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06.11.2006 16:08
Internet Capital Group's Doug Alexander to Speak at the UBS Global Communications and Technology Conference on November 15, 2006
Internet Capital Group, (Nachrichten) Inc. (Nasdaq:ICGE) announces that Managing Director, Doug Alexander, will be presenting the Company's progress, strategy and value proposition to key members of the financial community at the 2006 UBS Global Communications and Technology Conference in New York City, NY. Mr. Alexander is scheduled to present on November 15, 2006 at 4:00 p.m. EST.
“As we continue to execute against our goals, we remain committed to actively communicating our progress and focus going forward,” said Alexander. “We look forward to this opportunity to participate in this conference and provide the financial community with better insight into ICG and the operations and earnings potential of our partner companies.”
While the event is only open to UBS and its clients, live access to the conference is available to the general public through the UBS Investment Bank website (www.ibb.ubs.com). In addition, ICG's presentation slides will be available on the ICG website, www.internetcapital.com.
About Internet Capital Group
Internet Capital Group (www.internetcapital.com) owns and builds Internet software companies that drive business productivity and reduce transaction costs between firms. Founded in 1996, ICG devotes its expertise and capital to maximizing the success of these platform companies that are delivering on-demand software and service applications to customers worldwide.
Safe Harbor Statement under Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
The statements contained in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve certain risks and uncertainties including but not limited to risks associated with the uncertainty of future performance of our partner companies, acquisitions or dispositions of interests in partner companies, the effect of economic conditions generally, capital spending by customers, development of the e-commerce and information technology markets, and uncertainties detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These and other factors may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected.
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Internet Capital hält schätzungsweise 18% am führenden Inter-Dealer-Broker in diesem Marktsegment, der in 2006 weit über 100 Millionen Provisionseinnahmen hat und schwarze Zahlen schreibt.
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http://www.faotoday.com/Magazine.asp?artID=1453
Procurement BPO is the fastest growing back-office area of BPO, and will be a billion dollar market by 2010.
NelsonHall Research estimates the global indirect procurement BPO market at just $340 million in 2005. This makes it a comparative baby compared with other forms of BPO: not that many major procurement outsourcing contracts have been awarded to date, and only to a handful of vendors. However, we predict a compound average annual growth rate of 28 percent from 2005 to 2009.
This market sizing ignores all contract activity related to procurement of single categories of spend such as energy, IT, telecom, or print—some of which have many millions of dollars of spend in-scope. The market sizing also does not include buying consortia activity, the very specialized market of managed procurement and logistics services in the defense sector, or industrial distributors providing integrated supply chain services around Maintenance Repair and Operations (MRO).
Procurement BPO is the fastest growing back-office area of BPO and will be a billion-dollar market by 2010, with the number of sizable new deal signings accelerating from 2008. That said, there was a lag in contract signings in 2005, but there have been some interesting new awards in 2006, with more groundbreaking deals in the pipeline.
For instance, the transfer (involving 1,700 personnel) of the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) logistics arm and most of the NHS purchasing and supply agency to DHL and its sub-contractor Novation in a 10-year deal to manage the procurement and supply of $38 billion of goods and services, covering both direct and indirect spend, will be the largest signing to date.
Contracts are being awarded in North America, continental Europe, the U.K., and Asia Pacific, with deals typically regional in nature. Certain industry verticals, for example, CPG, are leading the way: early adopters include both major organizations that are early adopters of FAO or HRO and also some mid-market organizations.
Attracted by this predicted rate of growth, a number of services providers, with no established offering, are beginning to sit up and pay attention. There are still opportunities for vendors to enter the marketplace, in particular services providers who have substantial transaction processing capabilities around procure-to-pay or significant sourcing services capabilities, or, like DHL Logistics, come from a background in logistics services.
Future articles in this series will include considerations of what is being outsourced (process and spend category), who are the major services providers, who is adopting procurement BPO and why, and the potential benefits and challenges involved.
Year Global Market
Size ($m)
2005 $340m
2006 $410m
2007 $520m
2008 $680m
2009 $900m
CAAGR (%) $28m
Rachael Stormonth is a research director at NelsonHall. She can be reached at rachael.stormonth@nelson-hall.com.
Sentiment : Strong Buy
signed in the procurement outsourcing space to date, more than any other vendor. ICG leads
IBM, which has secured 24% of deals, Accenture (16%) and Ariba (15%).
Of these four leading suppliers, ICG and Ariba represent the specialist providers, as opposed to
global IT services giants IBM and Accenture, who offer procurement outsourcing as just part of a
BPO business that also includes areas such as finance and accounting and human resources.
Jason Gilroy is keen to emphasize the point that ICG is "100% focused on procurement
outsourcing."
Gilroy also said that, while ICG and Ariba can both be described as procurement specialists, the
two companies have different business models. "Ariba started as a software company," said
Gilroy, "and a lot of [ICG] customers are Ariba users, but also use ICG to drive value and
efficiency from their technology investments".
"For ICG, technology is an absolute necessity for enablement, but we don't care what technology
it is," said Gilroy. "In that sense, we are technology agnostic."
Sentiment : Strong Buy
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Metastorm Track Record of Strong Growth & Financial Performance Continues
Q3 Results Demonstrate Continued Leadership and Market Demand for Proven Enterprise BPM Suite
BALTIMORE, MD – November 8, 2006 – Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software for modeling, automating, integrating, and improving both human and system-based processes, today announced record financial results for its quarter ending September 30, 2006. Metastorm’s total revenue for the third quarter of 2006 increased 81 percent over the same quarter last year, and 20 percent on a pro forma basis (excluding the effect of the CommerceQuest acquisition), helping the company maintain its strong market share position. This represents the 7th consecutive quarter of growth for Metastorm, a company that excels in execution across all facets of its business – from delivering the market’s most comprehensive, proven BPM Suite to delivering unmatched customer successes on a global scale.
In the third quarter of 2006, Metastorm continued its trend of increasing the number of enterprise-wide software licenses to both new and existing customers around the world. A sample of organizations choosing the Metastorm BPM suite in Q3 included ABA Seguros (Mexico), Asset Management Advisors (USA), Polokwane Local Council (South Africa), National Gallery of Art (USA), the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA), and Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice (USA). In addition, existing customers substantially expanding their use of Metastorm BPM™ included Hestia Insurance (Poland), Postbank Systems (Germany), Telenor (Norway), the UK Department of Finance (UK), and UniChem (UK).
Metastorm’s continued revenue performance was recognized by several third party organizations in Q3 – including Gartner and Deloitte & Touche. In its August 2006 report titled Market Share: BPM Pure-Play and BRE Software, Worldwide, 2005, Gartner cites Metastorm as being one “of the top 10 BPM software vendors in terms of 2005 worldwide market share.” Deloitte & Touche USA LLC recognized Metastorm in the Deloitte Fast 50 as one of the fastest growing technology companies in its region. This is the 4th consecutive year that Metastorm has made the Deloitte Fast 50 list – again validating Metastorm’s market-leading ability to execute and its consistent delivery of robust product offerings and strong customer results.
“We continued to demonstrate the strength of our business by delivering record revenues again in Q3,” says Robert Farrell, president and CEO of Metastorm. “We closed the largest enterprise deal in the history of the company, and our existing customers around the world endorsed their commitment to Metastorm by requesting shipment of the new Metastorm BPM Version 7 release in record numbers. Industry analysts continue to recognize our leadership position, and organizations evaluating BPM continue to recognize the strength of our comprehensive BPM suite. We enter the final quarter of 2006 on target to meet or exceed our growth plans for the year, and we are anticipating a strong start for 2007.”
"ICG Commerce
StarCite,
Freeborders,
and Metastorm Had Great Quarters
Excellent Revenue Growth,
Large New Contracts and Pipeline Growth"
Sentiment : Strong Buy
http://www.hrone.lu/spip/article.php3?id_article=898643
Internet Capital hält 33% an Freeborders.
allen ICGE'er ein schönes Wochenende
penski
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Wer langfristigen Trend, wie z.B. dem nachstehenden und vielen anderen positiven nicht traut, sollte meines Erachtens nicht kaufen bzw. aussteigen. Allerdings gehen die Aussteiger, das Risiko ein, dass sich Internet Capital auf Jahressicht nach ihrem Ausstieg verdoppelt. Wie es kommt weiß niemand, ich könnte mir allerdings einen Anstieg gut vorstelllen.
Industry Focus | Case Studies
Packaging Big Value And Savings Through Procurement
Manufacturing.Net - August 30, 2006
In today's global manufacturing market, companies are realizing that in order to grow and maintain their competitive edge they must learn to better manage expenditures.
This became evident for Greif, a provider of industrial packaging products and services headquartered in Delaware, OH, when they sought to put more focus on their direct and indirect procurement procedures to reap the significant savings potential.
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While some long-term contracts were in place for categories such as air travel and healthcare benefits, the majority of Greif’s indirect spend was decentralized across 68 locations throughout the U.S. Without the resources and tools needed to focus on these indirect categories, Greif had not been able to leverage their spending and negotiate optimal contracts with preferred suppliers.
Greif's needed an answer to the question: How could they best manage their spending to drive cost and performance improvements? Would they build an indirect procurement capability — hiring, training and developing an organization and establishing tools and processes — or partner with an external service provider who could quickly bring resources, processes and technology to bear?
Procurement Outsourcing
After careful consideration and conducting a thorough evaluation process, Greif decided that partnering with ICG Commerce, a procurement outsourcing specialist, would be most effective solution. Greif understood that it would simply be too time consuming and costly for them to set-up an internal procurement system, and would have been a severe distraction for existing team members focused on direct materials procurement.
Once they selected ICG Commerce, Greif set three specific objectives for the newly formed partnership:
• Significantly drive down the cost of indirect and some direct material expenditure
• Automate the purchase-to-pay process, moving from manual to automated invoice processing
• Significantly increase historical purchase data to allow for better management of expenditures.
Solutions for Containing Costs
ICG Commerce addressed and managed nearly 20 buying categories on Greif’s behalf, including Chemicals, Fuel Oil, Transportation, MRO, Travel, IT, and Energy. Beginning with a detailed spend assessment, Greif and ICG Commerce developed a strategy to drive savings, automate the purchase-to-pay process, and improve their ability to capture and utilize detailed spend information to drive ongoing cost and supplier performance improvements.
A four-part strategy was developed to drive significant and continuous cost reductions:
• Strategic Sourcing – With access to deep process and category experts and an arsenal of sourcing tools, including category-specific work plans and RFP templates, Greif was equipped to identify cost-saving opportunities, rationalize suppliers and improve contracted supplier service levels.
• Supplier Implementation – A detailed implementation program involving the Greif/ICG Commerce procurement team, preferred suppliers, and each of the key manufacturing facilities ensured that each local supplier branch understood contract terms and expectations as well as how to effectively serve each of the Greif plants.
• Purchase-to-Pay Process Automation – A hosted purchase-to-pay solution allowed requisitioners to quickly find and order items from preferred suppliers while capturing line-item-level detail for future review and use. By deploying the system in over 60 plants and training over 250 end-users, Greif gained access to detailed compliance information, by business unit and plant, and the ability to track savings by category, location or business unit.
• Ongoing Category Management – With the right tools in place, process and category experts not only measure savings and compliance but also supplier performance. By evaluating this information, along with market index data and benchmarks, ICG Commerce’s category experts are able to drive continuous cost and service improvements for Greif.
Higher Service, Lower Costs
In the first year, the Greif/ICG Commerce team completed the strategic sourcing and implementation of 12 buying categories, launched sourcing projects for an additional eight categories, and implemented a solution for automating Greif’s purchase-to-pay processes for a set of targeted categories. The team is now actively managing a significant portion of the company’s indirect expenditures, driving solid savings and value-driven opportunities and is striving to achieve their 90 percent compliance target.
Not only is the company seeing measurable savings on indirect goods and services but employees are realizing time savings during the requisition and purchase processes. Plant buyers no longer have to manually determine the appropriate supplier and order each item manually, thereby allowing them to focus on more critical business activities. In addition, the Accounts Payable team has seen the number of “touches per invoice” drop from three to almost zero, with an extremely low exception rate.
© 2006 Advantage Business Media. All rights reserved.
Document at a Glance
China IT Outsourcing and Utility Services 2006–2010 Forecast and Analysis Price $3500
Sep 2006 Doc #CN221102N Market Analysis
Printed Page Length: 17 pages
Number of Tables: 4
Number of Figures: 5
by Judy Ou
Abstract
This IDC study provides an overview of the market dynamics in 2005 and development trends in the China IT outsourcing (ITO) services market for 2006–2010. It covers the competitive positioning of the leading vendors in the 2005 China ITO services market as well as the key foundation markets, providing a review of ITO services revenue by industry and engagement type.
"The China ITO market continued to show strong growth at 30.7% in 2005 compared with the preceding year, and accounted for US$586.4 million in terms of end-user spending although it was still ranked as the smallest segment of the overall IT services market. IDC forecasts that the China ITO market will have rapid growth for the next five years, with a 2005–2010 compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32%," says Judy Ou, market analyst, Software and Services Group, IDC China.
Sentiment : Strong Buy
Industry Downplays Tech Merger
By Corrie Dosh
SEPTEMBER 11, 2006 -- Corporate meeting buyers shrugged off a merger announcement last month by the industry's two leading technology companies and said they will continue to push customization and development of any tools to help them strategically manage their events. Competing tech providers, meanwhile, scoffed at the notion of market dominance in an industry this volatile.
Philadelphia-based StarCite Inc. and Santa Clara, Calif.-based OnVantage on Aug. 9 announced a complete merger, using the OnVantage technology platform and the StarCite brand (Meetings Today, Aug. 14).
Customers of both companies will proceed under the current terms of their contracts, using their respective OnVantage or StarCite technology and service solutions through December 2007, according to a company release. The transaction is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter of 2006.
New York-based pharma giant Bristol-Myers Squibb has used pieces of StarCite technology for many years, according to Lynn Ridzon, director of global meeting management. "We're going to use whatever is better," Ridzon said. "I'm somewhat familiar with the OnVantage technology but we're very comfortable with what we're using right now. We don't use the entire system because we have our own system for the actual tracking of meeting expenses, but we do use the attendee registration tool and sourcing tool."
Though the merger will have little effect on the BMS meetings process, Ridzon said she generally sees the news as a positive development.
"For the customer, it's great, it's just interesting that they were each other's best competition and they took that equation right out of the mix. I don't see anything, quite frankly, wrong with that for the end user. We're going to get the best of both worlds."
BMS' Ridzon said she does see a greater opportunity for industry benchmarking, but thought the tech company should be somewhat careful about disseminating that information.
Hewlett-Packard has used StarCite tools as part of a massive implementation of a comprehensive meeting management technology system (Meetings Today, July 17).
"To me, it's a non-event," said Lea McLeod, director of travel and meetings for Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP. "I said that I don't want my customers to see it and as long as you keep it transparent, it's fine."
HP may even stand to gain in local resources as it links to a California-based supplier. Officially, StarCite's headquarters remain in Philadelphia.
"OnVantage had a little bit stronger reach in the region and that will be a huge advantage for us. In general, I see it as a positive as long as they don't create any instability that's visible to our users," she said.
HP plans on converting to the OnVantage platform during the next few months. Opportunities still are unclear for greater benchmarking among the client base, she said.
"We haven't really talked about that. Anytime that you have a greater critical mass, you have the opportunity to do that," McLeod said.
The merger of the two rival tech companies actually brings together five technology companies that have consolidated during the past six years and long-term customers seem to have the most to gain. For clients still operating on contracts they signed with Plan2Attend—the technology offering of BCD Meetings & Incentives that was discontinued and replaced with StarCite early this year (Meetings Today, Feb. 6) —they now are getting a much larger technology offering at P2A prices.
Yet, some customers swept up in this year's technology consolidation are concerned they will lose the customization offered by smaller providers.
"I'm hoping that they don't stop their flexibility. I have yet to buy a piece of technology here that we've taken out of the box and just used like it is. We customize the heck out of everything," said Pam Esker, strategic sourcing manager for Golden, Colo.-based Coors Brewing Co. "We're concerned that we're going to get constrained."
Coors originally used Plan2Attend for meetings technology, and pre-merger had preferred the OnVantage technology to StarCite's. Esker said the company would begin using OnVantage tools within weeks. "We didn't feel that StarCite was going to meet our needs because they aren't quite as customizable as OnVantage," she said. "So it's interesting, it goes full circle: P2A to StarCite to OnVantage."
In the initial stages of a strategic meetings management initiative, Esker said she doesn't need all the bells and whistles of a complete tech package.
StarCite executives said at the time of the merger that just 3 percent of corporate meetings expenditures is under control, leaving a large untapped market for both the company and its competitors. Though the merger clearly establishes StarCite as the largest meetings technology provider—it defines itself as an "on-demand meetings management company"—competitors brushed off any ideas of market dominance.
von Internet Capital auch begünstigen wird, auch wenn Internet Capital überwiegend ein struktureller Play ist, also weniger vom Auf und Ab, sondern mehr von den Veränderungen begünstigt wird.
Satya Nadella, Chef der Microsoft-Sparte für betriebswirtschaftliche Software, erklärt in der heutigen Euro am Sonntag ganz ordentlich, warum man auf Technologiewerte setzen sellte.
Euro am Sonntag: Her Nadella, die großen Anbieter von Firmen-Software wie Oracle oder SAP haben zuletzt sehr schöne Zuwächse gemeldet. Investieren Unternehmen wieder mehr in ihre IT-Systeme?
Satya Nadella: Absolut. Und das ist erst der Anfang eines starken Investitionszyklus, der die nächsten zwei bis drei Jahre anhalten dürfte.
Euro am Sonntag: Analysten sind da etwas vorsichtiger. Was macht sie so optimistisch?
Nadella: Schauen Sie, Unternehmen erneuern Ihre ERP-Systeme normalerweise alle sieben bis zehn Jahre. Wegen der Datumsumstellung zum Jahr 2000 sind viele Investitionen auf 1999 vorgezogen worden. Das ist jetzt sieben Jahre her. Jetzt kommt das Echo der Jahr-2000-Umstellung.
Industry Downplays Tech Merger
By Corrie Dosh
SEPTEMBER 11, 2006 -- Corporate meeting buyers shrugged off a merger announcement last month by the industry's two leading technology companies and said they will continue to push customization and development of any tools to help them strategically manage their events. Competing tech providers, meanwhile, scoffed at the notion of market dominance in an industry this volatile.
Philadelphia-based StarCite Inc. and Santa Clara, Calif.-based OnVantage on Aug. 9 announced a complete merger, using the OnVantage technology platform and the StarCite brand (Meetings Today, Aug. 14).
Customers of both companies will proceed under the current terms of their contracts, using their respective OnVantage or StarCite technology and service solutions through December 2007, according to a company release. The transaction is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter of 2006.
New York-based pharma giant Bristol-Myers Squibb has used pieces of StarCite technology for many years, according to Lynn Ridzon, director of global meeting management. "We're going to use whatever is better," Ridzon said. "I'm somewhat familiar with the OnVantage technology but we're very comfortable with what we're using right now. We don't use the entire system because we have our own system for the actual tracking of meeting expenses, but we do use the attendee registration tool and sourcing tool."
Though the merger will have little effect on the BMS meetings process, Ridzon said she generally sees the news as a positive development.
"For the customer, it's great, it's just interesting that they were each other's best competition and they took that equation right out of the mix. I don't see anything, quite frankly, wrong with that for the end user. We're going to get the best of both worlds."
BMS' Ridzon said she does see a greater opportunity for industry benchmarking, but thought the tech company should be somewhat careful about disseminating that information.
Hewlett-Packard has used StarCite tools as part of a massive implementation of a comprehensive meeting management technology system (Meetings Today, July 17).
"To me, it's a non-event," said Lea McLeod, director of travel and meetings for Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP. "I said that I don't want my customers to see it and as long as you keep it transparent, it's fine."
HP may even stand to gain in local resources as it links to a California-based supplier. Officially, StarCite's headquarters remain in Philadelphia.
"OnVantage had a little bit stronger reach in the region and that will be a huge advantage for us. In general, I see it as a positive as long as they don't create any instability that's visible to our users," she said.
HP plans on converting to the OnVantage platform during the next few months. Opportunities still are unclear for greater benchmarking among the client base, she said.
"We haven't really talked about that. Anytime that you have a greater critical mass, you have the opportunity to do that," McLeod said.
The merger of the two rival tech companies actually brings together five technology companies that have consolidated during the past six years and long-term customers seem to have the most to gain. For clients still operating on contracts they signed with Plan2Attend—the technology offering of BCD Meetings & Incentives that was discontinued and replaced with StarCite early this year (Meetings Today, Feb. 6) —they now are getting a much larger technology offering at P2A prices.
Yet, some customers swept up in this year's technology consolidation are concerned they will lose the customization offered by smaller providers.
"I'm hoping that they don't stop their flexibility. I have yet to buy a piece of technology here that we've taken out of the box and just used like it is. We customize the heck out of everything," said Pam Esker, strategic sourcing manager for Golden, Colo.-based Coors Brewing Co. "We're concerned that we're going to get constrained."
Coors originally used Plan2Attend for meetings technology, and pre-merger had preferred the OnVantage technology to StarCite's. Esker said the company would begin using OnVantage tools within weeks. "We didn't feel that StarCite was going to meet our needs because they aren't quite as customizable as OnVantage," she said. "So it's interesting, it goes full circle: P2A to StarCite to OnVantage."
In the initial stages of a strategic meetings management initiative, Esker said she doesn't need all the bells and whistles of a complete tech package.
StarCite executives said at the time of the merger that just 3 percent of corporate meetings expenditures is under control, leaving a large untapped market for both the company and its competitors. Though the merger clearly establishes StarCite as the largest meetings technology provider—it defines itself as an "on-demand meetings management company"—competitors brushed off any ideas of market dominance.
Additional new informations about the merger:
October 2006 • Volume 26 • Number 10 • The Meeting Professional
E-RFP: The New Standard
Does anybody not submit electronic RFPs (requests for proposals)? It seems the days of the paper RFP are fast joining those of the typewriter. In what can be viewed as a symbol of technology that has shaped the meetings industry, the online RFP has become the norm, rather than the exception. Case in point: StarCite, the online meetings management solution company, recently processed its 1 millionth online RFP (e-RFP), a milestone it reached with remarkable speed. Just seven-and-a-half years old, the company made the leap from half a million to a million in just the last 18 months, which indicates the exponential adoption rate of online tools in the meetings industry.
To celebrate, the company took a step toward reaching its next milestone even more quickly by joining forces with one of its closest competitors, OnVanTAGe. The merger, which will take effect in December 2007, will create a formidable organization for automating and standardizing the e-RFP. Both companies had been industry leaders in driving meeting business to hotels via solutions for online marketing and e-RFP tools.
“To date, online registration and Web-based RFP, sourcing and procurement tools have been technology’s biggest impacts on the meetings industry,” said Corbin Ball, CMP, CSP, one of the leading authorities on meeting planning technology and a member of the MPI Washington State Chapter.
According to Ball, the e-RFP has become indispensable to the industry, and most planners no doubt will agree. Yet, surprisingly, there is still a steep adoption curve faced by companies such as StarCite. It is estimated that just 15 percent of all meetings are facilitated using e-RFPs, and that figure is considered much lower for international meetings.
“With only about 3 percent of meetings spending currently under management, this business is a virtually untouched frontier of corporate spending,” StarCite President and CEO Michael Boult said upon announcing the merger. “We have doubled the resources we can devote to continuously improving our solutions, expanding our global footprint and broadening our ability to promote best practices in meetings management.”
2006; Meeting Professionals International
Dallas, TX.
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Also darf er nur schon Bekanntes wiederholen. Und das ist auch nicht weiter schlimm, denn viele kennen das nicht einmal.
Hand auf Herz: Wusste einer von Euch alles, was man im letzten Confercene Call schon alles erfahren konnte? Das war fast durchgangig positiv. Ich nehme jede Wette an, dass auch große Hedge folgendes nicht gelesen haben:
http://internet.seekingalpha.com/article/19786
Lest es eben selber und zieht Eure Schlussfolgerungen - die meisten von Euch sind ja keine Kleinkinder - obwohl wir von den geistigen Schnullerbabys auch einige hier auf dem Board haben.
Blackboard is poised for growth in 2007 (Not rated) 15-Nov-06 07:40 am And Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ) has upgraded educational software developer Blackboard (nasdaq: BBBB - news - people ) to "buy" from "neutral," raising its price target to $38. The analyst said that Blackboard is poised for growth in 2007 after integrating a recent acquisition.
The numbers: Important reasons for the increase to 65,3% are the additional buys of CAPITAL RESEARCH & M... of 909,225 shares to 2,800,000909 shares in total and of DIMENSIONAL FUND ADV... of 453,678 shares to 2,620,155 shares in total.
Holdings Summary
ICGE
Internet Capital Group, Inc. NASDAQ-GM
Institutional Holdings Description | Hide Summary
Company Details
Total Shares Out Standing (millions): 39
Market Capitalization ($ millions): $421
Institutional Ownership: 65.3%
Price (as of 11/14/2006) 10.78
Ownership Analysis # Of Holders Shares
Total Shares Held: 94 25,526,954
New Positions: 7 113,592
Increased Positions: 37 2,671,256
Decreased Positions: 34 1,663,722
Holders With Activity: 71 4,334,978
Sold Out Positions: 8 406,750
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Owner Name
Select a name below for more information. Date Shares Held Change
(Shares) % Change
(Shares) Value
($1000)
GENDELL JEFFREY L 9/30/2006 3,262,780 0 0.00% $35,173
CAPITAL RESEARCH & M... 9/30/2006 2,800,000 909,225 48.09% $30,184
DIMENSIONAL FUND ADV... 9/30/2006 2,620,155 453,678 20.94% $28,245
MELLON FINANCIAL COR... 9/30/2006 2,436,581 (11,456) (0.47%) $26,266
SCHNEIDER CAPITAL MA... 9/30/2006 1,699,592 30,500 1.83% $18,322
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Sentiment : Strong Buy
25.07.2006 13:50
Zusammenschluss von Creditex und CreditTrade sorgt für Marktführung im Bereich der Kreditderivate
London und New York (ots/PRNewswire) -
Creditex Inc. und CreditTrade, Inc. gaben heute den Zusammenschluss der beiden Unternehmen bekannt und bilden somit eine globale Macht im Kreditderivatemarkt mit dem Namen Creditex Group Inc.
Creditex Group Inc. wird in den meisten strategischen und am schnellsten wachsenden Sektoren des CDS-Marktes führende Marktpositionen inne halten: europäische und nordamerikanische Index-Fonds, europäische und nordamerikanische strukturierte Produkte -- mit starken Positionen in allen Single-Name-Sektoren und neuen Märkten weltweit. Creditex Group, Inc. unterhält Niederlassungen in New York, New Jersey, London und Singapur und ist darauf vorbereitet, 2006 einen Kapitalbeträg von über 2 Billionen US-Dollar an Single-Name-, Emerging-Markets-, Index- und Index-Tranche-Kreditderivaten abzuwickeln.
Dieser Zusammenschluss wird Creditex Group Inc. strategisch in die Lage versetzen, den schnell wachsenden Kreditderivatemarkt zu nutzen, der gegenüber den vergangenen Jahren mit einer Geschwindigkeit von über 100 % jährlich angewachsen ist und im Jahr 2005 17 Billionen US-Dollar an ausstehendem Kapitalbetrag überstieg. Der Abschluss wird innerhalb der nächsten 30 bis 60 Tage nach Einholung der entsprechenden behördlichen Genehmigungen erwartet. Creditex Group Inc. wird über 225 Mitarbeiter auf drei Kontinenten beschäftigen, die für den besten Abwicklungs- und Bearbeitungsservice sorgen werden.
"Die Kombination der sich ergänzenden Stärken der beiden Firmen positioniert die Creditex Group in die Vorreiterstellung für Innovation sowie Voice- und elektronischen Abwicklungsservice", sagte Sunil Hirani, CEO von Creditex Group Inc.
"Die Zusammenführung unserer führenden Marktpositionen in Europa und den USA sowohl im Index- als auch im Strukturkreditbereich wird es uns ermöglichen, unseren Kunden einen besseren und umfassenderen Service zu bieten," sagte Paul Ellis, CEO von CreditTrade, Inc.
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Unternehmensprofil Creditex
Creditex (www.creditex.com) ist der weltweite Marktführer und Erneuerer bei der Abwicklung und Bearbeitung von Kreditderivaten und die erste eTrading-Plattform für Kreditderivate. Die Plattform wird von über 1000 Kreditderivate-Händlern bei führenden Finanzinstitutionen eingesetzt. Sie hat einen Kapitalbetrag von knapp 1 Billion US-Dollar an Credit-Default-Swap-Transaktionen elektronisch abgewickelt.
Unternehmensprofil CreditTrade
CreditTrade (www.credittrade.com) ist ein führender Voice-Broker innerhalb der gobalen Kreditmärkte und spezialisiert sich auf Credit-Default-Swaps, Index-Fonts und strukturierte Produkte. CreditTrade bietet branchenführende Transaktions-, Daten- und Trading-Plattform-Services für Finanzinstitutionen weltweit. CreditTrade ist ein Partnerunternehmen von ICG (Nasdaq: ICGE).
Website: http://www.creditex.com http://www.credittrade.com
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Pressekontakt: Annette Bronkesh von Bronkesh Associates, +1-973-778-8648, für Creditex Inc.