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- MOBY 7v5 (Mac)
- MOBY helps you consolidate your ordering, customer database and cash register into one unified system. MOBY is streamlined to make short work of your most repetitive tasks, while improving consistency and reliabililty of the results. Ordering can be based on actual sales, holds, requests and reordering thresholds. MOBY transactions are...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mouse, Item, Bitter End Systems, MOBY, MOBY Transaction, Mice, Keyboards, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Peripherals, Sales
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting
- Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...
- Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Newegg announces IPO, plans for expansion
- Online electronics retailer Newegg is going public, launching an IPO estimated at $175 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. The retailer has largely been focused on IT products such as hardware, software and peripherals since its launch in 2001 but recently...
- Tags: Information Technology, Retail Company, Newegg.com, Retail, IPO, Sales Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Best Buy will not honor $9.99 HDTV deal
- The question Best Buy has to ask themselvesis whether the bad PR is worse than the loss on the sales. Apparently they feel they can handle the PR backlash more than the losses on these sales. Which is probably right, because I can't imagine people declaring war on Best Buy...
- Tags: Public relations, TVs, Sales strategy, TV & Home Theater, Financial services, Best Buy Co. Inc., HDTV
- Discussion threads 2009-08-13
- Rackspace goes for it: Plots infrastructure buildout; Notches enterprise wins
- Rackspace is adding cloud and hosting customers at a healthy clip and plopping down the capital spending to go with it. The company upped its 2009 capital expenditure outlook as it builds out its infrastructure and chases enterprise customers. On Rackspace's second quarter earnings conference call, the...
- Tags: Rackspace, Patrick Walravens, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Target's departure from Amazon creates IT risk; Opportunity for GSI Commerce?
- Target plans to leave Amazon's e-commerce platform to build its own site ahead of the 2011 holiday season. The transition is going to be one of the more visible IT projects in the next two years. Amazon will take a bit of a profit hit from the...
- Tags: Information Technology, GSI Commerce Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Target.com, E-business, Target, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Retail, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- A good fit: Amazon gobbles up Zappos
- Amazon said Wednesday that it is acquiring Zappos in a deal worth $847 million. The CEOs of both companies portrayed the deal as an e-commerce learning adventure where both sides can learn from each other and leverage strengths. The combination is an interesting one. Zappos.com, which primarily...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Zappos, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Analyst: Kindle to reach 10 percent of Amazon's customer base; Ending Target deal a risk
- The great Kindle sales guessing game continues. Cowen and Co. analyst Jim Friedland upgraded Amazon to outperform from neutral on Tuesday and his case depends heavily on future Kindle sales---along with the power of Amazon Prime subscriptions and new businesses like Amazon Web Services. However, Friedland also...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Target.com, Jim Friedland, Business Structures, Web Site Development, Sales Strategy, Web Technology, Strategy, Finance, Internet, Sales, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- eBay power sellers: Amazon is kicking eBay's tail
- Three eBay power sellers are painting a mixed picture at best for the auction site and note that the recession and Amazon are thumping the company. These power sellers, Skip McGrath, an eBay Gold PowerSeller; Steve Lindhorst is a former eBay University instructor; and Ron Saxton, whose...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Skip McGrath, Jeffrey Lindsay, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- NetSuite aims to connect to Salesforce.com's cloud
- NetSuite on Thursday announced a set of connectors from third party developers that will hook up its enterprise planning software suite with Salesforce.com's CRM apps. The idea: Allow Salesforce.com customers to integrate NetSuite applications into their arsenal of software as a service applications. The effort is dubbed SuiteCloud...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Loomis Gains Real-Time Visibility Into Customer Data, From Sales Through Fulfillment, to Customer Service
- Loomis wanted to reduce response times and provide customers with real-time information about Loomis' cash logistics services, including secure transport, cash and check processing, and smart safes and improve service levels and convenience by establishing an around-the-clock, single point of contact for customer inquiries and information about products, including Virtual...
- Tags: Fulfillment, Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Logistics, Supply Chain, Sales Strategy, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- TOGAF 9: Take control of your IT architecture
- TOGAF 9: Take control of your IT architectureWrong title..This is NOT about IT architecture but Enterprise Architecture!!! which includes Business Architecture as well. TOGAF 9 is even adding additional features which better align IT with Business, such as the ?business capability? , which refer to the capabilities needed by any...
- Tags: Strategy, TOGAF 9, IT Architecture, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-02-03
- Personalized Customer Communications Puts E.ON Ahead of the Competition
- E.ON, the world's largest investor-owned energy company, wanted to respond to customer's needs and a competitive market by incorporating marketing messages and campaign management to create customized customer communications. Using HP Exstream, E.ON now produces a one-piece, full-color fulfillment communication with individually tailored messages that respond to exactly what the...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Marketing Research, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Cloud boom or cloud bubble?
- Cloud boom or cloud bubble?Salesforce blowsI'm so tired of every idiot tech reporter talking about how great salesforce is.Working with them is a nightmare. They have stupidity and ineptitude coupled with arrogance. They don't even support record locking for integration. That's CS 101 stuff.Vendor lock-in? And...
- Tags: cloud computing, outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2009-01-20
- MOBY 6v6 (Windows)
- MOBY helps you consolidate your ordering, customer database and cash register into one unified system. MOBY is streamlined to make short work of your most repetitive tasks, while improving consistency and reliabililty of the results. Ordering can be based on actual sales, holds, requests and reordering thresholds. MOBY transactions are...
- Tags: Mouse, Item, Microsoft Windows, Bitter End Systems, MOBY, MOBY Transaction, Mice, Keyboards, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Peripherals, Sales
- Software downloads 2008-12-31
- E-commerce's looming question: Will consumers show up?
- The fourth quarter for e-commerce will be very telling. Will online sales continue to grow even if the consumer is strapped? Or will e-commerce increasingly look like the rest of the retail sector? To wit: Amazon's fourth quarter outlook, which had a range so...
- Tags: Consumer, GSI Commerce Inc., Analyst, Amazon.com Inc., E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Windows 7 wishes
- Windows 7 wishesOn layers.Per Ed's post, IE 8 continues to be integrated and integral to the OS. It is likely that many other user space apps that MS creates, will at least be partially embedded, if not completely.End user applications have no business being part of the OS itself,...
- Tags: Operating systems, 64-bit, Luna, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 Wishes, operating system, Aero, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Netflix may lose $1.8M to $3.6M in revenue per day over outage
- Update: Netflix has been facing shipping delays and outages in its distribution centers for the last two days and has been fumbling to find a fix. The company said Thursday that it is hoping to bring its systems online overnight. But the tab for the outage is roughly $1.8 million...
- Tags: Revenue, NetFlix Inc., Distribution Center, Outage, DVD, Consumer Electronics, E-mail, Manufacturing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Online Communications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Netflix ups outlook; Customer acquisition costs fall
- Netflix said Friday it ended the second quarter with more than 8.4 million subscribers, up 25 percent from a year ago, and spent less money acquiring those customers. Those two factors added up to better than expected quarterly results and an improved outlook. The company has been...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Acquisition, Earnings, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Oracle joins iPhone mania
- Last night, Oracle released Business Indicators on iTunes. It is a free client for the iPhone that provides top level information from business intelligence applications. Oracle is trying to appeal to a broad range of business users and claims the following examples: "Contact center ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Pricing, Taxes, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Free Trade, Monitors & Displays, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Financial Planning, Finance, Software, Data Management, Management, Hardware, Components, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
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