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- Yahoo: Going private trial balloon floated; Is private equity the solution?
- Former AOL Chief Jonathan Miller is looking in the couch cushions to raise enough money to buy a part--if not all of Yahoo. According to the Wall Street Journal, Miller has been talking to private equity folks and sovereign wealth funds to buy Yahoo for about $20...
- Tags: Private Equity, Yahoo! Inc., Miller, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Mervyns – The cautionary tale of selling one's business
- Too Many Cooks Spoil the Livelihoods of Thousands BusinessWeek (12/6/2008) did a great job of dissecting of what went wrong in the collapse of U. S. retailer, Mervyns (see "What Have You Done to My Company"). The subtitle of the story pretty much sums up the...
- Tags: Private Equity, Private Equity Company, Firm, Mervyns, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Sage to step into the on-demand ring
- News started leaking late last week that Sage, the UK's largest software company, will release an on-demand accounting application called SageLive aimed at the SMB market. Details are sketchy beyond a blog post by competitor KashFlow but it seems the company is finally getting serious about the on-demand space after...
- Tags: Accounting, On-demand, U.K., Details, Sage 50, Cloud Computing, Smb/Sme, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Talking is a good thing
- I had a great meeting with one of the elementary schools in my district today. The principal turned over most of a staff meeting to me today in part for some training and professional development, but largely for a discussion of technology in the district. I...
- Tags: District, Budgeting, Principal, Teacher, Financial Services, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Taleo: Management's comments regarding their November to forget
- A Different and More Optimistic View - Execs Confirm Many Prior Assumptions Last week, Taleo's Katy Murray, CFO, and Nate Swanson, Investor Relations, were kind enough to spend a few minutes with me to discuss my recent post on Taleo. The overall tone was positive and not...
- Tags: Taleo Corp., Operational Accounting, Revenue Recognition, Sales Strategy, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- US Apple Store savings better, still hardly worth getting out of bed for
- Predictions that Apple would roll out 15% discounts for Black Friday have been dashed as modest discounts are unveiled. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Discount, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Ho, Ho, Ho: Credit Card Fraud Not A Holiday Killer. Unless You Get Hit.
- A recession is when your neighbor gets laid off. A depression is when you get terminated. With credit cards, fraud is not a big deal. Unless it's your number that's for sale, online. A Symantec report says the underground economy is booming. The total value of goods...
- Tags: Bank, Symantec Corp., Credit Card, Fraud, Sales Strategy, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse
- SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said Friday that John Wookey, a former Oracle executive, is "a great software man" who will help the enterprise software giant push its software as a service meets on-premise applications strategy. Separately, Apotheker noted that business hasn't gotten worse from the outlook the company gave on...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Taleo's November to forget
- An HR Soap Opera This month hasn't been a good one for Taleo. Here's the timeline of events and an analysis of the lawsuits that are originating from recent events. On 11/3/2008, the company announced its Q3 earnings and they didn't delight Wall...
- Tags: Revenue, Taleo Corp., Stock, Revenue Recognition, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Mobile audience growth by site category, April 2007 vs. April 2008
- Site Category YTY Growth in Unique Visitors Banking 91% Search 68% Traffic 65% Maps 64% Weather 57% News 54% Source: comScore by NB
- Tags: Mobile, Banking, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Services, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Please, give me a few billion, pretty please
- The chances are dimming for any loans to the automakers this year. There's a stall, a back-up, a traffic jam in Congress according to the blogosphere. The Detroit Big Three were in Washington today with their over-sized begging bowls out. They got some support, some raspberries. ...
- Tags: White House, Loan, Banking, Financial Services, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Have you ever logged onto your credit card Web site?
- Response 2007 2008 Change Yes 69% 73% +4 No 31% 27% -4 Source: comScore by NB
- Tags: Web, Credit Card, ComScore Networks Inc., Web Site, Web Site Development, Sales Channel, Web Technology, Financial Services, Channel Management, Internet, Sales, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Dick, Jane, and MySQL: why recessions favor open source
- Recessions are good for open source simply because they force non IT management to face the costs of IT -and think a bit about what they know it can do for the business. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Recession, Information Technology, MySQL, Open Source, Paul Murphy, Bank, Accounting, Server, Times, Richard, Sales Strategy, Financial Services, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Fake Windows XP activation trojan goes 2.0
- Known as Kardphisher and "in the wild" since April, 2007, last week the malware author of this trojan horse mimicking the Windows XP activation interface while collecting the credit card details the end user has submitted, has made significant changes to visual interface and usability of the trojan, consequently improving...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Credit Card, Trojan Horse, Malware, Social Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Oh Mamma.com: SEC charges Mark Cuban with insider trading; Cuban responds
- Updated: The Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday that it has charged Mark Cuban with insider trading for selling 600,000 shares of Mamma.com. Specifically, the SEC says that search engine Mamma.com, known today as Copernic, invited Cuban--owner of the Dallas Mavericks and former Yahoo and Broadcast.com exec--to...
- Tags: SEC, Mark Cuban, Mamma.com, PIPE, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Engineering, tech 'suddenly sexy' for college grads
- As the financial crisis deepens, science and math graduates of top colleges and universities who once flocked to investment banking are now looking to jobs in engineering and technology. Sexy science? Indeed. The article, which appears in BusinessWeek, details how the fall of the...
- Tags: Investment Banking, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Microsoft, Creative Financing, and the Bank of EAC
- Microsoft's announcement that it would offer 0% financing to new customers of its Dynamics product line is a welcome offering at a time when the credit crisis requires out-of-the-box solutions to the fact that a bunch of ungrateful banks are unwilling to loan the taxpayer those megabucks we lent them...
- Tags: Bank, Financing, Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Are visits to massage parlors and bars impacting your credit?
- Tech blogs are quick to point out when things appear to be a bit too big-brotherish for our comfort levels - cookies, deep packet inspection, Gmail ads. Now, it appears that the one to watch out for is the credit card companies. Money Magazine, in its December...
- Tags: Credit Card, Credit Card Company, American Express Co., Magazine, Tech Blog, Sales Channel, ATM, Financial Services, Sales, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- The change imperative: It's back-to-basics time
- It's about accepting we now operate in a global economy and that we are competing at a level where we need to work as hard, and as smart, as the next nation. I hope President-Elect Obama can help instill a new work culture in the US. by Phil Fersht
- Tags: Imperative, Phil Fersht, Meltdown, BPO, Industry, Deterioration, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Strategy, Banking, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Financial Services
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- The End of the Party
- Obama's use of the Internet and social nets, plus his embrace of decentralized, self-organizing hives of volunteers, changed elections forever. It will also change governing. Indeed, Obama has shown that a 21st century politician has no need for political parties -- and that will have huge ramifications for decades to...
- Tags: Party, Obama, Internet, Richard Koman, Web, Banking, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Financial Services, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-11-09
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