| NetSuite Announces NetSuite for Media/Publishing Companies, Delivered ...
SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSuite Inc., a vendor of on-demand, integrated business management application suites that provide Accounting/ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and Ecommerce functionality for small and medium-sized businesses and divisions of large companies, today announced NetSuite for Media/Publishing, a new vertical solution delivered via SuiteBundler. (Please see accompanying press release "New SuiteBundler From NetSuite Makes 'The Service as Software' Revolution A Reality.") Designed to target media/publishing companies of all sizes, NetSuite for Media/Publishing provides publishers, advertisers, magazines, e-zines and other media outlets with a solution to address their specific vertical processes and needs. This solution addresses the following needs that are key to their business success -- better management of the advertisement buying and renewal process; simplification of advertisement order management; improvement of campaign ID management; and access to better business intelligence.
Online shoppers turn to departmental sites and share their experiences
Coremetrics tracked online sales for a twelve day period beginning the Monday prior to the US Thanksgiving holiday. “Across the board our clients are experiencing year over year growth in traffic and in shopping," said Joe Davis, CEO of Coremetrics. Intimate apparel websites showed the second highest growth (19%) YoY and apparel sites showed the third highest growth (13%). Finally home websites have shown the least growth (6%) year over year. Meanwhile, Nielsen//Netratings has found that many online shoppers are turning to reviews this holiday season, not for product information, but to relate their online shopping experiences. Etailers are likely to benefit from these experience reviews because more than half of those surveyed said the reviews either have been or will be positive.
Superstore.com Introduces iPhone Classifieds on Steroids
COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Apple iPhone users can now, for the first time, post classified ads for free on the Internet by uploading their own pictures and text directly from their iPhone to the Superstore.com website where they are immediately visible for sale. Although the Superstore.com website is visible to all browsers on all types of computers, it is specifically designed to work with the advanced features of the Apple iPhone. "When I bought my iPhone, the first thing I needed to use it for was to sell my old cell phone, iPod and digital camera on eBay, Craigslist, Amazon or Yahoo," says Murray Mead, President of Superstore.com, "I was surprised to discover that there was no way to upload pictures I had taken on my iPhone to any of these websites." Superstore.com enables the first image uploading from an iPhone to a website, proximity searching to find items for sale nearby, and direct dialing from the listings for ease of use.
Abacus ties up with Thomas Cook
NEW DELHI: Travel solution provider Abacus on Monday said it has tied up with leading travel and financial services company Thomas Cook.
"Our business in India is performing strongly with booking numbers around 10 per cent ahead of the growth target we set for 2007. Thomas Cook India will certainly strengthen our footprint in India further," Abacus International South Asia Vice-President said in a statement.
Thomas Cook is an addition to the network of 15,000 travel agency locations across Asia. .
Chase Paymentech Makes Gift Cards Easy for Small Businesses with All ...
DALLAS, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Chase Paymentech, the world's premier provider of payment services, announced today the introduction of an integrated, All-In-One payments package that provides small and medium-sized businesses with payment card processing and business growth services, including a "ready-to-market" gift card package. This new package will help ensure that smaller businesses can provide their customers the same payment choices as national retail chains. With the run-up to the 2007 holiday shopping period, letting customers use card-based payment methods - including the increasingly-popular gift card option - will provide a boost to merchants' bottom line. Gift cards are proven to increase merchant sales while increasing merchant profitability and are considered an increasingly essential tool for driving key holiday sales.
Football recruiting
Florida State and UCLA now appear to be Sanders' new front-runners. "He may take an official visit to FSU; he may take an official to UCLA," Vincent Sanders said. "He's going to go where they want him." Vincent Sanders was still stinging Saturday night from the disappointing news. "As his dad, I was hurt," he said. "When a head coach tells you 'you're a part of our school' and then everybody backs away from you, how am I supposed to feel? "I'm not interested in bashing anybody. I'm just telling you what happened. "Zebrie is just fortunate enough that some other doors are still open." .
Bear Stearns' Wild-Card Shareholder
The latest hit: a nearly 7% plunge following the expected news on Jan. 8 that James Cayne would step down as chief executive of the beleaguered investment bank. In all, Lewis, the single largest shareholder in Bear, has watched the value of his 10% stake erode from $1.2 billion to $840 million. The 70-year-old Lewis has endured such losses before in his far-reaching and eclectic portfolio. The Tavistock Group, which he founded in 1978, has stakes in 170 companies that span the real estate, financial-services, manufacturing, entertainment, and restaurant industries. He uses at least five fast-moving investment funds—Aquarian Investments, Nivon, Mandarin, Darcin, and Cambria—to trade currencies and make more opportunistic moves like his Bear bet. And one of Lewis' hallmark strategies is to troll for cheap plays, then patiently wait years for the payoff.
Land of the Cranes
Although the project is being designed to condominium specifications, the company will rent the units as apartments when they open, Payne said. D5Union Lofts Restaurant
Restaurateur Los Feliz LLC plans to open an upscale restaurant and lounge in the Union Lofts, a 92-unit rental project at Eighth and Hill streets, in early 2008. Managing Principal John Valencia, who has done several projects in Miami's South Beach and Los Angeles, has signed a 10-year lease to occupy the 11,000-square-foot space in the former Union Bank building being transformed by Meruelo Maddox Properties. A 6,000-square-foot American fare restaurant will open in the former lobby while a 5,000-square-foot lounge is set to unfold in the old vault and safety deposit area. Many of the original design elements will remain, including the ornate ceilings and wall motifs from the 1920s and '30s.
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