Hopes for buyer bids amid Cloud DC liquidation – ARNnet

Cloud DCs chief financial officer, Desmond Robinson, remains hopeful that the company, which entered liquidation on 28 March, will find a buyer for its remaining assets and intellectual property. The Queensland-based hosted desktop provider, which counted Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Citrix and Trend Micro among its vendor partners, entered voluntary administration on 22 February,…

‘Poorly Planned, Deficient And Unclear’: Ombudsman Slams Centrelink’s Automated Debt Raising And Recovery System – Gizmodo Australia

In July last year Centrelink rolled out a new automated income matching system for detecting and recovering debts. It became known as “Robodebt” and was designed to help the Department of Human Services collect $4.5 million in debt every day. In that sense, it was super efficient. Too efficient, even. The “online compliance intervention” is…

Croatia names Ante Ramljak as head of Agrokor restructuring process – SeeNews

ZAGREB (Croatia), April 10 (SeeNews) – Croatia’s government has named financial and economic expert Ante Ramljak as receiver of troubled food and retail concern Agrokor, the prime minister said on Monday. “This is a political decision that will stabilise the current economic situation in Croatia”, Andrej Plenkovic said during an extraordinary session of the government…

Today in the press – RTE.ie

SALESFORCES IRISH ARM SEES PROFITS SURGE 1,200% – The Irish Times reports turnover and profit at the Irish arm of Salesforce.com, SFDC Ireland, rose significantly in its fiscal year 2016. Latest company accounts show pre-tax profit rose more than 1,200% to just over $12m (11.3m), from a $1.07m (1.01m) loss in 2015. The company said…