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• APC by Schneider Electric honours top performing A/NZ partners

  APC by Schneider Electric honoured leading partners following a year of “significant growth” across the channel, recognising excellence across A/NZ.

• LinkedIn acquisition key as Microsoft dominates SaaS market

  Microsoft remains clear leader in the overall enterprise SaaS market, with the tech giant’s acquisition of LinkedIn further boosting revenues.

• Pushpay partners with Intuit, reports strong 2017 results

  Auckland-based mobile payments company Pushpay has joined the Intuit reseller programme as the first step toward a "deeper relationship" with the global giant.

• Keep your legacy management style out of the Cloud, Intuit exec says

  If you're moving into the cloud, check your legacy management style at the door.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, March 6

  Bill to rein in data brokers restarts... Government funds China companies in global push...TurboTax users victimized... and more tech news.

• Intuit reworks developer portal with QuickBooks app store in mind

  Accounting software company, Intuit, has reworked its developer portal for better synergy with QuickBooks Online.

• Amazon introduces mobile card reader to compete with Square, PayPal

  Amazon.com has introduced a card reader coupled with smartphone and tablet apps that aim to provide small businesses with a way to accept payments on these devices.

• IDC: Apps will drive public cloud spending to sustained double-digit growth

  Global spending on public cloud services reached US$45.7 billion last year and will experience a 23 percent compound annual growth rate through 2018, according to analyst firm IDC.

• Intuit to mobilize Quicken, Mint with Check acquisition

  Intuit is expanding its consumer and small-business financial services to tablets and smartphones with its purchase of mobile bill pay provider Check for approximately US$360 million.

• DOJ reaches settlement with eBay to end no-poach hiring deals

  The U.S. Department of Justice would prohibit eBay from entering into agreements with other tech firms to not recruit each other's employees, in a settlement announced by the agency Thursday.

• US appeals court lets class-action status stand in Silicon Valley collusion case

  A U.S. appeals court has cleared the way for thousands of Silicon Valley workers to proceed as a group with a lawsuit alleging that technology companies including Google and Apple colluded to drive down employee compensation.

• Intuit revamps Quickbooks Online for ease of use, mobile devices

  Users of the online version of Intuit's popular QuickBooks small-business accounting software may find their workdays becoming a bit easier to manage, thanks to a new user interface and mobile application support.

• Intuit launches into crowded mobile chip and pin payment market

  Intuit has stolen a march on PayPay with the launch of its mobile point of sale system in the UK, though ownership of the busy market could be decided by the vendor providing the strongest value added software services an expert has claimed.

• New software users adopt Cloud more readily than legacy users: Intuit

  Long term users tend to go for hybrid software solutions while new adopters go directly to the Cloud.