DALLAS, TX–(Marketwired – Jul 31, 2014) – Parks Associates today announced the agenda and call for papers for the 9th-annual CONNECTIONS™ Summit: Monetizing Smart Home Solutions & Connected Devices, taking place January 6, 2015, at the International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Tech West in Las Vegas. The one-day executive Summit features interactive panel discussions, with participation from over 30 companies, focused on the best business models and monetization opportunities in the Internet of Things (IoT), the smart home, and connected and mobile CE and services. “Eighty-six percent of U.S. households will have broadband, and 30% will have smart home controllers,…
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NEWPORT BEACH, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 31, 2014) – BIGWORDS.com has released a new version of its popular online shopping service that automatically integrates crowdsourced coupons with proprietary multi-item price comparison technology. The integration is a first of its kind in e-commerce. Sites like RetailMeNot offer crowdsourced coupons but lack price comparison — a feature that is critical in today’s fast-paced online shopping environment — and price comparison sites such as Pricegrabber don’t offer crowdsourced coupons. To accelerate adoption of its new service, BIGWORDS.com has raised $300k from Lighter Capital, a pioneer in revenue-based financing. BIGWORDS.com is a profitable company that began as a…
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 31, 2014) – Indoor location and proximity marketing experts Opus Research has published a new report on IndoorAtlas and its magnetic positioning technology. The report finds that the IndoorAtlas’ solution, which requires no new hardware, showed “consistent accuracy” in a real-world major retail environment. Opus Research previously estimated that the indoor location market could be worth as much as $10 billion over the next several years. The report predicts magnetic positioning will emerge as a “foundational” indoor location technology. Magnetic Positioning uses Earth’s geomagnetic field to pinpoint the exact location inside a building and is…
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM–(Marketwired – July 31, 2014) – CGI (NYSE:GIB) (TSX:GIB.A) and West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which manages hospitals in Watford, St Albans and Hemel Hempstead, have partnered to upgrade the Trust’s IT infrastructure to help improve patient care and safety through better access to information for clinicians and other staff. The five-year contract is valued at approximately £25.5million. CGI will develop an infrastructure and service management program that supports staff across the Trust’s three hospitals and at additional smaller healthcare sites throughout west Hertfordshire via an outcome-based contract. This will result in more reliable and robust IT services…
CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwired – Jul 31, 2014) – Cobra Electronics Corporation (NASDAQ: COBR), a leading designer and marketer of award-winning safety, outdoor and consumer electronics, today issued a short list of practical and efficient safety and planning tips for hurricane, tornado, thunderstorm, flooding and other severe weather, as well as a list of products to help prepare consumers during such events. With more than 30 years of experience in outdoor safety, Cobra is proud to help consumers prepare for the worst of severe weather, especially during hurricane and tornado season, which officially began June 1 and runs through November 30. The…
SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 31, 2014) – ZL Technologies, Inc. (ZL), the leader in unified information governance for the large enterprise, has been recognized as a finalist in the Annual 2014 Golden Bridge Awards for innovations in governance, risk, and compliance. The annual Golden Bridge Awards program involves active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, and judges participating organizations on a vast swath of business and technology categories for both products and corporate leadership. The Golden Bridge Awards program is renowned for highlighting the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, innovations, executives and management teams,…
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – July 30, 2014) – Smart Employee Benefits Inc. (“SEB” or “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:SEB), today reported its financial results for the quarter ending May 31, 2014. SEB Overview SEB is a technology company with two divisions, the Benefits Division and the Technology Division, providing business processes software, solutions and services to corporate and government clients with specialty practices focused on managing group benefit solutions and health claims processing environments. The core expertise of the SEB Group of Companies is managing and reporting on Big Data, including transaction processing in complex global Supply Chain environments. This expertise is uniquely…
TAMPA, FL–(Marketwired – July 30, 2014) – Meaningful use holds a catch for specialists; some requirements are inapplicable to certain specialties, yet there are no “blanket” exclusions for which any affected practices can qualify. CMS publishes a specialist tipsheet that helps in identifying which exclusions may apply, but specialist practices are completely responsible for evaluating “whether they meet the exclusion criteria for each applicable objective.”As specialists who participated in meaningful use Stage 1 prepare to advance to Stage 2, there are two important factors to consider regarding the choice of an electronic medical record (EMR) technology partner:The EMR must be ONC-ACB…
EL SEGUNDO, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 30, 2014) – Stamps.com® (NASDAQ: STMP), the leading provider of postage online and shipping software solutions, today announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. Highlights for the second quarter: During the second quarter, Stamps.com acquired ShipStation®, a leading provider of subscription based online shipping solutions that allow online retailers and e-commerce merchants to organize, process, fulfill and ship their orders quickly and easily. Our second quarter financial results include the results of ShipStation from June 10, 2014 through June 30, 2014. Core Mailing and Shipping revenue, which includes ShipStation, was $32.4 million,…
SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 30, 2014) – Cisco (NASDAQ: CISCO) has scheduled a conference call for Wednesday, August 13, 2014, at 1:30 PM (PT) to announce its fourth quarter fiscal year 2014 financial results for the period ending Saturday, July 26, 2014. Financial results will be released over Marketwired via US National, European Technology Trade Media and Western Europe distribution circuits, after the close of the market on Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Cisco’s quarterly earnings press release will be posted at www.cisco.com under the “Newsroom” section. Date:August 13, 2014 Time:1:30 PM (PT); 4:30 PM (ET) To Listen via the…
ALISO VIEJO, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 30, 2014) – Smith Micro Software, Inc. (“Smith Micro Software”) (NASDAQ: SMSI), a leading provider of wireless and mobility solutions, today reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2014. “Revenues for the second quarter were $8.5 million, up slightly sequentially from the first quarter, but down 19 percent year-over-year. While we saw an increase in our CommSuite revenues during the quarter, it did not offset decreases in our legacy connection manager products and the seasonal drop-off of our Productivity & Graphics products. We expect revenues to increase in the third quarter based on new…
WASHINGTON, DC–(Marketwired – Jul 30, 2014) – Cricket Media Group Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: CKT) (“Cricket Media” or the “Company”) announces that it is conducting a non-brokered private placement (the “Offering”) of up to 8,333,334 units of the Company (each a “Unit”) at a price of C$0.90 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of up to C$7,500,000. Each Unit will consist of one common share of the Company and one-third of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a “Warrant”). Each Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one additional common share of the Company at a price of C$0.90 until…
SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 30, 2014) – Solix Technologies, Inc. (solix.com), a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions, announced today the Solix Big Data Suite, a next-generation Enterprise Archiving and Enterprise Data Lake application platform for Apache Hadoop. Solix Big Data Suite provides secure, compliant, low cost, bulk data storage for enterprise analytics applications and archives enterprise applications on a petabyte scale. The new Solix Big Data Suite provides an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) framework to govern enterprise data and analytics applications and Apache Hadoop as a nearline repository to store less frequently accessed data. Moving less…
SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 30, 2014) – Solix Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions, is positioned as a leader in the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement. Gartner’s magic quadrant is widely recognized as the industry’s authoritative source for assessing vendor competitiveness based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. As strategic planning assumptions Gartner states, “By 2017, structured data archiving will represent one-fifth of the information governance efforts in enterprises. By 2016, 75% of structured data archiving applications will incorporate support for big data analytics.” “The growing…
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwired – July 30, 2014) – IIX Inc. (IIX), a leading provider of direct interconnection solutions, announced today that IIX will play a pivotal role at the upcoming Peer 2.0 conference, taking place in Palo Alto on August 4 and 5. Hosted by the Peer 2.0 Foundation, Peer 2.0 is a grassroots Internet engineering industry event, organically developed to bring education to the next generation of network engineers, Internet architects and business leaders. The two-day event will provide insights into the evolution of the role of network engineering, peering coordination and emerging supportive automated systems. IIX Founder and CEO…
AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwired – Jul 30, 2014) – Macheen Inc., a leading mobile cloud application service provider for connected devices, today announced Richard Schwartz will be part of an expert panel during the Oppenheimer 17th Annual Technology, Internet & Communications Conference to be held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, MA on August 12thand 13th. Schwartz is scheduled to speak as part of the Internet of Things Panel, which will be held on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 from 1:45PM – 2:20PM Eastern Time. The panel will provide key perspective on trends and market opportunities within the Internet of Things space.…
MILPITAS, CA–(Marketwired – July 30, 2014) – Quantros, Inc., an industry-leading provider of software to advance safety and quality performance for the healthcare industry, today announced that the company’s Board of Directors has appointed Annie Callanan as its new President and Chief Executive Officer. She succeeds J.P. Fingado, who served as interim President and Chief Executive Officer. Fingado, an Operating Partner with Francisco Partners, was recently elected to the Quantros Board of Directors and will work closely with Callanan and the company’s leadership team. “Annie Callanan is a proven leader with extensive technology skills, business vision and the ability to bring people together,”…
NATICK, MA–(Marketwired – Jul 30, 2014) – Interbit Data, a leading provider of software and services connecting people with information for more efficient healthcare, today announced it will be among the exhibitors at InSight 365: 2014 Annual Conference for McKesson Technology Solutions (MTS) users, partners and experts. The conference takes place August 5 – 8, 2014 at the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Interbit Data will be in booth # 712 in the Product Solution Center, showcasing and providing demonstrations on its business continuance solutions: NetSafe, which ensures 24/7 access to the most up-to-date patient…
FARGO, ND–(Marketwired – Jul 30, 2014) – The new Fargo Startup House is looking for its first class of tech entrepreneurs, hoping to attract participants who want to impact the world through technology and innovation. The latest in a series of developments focused on cultivating a startup community, Fargo Startup House will bring six world-class tech entrepreneurs at a time to Fargo to live and work together as they build innovation-focused businesses. “The Fargo Startup House is an attempt to accelerate both the number of early-stage, fast growth, innovation driven startups based in Fargo-Moorhead, and the pace at which those…
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Jul 30, 2014) – WHO: TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications, LLC, a global, tech-enabled talent acquisition company WHAT: Will co-sponsor the complimentary CyberForce 2014 Virtual Town Hall Meeting, designed to help talent acquisition and career development professionals understand how cybersecurity needs will impact hiring goals in the coming years. WHEN: Thursday, August 14, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. EDT (1:00 p.m. CDT / 12:00 p.m. MDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT) WHERE: Registration can be accessed at: http://login.icohere.com/registration/register.cfm?reg=1262&evt=Cyberforce&t=1405614033282 DETAILS: Recent research estimates that the cybersecurity market will grow more than 10 percent annually from 2014 to 2019, with…