FatWire Software announced that in 2008 the company delivered its strongest year ever, with revenue growth rates far exceeding that of the Web Content Management industry overall. FatWire achieved an astounding 40 percent growth in total year-over-year revenue, reaching $44 million in sales in the year ending December 31st, 2008.
The last bit of not-so-good news surrounding TechTarget’s recent financials was dated February 13, 2009, and posted in the Boston Business Journal, and entitled “TechTarget stock falls amid earnings delay. Online and print media provider TechTarget Inc. said late Thursday that it has delayed the release of its fourth-quarter earnings report ‘due to improper accounting methods’ linked to its Web broadcasting revenue.”
Warren Wilbee, Director of ISV Evangelism for Microsoft, will be presenting with Ronnie Thomson, Senior Vice President of Engineering for Quark, at SYS-CON’s 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Better than purely cloud-based services are solutions harnessing powerful combinations of Internet services, on-premise servers and rich clients. In this session the presenters will deconstruct a real world example: how Quark has methodically and holistically developed an Internet services / rich client / on-premise solution.
Internet ads are gaining growing popularity in promo. However, some publishers try to sell illicit traffic by using software that simulates clicks on pay-per-click advertising links. With ClickMeter you can check how many REAL CLICKS your links receive from newsletters, websites, direct-mailing campaigns and banners without having to install any software or enter any new source code. Even non-experts can finally measure the results of online promotions.
For all the discussion about the potential opportunities for the world wide cloud, there have been very few real world examples of applications that can take advantage of this idea. Today, in possibly one of the first true killer applications for multiple global cloud providers, SOASTA a provider of cloud based testing platform has announced its new CloudTest Global Platform.
TWIKI.NET, a provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, has announced the latest release of its Certified TWiki Virtual Appliance. Release 4.2.4 offers significant security enhancements and advanced enterprise search capabilities for Microsoft Office-based file attachments, enabling users to quickly find content across Web pages and file attachments. This release also includes TWikiConnect, an easy-to-use and customizable Enterprise Social Networking application at no additional cost.
Scenario: we live in the era of communication. The Internet has come to stay as well as all forms of technology that will integrate around it: cellular, broadband, digital TV, web 2.0 etc. .. New economic models are emerging and there is a rapid change in how people interact. Little by little companies are becoming more aware of the importance of each of the networks of people and businesses that revolve around your business. We envision that the face of the company on the Internet will evolve from a web-site to an online social network where all selected virtually partners will be located.