Softjourn expands into Brazil with new office

Softjourn, a software development company that specialises in ticketing, has announced that it has opened a new office in São Paulo, Brazil.  The new office in Brazil will provide enhanced delivery centres for new and existing clients, offer new career opportunities for local IT professionals and expand Softjourn’s global footprint within Latin America. Emmy Gengler, …

Q&A with Softjourn’s Lyubomyr Nykyforuk: Trends in 2023

TheTicketingBusiness spoke to Lyubomyr Nykyforuk, Softjourn’s head of the solution creation department, about ticketing trends in 2023 and the role of Web3 and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the sector. Nykyforuk has over 16 years of experience within the industry and has been working on Softjourn ticketing projects since 2007, when the company signed its first …

2022 in review – November

The month of November saw Ticketmaster come under fire for its handling of the Taylor Swift Eras Tour ticket pre-sale. The platform was unable to deal with the amount of traffic despite the company using its Verified Fan scheme. It subsequently cancelled the general onsale and had to resort to using Ticketstoday to sell the …

Ukraine’s tech sector 100 days in

Friday marks 100 days since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.  Although conflict and tensions have raged between the two nations since 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea and Russian-back separatists seized part of Donbas in south-eastern Ukraine, it was Putin’s full-blown military operation in February that brought international scorn, sanctions and …