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The foundation of every business often lies in the official legal documents that allow it to be approved as a company. Among these documents are licences, which define the rights of a company around a range of products or services they can sell.

Licensing is often specific to every country, state and city. Licensing is necessary in order to regulate markets and meet demands. It is also an efficient way to control markets that include dangerous products such as alcohol or rifles selling.

In the tech space, licensing can spread across both hardware and software products.
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Renesas launches industry leading functional safety solutions

Fri, 11th Mar 2022
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Renesas Electronics Corporation has launched functional safety solutions that meet the IEC61508 standard for both its RA and RX Families of microcontrollers.
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MITRE and DTEX Systems partner to raise risk awareness and improve cyber defence

Wed, 2nd Feb 2022
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MITRE and DTEX Systems collaborate to raise insider risk awareness through behavioural-based research and the MITRE Inside-R Protect program.
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rhipe adds Octopus licensing solutions to distie portfolio

Mon, 30th Nov 2020
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The addition of Octopus Cloud provides rhipe partners with licensing solutions and management processes to support cloud transformation initiatives.
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Game review: Ride 4 (PC)

Tue, 20th Oct 2020
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Milestone, free of the licencing restraints of the excellent MotoGP franchise gives us more bikes to play with in Ride 4.
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Game review: PGA Tour 2K21 (PS4)

Tue, 1st Sep 2020
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PGA Tour 2K21 Review: A familiar golf game with intuitive controls and depth for golf enthusiasts. A great option for local co-op. 8.5/10.
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Microsoft partner enablement offering includes Lenovo managed services for SMBs

Wed, 22nd Jul 2020
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Lenovo launches managed services for SMBs, offering support with collaboration, productivity, and security in Microsoft 365 tools.
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Paessler launches enterprise-scale monitoring solution

Thu, 30th Apr 2020
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Paessler AG unveils PRTG Enterprise Monitor, a robust IT infra management tool with a flexible sensor-based license.
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Kemp updates licensing, pricing for load balancers

Mon, 17th Feb 2020
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The goal is to provide increased value and tighter alignment with independent software vendor (ISV) and service provider use cases.
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MotoGP's new mobile game will be powered by blockchain

Fri, 27th Sep 2019
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MotoGP teams up with Animoca Brands to launch a blockchain-powered mobile game, offering fans interactive collectibles and an immersive Manager-style gameplay.
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Data#3 to exclusively provide MS licences to WA Government

Thu, 23rd May 2019
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The technology services provider has won two contracts with the Western Australia Government, becoming its sole Microsoft licence provider.
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Worldpay makes next moves for ANZ expansion

Tue, 2nd Apr 2019
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Worldpay to boost its presence in Australasia with new offices in Melbourne and Sydney, and a domestic card payment licence in New Zealand for 2019.
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Pitney Bowes adds geography-specific data to commerce marketplace

Wed, 19th Sep 2018
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Pitney Bowes expands its Software and Data Marketplace, offering over 1500 geography-specific data sets to streamline commerce for global sectors.
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Taking back control: Four steps to reporting unlicensed software usage

Tue, 4th Sep 2018
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Despite the enormous benefits that software brings to the table for a business, many still choose to forgo paying for it.
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ANZ consumers using less unlicensed software - but those who do are at risk of a breach

Wed, 6th Jun 2018
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ANZ consumers are reducing their use of unlicensed software, yet those who continue are exposing themselves to severe malware risks, as per BSA's survey.
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Smiths City value falls as it reluctantly complies with ruling

Tue, 15th May 2018
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Smiths City's stock value drops 4.6% as it faces reprimand from the Employment Court over unpaid meeting hours.
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Court rules retail chain must pay employees for all hours worked

Mon, 14th May 2018
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Smiths City Group had been refusing to pay employees for the 'optional' pre-work meeting for years, but has finally been called out in court.
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Canalys says SECaaS growing rapidly, while vendors struggle to keep up

Fri, 23rd Mar 2018
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Security-as-a-Service offerings surged in 2017 according to Canalys, but vendors like Symantec struggle to meet unpredictable investor expectations.
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BlackBerry aims to secure IoT devices

Thu, 8th Mar 2018
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BlackBerry inks a deal with Punkt Tronics AG to integrate its cybersecurity technology into IoT devices, aiming to secure home and enterprise networks.
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Huge tech leaders come together for open source licensing initiative

Fri, 1st Dec 2017
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Red Hat, Facebook, Google and IBM have come together to promote greater fairness and predictability in license enforcement.
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Interview: New NZ Cisco distributor as Cisco Spark kicks off locally

Mon, 4th Sep 2017
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A licensing agreement with Spark NZ means Cisco Spark can finally launch locally - with Spark subsidiary Telegistics the exclusive distributor.