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- eBay names Sun veteran head of data center strategy
- EBay has appointed Dean Nelson, a Sun Microsystems veteran, to be in charge of its data center strategy. Nelson will be senior director of global data center strategy, architecture and operations. Nelson is founder of Data Center Pulse, a non-profit data center industry group. ...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., eBay Inc., Dean Nelson, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Makes sense now: eBay unloads Skype; Gets $1.9 billion in cash and keeps 35% stake
- EBay has officially sold Skype in a deal that values the telephony company at $2.75 billion. The online auction company will get $1.9 billion in cash and retains a 35 percent chunk of the company. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, E-business/E-Commerce, VOIP, Internet, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- World's Biggest Auto Auction Links Customer Information to Grow Online Business
- Manheim is the world's leading provider of used vehicle auctions and related services. Operating in 140 locations in 19 countries, the company and its subsidiaries processed sales of 10 million vehicles in 2008. Manheim realized that it needed better insight into customer and transaction data. With help from Microsoft Services...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Customer Information, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp., Auction, Manheim, Sales Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- How much do desktops matter?
- How much do desktops matter?The desktop/laptop will be around longer than that.Laptops continue to grow more prevalent than desktops, but a workstation computer will be a very long standing fixture in the lives of those in the developed world. No one is going to write term papers on a...
- Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, mobile world, desktop, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-06-19
- Allegro Group Ensures Enterprise Scalability With Flexible, Integrated Data Warehouse Solution
- Allegro Group wanted to build a scalable enterprise data warehouse that meets business users' performance and quality of service expectations and deliver a single point of truth with integrated metadata, from data integration through to enterprise reporting tools. The challenge was to provide flexible reporting and analysis tools, including sophisticated...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, QoS, Oracle Corp., Performance, Scalability, Dashboard, Online Auction, Performance Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- The Elance Interview â€" The Elance you probably didn’t know
- I recently chatted with Fabio Rosati of Elance. Fabio’s been at the helm @ Elance since 2001 and the company has changed a lot during his tenure. By way of full disclosure, my one-time business partner and fellow blogger, Vinnie Mirchandani, and I once launched...
- Tags: eLance, Fabio, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- MyStarterBlog 1.7 (Windows)
- MyStarterBlogMSB is a simple online/offline content management systemCMS with added features to help you make money online. Many bloggers are using online CMS for their main blog. It's okay since we do the same ourself. But sometimes, a blogger don't want to deal with security issues, create a database, update...
- Tags: Blog, Microsoft Windows, Content Management System, Blogger, McGrath Info Solution, MSB, Blogging, Content Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2009-05-17
- Can eBay's payment strategy carry it through auction makeover?
- EBay has the right idea about putting its marketplace unit - comprised of sites such as eBay and StubHub - into revamp mode, as it told analysts during a meeting yesterday. For the fourth quarter, the unit saw sales slip 16 percent from a year earlier. But sales in the...
- Tags: Strategy, Payment, eBay Inc., Auction, Bill, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Newegg, Amazon, Netflix lead e-tail customer satisfaction; eBay hits all-time low
- Consumers report more customer satisfaction with goods and services, but e-commerce results were mixed as e-tailers like Amazon and Newegg remained strong but online broker scores dropped. The American Customer Satisfaction Index ACSI ticked up to 75.7 in the fourth quarter, up 0.9 percent from a year...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Newegg.com, Customer Satisfaction, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., American Customer Satisfaction Index, E-tail, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Saving is the open source mandate
- Saving is the open source mandateAnother perspectiveWindows user goes to buy a netbook and has a choice between windows and linux would save $25 by getting the linux one. If that user makes $25 an hour the savings is gone the first time it takes them an hour to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Windows User, open source, Microsoft Office, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-02-06
- Online democracy: The People want to throw a shoe
- Why should Iraqi journalists have all the fun? Ever since the infamous shoe incident, a number of online games have popped up allowing all of us to fling a shoe at President Bush as he departs office, TechRadar reports. Sock and Awe boasts over 49 million shoes have knocked...
- Tags: Shoe, Games, Servers, Personal Technology, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- Advantages of the iPhone over the Storm
- Advantages of the iPhone over the StormMac Connectivity?This is honestly in the article about a Mac based phone and a blackberry, come on. First of all the fact that there are no Mac applications on the blackberry make it a very appealing product. And unless you are using...
- Tags: Smart phones, Wireless LANs, Keyboards, Cellular phones, Handhelds, AppStore, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- No surprise. Yahoo expected to announce layoffs
- Word leaked out over the weekend that Yahoo is planning layoffs when it reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday afternoon. The exact number of jobs affected is unknown, thought sources told the San Jose Mercury News and Wall Street Journal that it would likely be more than 1,000. The job cuts...
- Tags: Layoff, Yahoo! Inc., Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000
- eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000Is it a hard time now?Of course not,i am always in confident of e-commercial,which leading our life style,I really appreciate ebay's courage in making the changes at the dark before the dawn.RE: eBay doubles down on payments...
- Tags: payment, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girl
- McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlEnough already!We get it! Anybody that is supporting John McCain is bad and anybody supporting Barrack Obama is good. You have sufficiently established your liberal credentials.RE: McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlMcCain wants something acutally ONLINE?...
- Tags: John McCain, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- TechCrunch50: Day 3
- Photo by Steve Maller I've been covering TC50 for the past few days, and believe it or not, I'm still hungry for more startup pitches. 6:30 a.m. The final sessions of the conference are posted on BusinessWire: s Akoha...
- Tags: Hollywood, YouTube Inc., Video, Photograph, Bojam, Truecar, Playce, Panelist, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- TechCrunch50: Day 1
- When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing
- eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricingI'll stick with Amazon...Doesn't require yet 2 more accounts eBait and PayPal and I actually trust Amazon.I do not trust PayPal.RE: eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricingEight years ago eBay was an amazing place. ...
- Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, pricing strategy, eBay Inc., eBay has Amazon, eBay has Amazon envy, eBay HAS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing
- Can eBay still be eBay as it moves toward a fixed pricing model? Possibly, but it's going to be really difficult to change its auctioneer image. On Wednesday, eBay announced new fee changes (Techmeme, eBay blog). It is lowering its listing fees for sellers that use the...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, eBay Inc., Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- The Tech I.P.O. 2008, R.I.P.
- There was not a single fresh offering of stock in a technology company to the public in the quarter ended June 30. That kind of goose egg hasn’t been laid since 1978. Don’t expect that to change any time, soon. Let’s look at the...
- Tags: tom steinert-threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
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