Monthly Archives: August 2022

Vista Equity Partners to acquire automated tax compliance company Avalara for $8.4B

Global investment giant Vista Equity Partners has announced plans to acquire automated tax compliance software provider Avalara, in an all-cash deal worth $8.4 billion. Founded in 2004, Seattle-based Avalara works with companies including Zillow, Pinterest, and Roku, helping to automate many of the time-consuming processes involved in managing taxes in each market they operate. Taxing…

Intel Arc was doomed from the start, and MSI’s new GPU won’t change that

MSI has revealed its first Intel Arc GPU, a low-profile graphics card containing the budget-friendly Arc A380 board – the same somewhat-underwhelming GPU that has already been launched in China by manufacturers Gunnir and ASRock. The MSI A380 is currently only available in pre-built PCs, showing up in a sensibly-priced MSI gaming desktop on Chinese…

Intel Raptor Lake leak shows a seriously fast CPU to worry AMD – except for one key detail

Intel’s Raptor Lake flagship CPU has been spotted in leaked benchmarks which show some seriously speedy multi-core performance, albeit at a cost in terms of the power usage that the Core i9-13900K guzzles. This comes from OneRaichu (as flagged up by VideoCardz) on Twitter, a regular hardware leaker who has provided benchmarks drawn from Cinebench…

These are the 10 most-Googled questions about green energy – and what an expert has to say about them

Getty Images I’ll save you the spiel about how the earth is slowly dying beneath our feet thanks mostly to our own actions. We’re all well aware.  Although the situation humanity finds itself in is not at all ideal, it isn’t truly hopeless… yet. The slow yet inevitable shift to green energy is just around…

Republicans cite shaky argument on Senate procedure for killing a $35 cap on insulin in major spending bill

Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Samuel Corum/Getty Images The GOP removed a $35 monthly cap on insulin prices from a landmark bill that passed the Senate. Senate Republicans who did so cited procedural arguments over how the measure was proposed. That masked the fact that Republicans could have got round that problem if they wanted. …