Stock awards were the primary factor boosting Microsoft executive salaries for the year ended June 30. Information filed this week with the SEC showed the software company paid CEO Satya Nadella $25.8. million last year an increase of 29.1 percent from slightly than $20 million for 2017.

Reselling veteran John Hendrickson has joined Sage Intacct as part of the software company’s partner enablement and recruitment team. Intacct also hired another person well-known in the VAR channel, Dawn Westerberg, as senior channel marketing manager.  

Australian software company MYOB just went public again for the first half of June 2015. But it now faces a possible buyout by venture capital firm KKR. Venture firm Bain, which owns 19.9-percent of MYOB, purchased it for $1.3 billion in August 2011.