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Qandidate.com, the provider of free recruitment software is pleased to announce they have reached the 2,000 customer milestone within a little more than 7 months after the initial launch earlier this year.

Its a momentous day here at Qandidate.com. Our dashboards are showing growth numbers, month after month and since the launch we have released several new versions of Qandidate.com and introduced new customer engagement programs, explains Remy Verhoeven, CEO en Co-founder of Qandidate.com. These new numbers are the result of hard work, with a small and dedicated team in a market which has always been dominated by enterprise software vendors, lacking innovation.

Qandidate.com is dedicated designed to the needs of SMBs and offers an alternative to Outlook and Excel. The SMB market has still the lowest adoption numbers for professional recruitment software, but is responsible for the majority of jobs. We appreciate its a big step for customers to move from Outlook and Excel to professional recruitment tools, but once customers understand the limitation of their current way of working we offer a free recruitment system, designed to their needs and requirements.

Designed with the support of recruiters, Qandidate.com gives companies a refreshingly easy to use free recruitment system, just as intuitive as social media tools as Facebook and LinkedIn. Were actively listening to our customers and users for input, so we can continue to build and deliver the most enjoyable and easy to use recruitment platform for SMBs, says Verhoeven.

The new customer and user numbers strengthen Qandidate.coms position as the provider with the highest accelerated growth in the recruitment space. Qandidate.com was initially launched in the UK and Netherlands, but the team is welcoming new customers from all over the globe. For next year the team is planning to add additional languages to support this growing global customer base.

Qandidate.com is the free online recruitment software for those companies who want to maximize their recruitment efforts. Designed for in-house recruitment, Qandidate.com offers customers an alternative to Outlook and Excel by providing a refreshingly easy-to-use online recruitment system. Qandidate.com provides all the information and tools companies need to create an effortless recruiting process. Customers can track and manage their applicants anytime, anywhere. All for free! Qandidate.com is one of the initiatives born in the labs of VONQ and supports more than 2,000 businesses.

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Last updated on: October 23, 201311:15 IST

Apple Inc on Tuesday offered free upgrades for life on its operating system and business software, and unveiled thinner iPads and faster Mac computers ahead of a competitive holiday shopping season.

The debut of the one-pound iPad Air and MacBook Pro with sharper 'retina' display repeats a pattern of recent launches with improvements in existing lines rather than totally new products, and Apple shares fell 0.3 percent for the day.

Apple said upgrades to its Mac operating system and iWork software suite, which compete with Microsoft Corp's Excel, Word and other applications, will now be offered for all MacBooks and Mac computers.

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That brings Apple's model of free system software upgrades on phones and tablets to the computer market, where Apple is still the underdog to Microsoft's Windows.

Apple may be trying to safeguard its grip on mobile software as Microsoft revs up its Windows-powered Surface Pro, which runs applications, such as Word or Excel, that are the standard for business customers, analysts said.

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"We are turning the industry on its ear, but this is not why we're doing it," Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook told media and technology executives at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center.

"We want our customers to have our latest software."

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Apple unveils THINNER iPads, faster Mac computers

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc on Tuesday offered free upgrades for life on its operating system and business software, and unveiled thinner iPads and faster Mac computers ahead of a competitive holiday shopping season.

The debut of the one-pound iPad Air and MacBook Pro with sharper 'retina' display repeats a pattern of recent launches with improvements in existing lines rather than totally new products, and Apple shares fell 0.3 percent for the day.

Apple said upgrades to its Mac operating system and iWork software suite, which compete with Microsoft Corp's Excel, Word and other applications, will now be offered for all MacBooks and Mac computers.

That brings Apple's model of free system software upgrades on phones and tablets to the computer market, where Apple is still the underdog to Microsoft's Windows.

Apple may be trying to safeguard its grip on mobile software as Microsoft revs up its Windows-powered Surface Pro, which runs applications, such as Word or Excel, that are the standard for business customers, analysts said.

"We are turning the industry on its ear, but this is not why we're doing it," Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook told media and technology executives at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center.

"We want our customers to have our latest software."

The market is awash in inexpensive tablets running Google Inc's Android software, but the company may be focused on fending off a threat from the high end.

"In the tablet PC market, they do think Microsoft is a bigger threat than Android," said Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi. "The iPad Air will compete with Surface Pro, not some rinky-dink Android tablet."

Gartner estimates that Apple's share of the global tablet market will slip to 47.2 percent in 2014, with Android-based tablets just overtaking Apple's this year. The IT research outfit expects Microsoft tablets to grab 3.4 percent of the market this year, double the 1.7 percent forecast for 2013.

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Who knew Apple (AAPL) would become such a big shareware company?

Todays product event in San Francisco will be known more for the introduction of new iPads, MacBooks, and Mac Pros, but what might be even more interesting is how Apple has decided to give away key software for free, including its long-awaited upgrade to Mac OS X, code-named Mavericks.

Mavericks and two other software suites, iWork and iLife, are now available for download free of charge. This continues an ongoing trend at Apple of lowering software pricesthe previous version of Mac OS X, Mountain Lion, cost only $30. Compare that with Microsoft (MSFT), which charges $120 for the base version of its latest operating system, Windows 8.1, and $200 for Windows 8.1 Pro.

By going free, Apple has acknowledged something thats been true in the industry for years: Software is a means to sell hardware. Sure, there are some specialized applications that can command a hefty profit margin, but bread-and-butter applications used in the mainstream are not things you sell. They are things people get when they turn on that shiny new object they just shelled out for.

This runs counter to Microsofts DNA asat least until very recentlya software company. And lets give Redmond some credit: That strategy worked really, really well for a while. But just as theres been a shift in interest to well-designed devices (as opposed to the beige boxes that defined the PC era), so has there been an expectation that software be as seamless and costless as possible. Your browser is free, so is Gmail/Yahoo Mail/etc. and Google Maps (GOOG) doesnt cost anything.

Apples strategy here is to get you on a device and with the latest version of its software as quickly and painlessly as possible. Does it want to get caught up in the intricacies of a pricing scheme for OS X Mavericks? No, it does not. Better to just remove price as a consideration and make it part of the device youre using. Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook likes to talk about the perfect integration of hardware and software that Apple aims to achieve. By making OS X, iLife, and iWork free of charge, it can achieve that goal even faster.

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