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• Marchex Announces Contextual Advertising Pacts with TheStreet.com and Line56 Media

  - 2006-10-12

  SEATTLE & NEW YORK -- Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX) (NASDAQ:MCHXP), in conjunction with its subsidiary IndustryBrains, today announced that it has signed separate contextual advertising agreements with TheStreet.com, a leading provider of financial commentary, analysis, research, news and ratings, and Line56.com, a leading source of global news and analysis on e-business...

  Tags: contextual advertising, Line56 Media, TheStreet.com Inc.

• Apps Players "Destroying" Ecosystem

  BNET - 2006-05-15

  If application buyers have to go outside the ecosystem for innovation, the entire concept of enterprise suites could begin to crumble. Innovation is the key concept here, just as it has been in realms of business other than the software industry. The brand owners allow more and more of the...

  Tags: Ecosystem, Line56 Media, Channel Management, Branding, Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Management

• An E-Learning Proposition

  BNET - 2006-04-28

  Skillsoft is an e-learning specialist that has been around for nearly two decades. The company's been busy during that time, having come up with nearly 3,000 online courses (spanning business skills, IT, compliance, and desktops) and indexed think Google Books 10,000 searchable business/IT books via its acquisition of Books24/7, and...

  Tags: Line56 Media, E-learning, Training And Certification, Content Management, Web Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance

• On Demand SCM

  BNET - 2006-04-25

  Supply chain inefficiency is one of the most prevalent issues facing the Small to Mid-size Enterprise SMEs market today. The SME market continues to struggle to find ways to improve their supply chain while competing with larger enterprises that have the capital to invest in sophisticated systems. On Demand supply...

  Tags: Supply Chain, Small And Medium Enterprise, SCM, Line56 Media, Supply Chain Inefficiency, Smb/Sme, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software

• Why India Succeeds

  BNET - 2006-04-07

  India, Inc. has gone to great lengths to succeed, demonstrating a willingness to work long hours (at night, when it is daytime in America) and go to wherever the opportunities are (getting visas to come work in the U.S.). Americans do not have this attitude. Americans expect opportunity to be...

  Tags: Opportunity, Line56 Media, Indians

• Slavery, Outsourcing, and Things to Come

  BNET - 2006-04-05

  Successful countries who import key labor from abroad (think of the barbarians in Rome's armies as well as of the slave dynasties of India and Egypt) often end up ruled by that labor and/or its local interests. Today, America hires Indians to do otherwise expensive IT and Business Process Outsourcing...

  Tags: Line56 Media, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Operational Planning, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• What Matters for Outsourcing Success

  BNET - 2006-01-31

  The hundreds of billions of dollars spent on IT and business process outsourcing each year reflect a common desire for improved customer satisfaction, greater operational efficiency and higher profits shared by business around the globe. Outsourcing as a business is maturing rapidly. Competition among service providers is growing. Service offerings...

  Tags: Service Provider, Line56 Media, Business Services, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• The IRS Portal

  BNET - 2006-01-27

  Dealing with the Internal Revenue Service IRS of the United States has gotten a whole lot easier over the past few years. That's because, like other government organizations - notably the United States Postal Service USPS - the IRS has dedicated itself to providing a painless online experience to the...

  Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Line56 Media, Portals, Web Technology, Internet

• American Companies: Ready to Compete?

  BNET - 2006-01-10

  Some American businesses have been extraordinarily successful in gaining productivity increases to help to reduce costs, increase quality and improve customer satisfaction, worldwide competitiveness and profitability. But, when productivity is not, or becomes no longer, cost competitive then businesses tend to find ways to outsource or offshore functions in order...

  Tags: Customer Satisfaction, Line56 Media, Product Marketing, Marketing

• Event Stream Processing

  BNET - 2006-01-04

  Real-time or near-real time scan-based environments are proliferating. Think of Radio Frequency IDentification RFID technology, for example. The spread of RFID and other scan-based technologies is good for businesses and the supply chain in general, but it brings with it the special challenge of finding patterns in rapidly accumulating data.

  Tags: Line56 Media, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics