone Maintains Strategic Leader Position in the 2020 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Learning Systems for 6th Consecutive Year

Cornerstone has also been recognised as a Core Challenger for the 2020 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Digital Learning

London — 5 February, 2020 – Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSOD), a global leader in people development solutions, today announced its Strategic Leadership position in the Fosway 9-Grid™ for Learning Systems for the 6th year in a row.

Cornerstone has also been positioned as a Core Challenger for the first time on the 2020 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Digital Learning. This recognition reinforces Cornerstone’s commitment to also disrupting the digital content marketplace with a strong content solution for its customers supported by a well-established network of industry leading partners.

Global Enterprises and Merchants Unprepared as Fraudsters Focus on Rewards Programs

LONDON, UK. 4th February 2020: Forter, the leader in e-commerce fraud prevention, today announced availability of the Forter Loyalty Program Protection solution to protect high value rewards programs from fraud and abuse, enabling merchants to offer enhanced programs with the best possible customer experience.

Six-year growth streak for enterprise software M&A slows but peak valuations remain, says Hampleton Partners’ report

·         Private equity buyers completed one-third of all enterprise software transactions in 2019, up from 25 percent in 2018

·         Artificial intelligence, SaaS, and cloud companies attracted strategic buyers, including Apple, Adobe, Salesforce, Google and Microsoft

Episerver recognized as a leader for first time in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms

London, U.K., Feb. 3rd, 2020 – Episerver™, the customer-centric digital experience company, is recognized as a leader in the just-published Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms™. This recognition marks Episerver’s first-time placement in the leaders quadrant of this independent analyst report. The news comes on the heels of three major Q4 2019 announcements with the acquisition of personalization and analytics company Idio™, the hiring of CEO Alex Atzberger and the acquisition of B2B commerce company Insite™ – all capped by the best sales quarter on company record. 

Netacea Identified as a Bot Management Leader by Independent Research Firm

Manchester-based cybersecurity startup protects websites, mobile apps and APIs with revolutionary server-side approach to bot management

Manchester, 3rd February, 2020 – Netacea, a provider of bot management solutions, has been ranked a leader in the Forrester New Wave™: Bot Management, Q1 2020 report.

Forrester, a top research organisation that provides advice on existing and emerging technology, has identified Netacea as a leader in its 2020 evaluation of the emerging bot management market.

First week of February worst for staff sickness

London, UK: 3rd February 2020: Tuesday is the most frequent day taken by staff as unplanned absence, according to statistics provided by e-days, the leader in global absence intelligence.

The company has revealed that the first week of February is the worst peak for unexpected staff absence, after surveying absence data from more than 1,000 companies from 2019.