Tuesday - May 19, 2009
The goal of every startup technology firm is to open its doors and push out the next killer app, in the process changing the world -- or at least a little corner of it. InteliCloud CEO Ken Hubbard expects to do just that in mid-June, when he launches InteliCloud 360. Hubbard's approach to research and development -- lots of
outsourcing -- gave him a boost that allowed him to move from starting a new company in January 2008 to preparing to launch a new product barely 18 months later. The product, InteliCloud 360, is a reimagined network infrastructure.
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Wednesday - May 13, 2009
One would think that the cost of doing business on the Web is so small that it would be almost negligible, but that's not the case with many e-tailers, which is why many of them fail. It's also why Prashant Nedungadi decided to launch IMshopping, an online company that's trying to emulate offline customer service.
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Thursday - May 7, 2009
The report came out right before the economy nose-dived, before ad revenues started to shrink, before even online display advertising started feeling the recession's pinch. A February 2007 report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations -- the keepers of media buying/selling trends and standards for publishers and advertisers -- highlighted the opportunities and the challenges for the then-still-hot online advertising space.
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Monday - May 4, 2009
Before the arrival of sales force automation and marketing campaign software, there were productivity applications. CRM, as we all know, rose from that fundamental platform of email, calendaring, mailing list management and task management. A lot of CRM vendors include productivity in their CRM apps, but few focus on it as relentlessly as Relenta does.
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Tuesday - April 21, 2009
The global economy is changing. For many consumers, the credit card crunch is crumbling their ability to buy things online. In many countries outside the U.S., consumers do not have credit cards but rely instead on smart cards to swipe transactions directly through their banks.
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Sunday - April 19, 2009
Inspiration comes in many forms, and in the case of James Everingham, it appeared as a pair of knockoff Christian Dior shoes. Everingham's vision ultimately became Pixazza, an online advertising startup that converts photos on Web sites into interactive advertisements. Mouse over an image, and tiny price tags appear over handbags, dresses and other items.
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Wednesday - March 4, 2009
A new streaming video startup, ZillionTV, has entered the crowded digital television sector. The Sunnyvale, Calif., startup, which is backed by Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, NBC Universal, Disney, Fox, Visa, Sierra Ventures, Concept Ventures and Blu-ray chip maker Sigma Design, expects to launch its new service nationally by the end of the year.
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Monday - March 2, 2009
When patients go to the doctor these days, the first thing they're given is a clipboard with forms that have to be filled out in triplicate. Troy Spracklin wants to change that. The president and CEO of Edge Health Solutions just signed a multimillion dollar deal to integrate AllScripts' electronic health record software into Edge Health's suite of practice management applications.
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Friday - February 20, 2009
On Jan. 26, Lucid Imagination opened for business as the commercial entity for the Apache Lucene-Solr ecosystem. The new company hopes to unite both the Lucene and the open source developer communities under its wing by offering product support, training, consulting services and value-added software for enterprises using Lucene- and Solr-based search solutions.
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Tuesday - February 17, 2009
Software as a Service has become the business and software delivery model of choice among new vendors -- not to mention companies seeking to invest in IT. Surprisingly, considering the model's growing market share, few companies have sprung up to offer SaaS applications for the providers themselves. Enter Zuora.
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Friday - February 6, 2009
The key to a successful business plan often hinges on who gets there first with a market-revitalizing product. Being first may not guarantee instant success, but it certainly makes those that follow behind play catch-up. Marketcetera's Automated Trading Platform may prove to be just that key for Graham Miller, CEO and cofounder.
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