News Archive
At last month's Gartner BI Summit in Washington, D.C., the first person I sat down to chat with was John Evans, Director of Product Marketing at Kalido, a Boston-area-based BI warehousing and MDM solutions company. Evans was kind enough to agree to do a live podcast with me, and so we did...only to discover afterward that my MP3 recorder didn't act..
04 April 2009
Drapers Online
Lingerie etailer Figleaves will launch women’s clothing next week, as it looks to evolve into a fully fledged lifestyle etailer.
The etailer has invested £1 million in the launch of its own-label womenswear brand, Figleaves Woman, which will sit alongside other womenswear brands including Hudson Jeans, American Vintage, Citizens of Huma..
01 April 2009
Press Release
NewBay LifeCache operator cloud services now storing over 4 billion pieces of user-generated content. NewBay, the leader in digital lifestyle solutions for operators, today announced that its award winning LifeCache product suite is storing over four billion pieces of user-generated content (UGC) online for subscribers worldwide. Petabytes of ..
31 March 2009
Multichannel
Openet -- after two years of "behind-the-scenes" work with two of the four biggest U.S. cable operators -- is launching software designed to let MSOs better measure consumers' TV viewing and voice and data usage.
Openet's roots are in analyzing transactional data for wireless carriers, including BT, Orange, AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
The Openet..
30 March 2009
Paid Content
On-demand music streaming app Spotify has now formally added one of the three music retail affiliates it told us about earlier this month. Listeners can right-click track names and pick "Buy From 7Digital.com", letting them purchase corresponding 320Kbps MP3s and some FLAC files from the six million track-strong service. Later, users will also get ..
30 March 2009
Reuters News
* 2008 sales rise 19 pct, turns to profit* No immediate IPO plans* Helped by smaller exposure to advertising downturn
HELSINKI, March 30 (Reuters) - Finnish Internet company Sulake swung to a profit in 2008, boosted by increasing usage of its teenagers' networking site Habbo Hotel.
Sulake's virtual world Habbo Hotel (http://www.habbo.com/) has arou..
25 March 2009
The Wall Street Journal
Yoox Group SpA, the online fashion retailer, has hired Goldman Sachs and Mediabanc to underwrite its initial public offering of stock, planned for December, the retailer's chief executive officer said Tuesday.
Federico Marchetti, who founded the Bologna, Italy, retailer in 2000, said the company's business model -- of serving as an e-commerce site ..
16 March 2009
The Independent
Zopa, the social lending website that cuts out banks, lent a record £2.5m in February and is piling on new members as the credit drought makes its service more attractive. The company, which brings lenders and borrowers together via the internet, said its business grew rapidly in the second half of last year as bank lending prices rocketed wh..
10 February 2009
Press Release
Staffordshire Rolls Out Programme with GreenRoad and Admiral; has Reduced Young Driver Risk by 58%.
GreenRoad today announced that it is working with insurance specialist Admiral to encourage young drivers to drive safely with the first ‘pay how you drive’ scheme in the industry. GreenRoad and Admiral are offering select UK councils an ..
04 February 2009
USA TODAY
TVtrip.com
What it offers: Hotel video tours What we like: TVtrip.com offers video tours — shot by professional videographers — of hotel exteriors, lobbies, guest rooms and more. Listings are accompanied by a minimum room rate for the next month, and are integrated with a search tool that launches a booking window. Hotels..
28 January 2009
Guardian.co.uk
Betfair, the internet betting exchange which matched its first bet less than 10 years ago, took a huge stride into the American racing and betting markets yesterday when it purchased the the racing television channel TVG for $50m (£35m).
TVG covers racing from 70 tracks in 16 states, including the major racing centres of Kentucky, California ..
27 January 2009
Talend Press Release
Schwartz Communications
Balderton Capital and AGF Private Equity Lead Series C Round of Investment in OpenSource Data Integration Leader
PALO ALTO, Calif., January 26, 2009—Talend, the first provider of open source data integrationsoftware, today announced it has secured $12 million in Series C financing to help fuel furtherworldwide growth and company expansion. Th..
27 January 2009
Le Monde Informatique
L'éditeur français Talend, développeur d'une solution d'intégration de données en Open Source, vient de lever 12 M$ de plus : 9 M$ auprès de Balderton Capital et 3 M$ apportés par AGF. Bernard Liautaud, fondateur de Business Objects et associé de Balderton, entre au conseil d'administration de..
26 January 2009
Tech Crunch
Open source data integration software maker Talend has raised $12 million in Series C financing from Balderton Capital and previous investor AGF Private Equity. Balderton’s Bernard Liautaud is joining their Board of Directors.
The company says its flagship product, Talend Open Studio (demo video), has seen over 3.3 million downloads so far, a..
25 January 2009
The Independent on Sunday
Julian Knight and Nargis Ahmad look at the site matching individual lenders and borrowers who recoil from high-street ratesSavers and borrowers alike are struggling in the back- draft from the credit crunch. The return on savings has been slashed dramatically following a series of Bank of England rate cuts. On the other side of the coin, borrowers ..
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