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| Mar 29, 2018 | How National Brands Can Compete With Amazon's Private Labels | National brands have competed with private labels from the beginning of retail history, and the emergence of a digital retail giant like Amazon doesn’t mean brands should cower and run for the hills. |
| Nov 13, 2016 | Best bosses in San Diego talk about what makes great leaders | |
| Mar 31, 2015 | Why traditional email marketing techniques aren't dead [Q&A] | Most of the hype around online marketing these days seems to revolve around using social media, big data and other tools to predict what the customer wants.
It would be easy to assume that outbound marketing techniques like email campaigns ... |
| Feb 10, 2015 | Clinical trial recruitment platform closes Series A as it adds staff, moves into cancer immunotherapy | “We have the advantage of having a data scientist team with trial protocol experience and EMR experience. You can look at protocols and translate them. That varies a lot depending on the provider.”
He added that the company’s success with l... |
| Nov 14, 2013 | Under Armour Announces Acquisition of MapMyFitness | The popular sports apparel brand Under Armour today announced their acquisition of MapMyFitness, a fitness technology company. Heralded as one of the world’s largest digital fitness communities, MapMyFitness will help Under Armour position ... |
| Jun 11, 2013 | 8 Baltimore-based tech company acquisitions you should know about | Popular perception would have us believe that Baltimore, fair city of Natty Boh drinkers and Ravens fans, is known only for its ability to serve as a mean backdrop for a former HBO series and a current Netflix show.
And in the startup world... |
| May 13, 2013 | 7 apps to help you replace Google Alerts | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This is a guest post by Yoav Dembak, CEO and co-f... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | InfoArmy launches crowdsourcing company profiles | Start-up raises $2M in seed round of funding from founders
Trying to find the most comprehensive and up-to-date company profile is like trying to find the Holy Grail. It's an elusive quest because they just don't seem to exist. But InfoArmy... |
| Mar 29, 2012 | Maxim Minimized. Big Layoffs Hit Men’s Mag Web and Editor Staff | The Internet killed the magazine star. There’s been a major round of layoffs at Maxim magazine. Senior Editor Seth Porges is at least one employee who got the axe, according to our sources and confirmed by a recent update to his Twitter bio... |
| Apr 13, 2011 | Q1 IPOs raise $12B, 166% higher than last yr | Hoover's Scorecard shows public markets are embracing IPOs; Qihoo, Endocyte, Demand top gainers
Is the U.S. finally bouncing back from the crippling recession that brought the economy to its knees? Nobody jinx it! We’ll just keep an open mi... |
| Mar 24, 2011 | InsideView Raises $12M To Give Businesses Social Sales Intelligence | InsideView, a service that mashes up social data for enterprises to increase sales productivity, has raised $12 million in Series C funding led by Foundation Capital with Emergence Capital Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Greenhouse... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | Check Out My New Favorite Browser Plug-In, Built by a Venture Capital Firm | Tech investors Polaris Ventures built and released today a really handy new Chrome browser extension they call Polaris Insights. Click it and you’ll be shown Crunchbase (tech financial), LinkedIn (employment) and Quora (general Q&A) inf... |
| Oct 28, 2010 | Vermont Energy Co. Raises $260,000 For Sustainable Gas-And-Convenience Stores | The Vermont Energy Company attracted a $260,000 seed investment a new SEC filing revealed to grow their environmental-minded gas station and convenience store business.
Currently, the company operates a flagship store and four-pump gas stat... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | “The Almighty API,” Crawling and The Programmable Web | Today, applications increasingly depend on a rich ecosystem of APIs. Thousands of different services are variously tethered together to form new software offerings and enhance existing ones. The idea of a programmable Web is finally coming ... |
| Apr 23, 2010 | Workstreamer Is A Realtime Listening And Tracking Platform For Businesses | The social web is now an integral part of any CRM or sales operation. Information from blogs, news sites, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, has become a necessary element to help convert sales leads. Companies like Hoovers, InsideView and eve... |
| Apr 21, 2010 | Salesforce.com to acquire hard-sell business directory Jigsaw for $142M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Salesforce.com, whose no-download business softwa... |
| Apr 21, 2010 | Salesforce.com to acquire hard-sell business directory Jigsaw for $142M | Salesforce.com, whose no-download business software is used by companies to organize their operations, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Jigsaw, a “data as a service” company that offers access to its crowdsou... |
| Mar 31, 2010 | InsideView Raises $11.5 Million For Enterprise-Friendly Web Crawler | InsideView, a service that mashes up social data for enterprises to increase sales productivity has raised $11.5 million in Series B financing led by current investors Emergence Capital Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Greenhouse Ca... |
| Aug 11, 2009 | IPO Registrations Are Returning From The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death | Another small sign that the worst of the recession may be behind us: IPO registrations are clawing their way back from the shadow of the valley of death (also known as the first quarter if 2009, when there were zero IPOs registered with the... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | Jigsaw finds profitability by delivering sales contact data as a service | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Jigsaw, a company whose 900,000 users have built ... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | Jigsaw finds profitability by delivering sales contact data as a service | Jigsaw, a company whose 900,000 users have built a database of 14 million business contacts, says it has found a winning business model — by offering access to and services around that database, the company claims to have hit profitability ... |
| May 11, 2009 | InsideView Now Crawls Twitter For Business Information And News | InsideView, a service that mashes up social data for enterprises to increase sales productivity, is now integrating Twitter into its feed. The company’s flagship product, SalesView, crawls through more than 20,000 web sites, social networks... |
| May 4, 2009 | Startup 101: Naming your startup | [Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of practical advice for entrepreneurs — things you’re probably aware of but are likely to forget in the rush of launching a business.] Today whether you are opening up a new retail store in San ... |
| Mar 9, 2009 | More job losses at newspapers | McClatchy slashes workforce by 15%
McClatchy Co., a publisher of 30 daily newspapers and 50 non-dailies, including The Miami Herald, Charlotte's Observer and the Sacramento Bee, announced Monday that it's slashing 15% of its workforce, or 1... |
| Nov 20, 2008 | Xobni Outlook plug-in gets more social, integrated | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Nov 14, 2008 | Toyota Claims Ownership of Fan Wallpapers | Toyota, one of the biggest car companies in the world, is often a name synonymous with quality. There is even a philosophy of doing business, called “The Toyota Way”, which emphasizes that the right result will come from the right process, ... |
| Aug 27, 2008 | What is Amazon Trying to Become? | Most companies start their existences in a general direction and then keep moving that way. But sometimes a company takes an unexpected turn, which might be hidden corporate DNA, a stroke of genius, or a mistake borne of managerial ego. Ama... |
| Aug 24, 2008 | Demandbase launches lead generation platform with Adobe funding | Here’s an interesting new use of Adobe’s AIR platform for creating hybrid web/desktop applications. With a free AIR app called Demandbase Stream, users can watch in real-time as other businesses visit their websites, then use that info to p... |
| Mar 21, 2008 | Start-up info wiki TradeVibes gets $900K | Mill River Labs has raised a $900,000 seed round for its start-up information wiki TradeVibes, which just launched in public testing mode.
TradeVibes is far from the only website to offer some kind of company database — read our hot-off-the... |
| Feb 20, 2008 | Trends: Secretive New York bank Allen & Co. gets into Silicon Valley media tech | Some big social web companies have recently started working with a small New York bank called Allen & Company. It’s a secretive, family-run firm that specializes in high-level connections between investors, media executives and other po... |
| Jan 30, 2008 | Roundup: Return of the Gphone rumor, Current TV not so profitable after all, and more | 1) Gphone rumors return, this time implicating Dell
2) Profitable Current TV not so profitable after all
3) WSJ and Facebook cross the age boundary
4) Clearwire / Sprint WiMAX deal could return
5) Visible Path acquired by Hoover’s
6) BigSwe... |
| Dec 17, 2007 | For Sale: Used Social Voting Site, Asking Price $300 Million, Goes By The Name Of Digg | It seems like every other month rumors of Digg either being acquired or being shopped come up (see our November summary here). VentureBeat has word that Digg is getting serious about a sale and has hired Allen & Company to shop the site... |
| Nov 16, 2004 | Connecting With Other Homebased Biz Owners | November 16, 2004 3 min read
Hanging out your shingle from your home can be a pretty daunting experience, and it helps to know you're not alone. We went hunting for some homebased business associations to help you on your journey. The bad n... |
| Hoover’s co-founder sets sights on telehealth’s greenfield opportunity | Patrick Spain co-founded Hoover’s in 1990 to “democratize company information.” He wants to do something similar with healthcare using a telehealth platform for his new venture, First Stop Health. The idea is to improve access to physicians... |
| Clinical trial recruitment platform closes Series A as it adds staff, moves into cancer immunotherapy | ePatientFinder has raised $2.58 million in a Series A round led by its first institutional investor, Parsons & Whittemore, according to a company statement. The financing comes during a period of major growth for the company and as it p... |
