Arria NLG, a leader in artificial intelligence ("AI") and natural language generation ("NLG"), is pleased to announce the private beta launch of Articulator Lite, a cloud-based toolkit that allows users to build their own applications that create content from data.

Arria recognizes the demand from users to be able to build their own NLG applications with the option of hosting on-premises or delivery via cloud Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

-LightCyber, a leading provider of Behavioral Attack Detection solutions, today announced that it is partnering with leading security consulting firms to provide free Purple Team Assessment for determining “data breach fitness” and assess an organization’s ability to detect active network attackers. The exercise combines the Red Team attack simulation by the partner with a Blue Team evaluation using LightCyber Magna Behavioral Attack Detection. The free offer is available through the remainder of 2016.

Malin Corporation, an Irish-based global life sciences company, today announced the appointment of Peter Schwartzman to the company’s senior team, effective immediately.

Peter Schwartzman brings 30 years of experience in asset and risk management to Malin. He was most recently a Managing Director in the Leveraged Finance Group within BlackRock Financial Management - the world’s largest asset manager. From 1998 to 2016, Peter was a leading member of a team that managed over $40 billion of assets in credit markets.

Charles River Associates , a worldwide leader in providing economic, financial, and management consulting services, today announced that Patrick Foley has joined Marakon, a management consulting practice at CRA, as a senior advisor. Mr. Foley has more than 30 years of experience advising on strategy, providing economic analysis, and forecasting in the financial services sector.

Infoblox Inc and Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”) today announced that Vista’s affiliate, India Merger Sub, Inc., has commenced the previously-announced tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $26.50 per share, net to the seller in cash without interest.

As with any new, exciting technology blockchain investment is on the rise. According to Greenwich Associates, global financial institutions and technology providers will spend more than $1 billion in 2016 on capital markets blockchain applications.

Financial institutions around the world not only prioritise financial inclusion and financial transparency, but also share the desire to increase data sharing and collaboration with their peers to achieve it, according to a new study by LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, a global big data, technology and analytic linking company.