Xerox and Carl C. Icahn announced today that they have entered into an agreement under which Jonathan Christodoro has been appointed to the Xerox board of directors effective immediately. Mr. Christodoro will also join the board’s corporate governance committee and finance committee. With the addition, the Xerox board is now comprised of nine directors. Additional details regarding the agreement will be included in a Form 8-K to be filed by Xerox later today.

 Gemalto supplies VTB24 with its Ezio Mobile Protector smartphone-based secure software app solution, which provides secure generation of One Time Passwords (OTPs) for validation of remote banking transactions via a convenient application running on the customers' mobile device. VTB24 is a key player in the Russian banking services market and this implementation was made in cooperation with Russian IT integrator CompuTel.

Vertex Inc., the leading provider of corporate tax solutions, has been named the 2016 Main Line Chamber of Commerce Large Business of the Year.

Discover’s Phoenix Customer Care Center has been named as one of the Top Companies to Work for in Arizona by azcentral.com and Republic Media (The Arizona Republic, azcentral.com, La Voz). The 2016 list identifies Arizona companies with commendable workplace practices as voted by their employees.

Coupa Software has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites. The company achieved the highest ‘ability to execute’ assessment this year and for two consecutive years has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, which is considered one of the industry’s most thorough evaluations of enterprise purchasing services solutions.

D3 Banking, the leading innovator in Data Driven Digital™ banking has raised $10 million in capital from West Partners. The investment will help D3 Banking strengthen its team, invest in research and development and continue expanding its hosted platform to keep up with increasing market demand.

 Teradata reports the certification of multiple business intelligence (BI) and visualisation solutions on the Teradata Distribution of Presto.  These include Information Builders, the L

 Berkshire Hills Bancorp  and First Choice Bank have signed a definitive merger agreement under which First Choice Bank will merge into Berkshire Bank and its subsidiary, First Choice Loan Services Inc., will become a subsidiary of Berkshire Bank in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $111.7 million.   

Resource Environmental Solutions (“RES”), a leader in the ecological solutions market, announced that global investment firm KKR is making a significant investment in RES to support its next phase of growth and development.