Author: Brian Johnson

BOSTON, MA–(Marketwired – Feb 14, 2014) – Have you ever suffered the horrible sinking feeling in your stomach when your phone flies out of your hand and splashes into the toilet or smashes to pieces on the ground? You’re not alone. Today, Gazelle, the leading consumer electronics trade-in site, announced its annual Klutziest Places in America list. The list is compiled based on the percentage of broken devices Gazelle received from various regions throughout the country. This year’s Klutziest City is College Station, Texas. “When you look at the data, it’s not terribly surprising that the majority of places in…

NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Feb 14, 2014) – RentHop, the smarter apartment search marketplace, announced today that renters can now use RentHop’s unique algorithm to search for apartments for rent throughout the United States. RentHop has been helping renters, brokers and landlords in New York since 2009 and in Boston and Chicago since 2010. RentHop is the first and only site to use a dynamic, data-driven approach to ranking and sorting apartment rentals across the country. For each listing, RentHop’s proprietary algorithm, the HopScore, analyzes historical and current data regarding the quality and completeness of the listing, the viewing patterns of the…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 14, 2014) – Gainsight, the leading Customer Success Management solution, today revealed the results of its latest study, Measuring the ROI of Customer Success Management Solutions, which found that investments in Customer Success Management (CSM) technology has been accelerating as business leaders recognize that customer success is the primary driver of long-term business performance, reinforcing Gainsight’s market lead. Gainsight also announced today an investment from salesforce.com, further propelling Gainsight’s dedicated mission to increase its clients’ customer lifetime value by driving retention and up-sell revenue in the $500 billion Subscription Economy. These achievements reflect the rapidly…

PLAINVIEW, NY–(Marketwired – Feb 14, 2014) – NeuLion, Inc. (TSX: NLN), the leading Internet video technology provider for delivering live and on-demand content to any Internet-enabled device, today announced its TV Everywhere Platform is being used to power live Olympic streaming experiences in China and Portugal to a vast fan base. China’s consumer market, forecasted to become the second largest in the world by 2015, continues to grow at a rapid rate. Both Chinese and foreign companies are exploring new ways to keep up as the market evolves. CNTV and NeuLion have continued to stay at the forefront of the expanding Chinese…

SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 14, 2014) – Exablox, the company reimagining storage, today announced that OneBlox, a cloud-managed scale-out object storage appliance that can serve as primary storage and as a backup target, was named “The Product of the Year” in the Storage Systems category in the Storage Magazine-SearchStorage.com 2013 Products of the Year awards. OneBlox was “an immediate hit” in the eyes of the award judges winning especially high marks in innovation, ease of use and functionality. OneBlox’s scale-out architecture presents a global namespace for applications and users to access without requiring proprietary APIs. “Probably the most innovative system…

BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – Feb. 13, 2014) – Icron Technologies Corporation, a leader in USB and video extension technology, today announced that HY-LINE Computer Components a specialized distributor and representative of high-tech products, will be showing Icron’s newest USB 2.0 embedded core extender modules at the embedded world exhibition at booth 1-170 in Hall 1 from February 25th – 27th at Nürnberg, Germany. The USB 2.0 RG2300 Core Series builds upon Icron’s previous generations of reliable embedded USB 2.0 extension daughter board modules by maintaining the benefits of ExtremeUSB® extension technology enhanced by newly added capabilities such as data transmission…

HOUSTON, TX–(Marketwired – Feb 14, 2014) – Intergraph will host a webinar on February 20, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. CT that will demonstrate how to use custom fields in CADWorx 2014 to address specific project requirements. The webinar will cover multiple methods and some common applications for developing unique implementations for projects using the CADWorx Spec Editor. The webinar leader will be Sonia Delgadillo, senior CADWorx applications specialist for the CADWorx Plant Design Suite. For more information about the webinar, visit http://coade.typepad.com/coadeinsider/2014/01/cadworx-custom-fields-webinar-february-20-2014.html. For a link to register, visit http://icas.intergraph.com/20140220-cadworx-webinar. For more information on Intergraph CADWorx, visit http://www.intergraph.com/products/ppm/cadworx/. For information on…

EL DORADO HILLS, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 13, 2014) – MyECheck, Inc. (OTC Pink: MYEC), a provider of payment data processing services, announced today that it will retire 1,000,000,000 shares of its common stock after a share buy back at par value from the largest shareholder and Company Founder & CEO, Edward Starrs. The total compensation for the buy back was $10,000, which is the sum of 1,000,000,000 shares at the par value of $0.00001. The MyECheck Board of Directors has approved the retirement of the one billion shares, which reduces the total number of issued and outstanding shares by the same…

LONDON, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Feb. 13, 2014) – iLOOKABOUT Corp. (TSX VENTURE:ILA) (“iLOOKABOUT” or “the Company” or “ILA”) is pleased to provide this update in respect of a news release issued by the Company on December 18, 2014 with respect to a letter of intent dated December 18, 2013 (the “LOI”) to: (1) undertake a business combination with, or otherwise acquire all of the shares of, 1430922 Ontario Limited and related companies (collectively referred to herein as “Byng”); and (2) complete a technology asset acquisition from Yeoman & Company Paralegal Professional Corporation (“YCP”) and the key architect and developer of the…

LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 13, 2014) – Bitzio (OTCQB: BTZO), a fashion acquisition company operating under the trade name Democratique, announced today the appointment of Tamy Aberson-Sloboda, Ph.D., as president, effective January 23. Ms. Aberson-Sloboda, a recognized leader in organizational change and development, has been serving as director since last November, when Democratique was created. She has held numerous executive leadership positions in the public and private sectors. Most recently, as the co-founder and CEO of a successful dot-com startup, Ms. Aberson-Sloboda led in the acquisition and transition-to-scale operations to meet the demands of the acquiring company, Interactive Corp…

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 13, 2014) – Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) today reported financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended January 25, 2014. Brocade reported first quarter revenue of $565 million, down 4% year-over-year and up 1% quarter-over-quarter. The company reported GAAP diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.18, up from a loss of $0.05 per share in Q1 2013. Non-GAAP diluted EPS was $0.24, up from $0.21 in Q1 2013. “Brocade achieved solid results in Q1, exceeding our outlook for revenue and profitability,” said Lloyd Carney, CEO of Brocade. “Our performance was driven by the strength of our…

SIMI VALLEY, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 13, 2014) – Qualstar® Corporation (NASDAQ: QBAK), a manufacturer of data storage solutions and high-efficiency power supplies, today reported financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2013. Substantial improvement on a sequential basis (Second quarter 2014 vs. First quarter 2014) Revenue increased 57% to $3.4 million from $2.2 million in the first quarter 2014 Storage revenues increased 29% to $1.6 million from $1.2 million and Power Supply revenues increased 93% to $1.8 million from $953,000 Gross margin increased 22.9% to 43.9% from 21.0% Total operating expenses decreased $1.2 million or 41% to…

NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Feb 13, 2014) – Interactive Data Corporation today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. Interactive Data’s fourth-quarter 2013 revenue was a record $232.2 million, a 3.5% increase from $224.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2012. Excluding the impact of changes in foreign exchange rates, Interactive Data’s organic (non-GAAP) revenue for the fourth quarter of 2013 grew by 3.7% from the fourth quarter in 2012. Interactive Data’s fourth-quarter 2013 income from operations was $41.8 million, an increase of 51% over income from operations of $27.8 million in the same…

EL SEGUNDO, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 13, 2014) – Stamps.com® (NASDAQ: STMP), the leading provider of postage online and shipping software solutions, today announced results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2013. Highlights for the fourth quarter: Core PC Postage revenue was $30.3 million, up 10% from the fourth quarter of 2012. Total revenue was $32.4 million, up 8% compared to the fourth quarter of 2012. Non-GAAP operating margin was 30.7% compared to 25.4% in the fourth quarter of 2012. GAAP net income was $18.9 million or $1.13 per fully diluted share, including $0.9 million in stock-based…

MONCTON, NEW BRUNSWICK–(Marketwired – Feb. 13, 2014) – XL-ID Solutions Inc. (formerly known as Excellium Inc.) (TSX VENTURE:XLM) (the “Corporation” or “XL-ID”), a Tier II issuer listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (the “Exchange”), announces that it has received a final order from the Superior Court of Quebec (the “Court”) approving the proposal approved at the meeting of its creditors which took place on January 24, 2014. Under the terms of the proposal, an amount of $275,000 will be made available to Raymond Chabot Inc., as Trustee, for distribution to creditors in the manner set forth in the proposal, less…

SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 13, 2014) – Overland Storage (NASDAQ: OVRL), a trusted global provider of unified data management and data protection solutions across the data lifecycle, today reported financial results for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended December 31, 2013. Eric Kelly, President and CEO of Overland Storage, said, “We feel very good about our recent acquisition of Tandberg Data and are moving forward with the integration of the two companies. We are focused on leveraging key areas where we believe we can drive growth in the business, and believe the combination of the two companies provides the…

SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwired – Feb 13, 2014) – Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced financial results for the year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013. For 2013, Cray reported total revenue of $525.7 million, which compares with $421.1 million for 2012, an increase of 25% year over year. Net income for 2013 was $32.2 million, or $0.81 per diluted share, compared to $161.2 million, or $4.27 per diluted share, for 2012. The 2012 net income results included a $139.1 million pre-tax gain, which resulted from the sale of the Company’s interconnect hardware development program to Intel Corporation. All figures…

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – Feb. 13, 2014) – British Columbia Discovery Fund (VCC) Inc. (the “Fund”), a venture capital investment fund managed by Discovery Capital Management Corp., is very pleased to announce having made aggregate redemption offers of $10.9 million of its Class A Shares in 2013. The Fund is also pleased to announce its redemption plan for 2014. Pursuant to its articles, the Fund intends to redeem approximately 20% of Pricing Net Asset Value of the Fund at the end of the preceding fiscal year, which will be $9.6 million. Based on and assuming the successful closing of the…

AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwired – Feb 13, 2014) – Epicor Software Corporation, a global leader in business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organizations, today announced that effective immediately the Company’s worldwide corporate office will be in Austin, Texas — located at 804 Las Cimas Parkway. The company’s previous corporate office located in Dublin, California will remain a strategic location for Epicor with its retail distribution solutions business based there, as well as some corporate shared services resources. “Texas and Austin in particular, is an ideal location for our corporate office with its strong technology focus, central time zone, and business-friendly…

DALLAS, TX–(Marketwired – Feb 13, 2014) – The Traders Network Show broadcasted on Clear Channel Business Talk Radio DFW 1190AM is proud to announce special guest, Microsoft Africa 4Afrika General Manager Fernando de Sousa. In this two-segment interview Mr. de Sousa will discuss recent developments within Africa and Microsoft’s 4Afrika strategy with host Michael Yorba and co-host Vince Molinari on this week’s episode of crowd funding and Impact Investing segment. The interview will air today Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 1:30pm U.S. Central Standard Time / 11:30pm Pacific Standard Time / 2:30pm Eastern Standard Time at Clear Channel DFW 1190AM. We…