Monday - May 12, 2008
Bronto is no dinosaur. Founded by former Red Hat executives and launched in 2002, the e-mail marketing software provider has certainly seen its industry and marketplace evolve and change dramatically around it. While questions are often raised about whether e-mail can remain an effective marketing channel given the flood of spam invading consumers' in-boxes and, spending on the channel continues to grow. Cofounder and CEO Joe Colopy said Bronto entered the e-mail marketing space at a time when a host of vendors had emerged and were splitting the market.
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Thursday - May 8, 2008
In early 2002, the founders of Azul Systems wagered that Java was going to become a prominent enterprise platform. If that happened, they suspected enterprise customers of Java would soon need relief from the pain points caused by poor scaling and disappointing deployment costs.
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Tuesday - April 29, 2008
Given the powerful double-digit growth of e-commerce during the first decade of the industry, few merchants worried that a payment alternative to credit cards or the well-established PayPal was needed. More recently, however, as e-commerce growth rates slow, the fast-growing, credit card-free alternative Bill Me Later has proven that merchants and consumers alike are hungry for alternatives.
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Friday - April 4, 2008
Working with online car sales leads since the early part of the dot-com era, the cofounders of the Detroit Trading Exchange saw firsthand the inefficiencies in the market and set out to address them. The result is a robust and active trading exchange where car dealers and others bid to buy more than 300,000 sales leads generated by consumer-facing Web sites each month.
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Thursday - March 27, 2008
As an executive at Callidus Software, Chris Cabrera was frustrated at the mid-market deals he often had to leave at the wayside. There were firms that basically could not afford Callidus' on-premise incentive compensation software, nor the integration and implementation costs that would accompany such an investment. So like many executives have done, he left his employer to form his own company.
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Wednesday - March 26, 2008
Every year, Beagle Research Group scours the tech landscape in search of a few good companies that are developing technologies not only novel to the customer relationship management industry, but also likely to reinvent business processes in their particular niches.
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Saturday - February 16, 2008
"In 1995, I began to e-mail a bunch of friends about art and technical events in San Francisco. Over the months that followed, people kept asking if I could add the occasional job posting and listings for things to sell, too. Then I said, 'Let's add apartment listings, too,'" said Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.
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Sunday - February 10, 2008
SugarCRM will be building out its global footprint and investing in its engineering bench now that it has completed its latest round of funding. The open source customer relationship management provider just secured a $20 million package, led by New Enterprise Associates, bringing its total funding to $46 million.
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Thursday - December 27, 2007
Amazon.com executives and investors had a very merry holiday season as buyers chose the online mall in huge numbers. Amazon said the 2007 holiday season, its 13th, was its best ever in terms of sales. While the Seattle-based e-commerce giant did not reveal final sales figures, it noted customers ordered more than 5.4 million items on Dec. 10, its busiest day of the season.
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Friday - December 21, 2007
NetSuite has sold 6.2 million shares to investors in a Dutch auction this week, raising a healthy $161 million. The haul from its long-awaited initial public offering came in spite of -- or perhaps because -- its moving target price. NetSuite ultimately debuted at $26 per share.
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Wednesday - December 19, 2007
Using a dogged style of reporting, Steven Levy traces the emerging technologies and cultural phenomenon central to the iPod, Apple's portable music and movie player, in his new book, The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness. Levy discusses "the perfect thing" in terms of its success from an "alignment of technology, design, culture, and media."
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