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Detroit Trading Exchange: Swinging the Door Wide Open for Auto Leads April 04, 2008 
Working with online car sales leads since the early part of the dot-com era, the cofounders of the Detroit Trading Exchange saw firsthand the inefficiencies in the market and set out to address them. The result is a robust and active trading exchange where car dealers and others bid to buy more than 300,000 sales leads generated by consumer-facing Web sites each month.
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Xactly: Putting Method in the Madness of Sales Force Compensation March 27, 2008 
As an executive at Callidus Software, Chris Cabrera was frustrated at the mid-market deals he often had to leave at the wayside. There were firms that basically could not afford Callidus' on-premise incentive compensation software, nor the integration and implementation costs that would accompany such an investment. So like many executives have done, he left his employer to form his own company.
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WizKids Report Highlights Web 2.0-Friendly Processes March 26, 2008 
Every year, Beagle Research Group scours the tech landscape in search of a few good companies that are developing technologies not only novel to the customer relationship management industry, but also likely to reinvent business processes in their particular niches.
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SugarCRM Bucks Tide, Wins $20M in Venture Funding February 10, 2008 
SugarCRM will be building out its global footprint and investing in its engineering bench now that it has completed its latest round of funding. The open source customer relationship management provider just secured a $20 million package, led by New Enterprise Associates, bringing its total funding to $46 million.
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Amazon Hits Sales Jackpot in Lucky 13th Holiday Season December 27, 2007 
Amazon.com executives and investors had a very merry holiday season as buyers chose the online mall in huge numbers. Amazon said the 2007 holiday season, its 13th, was its best ever in terms of sales. While the Seattle-based e-commerce giant did not reveal final sales figures, it noted customers ordered more than 5.4 million items on Dec. 10, its busiest day of the season.
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NetSuite IPO Rakes In $161M December 21, 2007 
NetSuite has sold 6.2 million shares to investors in a Dutch auction this week, raising a healthy $161 million. The haul from its long-awaited initial public offering came in spite of -- or perhaps because -- its moving target price. NetSuite ultimately debuted at $26 per share.
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Specific Media: From New Car Rewards to IPO Dreams December 18, 2007 
Building a multimillion-dollar business wasn't really on my mind at age 18. Tired of working odd jobs, I saw potential in online advertising. So, in exchange for a share in the startup, I persuaded my older brother Chris to let me charge $99 to his credit card for a domain name. For $33, third brother Russell joined shortly thereafter.
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Online Donors Set Off $6M Ron Paul Money Bomb December 17, 2007 
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul -- once a 2008 election nonentity with decidedly Libertarian leanings -- has pulled off a recording-breaking fund-raising coup not once but now twice this campaign season. Last weekend, Paul raised $6 million from more than 59,000 donors, topping his most recent record of $4.2 million in online contributions raised on Nov. 5.
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AT&T Boosts Dividend, Launches Buyback and Expands TV Push December 11, 2007 
In a nod to its recent success and an expression of confidence in its future, AT&T will boost its dividend by the largest amount ever and buy back as many as 400 million shares of its own stock. The AT&T board of directors voted to increase the company's quarterly dividend rate from 35 US cents per share to 40 cents per share.
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LeadPoint CMO Michael Rosenberg on Finding the Middle Ground December 11, 2007 
One of the most complex areas of online advertising -- what happens when a prospective customer clicks on an ad -- ironically happens almost entirely outside of the customer's awareness. The ubiquitous dancing Santa, robot or alien that we see on so many mortgage refinancing ads actually is only the tip of the iceberg.
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2007: Apple's Biggest Year Ever? December 11, 2007 
Apple has delivered some amazing and successful products over the years, beginning with the groundbreaking Macintosh in the 1980s. 2007, however, may very well be Apple's biggest and most influential year yet. In January, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs set the tone for the next 12 months with the announcement of the now iconic iPhone, a device that had consumers drooling for months before it ever saw the light of day.
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Bidz.com Auctions: Consumers Love to Win December 04, 2007 
Bidz.com is successful now, but it had very humble beginnings. I started Bidz in 1998 with no computer experience. I had no preconceived notions of how e-commerce should look and feel to customers. I didn't know how an e-commerce company should be run. I had owned many different types of businesses since I immigrated here from Moldova as a teenager, from dental labs to a large chain of pawnshops.
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Zune's Success and the MP3 Player Future, Blu-ray Is Sony's Iraq, Product of the Week December 03, 2007 
I've been looking at the early numbers from the Black Friday sales and -- as expected -- flat screen TVs are flying off the shelves and you can't find a Wii at anywhere close to retail price if you can find it at all. Products that sold through were the Amazon Kindle, the low-end Toshiba HD-DVD player and the 80 GB Zune.
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Blue Gene/L: Still the One to Beat November 14, 2007 
IBM's Blue Gene/L System once again ranks as the fastest computer in the world, coming in at first place on the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites, an organization that ranks the world's most powerful systems. The results were announced Monday at the SC07 Conference, held in Reno, Nev. The system performs 478.2 teraflops -- 478.2 trillion calculations per second.
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The Capterra Story: Bootstrapping an Online Marketplace November 12, 2007 
In the summer of 1999, I was researching potential software partners for a Web hosting company. I originally thought it would take only a few days to identify the leading vendors in areas ranging from ERP to CRM and e-commerce, but after weeks of research I had barely scratched the surface.
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PayPal's Matthew Mengerink: Open Source Essential to Success October 19, 2007 
PayPal transacts more than $1,500 every second of every day, with millions of people around the world relying on the robustness of its system. It comes as a surprise to many people that PayPal runs such a large financial services company on an open source platform, but that's precisely how we're able to deal with the two competing demands our business model places on us: security and innovation.
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