| IPOWER Joins RatePoint Partner Program
NEEDHAM, Mass. & PHOENIX --(Business Wire)-- RatePoint, the leader in providing businesses with the only comprehensive online reputation management and customer feedback platform available, and IPOWER, Inc. (www.ipower.com), a leading web-site hosting provider for small businesses, today announced a new partnership that will give IPOWER customers access to the RatePoint platform and consumer approval program.
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Allton Starts Web Design Firm in Lake Saint Louis, MO
Michael Allton can still remember his first website. "It was 1997, and my mother had just formed a new non-profit organization in Norwalk, Ohio called Project Leadership. It was designed to promote leadership and community values and she wanted a website to help recruit members. I used FrontPage 97 and it was very basic, but it sparked my love for website design." Since then, Michael has come a long way. For several years, he designed websites for businesses and organizations in Ohio while with an IT Firm. Then, last year, after moving to Lake Saint Louis, he started his own design firm, Stadia Studio. "I wanted very much to get back into designing websites for small businesses," said Michael. "I've always enjoyed helping businesses grow, and having a great website is an integral part of that." Stadia Studio specializes in providing small businesses with complete web services including website design, hosting, search engine optimization and consulting.
Business Briefs: Chamber organizes annual trade show
The Athens Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting the annual Business Expo on March 27 at The Classic Center. Organizers for the 2008 Business Expo have adopted the theme "Let's Make a Deal" and will provide activities throughout the day. The day will start with a networking event, Business Before Hours, and end with award presentations at 4 p.m. The awards will include the annual Small Business Person of the Year. Trade show organizers are expecting more than 100 exhibitors, said Rich Cary, the chamber's vice president of member services. Exhibition booth costs are $475 for members and $575 for non-members. For more information, visit the chamber's Web site at www.athensga.com or call (706) 549-6800. Toccoa company plans $1M expansion Combat Training Solutions, a Stephens County company that manufactures simulated explosives for the military, announced that it plans to add more than 30 jobs and invest $1 million to expand a facility in Eastanollee.
Adsense - The Powerful Passive Income Generator
Webmasters have a revolutionary new method of collecting income from their websites.
Whereas in the past advertising revenue was reserved for those sites with large a coming and going of visitors, now even teenagers are making a quick buck with their online hobby blogs. People place adsense on their online family photo albums, their blogs and their business sites. The minimum you would get, even with a small amount of traffic, is for adsense to pay for your hosting costs.
Adsense revolutionized the world of paid advertising; banner advertising is based on the number of visitors you attract to your site, so the number of banner impressions dictates the revenue you receive. Google Adsense is quite different; it is the number of visitors that actually click on the advertising that determine how much you earn.
Malware writers exploring Software as a Service model
The business of writing, buying, and selling malware has become increasingly commercial over the past few years, but a new report from online security firm Finjan sheds light on just how mainstream the crimeware business has gone. Earlier this month, the company discovered a small, standalone application gathering data on over 8,700 servers, including web sites from 2,500 North American companies and a handful of sites in Alexa's top 100 ranking. Potential buyers were able to log into the malicious server hosting the data-gathering service and evaluate any given web site's size and Google Page Rank to decide whether or not the site's FTP information was worth purchasing or not. The concept of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is nothing new, but this is the first time anyone has organized the purchase of FTP login credentials, with additional tools available to help a buyer confirm he's making a smart purchase.
LeaseWeb Launches Windows Express Server
Business hosting provider LeaseWeb, in collaboration with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), has announced a new low-cost dedicated hosting service targeted at small and midsize businesses. LeaseWeb Dedicated Windows Express Server allows customers to be online within 24 hours with a proprietary start-up server and broadband package. Dedicated hosting -- as opposed to shared -- offers companies a complete system without the threat of negative performance caused by other users. The Windows platform guarantees continuity of the solution through upgrades. LeaseWeb's network has been shown to have a realized uptime of 99.99 percent, according to a WatchMouse study in 2006. LeaseWeb is based in the Netherlands with offices throughout Europe and in New York. « Back to Critical News « Get more advice every month.
Cisco pumps $9.5M into SaaS Startup
Networking giant Cisco led a $9.5 funding round of two-year-old application hosting firm SoonR. The move announced on Tuesday is the latest in a series of investments Cisco has been making in small Web 2.0 software firms. Facing a changing marketplace where business and personal productivity applications increasingly exist on the web, network hardware giant Cisco has spent about $4 billion in the last year acquiring software firms such as WebEx and Reactivity.
In the last year Cisco has acquired about a half-dozen software and service firms, and earmarked another billion dollars to dole out venture funds on small firms mostly in Silicon Valley, but occasionally in China, India and Russia.
The company has invested heavily in software and services startups such as China Communications Services and Russian e-commerce firm Ozon, and has taken an equity positions in Albaba.com.
Do North calendar
NORTH SHORE JEWISH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE. On Sunday, March 9, at the Peabody Marriott, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., a day devoted to sharpening the skills of leaders and future leaders in the Jewish community. Conference is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of the North Shore and presented by The Ringel Group of Washington, D.C. $18 includes presentations, light breakfast, dairy lunch and snacks. Online registration. www.jewishnorthshore.org. PEABODY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Frank Shirley, author of "New Rooms for Old Houses: Beautiful Additions for the Traditional Home," at the Fire Museum on Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m. Shirley will discuss how to renovate an historic home while preserving the charm and integrity of the original structure. 38 Felton St., Peabody. Members free, nonmembers $3.
Infinite Loop
This helpful little app works with MacBook Air's and the new MacBook Pro's multitouch trackpads to bring gesture control to any Cocoa app. MultiClutch works as an input manager, capturing gesture events and performing any special commands you've defined. A preference pane allows you to define actions for any app. If something hasn't been defined for the front-most app, the default behavior is used. While the software is still in beta status, Henderson has been using it since the first week the MacBook Air was introduced, and several private testers report that the app runs very smoothly. Very smooth indeed. A fool could see just how much I adore you, MultiClutch. .
RIAA Crackdown Prompts Forum on File Sharing
Students downloading illegal files in Isla Vista are not subject to the crackdown, as they do not make use of the campus network. According to Schmidt, DC++ and BitTorrent, two other popular file sharing programs, are not under scrutiny at this time. DC++ operates entirely behind the shield of the campus network, and as such is not visible to RIAA's representatives. BitTorrent operates through the principle of distributed downloading wherein users acquire tiny pieces of each file from many different sources rather than just one. According to a RIAA press release, a survey conducted by the Intellectual Property Institute at the University of Richmond's School of Law found that over 50 percent of college students admit to illegally downloading music and movies. Official university policy prohibits illegal activity on university networks or computers.
IPOWER Joins RatePoint Partner Program
NEEDHAM, Mass. & PHOENIX --(Business Wire)-- RatePoint, the leader in providing businesses with the only comprehensive online reputation management and customer feedback platform available, and IPOWER, Inc. (www.ipower.com), a leading web-site hosting provider for small businesses, today announced a new partnership that will give IPOWER customers access to the RatePoint platform and consumer approval program.
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SmartFinds Internet Marketing Launches New Website for 2008 Detroit ...
SmartFinds Internet Marketing has designed and launched a new web site for 2008 Detroit JCC Maccabi Games. The purpose of the new web site (www.2008detroit.org) is to exchange and promote information about the regional JCC Maccabi Games which will be held in Detroit this summer. .
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