Nearly Dozen Locals Joined Russell 2000 – Orange County Business Journal
By Dan Beighley Orange County Business Journal Nearly a dozen Orange County companies have been added to the Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks since June as the barrier to entry came down. For many, being part of the index popular with some investors and analysts can lead to greater visibility, giving them a better [...]
Major online retailers are sued over use of guided navigation technology – internetretailer.com
“SpeedTrack has done a lot of homework in terms of identifying people it believes are infringing its patent and using its technology for free and profiting off of it,” says Marc Morris of the law firm of Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman LLP, which is representing SpeedTrack. Morris says it is possible SpeedTrack would sue other [...]
OC Firm On Patent Offensive – socalTECH.com
An Orange County firm, SpeedTrack, has targeted Amazon.com, Best Buy, Dell, Costco, The Home Depot, and a slew of other firms over a patent the firm said is being infringed upon by the companies. According to SpeedTrack, the patent–U.S. Patent No. 5,544,360–covers how those retailers return searches for products on their web sites, so that [...]
Ernst & Young’s Sale, Velghe and Nendick deliver the results of the 58th Annual Primetime Emmys
Last Sunday, Ernst & Young’s Andy Sale and John Nendick delivered the winning results of the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in tuxedos and silver briefcases. Ernst & Young, who has been entrusted with safeguarding the Annual Primetime Emmy Awards tabulations for 18 years, oversees the Emmy ballot process from beginning to end, starting with the [...]
Social media: You at the Helm of Your Own New Starship – socalTECH.com
By Tracy Olmstead Williams Olmstead Williams Communications Read the full article at socalTECH.com Social Media, like Global Warming, has now left doubters behind. According to the brand-ranking database Engagement DB, companies embracing social media grew revenues by 18 percent in the past 12 months. They are Starbucks, Dell, eBay, Google and Microsoft. Brands lagging in [...]
Recession Slams List of Small Public Companies – OC Register
By Jan Norman OC Register The index of the smallest public companies just got a lot smaller, according to an Ernst & Young analysis of the Russell 2000 Index. The Russell 2000 Index includes approximately 2,000 of the smallest U.S. securities based on a combination of their market capitalization and current index membership. It is [...]
Advanced Bionics Partners with Surrex Project Solutions
Advanced Bionics, a global leader in the development of cochlear implants, has partnered with Surrex Project Solutions to implement Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management software suite. Read more
Five Things Reporters and PR People Have in Common
By Carla Collado Olmstead Williams Communications In the nine months since I crossed over to the “dark side,” that is, made my transition from newspaper reporting to public relations, I’ve already discovered some surprising similarities between both jobs. I say “surprising” because I think there’s a widespread notion that journalism and public relations are on [...]
nFinanSe raises $12.2 million in equity transactions
Tampa, FL – nFinanSe Inc. (OTC BB: NFSE – www.nfinanse.com) today announced that the Company has completed aggregate equity offerings totaling $12.2 million through the $6.5 million sale of approximately 2.2 million shares of its Series D Convertible Preferred Stock and through the exchange of $5.7 million of notes and accrued interest for approximately 1.9 [...]
Khosla Ventures has raised $1.1 billion to invest in green tech and IT start-ups – NY TIMES
By Claire Cain Miller New York Times MENLO PARK, Calif. — Vinod Khosla, the prominent venture capitalist who has been investing hundreds of millions of his own dollars in green technology companies for the last several years, will now invest other people’s money, too. See the rest of the article at The New York Times
