PORTLAND, ME–(Marketwired – April 10, 2014) – Leading cloud-based travel and expense management software provider Certify announced the results of its latest business spending report, covering the first quarter of 2014. Affordable convenience food still rules, but when it comes to airlines, hotels and rental cars, cost is not the primary driver for selecting vendors, according to the data. Last quarter, Starbucks showed staying power with the business crowd, capturing the lion’s share of meal receipts for the fifth quarter in a row. With many ways to caffeinate, free Wi-Fi, breakfast and lunch, and locations everywhere, it’s no surprise. Jimmy…
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NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Apr 10, 2014) – Greene Concepts, Inc. (OTC Pink: LKEN) (PINKSHEETS: LKEN) announced today that The Hemp Exchange, www.HEMP-X.com, has gone live Beta and is fully operational. The Hemp Exchange operates as a fully integrated multi-platform B2B and B2C exchange, or connection point, for all hemp industry participants, growers, wholesalers, traders, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, experts and users. Lenny Greene, LKEN’s CEO, stated, “HEMP-X.com is designed to be a powerful marketing tool, and as we continue to steadily add more and more content over the coming weeks, we fully expect the synergies of our hemp connection point to…
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA and COPENHAGEN, DENMARK–(Marketwired – April 10, 2014) – Birst Inc., the leader in Cloud BI, and Carve, a BI and Management Consulting firm, today announced a partnership to bring Birst’s enterprise-ready business intelligence (BI) platform to organizations in Denmark. Focused on delivering best-in-class functionality and ease of use for customers, while also enabling faster time-to-value and lower TCO, together Birst and Carve will bring new levels of agility, flexibility and affordability to business users in the Danish marketplace. Birst offers an affordable alternative to traditional BI solutions that are often cumbersome and time-consuming to deploy. These solutions…
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Apr 10, 2014) – Piksel, a global provider of video monetization software and services, announced today a new partnership with J-Stream, Japan’s largest content delivery network, to become an official reseller of the Piksel Video Platform and white-label it as J-Stream MediaLize. “We are pleased to formalize our partnership with J-Stream and assist them in launching MediaLize. There’s no question that through this partnership Japanese content creators, aggregators and distributors will have immediate and powerful access to maximize the reach and return of their video assets. Whether media is your business or supports your business, Piksel’s…
MIAMI, FL–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2014) – Last week, The Guardian nominated the Movember Foundation as one of the top five social media charity campaigns that achieved outstanding success. Especially popular social media are Facebook and Twitter. Movember is a foundation that was brought into life in 2003 with the mission to fundraise money to support men’s health with a special focus on prostate cancer. Taking a look at its current numbers, it becomes obvious just how important social media have become nowadays in order to run a successful campaign: Movember has achieved no less than 1.2 million social media mentions…
MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC–(Marketwired – April 9, 2014) – Today, COGECO Inc. (TSX:CGO) (“COGECO” or the “Corporation”) announced its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014, ended February 28, 2014, in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). For the second quarter and first six months of fiscal 2014: Second quarter revenue increased by $60.0 million, or 13.1%, to reach $518.5 million driven by the Cable segment mainly as a result of the full quarter impact of the acquisition of Peer 1 Hosting(1) (“PEER 1”) which was acquired on January 31, 2013, combined with favorable foreign exchange rates compared to…
FAIRFAX, VA–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2014) – On Monday, news broke that the Heartbleed bug causes a vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic library. LastPass has released a tool for anyone to check websites that you’ve entrusted with your information to determine if there was a potential breach. The site checker tool is available at https://lastpass.com/heartbleed/. The OpenSSL cryptographic library is used by roughly two-thirds of all websites on the Internet, so it is likely a number of websites consumers and businesses utilize daily have been affected. LastPass has also rolled out an additional feature for current LastPass users. By running…
SALT LAKE CITY, UT–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2014) – Venafi, the inventor of Next-Generation Trust Protection systems, today warns that the most devastating vulnerability of 2014 and beyond comes from failing to replace all keys and certificates on systems impacted by the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug. Without replacing keys and certificates, Heartbleed leaves open doors into Global 2000 organizations and governments with perpetual security vulnerabilities since attackers can spoof legitimate websites, decrypt private communications, and steal the most sensitive data. The Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability impacts at least 50% of the public facing webservers on the Internet, enabling attackers for the last…
LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2014) – Newegg (booth #986) today unveiled its largest-ever presence at PAX East (Boston, MA, April 11 – 13). Newegg is deeply committed to the videogame community and PAX East gives gaming enthusiasts the chance to connect with Newegg at a series of planned events and casual gatherings. “PAX East gives us the opportunity to interact directly with gamers, who make up a substantial and very important part of our customer base,” said Soren Mills, Chief Marketing Officer of Newegg North America. “Our new gaming editorial website, GameCrate will feature three livestreams from PAX…
SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2014) – VoIP, which stands for voice over internet protocol uses the internet and cloud based technology to make phone calls. Unlike traditional copper landlines or cellular towers, VoIP’s internet system allows users to make calls on faster running lines, stores data in a singular cloud, and provides more secure lines all for a more cost effective price. A much cheaper option to traditional phone lines, VoIP is growing in its popularity across the globe. As the VoIP industry continues to grow, the experts at TheDigest.com have compared customer reviews, efficiency and efficacy of…
SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2014) – Azul Systems®, Inc. (Azul), the award-winning leader in Java™ runtime scalability, today announced it will participate in two of this year’s top Open Source conferences, Red Hat Summit and DevNation. Both events will be held the week of April 13. A Red Hat Summit sponsor, Azul will highlight its fully supported, standards-compliant JVMs at Booth No. 904. Later in the week, Azul CTO and Co-Founder Gil Tene will lead a technical discussion at DevNation. Co-located at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, the two open source conferences present the perfect backdrop for Azul…
SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2014) – Appnomic Systems, a leading provider of innovative analytics software for IT application operations, today announced that AppsOne was named a finalist for the 2014 SIIA Software CODiE Awards for Best Systems Management Solution. The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier award for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing product excellence for 29 years. The awards have multiple categories and are organized by industry focus of Content, Education, and Software. This year’s program features 28 Software categories, several of which are new or updated to reflect the latest industry trends.…
SUNNYVALE, CA and MELVILLE, NY–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2014) – KANA® Software, a Verint® Company (NASDAQ: VRNT), today announced its KANA Enterprise customer service suite has been named a Leader in Forrester Research, Inc.’s The Forrester Wave™: Customer Service Solutions For Enterprise Organizations, Q2 2014 report published April 7th. Additionally, KANA Express was recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Customer Service Solutions For Small and Midsize Teams, Q2 2014 report also published April 7th. In its 83-criteria Customer Service Solutions For Enterprise Organizations evaluation, Forrester says “with a solid value proposition and a sound application ownership experience,…
CLEARWATER, FL–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2014) – RAMOIL MANAGEMENT, Ltd (OTC Pink: RAMO) (PINKSHEETS: RAMO), announces that it has terminated the acquisition of Terlyn Technologies, Inc. In connection with the termination of the acquisition, Lynn Rushmore and Terence Rushmore have resigned from their positions as officers and directors and have returned the stock they received in the acquisition to its original owner. Also, Lynn Rushmore has cancelled his convertible promissory note due from the Company and James D. Schivley has cancelled his consulting agreement and resigned as a director. Finally, Michael J. Goeree has been reinstated as Ramoil Management’s Chairman, President…
RESTON, VA–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2014) – VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the global leader in domain names, today announced five million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2013, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 271 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2013, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. Is it likely that we will run out of domain names? No, the number of possible second-level domain names in any TLD is an extremely large number. Refer to page 4 of the Domain Name Industry…
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwired – April 09, 2014) – Robots circled overhead, swam in a pool, mowed the lawn, tossed balls and delighted the investors, robotics fans and students who enjoyed the celebration today at the 2014 Silicon Valley Robot Block Party hosted by WilmerHale law firm and Silicon Valley Robotics, a professional association that supports innovation in robotic technologies. More than 40 robots roved the grounds and the hallways of one of the Silicon Valley’s fastest growing law firms, demonstrating abilities ranging from the mundane task of cleaning windows to the miraculous capacity to assist surgeons in the most difficult…
WATERLOO, ON–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2014) – In the Chat Communications Inc. and the University of Waterloo announce a research partnership focused on the continued development of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to improve brand customer service via social media globally. The research initiative is a joint effort between In the Chat, a leader in social media insights solutions, and the University of Waterloo, rated one of the world’s leading engineering and technology universities. It will bring together world-renowned research and enterprise design for the benefit of consumers and their service providers worldwide, via faster, more reliable…
LAS VEGAS, NV and EVERGREEN, CO–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2014) – NAB Show 2014 – Wowza® Media Systems, LLC, provider of Simply Powerful Streaming™ media server software, today announced the release of Wowza GoCoder™ app for Android devices bringing live, high definition (HD) mobile encoding to Android users on the go. Created to power simple, efficient streaming over Wifi, 3G and 4G networks on Android devices 4.1 and newer, the live audio and video encoding application directly connects with Wowza Streaming Engine™ software enabling content providers to easily capture, manage and deliver content from anywhere, at any time. “In our…
SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired – April 09, 2014) – Connect Address, the leading provider of cloud-based solutions for increasing online shopping cart conversions in real-time, announced today it will be delivering a thought leadership webinar series to help educate the e-commerce market on increasing the overall revenue performance of online shopping sites. Connect Address is partnering with industry experts and analysts to deliver various best practices that can help e-commerce professionals to increase their web traffic; their percentage of shopping cart conversions and their online revenue. The series will begin on April 10th (10AM PDT) with a webinar focused on leveraging…
TULSA, OK–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2014) – Hogan Assessment Systems, a global leader in personality research and leadership development, today announced details of its extensive thought leadership at the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology’s 29th Annual Conference, SIOP 2014. The three-day conference will take place at the Hawaii Convention Center and Hilton Hawaiian Village from Thursday, May 15 to Saturday, May 17, 2014. The annual SIOP conference is dedicated to the growing field of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology. The event is designed to give industry professionals the opportunity to network with and learn from one another while keeping…