Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- Salesforce.com's new PaaS Fund: Is it Enough to Jump Start the PaaS Concept?
- Salesforce.com and its venture capital pals are trying to up the ante in the platform game by putting together a seed fund for start-ups that want to target SFDC's re-christened AppExchange platform, now known by the somewhat outré term: platform-as-a-service, or PaaS. According to published reports,...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Fund, PaaS, SFDC, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Investment, Marketing Research, Sales, Finance, Marketing, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Unclaimed Money & Property Search Tool (zip)
- Unclaimed Money & Property Finder. This program gives you access to the US treasury's massive database of unclaimed cash, properties, funds, accounts and more. Also includes coverage/databases for Canadian funds. The US Treasury holds more than 36 Billion dollars in unclaimed funds from old/expired bank accounts, seizures, insurance actions and...
- Tags: Fund, Search Tool, Tool, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
- Software downloads 2007-06-22
- Texas money is for books, not computers
- Way back in 1876, the founders of Texas set up a fund - the Permanent School Fund, which now holds $20 billion is assets and generates $800 million a year for textbooks and other materials. Some in the state Legislature want to change the rules and allow the fund...
- Tags: computer, Tincy, textbook
- Blog posts 2006-07-19
- CIO agenda: Three funerals and a wedding
- Tom Foremski of the SiliconValleyWatcher describes the mood of the recent Churchhill Club CIO panel with particpants from Levi Strauss, Agilent Technologies, Microsoft and Fireman's Fund as "three funerals and a wedding." * Ron Markezich, the Microsoft CIO, was in an ebullient mood, very much at odds with the rest of the...
- Tags: Agilent Technologies Inc., Fireman, Fund, Ron Markezich
- Blog posts 2004-12-02
Additional Resources
- Another call for Yahoo-Icahn compromise
- Carl Icahn's push to get a new slate of directors on board at Yahoo took another hit late Sunday when another shareholder stepped up to call for a compromise. According to Reuters, Eric Jackson, manager of hedge fund Ironfire Capital and leader of shareholder group Yahoo Plan B, will announce...
- Tags: Slate, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Rich Internet application startup ideas Y Combinator wants to see
- Y Combinator posted a list of a bunch of different startup ideas they'd like to see and fund. It's a sizable list with 30 different thoughts waiting for enthusiastic entrepreneurs to take a shot. But what struck me most about the list was how RIA-heavy it is. I as much...
- Tags: Rich Internet Application, Rich Media, Site Builder, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- U.S. health care not getting better
- In its second National Scorecard on Health System Performance the Commonwealth Fund gives the U.S. system 65 points out of 100. The New York Times kindly calls this a "D" but it doesn't read like a passing grade. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: U.S., Health Care, Commonwealth Fund, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Voting For A McCain
- SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons So, poor John McCain. At the start of the year, he gets bounced around because he is "not well versed" in economics. In summer, he gets beat up again, because he says he is "illiterate" about technology (and the way he expresses...
- Tags: Innovation, Network, John McCain, Obama, Taxes, Free Trade, Internet, Leadership, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic'
- Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic'What is the fascination with bringing up Vista in......just about every blog forum? This blog had nothing to do with Vista yet here you are whining about it. Why?It has to do with eyeballs and marketing.In the search market, Yahoo is number 2...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Icahn
- Discussion threads 2008-07-13
- EPIC iFAIL
- EPIC iFAILhmmm 2.0iPhone software 2.0 can import all your contacts from your SIM card. JUST FYI.RE: EPIC iFAILWell since you have a T-Mobile phone and it also has a SIM card you can copy all your contacts to your SIM card and Then all you have to do is have...
- Tags: Flash memory, OK IT, EPIC iFAIL, EPIC, Apple iPhone, lunatic, SIM card, reasonable people
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Where to ditch that old iPhone? Recycling and mobile phones
- This story from the Environmental Leader is perfectly timed, considering the overwhelming media din over today's iPhone launch. According to a timed survey released by Nokia, it seems that only three percent of people opting for a new mobile phone actually recycle the old ones when...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Mobile, Recycling, Cell Phone, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- A time and need for service innovation, education
- The vision behind Service Science is to build a coherent body of knowledge for service innovation, says IBM's Jim Spohrer. Commentary--Services make the world go around. In modern day society, we are all connected to each other by either giving or receiving a service. ...
- Tags: services, IBM
- News items 2008-07-10
- What was that about cutting music?
- Every year it's the same story for too many districts. Do we cut music, art, technology, physical education, or some unsavory combination thereof? Obviously we have to teach the core subjects; we don't get dinged on our standardized music test scores and nobody cares if we have students...
- Tags: Music, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Attacking phishing at the source
- Attacking phishing at the sourceDomainKeys--it's a startNow if mandated changes were in effect 'with teeth' that enforced usage of PGP or GnuPG or S/MIME for signed encrypted email, that would take down the spam to 0%!RE: Attacking phishing at the sourceSince phishing has cost countless pains to so many people,...
- Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, inactivism, Attacking phishing, restraint
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Should free broadband be neutral?
- Should free broadband be neutral?It should remain free or it shall be replacedIt should remain free, but most likely greed will prevent this for some time. Smutty content like spam should be penalized but not taxed.Telcos would love to profit by regulating bandwidth. Now this is not what capitalism...
- Tags: Taxes, Government, Network technology, Broadband Internet, Federal government, Socialism, broadband, tax, Internet, FCC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behavior
- Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behaviorCorrect me if I'm wrongFrom what I understand, MS has [b]zero[/b] power over Yahoo stockholders. MS made an offer, the board rejected it, and some major stockholders believe the board made a mistake. To say MS and Icahn are...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Financial accounting, Now Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Arrington, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Michael Arrington, board
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- An IT productivity horror story
- An IT productivity horror storyMiddlemen1, Speculating on your unconfirmed report, is there any love lost between the insurance companies and the independent insurance brokers? Relationships between suppliers and independent brokers tend to change over time. If the companies are after the margins of the brokers, automated communication may be the...
- Tags: Financial Planning, IT productivity, information technology, insurance, insurance company
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Can your insurance force you out of the country?
- Can your insurance force you out of the country?Will they include airfare and a guarantee?Most people have found good doctors they have a rapport with. If computer systems can't be dealt with by words printed on a cue card, human medicine is going to be a thousandfold more complex...
- Tags: Government, Financial Planning, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, insurance, Socialized Medicine
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade danceCorporate Communism!This is an example of what I call Corportate Communism. Microsoft is showing it's anti-capitalist leanings. When companies like Microsoft can't compete in the market, they buy the competitor. Some argue that's capitalism. I...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Government, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- (Images: Dubai's skyscraper in motion)
- (Images: Dubai's skyscraper in motion)Fast Forward, NYC... where the story of the great PIT continues. It just amazes and saddens me how far the US has fallen.When the rest of the world reads about the insurance lawsuits related to the original WTC, the fear of replacing the building with one...
- Tags: skyscraper
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts