Archive for the ‘New Economy’ Category

Investorideas.com Features New Updated List and Profiles

Doing Business in ChinaPoint Roberts, WA, – ECON Corporate Services (ECON) www.investorideas.com, offers investors following the growing opportunities in the Asian markets in Hong Kong and China a global portal of investment resources and links. The site offers news, articles, research and public company profiles in the sector. Our Current list of CHINA-ASIA StocksAsiaInfo Holdings, […]

SunGard to Acquire SCT

WAYNE, Pa. ? December 10, 2003 ? SunGard Data Systems Inc. (NYSE:SDS) and Systems & Computer Technology Corporation (SCT) (Nasdaq:SCTC) announced today that they have reached a definitive agreement for the acquisition by SunGard of all of the shares of SCT for $16.50 per share in cash. Based on SCT’s approximately 35.4 million fully diluted […]

Getting a return on investment in training

Most companies like to boast about how heavily they invest in their workforce. But when the economic downturn begins to bite, training has traditionally been one of the first things to go.Read the Full Story

Blackboard Looks Likely To Go Public

Such a parade of suits often means that a company is shopping for bankers in preparation for an initial public offering.Read the Full Story

Polycom to Acquire Voyant Technologies, Inc.

Pleasanton, Calif. – Nov. 21, 2003 – Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leader in video and voice conferencing, conference bridges, and integrated web collaboration solutions, today announced the execution of an agreement to acquire privately-held Voyant Technologies, Inc. of Westminster, Colorado. Voyant is the leading provider of voice conferencing and collaboration network solutions . […]

OpenTV Announces the Sale of ACTV’s Online Education Business; eSchool Online Sold to Classroom Connect, Inc.

eSchool(R) Online provides rich, multiple-media professional development content and K-12 curriculum courseware to large urban school districts, state education departments and major educational publishers, and complements the offerings of Classroom Connect and Harcourt Education. Read the Full Story

U.S. to double offshore tech services?

The offshore spending component of the U.S. technology services market will rise to 10 percent of the total spending, or $16.3 billion, in 2003. IDC also expects offshore spending to more than quadruple to $46 billion, or 23 percent of the total, by 2007. Read the Full Story

Tech-Job Meltdown in Final Stages

After wiping out 540,000 jobs in 2002, high-tech employers are on pace to lay off another 234,000 workers this year, based on figures compiled by the AeA, a trade group formerly known as the American Electronics Association.Read the Full Story

On course online

From foosball to a roving dog, visitors to the Denver headquarters of eCollege in the go-go 1990s got to see a seat-of-the pants Internet outfit.Read the Full Story

The open code market

Any computer user will have often experienced many times to have a new software application, an extra feature in their favourite computer programme, or to have programmes behave in a different way. For users without extensive programming skills, this can be very frustrating.Read the Full Story