The FTC has already filed suit to block the $68.7 billion acquisition, opting to file a lawsuit before a domestic administrative judge. Through this trial-like process, the judge will make an initial decision that can be appealed to the full commission for a vote. Microsoft can then appeal to federal court if the decision is not in its favor. The case is due to be heard by an administrative judge in August.

“We welcome the opportunity to present our case in federal court. We believe expediting the legal process in the U.S. will ultimately lead to more choice and competition in the marketplace.”

said Microsoft President Brad Smith.

An appeal against the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s decision to block the merger is also planned for this summer, shortly after the acquisition deadline.

“We are excited to work with AWS and expand choices for customers who are looking for new ways to identify and buy enterprise software. AWS Marketplace makes it easy for customers to work with SmartBear and AWS sellers to create private offers that can include any product in our portfolio.”

said John Whittaker, Vice President, Cloud Marketplaces at SmartBear.

SwaggerHub is a comprehensive API development lifecycle platform providing design, testing, contract testing, and documentation for development teams everywhere. It also provides the visibility needed for teams to create sustainable processes and practices, shortening the path to great customer experiences.

Customers can now buy SwaggerHub directly in AWS Marketplace or via AWS private offers, a purchasing program that allows sellers and buyers to negotiate custom prices and end user licensing agreement (EULA) terms for software purchases in AWS Marketplace.

Allowing developers to run large-scale search and analysis workloads without managing clusters, OpenSearch Serverless supports the latest versions of OpenSearch and previous versions of Elasticsearch, as well as OpenSearch Dashboards and Kibana.

“Prior to the release of OpenSearch Serverless, you created a managed cluster by defining the instance types, counts, and storage options, and then managed the lifecycle and index strategy within that cluster. With OpenSearch Serverless, you create a collection that manages a group of indexes that work together to support a specific workload. You no longer need to specify the hardware or manage the indexes directly.”,

Chani Yoon, chief developer advocate at AWS, explains

OpenSearch Serverless decouples compute and storage, and separates the indexing (ingest) components from the search (query) components, with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) being the primary storage service for the indexes. With this decoupled architecture, OpenSearch Serverless can scale the search and indexing functions independently of each other and independently of the indexed data in Amazon S3.
For example, when an application monitoring workload receives a sudden burst of logging activity during an availability event, OpenSearch Serverless immediately scales ingest and storage resources without impacting query response times.

OpenSearch Serverless is now available in the following AWS regions: US East (Ohio), US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland).

The company is undergoing a revamp. GameStop is asking select game developers and publishers to list NFTs on its marketplace when it launches later this year, the WSJ report said.

The retailer has hired more than 20 people to run the unit which is building an online hub for buying, selling and trading NFTs of virtual videogame collectibles such as avatar outfits and weapons.

GameStop launched its NFT website last year and has been inviting creators to join the platform.

Amazon Wholesale India’s operational revenue had fallen 70% in FY20 from FY19. In the period under review, the platform posted a net profit of Rs 46 crore compared with a net loss of close to Rs 132 crore from a year earlier.

Revenue from operations includes that generated through the company’s core business of selling goods and services. Total revenue also includes components such as interest income from fixed deposits and other investments.

In FY21, Amazon India saw Rs 7,555 crore of revenue from offering marketplace services compared with Rs 4,949 crore a year earlier. Revenue from other marketplace services, which primarily includes advertising services, rose to Rs 2,554 crore from Rs 1,636 crore.

Kathleen Delaney, who is a Chief Marketing Officer at Kofax, commented: 

“Knowing the breadth of KMWorld’s audience of IT and business professionals, winning a Readers’ Choice Award for the third year running is a huge honour. The award for best business process management reflects the leadership role Kofax has achieved in the Intelligent Automation marketplace, and the value we deliver in helping our customers digitally transform their high-value workflows.”

Tom Hogan, a Group Publisher at KMWorld says:

“As the stakes get higher for information-driven successes, businesses must make technology decisions from an increasingly diverse array of knowledge management offerings. The Readers’ Choice Awards put the spotlight on innovative and dependable solutions and services that can help companies solve pressing challenges and take advantage of new opportunities.”

The innovative and dependable products and services are put in the spotlight by KMWorld’s Readers’ Choice Awards. Of course, there are many other awards and designations given to KM vendors by publications and analyst firms, but this is one where winners are chosen by the people who matter most. Who are they, you may ask? Well, those are the end-users who use these products and services every day. 

Who are Kofax?

Kofax is a company that enables organizations to Work Like Tomorrow™—today. Their Intelligent Automation software platform and solutions digitally transform content-intensive workflows.

The agreement clarifies that developers can share purchase options with users outside of their iOS app; expands the price points developers can offer for subscriptions, in-app purchases, and paid apps; and establishes a new fund to assist qualifying US developers. The updates constitute the latest chapter of Apple’s long-standing efforts to evolve the App Store into an even better marketplace for users and developers alike.

“From the beginning, the App Store has been an economic miracle; it is the safest and most trusted place for users to get apps, and an incredible business opportunity for developers to innovate, thrive, and grow,” said Phil Schiller, Apple Fellow who oversees the App Store. “We would like to thank the developers who worked with us to reach these agreements in support of the goals of the App Store and to the benefit of all of our users.”

Following a productive dialogue, Apple and the plaintiffs in the Cameron et al v. Apple Inc. developer suit reached an agreement that identifies seven key priorities shared by Apple and small developers, which has been submitted to the judge presiding over the case for her approval.

In a validation of the App Store Small Business Program’s success, Apple and the developers agreed to maintain the program in its current structure for at least the next three years. Businesses earning less than $1M annually will continue to benefit from the reduced commission, while larger developers pay the App Store’s standard commission on app purchases and in-app payments.

App Store Search has always been about making it easy for users to find the apps they’re looking for. At the request of developers, Apple has agreed that its Search results will continue to be based on objective characteristics like downloads, star ratings, text relevance, and user behavior signals. The agreement will keep the current App Store Search system in place for at least the next three years.

To give developers even more flexibility to reach their customers, Apple is also clarifying that developers can use communications, such as email, to share information about payment methods outside of their iOS app. As always, developers will not pay Apple a commission on any purchases taking place outside of their app or the App Store. Users must consent to the communication and have the right to opt out.

Apple will also expand the number of price points available to developers for subscriptions, in-app purchases, and paid apps from fewer than 100 to more than 500. Developers will continue to set their own prices.

Apple will maintain the option for developers to appeal the rejection of an app based on perceived unfair treatment, a process that continues to prove successful. Apple has agreed to add content to the App Review website to help developers understand how the appeals process works.

Over the last several years, Apple has provided a great deal of new information about the App Store on apple.com. Apple agreed to create an annual transparency report based on that data, which will share meaningful statistics about the app review process, including the number of apps rejected for different reasons, the number of customer and developer accounts deactivated, objective data regarding search queries and results, and the number of apps removed from the App Store.

Apple will also establish a fund to assist small US developers, particularly as the world continues to suffer from the effects of COVID-19. Eligible developers must have earned $1 million or less through the US storefront for all of their apps in every calendar year in which the developers had an account between June 4, 2015, and April 26, 2021 — encompassing 99 percent of developers in the US. Details will be available at a later date.

This free extension for Visual Studio Code enables editing and execution of SQL and PL/SQL for Oracle Database and Oracle Autonomous Database. New features include breadcrumb navigation, Problems Panel integration to view errors and click to go to line that failed, CSV delimiter settings, generate select/insert/delete statements for tables, multiplatform LDAP support, and more.

You can also: 

• Connect to Oracle Database and Oracle Autonomous Database using Easy Connect syntax, TNS connect aliases, or ODP.NET connection strings
• Create and manage connections and track most recently used connections
• Oracle Database Explorer tree control: connect and explore Oracle schemas; show data for tables and views and save as CSV or JSON files; auto-generate SQL for table CREATE, INSERT, and DELETE; view, edit and save PL/SQL packages, procedures and functions. Run stored procedures and functions with a UI for entering parameter values

For more information, you can go to Visual Studio Code Marketplace.

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