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ACM Significantly Improved User Experience With Google Site Search

ACM Advanced Currency Markets is a world leader in online currency and precious metal trading on the Foreign Exchange FOREX markets. Founded in 2002, the company places innovation, efficiency, and user friendliness at the heart of its technical development strategy. The online trading business is very technology sensitive; therefore, any...

Tags: Google Inc., Online Trading, ACM, Online Trading Business, Google Site Search, E-business/E-Commerce, Leadership, Strategy, Internet, Management

Case studies 2008-05-29

Additional Resources

SOMESSO: social computing meets financial services

Next Monday and Tuesday I will be attending SOMESSO in Zurich. This is an event that covers the intersection between the financial services industry and social computing. According to the blurbs: Day 1 is reserved for corporate workshops for Finance and Banking professionals Finance Masterclass on the...

Tags: Financial Service, Social Computing, Fidor, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-30

Oracle's Q1: "We grew faster than SAP"

Oracle Corp., which is facing a delay of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, today reported first quarter non-GAAP earnings of $1.5 billion, or 30 cents per share, a three-percent increase over the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $5.1 billion, a 7 percent drop from last year. Wall Street...

Tags: Acquisition, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., SAP AG, Earnings, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, GAAP, Corporate Law, Databases, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Adobe to acquire Omniture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer'

Adobe Systems said Tuesday that it will acquire Omniture, which offers Web analytics, measurement and optimization technologies, in a cash deal that's valued at about $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share of Omniture. That adds up to a premium of about 45 percent over Omniture's average closing price over the...

Tags: Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-15

123BCP 2.1.10 (Windows)

The 123BCP software helps you build a sophisticated continuity plan, ensuring that in the event of a disaster your organization continues to run smoothly. Using 123BCP it is easy for a "non-expert" to build a plan to cover your IT, backup trading locations, assets, contacts, costs and insurance. Step-by-step the...

Tags: Software, Disaster, Microsoft Windows, Plan, 123BCP, Tools & Techniques, Backups, Business Security, Strategy, Management, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Google: Pot, kettle, black, Chrome OS and a potential antitrust

Apple should also be under fire.----Why can?t Microsoft ship a Windows edition without including a browser or at least come under fire from a zillion lawsuits yet Google can?----Well, what about Apple and its tight integration of Safari on the Mac? They are all doing the same bundling but then...

Tags: Corporate law, Web browsers, Operating systems, Google Inc., Chrome, Chrome OS, Microsoft Corp., operating system, antitrust, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Taobao.com Runs China's Busiest Data Warehouse on 20 Node Database Cluster

Founded in 2003 by Alibaba.com, Taobao.com is Asia's largest online shopping Web site. The company engages in Consumer-To-Consumer (C2C) and Business-To-Consumer (B2C) trading and has a 70% share of the online market in China. Taobao.com has used Oracle Database and clusterware products since 2004, building an enterprise data warehouse to...

Tags: China, Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Taobao.com, B2C, Databases, Storage, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-08-01

eBay's Q2: PayPal, Skype growth offset by declines at marketplace sites

eBay today reported solid second quarter financial results that were slightly better than Wall Street's expectations but revenue growth of PayPal and Skype was offset, in part, by declines in the Marketplaces business. For the quarter ending June 30 statement, the company reported net income of $479...

Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Teams in the (Troubled) Cloud

Not all team members are created equal I’ve had some really interesting briefings/meetings lately. If you want to understand where software executives, industry leaders, etc. are going/thinking, then read on. Let’s begin with a conversation I had with Maynard Webb....

Tags: Team, Team Member, Worker, Maynard, Loyalty, Team Management, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Adknowledge acquires Smart Rewards: Can virtual cash reinvent online ads?

Adknowledge, the largest online advertising network, today acquired Super Rewards, a fast growing startup that uses virtual cash to engage people with advertisers. The value of the deal was not disclosed. "I'm very excited about the promise of virtual cash," Brett Brewer, president of Adknowledge, told SVW....

Tags: Social Networking, Advertisement, Online Advertising, AdKnowledge, Advertiser, Super Rewards, Virtual Cash, Sales Strategy, Sales, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Google: Nice quarter, but...

Google's expense management enabled the company to handily top its earnings targets, but there were Wall Street worries about the company's lack of revenue growth. Revenue per click was also a worry. The company today reported second quarter revenue of $4.07 billion, beating Wall Street's estimates of...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Dell aims to diversify away from PCs, but how?

Dell aims to diversify away from PCs, but how?Dell should simply...make an Android handset that gives users root and easily allows people to do things like voip or more accurately allows developers to create apps that can do things like that.If the real power of the handset were available ......

Tags: Data centers, SMB/SME, Desktops, PC, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

The Learn Forex Trading Report 1.0 (Windows)

More and more people are discovering that Forex Trade can be a very lucrative Business. Online Forex Trading services makes it possible to trade in Forex from anywhere in the world. Nothwithstanding this, many more people fail in the Forex Trading Business than succeed. The 'Learn Forex Trading' Report seeks...

Tags: Internet Resource Center, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-13

Did Jobs and Apple lie about reason for departure?

Did Jobs and Apple lie about reason for departure?Uh huh.We should definitely throw Jobs in prison for possibly affecting the share price in Apple. How dare he hide or not fully disclose the extent of his health problems? I mean, that could cost people money!The SEC should not only demand...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Apple Inc., SEC, health care, microphone, Steve Jobs, job

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Cloud Computing: Best Practices for Migrating to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite

The very name "Cloud" implies something vague about computing. It has been called many things: "Software as a service", "Software plus services" or "Hosted applications". Most common definitions of "Cloud computing" involve an organization paying a monthly fee for a service - usually a service that the organization would have...

Tags: Business Productivity, Microsoft Corp., Best Practice, Quest Software Inc., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-01

WebUI Studio 2009 (Windows)

Introducing Premier edition, the new WebUI Studio 2009 designed for all your web development needs. Now featuring 40+ advanced presentation components for ASP.NET and Silverlight in one box, WebUI Studio 2009 Premier is the ultimate toolset for building rich, next-generation RIA business applications. Intersoft WebUI Studio Premier provides a complete...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Windows, Web Development, Intersoft Solutions, Intersoft WebUI Studio Premier, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-12

Why does 'complex event processing' have to be so complex?

I've always felt that "complex event processing" is a term that scares people away. Perhaps there needs to be a softer way to describe what this thing is -- perhaps just plain old "event processing" will do? Or perhaps "sense and respond, times 100,000"? You don't need...

Tags: Event, Financial Services, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy

Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's  Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...

Tags: Web, Credit Card, Seller, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Cybercriminal, Economy, Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Real misses for Q1, swings to loss; mentions "Facet"

Real Networks today reported a first quarter loss of $12.1 million, or 10 cents a share, on sales of $140.8 million, a five percent drop from the year-ago quarter. In the year ago quarter, the company reported a net profit of $2.4 million, or 8 cents per share. Statement ...

Tags: Software, Revenue, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Tools & Techniques, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Apple beats for Q2; Best non-holiday quarter; Netbook hardware 'junky'

Apple, known for conservative financial forecasts, easily surpassed Wall Street's estimates for the second quarter, reporting net income of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per share, on sales of $8.16 billion. Statement Wall Street had been expecting earnings of $1.08 per share on $7.9 billion in sales, according to Thomson Reuters....

Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Financial, Apple Inc., Netbook, Sales Strategy, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-22