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FreshBooks reaches $1B+ valuation with $130.75M for its SMB-focused accounting platform

TechCrunch

In 2003, FreshBooks’ co-founder Mike McDerment was running a small design agency. For example, he said, more business owners are working to become digitally enabled to meet local tax and invoice compliance systems. . After relaunching its accounting platform, FreshBooks has raised another $43 million.

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LMS365, a learning management system built into Microsoft 365 and Teams, raises $20M

TechCrunch

Or they can import pre-existing courses or quizzes constructed elsewhere and stored in the SCORM or AICC format , which can be useful for general industry-specific training for cybersecurity, or regulatory compliance.

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Dreamforce 2024: Latest news and insights

CIO

Dreamforce 2024, which debuted in 2003, kicks off on Tuesday in San Francisco, featuring more than 1,200 keynotes, sessions, and workshops. While the event will encompass a wide spectrum of topics, expect Salesforce to showcase Agentforce next week at Dreamforce.

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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

CIO

Better IoT Security Helps Ease Regulatory Compliance Challenges Understandably, there are a lot of compliance requirements in healthcare. Any attack that involves a patient system or medical IoT device is most likely a compliance breach, resulting in the loss of sensitive data or access to sensitive data from unauthorized entities.

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3 powerful lessons of using data governance frameworks

CIO

The first published data governance framework was the work of Gwen Thomas, who founded the Data Governance Institute (DGI) and put her opus online in 2003. Frameworks were already being used, but they weren’t publicly available,” she says. “I I had been asked to help Coors Beer prepare for upcoming Sarbanes-Oxley audits.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Space Tech Startup Astranis Tops List

Crunchbase News

Compliance startup Vanta raised a $150 million round led by Sequoia Capital that valued the company at $2.45 Founded in 2003, the company has raised $392 million, per Crunchbase. So basically, that gets them on the list. The company, founded in 2015, has raised $559 million, per Crunchbase.

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Why It’s Time for MSP to Get Hip to HIPAA Compliance

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When the Final Omnibus Rule went into effect in 2013 organizations were now truly on the hook for compliance and faced serious financial penalties for breaches, turning the tide for medical organizations as compliance became much less expensive than the potential fines they might face, not to mention criminal charges in more egregious cases.