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Online Meetings Management Specialist Reports '06 Expansion StarCite ends 2006 with nearly $6 billion in marketplace commerce, adds new marquee clients and rolls out solutions for smaller meetings By Editorial Staff
Philadelphia, PA — March 2, 2007 — On-demand meetings management specialist StarCite saw almost $6 billion of potential meeting and event business flowing between corporate buyers and meeting suppliers on its online marketplace last year as 2006 brought record results for the company.
StarCite offers an online platform for sourcing and management corporate meetings. Last year the company saw $16 million in daily lead opportunities flow through its Web-based solution, marking nearly 50 percent growth in unique requests-for-proposal (RFPs) from corporate clients and 30 percent growth in attendee registration transactions in 2006.
The solution provider saw the addition of a series of important new corporate customers during the fourth quarter of 2006, including Biogen Idec, Nestlé USA, and Toyota. In addition, StarCite said its new European headquarters was instrumental in securing a large European financial organization and rolling out StarCite technology throughout BCD Meetings & Incentives European operations.
The company also said it expanded relationships with many of its existing clients last year, including Caterpillar, Eli Lilly, Longaberger and Medtronic.
In August 2006, StarCite merged with OnVantage. The transaction was completed at the close of 2006. The merger more than doubled the resources StarCite can devote to continued product enhancement and global expansion to serve customer needs, while dramatically increasing the size of the company's electronic marketplace. StarCite continues to focus on its global expansion and will be announcing several new strategic partnerships in the next several months.
Early in 2007, StarCite reintroduced its EasyBook "Small Meetings Solution," which allows corporations to arrange small meetings while capitalizing on their own negotiated corporate hotel rates and preferred supplier relationships. Small meetings of 50 attendees or less can comprise as much as 80 percent of some companies' meetings spend, and the new offering from StarCite is intended to expand the ability of corporations to identify and manage spending on small meetings by allowing users to search availability and receive instant rate quotes from the company's supplier community.
StarCite also plans to soon introduce a new "Dinner Meetings Solution," which will allow customers to manage smaller dinner meetings spend — an especially pressing need for the pharmaceutical industry. The new offering will help companies manage approval processes, communicate and enforce event policies, track costs, manage attendees and utilize negotiated
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Tuesday September 4, 6:39 am ET
Google, Priceline.com and ValueClick to Report at New York Tech Conference
NEW YORK (AP) -- Executives from Google Inc., Priceline.com Inc. and ValueClick Inc. will speak at a three-day technology conference, this week, in New York.
Sundar Pichai, director of product management, and Nicholas Fox, group business product manager, will present for Google at the Citigroup Technology Conference.
Citigroup analyst Mark S. Mahaney said Google may discuss trends in the search advertising market. Mahaney wonders whether Google's advertisers have noticed better leads from search engine advertising, as Google has improved its targeting techniques and if advertisers are willing to pay more for them.
Meanwhile, Priceline.com's chief executive, Jeff Boyd, will present for Priceline.com, and may discuss opportunities for Booking.com in Europe. In Priceline.com's most recent quarterly report, the online travel company said its Booking.com property posted a 93 percent increase in gross bookings.
Priceline.com may also discuss growth opportunities outside the U.S., especially as the company expands in Asia.
Also on the company's agenda may be discussion of how leisure travel may be hurt by a slowdown in the domestic economy.
And Chief Executive Tom Vadnais and Chief Administrative Officer Sam Paisley will present for ValueClick, which may provide an update on how it is integrating its acquisition of MeziMedia Inc., which runs comparison shopping Web sites.
ValueClick has noted a number of opportunities from the purchase, including the chance it would provide ValueClick with formal operations in China.
The conference begins on Tuesday and ends on Thursday. Among the other companies presenting are: Jabil Circuit Inc., BEA Systems Inc., Nvidia Corp., Brightpoint Inc., Broadcom Corp. and Blackboard Inc.
Sentiment : Strong Buy
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Re: Blackboard presented together with Google (Not rated) 2 second(s) ago Both companies, Blackboard and Google, are clear world-market-leaders. Internet Capital owns 2.2 million shares of Blackboard with a worth of now about 92 million. I believe the worth of this shares will increase to 125-130 million at the end of the year.
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Very important news from Freeborders (Not rated) 14 second(s) ago Freeborders Unveils Expansion Plans in China
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (August 29, 2007) – Freeborders Incorporated, widely recognized as the #1 provider of technology solutions from China to global clients, has just expanded operations in China.
Freeborders currently has a state of the art technology center in Shenzhen, which has provided IT outsourcing services to Fortune 1000 US and European companies for nearly a decade. The company has expanded operations and has opened a new office in Guangzhou. This move gives Freeborders much needed additional space and positions them closer to key clients.
This expansion will help to facilitate Freeborders’ growth, provide additional business continuity capability, and allow Freeborders to gain access to an additional talent pool in Guangzhou. Because of significant demand for Freeborders IT outsourcing services, the company is also evaluating additional locations for expansion over the next 12-18 months. Locations such as Xian, Chengdu and others are under consideration.
Jim Reesing, Freeborders Executive Vice President for Global Sales and Operations, explained the drivers of Freeborders growth. “Our unique global operating mode, CHINDUSsm, has contributed significantly to our growth and need for additional locations. The CHINDUSsm approach includes adopting best practices from the US, India, and China. From the US, we leverage our strong on site domain knowledge, our strong US management team, and our relationship management capabilities. From India, we adopt industry best practices around governance and the global delivery model. From China, we leverage the massive talent pool, the strong technical skills, and the English language capabilities that China can deliver.”
Industry leaders and analysts agree that China is the next big destination in offshore sourcing strategies. Its unparalleled wealth of highly skilled labor and solid infrastructure place it atop most “short” lists for offshoring engagements.
“As more and more Fortune 1000 companies take advantage of a multi-country sourcing strategy, China is becoming the most compelling choice,” Jim adds. “The opening of our Guangzhou facility is symbolic of the growth and scale we are seeing across the China market”
About Freeborders
Freeborders is a US-based, global provider of outsourcing solutions with development centers in China. The company specializes in a broad spectrum of information technology and information technology enabled services. Its state-of-the-art infrastructure, proven global delivery model, experienced management team, and highly skilled colleagues deliver to its clients award-winning customer support and quality. Freeborders is assessed at Level 5 of the SEI’s CMMI, and is ISO 27001 as well as ISO 9901-2000 certified.
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Das ist eine ideale Angelegenheit, um morgen in Frankfurt zuzuschlagen, wobei man seine Limits nicht zu knapp setzen sollte.
Competitor of Channelintelligence was aquired (Not rated) 8 minutes ago from Yahoo. Internet Capital owns 41% of Channelintelligence:
September 4, 2007
Yahoo to Acquire Behavioral Targeting Ad Network
Yahoo has entered an agreement to acquire BlueLithium, the fifth-largest U.S. ad network, for approximately $300 million in cash. Much of BlueLithium's offering centers on its behavioral targeting technology, including a search retargeting version of its AdPath solution.
BlueLithium will fit into the newly formed Global Partner Solutions division under Hilary Schneider along with recently acquired Right Media. BlueLithium will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yahoo. CEO Gurbaksh Chahal will remain with BlueLithium for an undisclosed period through the integration.
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Re: Competitor of Channelintelligence was aquired (Not rated) 5 minutes ago Take a look at Channelintelligence:
http://www.channelintelligence.com/
Internet Capital owns 41%.
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Re: Competitor of Channelintelligence was aquired (Not rated) 2 minutes ago Additional information for an compare with the Internet Capital-company Channel Intelligence:
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The from Yahoo aquired company reported about 100 employers, Channelintelligence could be have the double: about 200 employers. At the end of 2006 Channelintelligence reportet about 120 employers and the plan to double in 2007 to 240 employer. After the first quarter of 2007 they reported the fulfilling of 35% of the planned increase for 2007 - that as result = about 160 employers.
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Re: Competitor of Channelintelligence was aquired (Not rated) 39 minutes ago Part of this expansion:
Channel Intelligence Expands European Operations with New Hires in UK and Switzerland
Geneva, Switzerland - 7 June, 2007 – Channel Intelligence (CI) announced today the addition of two new European staff members, Niall O’Gorman and Richard Fenn, to serve the growing demand in Europe for its innovative data solutions helping retailers, manufacturers, and publishers reach online shoppers through product data feed optimisation and related services to improve buyer awareness and conversions.
Niall O'Gorman, former Global eCommerce Director at Iomega, joined the company as Managing Director for CI Europe, based in Geneva. “Channel Intelligence is working with major manufacturers and retailers at the forefront of the growing online shopping sector throughout Europe,” said O’Gorman. “With an impressive client base representing market leaders like Philips, Bosch/Siemens Hausgeräte, Iomega, Epson and more, I’m looking forward to building on our existing infrastructure and driving expansion into other key markets. CI’s online shopping data services are in high demand by companies to help consumers find and buy products through their preferred channel.”
Richard Fenn, who hails from a background of new product promotion and senior account management for the Thomson Group, will be providing a base of support for CI clients in the UK as Multi-Channel Sales Manger for CI. Fenn is expected to play an instrumental role in building the growing Channel Intelligence team, providing local client support.
Shailesh Adhav, Vice President Sales for Americas & EMEA for CI, commented, “Demand for improved product data management and optimisation of shopping data is growing as more organisations are turning their attention to online marketing programmes. This applies to retailers selling direct to consumers, manufacturers who want to better manage channel partners, and publishers that syndicate and offer content for improved multi-channel shopping experiences. To continue to meet this growing demand, we expect to expand upon our existing partnerships and add several new staff members in addition to Richard and Niall to serve the European market this year.”
CI established its local European presence with an office in Geneva, Switzerland in 2005 to provide sales and marketing support for its clients operating in Western Europe. The increased recognition of the online medium as an initiation point of commerce and the ease of implementing channel sales solutions have paved the way for CI’s expanded presence in Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and most recently the Nordics.
Channel Intelligence currently serves multiple vertical markets for manufacturers, including consumer electronics, computing, consumer packaged goods, hardware and DIY industries, in addition to retailers selling products directly online. CI expects to hire additional European positions in client services, multi-channel sales, account managers, programme management, and business development in 2007.
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Re: Competitor of Channelintelligence was aquired (Not rated) 13 minutes ago Part of this expansion (first continue):
Channel Intelligence Appoints Michael Evanoff as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Orlando, FL – August 17, 2007 – Channel Intelligence (CI), the leader in technology innovation for Web-initiated commerce, today announced that Michael Evanoff has joined the company as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
“I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Evanoff as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Channel Intelligence,” said CEO Rob Wight. We anticipate that the strength he brings to CI through his broad financial experience and record of leadership in fast-growth expansions will be an important factor as CI continues to dominate its market and expand aggressively into new markets, both domestic and international.”
Evanoff commented, “Channel Intelligence is a world-class organization facing many exciting opportunities. I am honored to join the company’s leadership team and contribute my financial and operational experience in this arena. I look forward to working with CI to achieve its strategic goals.”
Evanoff brings more than 15 years of financial and operational leadership across the globe. Prior to joining Channel Intelligence, Michael held numerous financial leadership roles for Fortune 500 firms including Lincoln Financial Group, General Motors’ DirecTV Latin America subsidiary, and ExxonMobil. He holds a bachelors degree in business administration specializing in marketing and finance from Marquette University and an MBA in international business from Temple University.
About Channel Intelligence
Powered by the patented CommerceIQ™ technology platform, Channel Intelligence (CI) web-initiated commerce solutions make it easy for online shoppers to find and buy products whether they start at retailer sites, manufacturer sites, destination shopping sites, or mobile shopping applications. Using a series of robust data optimization techniques offered through the CommerceIQ platform, CI significantly improves the quality of product data and the placement of products on the Internet. Every day CI manages and syndicates millions of products valued at over $3 billion dollars through its three primary services – SellPath® Manufacturer Solutions, SellCast™ Retailer Solutions, and SellCore™ Publisher Solutions. CI customers include hundreds of the world’s best known brands including Best Buy, Black & Decker, Canon, Circuit City, Fujifilm, LG Electronics, Logitech, Mitsubishi, Neiman Marcus Group, OfficeMax, Olympus, Palm, Panasonic, PETCO, Skechers, SmartBargains.com, Spiegel, The Stanley Works, and Target. Channel Intelligence, a partner company of Internet Capital Group (NASDAQ: ICGE), is based in Orlando, FL with offices in Europe. http://www.channelintelligence.com
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Channel Intelligence Appoints Mark Ebel and Tony Carter to SellCast™ Leadership Team
Orlando, Fla. (August 22, 2007) – Channel Intelligence (CI) announces two new appointments to the SellCast™ Retailer Solutions leadership team: Mark Ebel as Senior Vice President and General Manager, and Tony Carter as Vice President of Program Management. The newly expanded SellCast™ management team reflects the company’s driving commitment to continuous improvement of its marketing technology services for retailers.
“The retail industry evolves at breakneck speed with constant changes in the online landscape, and today’s retailers turn to CI to provide the means to harness those changes as opportunities,” said CI President and CEO Rob White. “Our SellCast™ Retailer Solutions will continue to lead the industry with powerful enhancements to provide even greater value and innovation in the product line as we welcome Mark Ebel and Tony Carter to the SellCast™ leadership team.”
Mark Ebel joins CI as Senior Vice President and General Manager responsible for the future growth and development of the SellCast™ product line. Prior to joining CI, Ebel managed all online marketing activities for the Toys-R-Us and Babies-R-Us brands, including e-mail, paid and natural search, online promotions, affiliate relations, and other online activities driving traffic to stores.
Ebel’s background also includes key roles at Best Buy, where he initiated the company’s online marketing team, and Intel Corporation, where he managed advertising efforts and development of the first Intel consumer Web site, Intel.com. Ebel holds a Master of Business Administration from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. “I look forward to leveraging my experience in the retail industry to help ensure we are continually innovating and producing the best solutions to help the retailer community, as I work with CI to drive the growth and revenue of the SellCast™ product line,” commented Ebel.
Tony Carter joined Channel Intelligence as Vice President of Program Management for SellCast™, heading up the successful execution of the product, operations and technology initiatives of the SellCast™ product line and its associated services. Carter contributes over 13 years in software and system engineering and project management.
Prior to Channel Intelligence, Carter served as director of engineering at EarthLink, one of the nations largest ISPs, and Aluria Software, which was acquired by EarthLink in 2005. Carter’s prior professional experience includes creating a successful IT consulting company specializing in Internet technologies and a managed hosting provider to support the emerging market of Microsoft.NET Web technologies. Carter said of his new role, “CI offers the most comprehensive technology solution available for online retailers. As we continue to service more and more of the industry’s leading retail brands, I anticipate overseeing our back-end operations as they scale with our business as well as future product developments. This will ensure our customers always benefit from a solid technology platform to drive their eCommerce business and corresponding revenues.”
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Re: Competitor of Channelintelligence was aquired (Not rated) 11 minutes ago Take additional a look at 20-times-revenues by the aquisition of Doubleclick trough Google:
Technology April 14, 2007, 12:01AM EST text size: TT
Google's DoubleClick Strategic Move
With its $3.1 billion acquisition, the Internet giant secures entry into the promising business of display advertising and thwarts Microsoft in online search
by Catherine Holahan
Three billion dollars?
On Apr. 13, Google announced that it would pay $3.1 billion for the advertising outfit DoubleClick. Just two weeks ago, as reports surfaced that the company could go for $2 billion, the price was considered lofty but justifiable. Now, Google (GOOG) is forking over 20 times DoubleClick's estimated revenues of $150 million. And it's paying triple the amount that private equity firm Hellman & Friedman spent when it purchased DoubleClick in 2005—before selling off a couple of pieces of the business.
So why the sky-high price? It may be less a function of DoubleClick's current worth and more about what it can strategically provide for Google—and what it could have done for Microsoft (MSFT), a rival bidder (see BusinessWeek.com, 4/3/07, "Google vs. Microsoft: Vying for DoubleClick").
DoubleClick has something that Google, for all its money and smarts, doesn't: a vibrant advertising business for banners, videos, and other so-called display ads often intended more to promote brands than to generate immediate sales. "DoubleClick currently has relationships with virtually every major online publisher and more than half of the online ad agencies," says Dave Morgan, chairman of TACODA, a targeted advertising network. DoubleClick counts Time Warner's (TWX) Sports Illustrated, Friendster, and Viacom's (VIA.B) MTV Networks among its customers. Google, on the other hand, has made much of its billions by serving tiny text ads related to searches for relatively smaller businesses hoping for some kind of immediate interaction with a customer.
The Smart Play—the Only Play
Forrester analyst Charlene Li described the deal as a must-have for Google. "It's a lot of money, but who cares? This is one of the things they had to buy," she says. "They were not making any headway" on display ads.
In a call following the acquisition announcement, CEO Eric Schmidt characterized the deal as helping Google gain a greater foothold in the display advertising market. "It is accelerating our display advertising business," said Schmidt. So far, search rival Yahoo! (YHOO) has been the main player in display advertising on the Web. Google's display efforts to date, like its attempts to expand outside of search in general, have been marginally successful at best. "Google has been a one-trick pony for a long time focusing on just search," says Bill Gossman, CEO of targeted advertising network Revenue Science. "This is a way to give them another trick."
Google clearly thinks that trick could be a multibillion-dollar one in the near future. During the call, Schmidt and Google co-founder and Technology President Sergey Brin emphasized the importance of display advertising. "I think we have thought that display advertising has been important for several years," said Brin. David Rosenblatt, DoubleClick's CEO, told BusinessWeek.com that the market could be equal to—or even bigger—than paid search. "We could see a similar kind of growth rate as search had," says Rosenblatt.
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Re: Competitor of Channelintelligence was aquired (Not rated) 4 second(s) ago And take additonal a look at the 6 billion Microsoft paid for Aquantive:
Microsoft pays $6bn for aQuantive
By Richard Blackden
Last Updated: 8:12pm BST 18/05/2007
The scramble for a greater share of the online advertising market heated up today with Microsoft's $6bn purchase of aQuantive, which helps businesses target their ads on the internet.
Microsoft will pay $66.5 a share in cash for aQuantive, whose businesses include Avenue a Razorfish, Atlas and DRIVEpm.
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The price is a huge premium to the closing price of aQuantive's share price yesterday in New York, and continues this year's multi-billion dollar grab for the online advertising market.
Founded in 1997 aQuantive claims it is the largest buyer of digital online advertising, with online media spending from its own clients up 30pc in 2005.
The deal comes a day after WPP's purchase of 24/7 Real Media for $650m. Like aQantive, 24/7 Real Media sells so-called search marketing services and also operates a number of websites that carry online ads.
For Microsoft the deal may be some compensation for losing out to Google in a bidding battle for DoubleClick, which the search giant ended up paying $3.1bn for.
Microsoft, Google and WPP are all betting that online advertising spending will continue its explosive growth. Wpp, for example, yesterday forecast that online spending could exceed $33bn this year, amounting to more than 8pc of the global total.
Mircosoft hit the headlines two weeks ago amid speculation that the software company had stepped up its efforts to acquire search company Yahoo!
The company has been seeking to claw back more of the online advertising market from Google.
Yahoo! itself earlier this month paid $680m for Right Media, and internet advertising exchange that it hopes will hand it more of the online advertising spend and tap into social networking sites such as MySpace. Early trading of aQuantive shares was halted. The stock rose $1.47, or 4.3 percent, to $35.87 in Nasdaq Stock Market trading yesterday and is up 45pc this year.
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Outlook at the third quarter (Not rated) 7-Sep-07 02:31 pm For the second quarter we could read about the eight core-companies: "In the second quarter of 2007, aggregate pro forma revenue of ICG’s eight core companies grew 27% year-over-year, to $57.1 million from $44.8 million in the second quarter of 2006."
I believe the organic growth will continue, that about 6% in the quarter by a 27% year-over-year = about 3.5 million. Additional growth will come from the aquisitations from Metastorm and Starcite - my estimate = 5.5 million in the third quarter. Total growth of the eight core companies will be 9 million and the revenues will growth from 57 million to 66 million.
The three big non-core-companies Emptoris, Creditex and Anthem Venture are growthing, too, in equal pace like the eight core-companies.
Sentiment : Strong Buy
Metastorm Bolsters BPM Platform with Proforma Buyout
By Renee Boucher Ferguson
August 1, 2007
Business process management software developer Metastorm has moved to extend its technology suite with the Aug. 1 acquisition of Proforma.
The combination of the two companies could help Metastorm's customers move closer to the goal of a closed-loop process system that enables companies to model processes, simulate what-if scenarios and then convert the models back into processes on the fly.
With the Proforma acquisition, Metastorm may be one of the only companies outside of IBM to offer BPM and modeling software together, according to Bill Swanton, analyst for AMR Research.
Metastorm, considered by many analysts to be a leader in the BPM suites category, builds software that helps companies plan and model an enterprise architecture to support business process analysis and management initiatives. It also has an execution engine that shifts process models to IT systems. Proforma also develops software that helps businesses model their processes, but the companies' products do not entirely overlap.
"Organizations today are striving to improve performance through EA [enterprise architecture], BPA [business process automation] and BPM initiatives," Farrell said in a call with press and analysts. "The synergies, interdependencies and potential value of these three disciplines are immense, and now is the right time for Proforma and Metastorm to join forces to deliver an integrated software platform."
Farrell said Metastorm plans to combine its software with Proforma's in an integrated platform, one designed to enable the unification of a company's strategy with its architecture, process analysis and optimization, and process execution. The result, he said, will be more visibility into an organization.
Metastorm's acquisition of Proforma comes at a time where more companies are focusing not only on the capabilities of BPM tools, but also on the potential of implementing a services-based architecture. It's also a time when the BPM market is consolidating, and bigger companies like IBM, BEA Systems, Oracle, TIBCO Software and Microsoft are adding BPM tools to their portfolios and combing those with an integration platform and SOA (service-oriented architecture) framework.
Hill said the BPMS category is one of the fastest-growing segments in software with over $1 billion in sales in 2006, a number that is expected by Gartner to jump to $4 billion by 2011.
Despite this growth, there are some real challenges to implementing SOA, which is the starting point for executing and orchestrating processes. One of those is the need to re-engineer existing IT assets for SOA, an exercise that is "painful, takes time and is hard to get funding for," according to Hill. There are also departmental turfs to consider.
"The other [SOA] challenge is really cultural and organizational, not technical," Hill said. "The minute you start trying to coordinate processes that cross boundaries and lines of authority, it gets difficult."
Check out eWEEK.com's Enterprise Applications Center for the latest news, reviews and analysis about productivity and business solutions.
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Re: Outlook at the third quarter (Not rated) 8-Sep-07 04:50 am But the growth from Metastorm is not only coming from the aquisition, it is organic, too. Read to this point the following from the article of my last posting: "Hill said the BPMS category is one of the fastest-growing segments in software with over $1 billion in sales in 2006, a number that is expected by Gartner to jump to $4 billion by 2011."
Very important is, that Everest give us in a new study about the market an exact number of the revenues of ICGCommerce in 2006, we don't know such exactly before: 14% of a market of 351 million = 49 million - a little bit higher than my estimates of 40-45 million for 2006.
By a growth-rate of near 30% of 2006, revenues in 2007 will be about 60 million or more. But after the last numbers, I believe, that the growth-rate will increase in the next month and years, because ICGCommerce reported alone in second quarter 2007 from new contracts of 49 million - that is equal the revenues of 2006 and the result could only be an dramatically increase of the yearly revenues.
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Re: Outlook at the third quarter (Not rated) 1 second(s) ago Source fot my statement to the big growth is the last quarter report:
"• Had a strong quarter of growth, with aggregate value of new and extended contracts totaling $49 million.
• Signed comprehensive multi- year business process outsourcing agreements with two new Fortune 500 customers, including Chiquita Brands International and a leading life sciences company.
• Renewed and expanded multi- year contracts with two accounts, including The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and a leading software provider.
• Several of the new and extended agreements engage ICG Commerce to provide services on a global basis and build upon the company's expanding geographic capabilities."
Very important is, that aggregate value of new and extended
contracts totaling $49 million in this quarter - that is equal the revenues of 2006. If this development will continue, the revenues of the future can be the 4-fold of the revenues of 2006, because the new contracts of only a quarter are equal the revenues of a year.
Sentiment : Strong Buy
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Rakuten, Leading Japanese E-Commerce Portal, to Acquire LinkShare, Leading U.S. Performance-Based E-Commerce Company
-- Transaction is Rakuten's first step into U.S. e-commerce market --
-- Continues Rakuten's international expansion --
-- LinkShare's patented tracking technology and Fortune 500 retail ties are key --
TOKYO and NEW YORK, September 6, 2005 - Rakuten, Inc. (JASDAQ: 4755) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire LinkShare Corporation, a privately held New York-based performance-based marketing firm, for a cash purchase price of approximately $425 million. The acquisition is expected to be completed within four to six weeks."
I am sure, that the sale-price for Linkshare today would be very higher than the 425 million of 2005 when we look at the competitors Doublecklcick and Aquantive, which where bought from Google and Microsoft this year.
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Re: Maybe hesitate by monetization can be right (Not rated) 9-Sep-07 12:39 pm But on the other side, Internet Capital has invested some of the 150 million for Linkshare (about 40% ownership) in the three new companies Whitefence, VCommerce and Channelintelligence and invested additional in the companies Metastorm and Creditex. Maybe the increase of the value of this investitions in this five companies was higher than the a increase of Linkshare from 2005-2007.
I believe, the problem of Internet Capital is, that they don't communicate this process of value-building enough.
For example Metastorm: After the aquistion of Proforma they will have 100 million revenues in 2008 and positive net-incomes in all quarters since three years. Therefore the worth will not be lower than 500 million by an ipo or an sale - maybe nearer a billion.
For example Creditex: After 135 million in 2006, revenues in 2007 will be about 200 million. They had a net-income in 2006 and that will growth in 2007, because the revenues increase very faster than the costs. Competitors has betweeen 10-times-revenues and 25-times-revenues.
I believe, first monetization of a core-company will be Metastorm - maybe in the fourth quarter of 2007.
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Re: Maybe hesitate by monetization can be right (Not rated) 9-Sep-07 12:47 pm Therefore Internet Capital is an extreme good long-term-play for investors with patience like Fidelity (with near 13% of the outstanding shares) and other institutionals investors (with near 90% of the outstanding shares) and private investors (who hesitate, because there exist iditotic seven year old emotions). Any dip is a good chance to buy, but an investor should increase the number of shares not only in dips, but he should buy more in dips like now.
Sentiment : Strong Buy
Re: Outlook at the third quarter (Not rated) 3 minutes ago Third big growth-driver will be Starcite. Take a look of the newest customer list - this list is not only an addition of the customers of the both mergered companies Starcite and Onvantage, Starcite had won a lot additional customers in the last two quarters and they had expanded the realtionships with a lot of existing customers.
Sentiment : Strong Buy
http://www2.starcite.com/html/english/customers.html
ICG Commerce Announces Contract Renewals With Greif and Global Technology Giant
Monday September 10, 10:00 am ET
Renewals Confirm Procurement Outsourcing as a Source of Significant Value and Exemplify ICG Commerce's Commitment to Helping Companies Deliver Results
PHILADELPHIA, PA--(MARKET WIRE)--Sep 10, 2007 -- Leading procurement outsourcing specialist ICG Commerce today announced that it has renewed contracts with Greif (NYSE:GEF - News) (NYSE:GEF-B - News), a world leader in industrial packaging products and services. Additionally, the company also announced it had renewed its contract with one of the world's largest global software companies. These renewals confirm the continuing growth of the procurement outsourcing industry, its growing acceptance by leading companies as a proven strategy for achieving business results, and reflects ICG Commerce's track record for delivering value.
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Greif's new contract extends and expands the scope of ICG Commerce's current program, which began in 2004. Under the new multi-year contract, ICG Commerce's expanded scope of work provides sourcing and category management for all of Greif's major areas of indirect spend across North America including capital expenditures.
"ICG Commerce has worked hand-in-hand with the Greif team to deliver unquestionable results," said Ron Brown, Greif's Senior VP Global Sourcing and Supply Chain. "They have brought powerful spend and savings benchmark data, accumulated through their work with numerous companies in our industry, to help us identify additional savings opportunities and take our program and performance to the next level. We look forward to continuing our successful partnership as our program expands."
Similarly, ICG Commerce's contract renewal with the global technology company is a result of the success the company has achieved through their partnership established in 2004. Under the multi-million dollar contract, ICG Commerce will continue to provide support for select indirect purchases for the company's locations in North America and India. In addition, the company engaged ICG Commerce to provide strategic sourcing for three additional business units.
"The contract renewals are significant achievements for ICG Commerce," said Carl Guarino, CEO of ICG Commerce. "They provide concrete evidence that leading companies are driving results and increased value through procurement outsourcing. In addition, the renewals also confirm our commitment to deliver on our customers' objectives and exceed their expectations."
About Greif
Greif is a world leader in industrial packaging products and services. The Company produces steel, plastic, fibre, corrugated and multiwall containers, protective packaging and containerboard, and provides blending and packaging services for a wide range of industries. Greif also manages timber properties in North America. The Company is strategically positioned in 45 countries to serve global as well as regional customers. Additional information is on the Company's website at www.greif.com.
About ICG Commerce, Inc.
ICG Commerce (www.icgcommerce.com) is the leading procurement outsourcing specialist delivering comprehensive source-to-pay as well as strategic sourcing services. Results-driven leaders access ICG Commerce's experienced resources and market intelligence to better manage procurement and logistics spend, gaining significant savings and enhanced visibility and control.
ICG Commerce is a privately held company founded in 1992 and a member of Internet Capital Group's (NasdaqGM:ICGE - News) network of partner companies. The company has earned recognition from Forbes, Fortune, The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) and leading industry analysts for its leadership in procurement outsourcing.
In the result: ICGCommerce doesn't only expand through new contracts, equal important it expanding of existing contracts.
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Re: Very good new from ICGCommerc (Not rated) 10-Sep-07 10:59 am Microsoft is the second not named company:
Similarly, ICG Commerce's contract renewal with the global technology company is a result of the success the company has achieved through their partnership established in 2004. Under the multi-million dollar contract, ICG Commerce will continue to provide support for select indirect purchases for the company's locations in North America and India. In addition, the company engaged ICG Commerce to provide strategic sourcing for three additional business units.
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Re: Very good new from ICGCommerc (Not rated) 10-Sep-07 11:11 am Remember last December:
Microsoft Rolls Out Buying Center to Support Rapidly Growing Business in India
ICG Commerce extends U.S.- proven outsourcing capabilities to support Indian operations
PHILADELPHIA - Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - ICG Commerce, a leading procurement services
provider, today announced that it has extended its Buying Center services for Microsoft entities in India.
ICG Commerce’s Hyderabad Buying Center is an extension of the company’s North American buying
center operations for Microsoft and supports the software leader’s growing research and development
operations.
ICG Commerce has provided Buying Center services to support IT hardware purchases for Microsoft’s North
American operations since 2004, helping the company recognize cost savings and gain greater control of
their spend. The Hyderabad Buying Center broadens ICG Commerce’s relationship with Microsoft, assisting
the company to streamline procurement processes for its Indian operations. India is a central location for
Microsoft’s rapidly growing development services and IT hardware spend is an area of strategic focus in the
company’s ongoing efforts to standardize the procurement process and optimize costs.
“As our operations in India continue to expand, it is imperative to put standard procurement processes
in place across all of our development labs and business entities”, said Vikas Lashkari, Microsoft India’s
Procurement Head. “After seeing firsthand how the buying center has helped Microsoft in North America
increase visibility and control over their hardware spend, we know that ICG Commerce has the right level
of experience and company and industry knowledge to help us successfully adopt the model in India.”
Buying Center services based out of ICG Commerce’s Hyderabad delivery center will provide Microsoft with
leading transaction procurement processes to help end users quickly and effectively procure the goods
and services they need to maintain and grow their businesses. Buying Center services include
purchase-to-pay transactionalsupport, competitive bidding, reporting and ongoing spend analysis.
“Microsoft understands the importance of providing services to their internal employees that let them do
their jobs more efficiently and effectively,” said Carl Guarino, Chief Executive Officer, ICG Commerce.
“We look forward to continuing to support them by providing a high level of customer service along with
increased control and continued savings to help their procurement team maximize the value of their external
spend.”
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Re: Very good new from ICGCommerc (Not rated) 10-Sep-07 04:45 pm I believe, to indentify Microsoft as the not named company in the news of today is very simple: "ICG Commerce has provided Buying Center services to support IT hardware purchases for Microsoft’s North
American operations since 2004, helping the company recognize cost savings and gain greater control of
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Re: Shares price to collect for all investors (Not rated) 11-Sep-07 01:35 pm 165 million for 33% of Metastorm
I will begin with Metastorm, because I believe, Metastorm will be the first ipo or sale. Revenues of Metastorm are 72-73 million in 2007 and will be 100 million in 2008. In the last quarter they had 11 quarter after quarter a positive net income. 7-times-revenues on the base of the revenues of 2007 and 5-times-revenues on the base of the revenues of 2008 are a fair valutation. In the result this a worth of about 500 million for Metastorm. After the last financing round my estimate is a decrease of the ownership from 41% to 33%. 33% from about 500 million = about 165 million.
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Re: Shares price to collect for all investors (Not rated) 11-Sep-07 01:44 pm Take a look at Metastorm, especially on the news and the clients:
http://www.metastorm.com
I hope, you will post, if my estimate is realistic or lower or higher estimates are more realistic.
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Agreement with StarCite
Pegasus to Provide StarCite with UltraDirect® Distribution Technology
DALLAS and PHILADELPHIA (September 11, 2007) – Pegasus Solutions, Inc. today
announced it has signed an agreement to provide its UltraDirect distribution technology to
StarCite Inc., the largest on-demand global meetings management company.
With this agreement, Pegasus will provide StarCite with electronic connectivity to hotel
reservation systems, directly linking the company to Pegasus’ portfolio of more than 78,000 hotel
properties. Through the use of this single interface, StarCite can take advantage of real-time
access to information on rates, availability and reservations from hotels worldwide. This
agreement is an important step for Pegasus in breaking through to non-traditional Alternative
Distribution System (ADS) distribution channels, according to Mike Kistner, Pegasus chief
operating officer and president, reservation and distribution services.
“This agreement with StarCite is extremely significant for Pegasus,” said Kistner. “Expanding
into the meetings space is a key component of our overall strategy to open up new distribution
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channels. The meetings market continues to grow and represents a great opportunity for both
hotels and travel distributors as an emerging frontier for online bookings. By aligning with the
industry leader, we will provide our hotel customers the opportunity to work with the best in
breed in the meetings space using connectivity they already utilize today.”
UltraDirect will give StarCite instant access to Central Reservation System (CRS) information.
In addition it will provide an automated solution allowing StarCite and its customers to book
online and in real-time for hundreds of thousands small meetings. According to Michael Boult,
StarCite president and chief executive officer, the complexities associated with group business
have caused the meetings industry to struggle to provide buyers and suppliers with frictionless
booking capability and the automation provided by Pegasus will alleviate this strain.
“StarCite has a proven track record of innovation in the meetings industry and we have an
ongoing customer commitment to provide new and powerful solutions that create greater
visibility, savings and control,” said Boult. “After careful consideration and due process, we
were delighted to select Pegasus and its UltraDirect technology as a way to drive significant new
value for our corporate clients and supply side partners. Our new relationship with Pegasus will
enable StarCite to provide new transactional capability to our clients and the industry that
complement our well-established and highly successful RFP process.”
Sentiment : Strong Buy
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Re: New Agreement with Starcite (Not rated) 12-Sep-07 07:37 am Additional to the last posting:
About StarCite, Inc.
StarCite®, Inc. is the leading provider of On Demand Global Meeting Solutions™. StarCite optimizes
global investments in corporate meetings and events, delivering visibility, savings and control. StarCite
provides process efficiency, enabling technology and proven adoption management support to drive
significant cost reduction to buyers and enhanced revenues to suppliers. StarCite is based in Philadelphia.
StarCite’s equity holders include Internet Capital Group (NASDAQ: ICGE), TPG Growth, Norwest
Venture Partners (NVP), and TL Ventures. For more information about StarCite or its technologies and
services, please visit www.starcite.com.
About Pegasus
Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions, Inc. is a global leader in providing technology and services to hotels and
travel distributors. Founded in 1989, Pegasus’ customers include a majority of the world’s travel agencies
and more than 78,000 hotel properties around the globe. Pegasus’ services include central reservation
systems, electronic distribution services, commission processing and payment services, and marketing
representation services, including the consumer Web site, www.hotelbook.com. The company’s
representation services, including Utell® Hotels & Resorts and Unirez by Pegasus™, are used by more
than 9,300 member hotels in more than 130 countries, making Pegasus the hotel industry’s largest thirdparty
marketing and reservations provider. Pegasus has 16 offices in 11 countries, including regional hubs
in London, Singapore and Scottsdale, Arizona. For more information, please visit www.pegs.com.
Sentiment : Strong Buy
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