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INTERNATIONALABS Laundry Business Solutions (ABS), a worldwide leading provider of laundry ERP software services and solutions, recently announced changes to its senior leadership team. Gerard van de Donk, pictured, the current CCO, has been appointed as the new CEO. Gerard will succeed Anne de Boer, founder of ABS, who announced his intention to retire from ABS by the end of 2023.

Van de Donk has worked for 32 years at ABS in a variety of roles including strategy, leadership, marketing, and sales. Gerard was instrumental in enhancing profitability while placing a consistent focus on improving the customer experience by emphasizing best-in-class quality software and service. His laundry industry background and experience working throughout the ABS organization will help him lead the company into the future.

Van de Donk said: "My ambition lies in the continuation of expanding ABS Laundry Business Solutions to maximize our potential for our customers and organisation worldwide.ABS Laundry Business Solutions consists of 175 team members that are all experts in their domain, with whom we focus on continuous investments in new technology and functionality, to support expanding the partnership with our customers and continued growth. Embracing the opportunities related to our Secure Cloud Hosting Services, advancing our SaaS offering and recognising the strength of our dedicated team, this will be a solid basis for the organic growth of our company. We see great potential here and I am very excited and honoured to give direction to realise these goals."

Marien van Bezooijen has been appointed as the new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of ABS Laundry Business Solutions.

Van Bezooijen brings over 20 years of experience in IT services with executive roles at Managed Services & ERP Solution providers, including the Managing Director position at Gotli Labs during the last five years. Van Bezooijens profound expertise in the IT sector combined with commercial talent and leadership will be essential for further developing the proposition and building a versatile worldwide sales organization at ABS.

Van Bezooijen said: "This is a great time to be joining ABS. Our market is changing rapidly, and customers' expectations are increasing. This presents huge potential and opportunities for innovative companies like ABS. Through several Sales and Management positions I have experienced the key drivers for a successful commercial strategy and execution. The stated ambition and high level of enthusiasm at ABS provide a strong foundation for realizing the growth ambition. I am convinced that ABS offers a winning team & proposition and I look forward to expanding and leading the commercial team to continue to grow ABS worldwide.

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Box Content Cloud validated to protect and manage confidential and sensitive health data in France

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX), the leading Content Cloud, today announced that it has achieved the Hbergeur de Donnes de Sant or Health Data Hosting (HDS) certification. With the Box HDS certification, companies that work with and in the French healthcare industry can now confidently secure, store and manage French protected health information (PHI) in the Box Content Cloud.

HDS was introduced as a framework to safeguard health data in France by the Agence du Numrique en Sant (ANS). Required by a 2018 revision to the French Public Health Code (Article L. 1111-8), HDS certification is mandatory for all companies hosting sensitive medical data. To achieve HDS certification, Box had to prove it met strict standards for storing and processing health data in France.

Data security is paramount in the healthcare industry, where patient privacy and confidentiality are of critical importance, said Manu Vohra, Managing Director, Global Life Sciences at Box. Earning the HDS certification demonstrates Boxs continued commitment to maintaining the highest standards of data protection and privacy, and will allow healthcare and life science companies to leverage the benefits of cloud content management while maintaining compliance with French government standards.

Theranexus is a biopharmaceutical company developing drug candidates for the treatment of rare neurological diseases. With more than 5,000 rare neurological diseases affecting nearly 350 million people worldwide, we see this as both a major societal challenge and a market in crucial need of therapeutic innovation, said Thierry Lambert, Chief Financial Officer at Theranexus. Since 2020, we have utilised Box for secure content management. As a company based in France, it is great to see Box achieve the French HDS certification and remain committed to helping life science customers like Theranexus proactively navigate todays dynamic security and compliance landscape.

The Box HDS certification was achieved through a collaboration with Bureau Veritas, an independent third-party auditor accredited by French authorities to conduct HDS audits. Box is now listed on the ANS website as an HDS-certified host.

At Box, our goal is to meet the high-water mark for security and compliance in every industry worldwide. To do so, we do the heavy lifting on behalf of our customers to make it easy for them to remain compliant, said Tom Cowles, Chief Compliance Officer at Box. HDS is a further example of how weve built a robust data protection framework that allows us to deliver a secure content platform to help customers meet and exceed their regulatory and compliance obligations.

With this announcement, Box adds HDS Certification to a growing list of security compliance certifications, standards, and reports, including:

Box empowers many of the largest and most regulated enterprises around the world to accelerate business processes, power their workplace collaboration, and protect valuable information. The Box HDS certification is the companys latest announcement in the French market. In 2022, Box expanded the global network of Boxs flagship Box Zones offering to include a France Zone, aimed at delivering flexibility for in-region storage at scale. For more information on Boxs security and compliance offerings, visit the Box Trust Center.

About Box

Box (NYSE: BOX) is the leading Content Cloud, a single platform that empowers organizations to manage the entire content lifecycle, work securely from anywhere, and integrate across best-of-breed apps. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including AstraZeneca, JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Visit box.com to learn more. And visit box.org to learn more about how Box empowers nonprofits to fulfill their missions.

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On July 1, with no warning and little reason why, Elon Musk the CEO of Twitter said that Twitter would be imposing strict rate limits on how many posts users could view. Now we have an official reason why, butit's still unclear how long this will last.

When Musk put out his tweet he said that Verified accounts would be limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, unverified users to 600, and new unverified users to 300. His explanation for this sudden change was that it was to address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation. The limit has since been expanded to 10,000 for verified and 1,000 for unverified users, but exactly what the problem is remained uncertain.

A post Twitter made on its Business blog has finally expanded on why it chose to limit how many posts someone could read a day. Twitter explained that the move was one of its latest extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform. The post goes on to say that Twitter is working to prevent bad actors from 1) scraping peoples public Twitter data to build AI models and 2) manipulating people and conversation on the platform in various ways. Twitter adds that the moves effects on advertising have been minimal, likely in an effort to convince its advertisers that the posts theyre paying to promote are still being seen by Twitters user base.

Unfortunately for those of you hoping that post limits would be on their way out that doesnt appear to be the case. Twitters blog post gave no indication of when or even if the limits will go away.

So we have a deeper understanding of why Twitter is limiting access to tweets, but is this the full story? Some would argue not, based on previous reports that argued Twitters limits have nothing to do with data being scraped.

One alternative explanation was that Google was limiting Twitters access to its cloud hosting services after it was reported last month by Insider that the social media platform hadnt being paying its bills. It appears Twitter paid at least some of its debt to Google after new CEO Linda Yaccarino took charge however, suggesting that this isnt the reason for the limits.

Another possibility came from web developer and Twitter user Sheldon Chang with Chang speculating that the change was imposed because the platform was effectively DDOSing itself. DDOS attacks are when someone intentionally sends a lot of requests to a platforms servers in order to overwhelm them and stop regular folks from accessing them; according to Chang, Twitters home feed wasnt loading properly on the Saturday morning before Musks announcement yet the company was still making constant requests for data that never arrived. Chang argued that the resulting instability was caused by another of Musks recent changes which forces users to log in before they can view content on Twitter, however, this is merely speculation.

For now, well have to go along with Twitters version of events until someone can prove otherwise, though the reasons do make some sense particularly the part about AI. Considering Musk is working on his own generative AI, it would follow that he may not want his competitors to build models based on data taken from his social media platform.

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Twitters most recent guffaws include setting daily rate limits on tweets and forcing users to be logged in if they want to even view tweets at all. But it seems that with the launch of Metas supposed Twitter-killer Threads, Twitter is trying to roll back at least one of those changes.

According to TechCrunch, not only are users able to view tweets without an account (or at least being logged into one), tweet preview links are properly unfurling again in other apps like Slack, WhatsApp, and iMessage. According to former Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter enacted these limits to combat extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation. He went on to explain that it was a temporary emergency measure, due to getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!

Though another reason for the enacted policies may have been due to Google limiting Twitters access to its cloud hosting services. It had been reported last month by Insider that the social media platform hadnt been paying its bills.

It was also speculated by web developer and Twitter user Sheldon Chang that the site was essentially DDOSing itself. These attacks occur when someone intentionally overwhelms a site by sending too many requests, keeping normal users from accessing it. According to Chang, the company constantly made data requests despite the site not loading properly, which directly resulted from the login requirement.

Meanwhile, we have the imminent launch of the Instagram app Threads on July 6, 2023, which is described by Meta as a stand-alone decentralized social network for sharing text updates." The tech giant believes that "theres an opportunity for a separate space where creators and public figures can share timely updates about their interests.

It has all the basic hallmarks of Twitter like, comment, repost, and share buttons at the bottom of each post and lets you avoid immediate news feed clutter by letting you transfer your current Instagram follower list. It also lets you reserve your Instagram username if you already have an account. Judging from the recently leaked images, its made to resemble Twitter as much as possible.

It seems that Meta is gearing towards competing with Twitter while capturing the growing number of disgruntled users, thanks to Elon Musks constant policy changes and questionable decisions. Well see soon if Meta is capable of what other Twitter lookalikes havent been able to accomplish yet actually replacing Twitter as a preferred social media platform.

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