| BabyUniverse Completes Board of Directors
DENVER, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BabyUniverse, Inc. (NASDAQ: KIDS) , a leading eCommerce, eContent and new media company that provides comprehensive online resources for growing families, today announced its new board of directors. The new members include: Lauren Krueger, Edward Ulbrich, John Schaefer, Frank Rosales and Pam Abrams. "Our new board members bring a wealth of knowledge and a broad new perspective to BabyUniverse," said John Textor, Chairman of the Board of Directors for BabyUniverse. "With experience in retail, digital media, advertising, and parenting content, they provide great depth in our core areas: eContent and eCommerce." To reinforce its commitment to families, BabyUniverse is changing its name to The Parent Company. The change is expected to take effect in 30 days.
EPA to California: We Are the Deciders on Emissions
"It is disappointing that the federal government is standing in our way and ignoring the will of tens of millions of people across the nation," said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. "California sued to compel the agency to act on our waiver, and now we will sue to overturn today's decision and allow Californians to protect our environment." You don't have to break the bank to own powerful server technology. The HP Proliant DL380 G5 Server with Systems Insight Manager (SIM) comes equipped with everything your business needs to succeed - including a smaller price tag. Learn more. .
The Search Party
In 2004, Google went public, selling its stock at an opening price of eighty-five dollars per share. Page and Brin, each of whom owned about fifteen per cent of the company, became billionaires; so did Schmidt, who owned about six per cent. Google's stock has at times climbed over seven hundred dollars a share, and a great many Google employees have become fabulously wealthy. In 2005, Google, outbidding Microsoft, paid a billion dollars for a five-per-cent stake in AOL and a five-year contract to deliver all AOL searches and search-based advertising. But it was the intended purchase of DoubleClick, a company that specializes in display and banner ads and video advertising, that unnerved many in the advertising industry. Microsoft, joined by A.T.&T., claimed that the combination of DoubleClick and Google would be “anti-competitive," and pressed the Federal Trade Commission to block the merger.
Response to "Endorsing Ron Paul"
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have identified Occidental Petroleum as the 47th-largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States, with roughly 1.2 million pounds of toxic chemicals released annually into the air. also look up their involvement in a helicopter bombing in colombia for business interests killing innocent colombians. it's awesome. glad to see such upstanding corporations are funding our leaders!! by jfrombach (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 15 comments) on Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at 1:09:16 PM .
GNER unveils online ticketing
Rail operator GNER has launched a live pilot of an online ticketing system to help users get the cheapest fares. The rail ticket booking engine will give customers more information and make the process of finding and buying the cheapest ticket easier, the operator said. Those using the site will also get a 10 per cent discount off any advance purchase tickets bought through the site. silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! GNER customers can currently buy train tickets from thetrainline.com but the rail operator has decided to offer its own online ticketing system to complement it. Emma Passey, ecommerce manager for GNER, told silicon.com: "The primary reason is to get people from our offline sales offerings to online ticket buying." The online ticket system - developed by GNER, IT services company Atos Origin and user design company Flow Interactive - will be officially launched in late November.
Digital River's Jim Wehmann: Building a Better E-Commerce Site
"The measure of a site is how long are consumers staying there, and are they buying and doing the things that we want them to do?" said Digital River's Jim Wehmann. "We've gone beyond whether or not something is the coolest, flash-enabled sexy site. That may not be what consumers are looking for and don't always produce the best results." Acquiring "Business Intelligence" is CrucialGrowing businesses need real-time, actionable "BI". This white paper defines "BI" and outlines key benefits & solutions for small-business challenges. .
Channel chokers
Strengthening the workforce, beefing up marketing activities and setting aside incentives for the channel usually occupy a pretty high place on the list of categories that take precedent. But it would be interesting to know how many brands are allocating funds for the sole purpose of ensuring business partners in each individual market receive suitable training. Vendors might laud the Middle East as a region that warrants their undivided attention, but if there is one area where a high proportion fall persistently short then it's getting resources into markets outside of the UAE. When I say resources, I'm not calling for manufacturers to establish scaled-down offices in each country, but to take the bull by the horns and engage with partners on a personal level. The only way that resellers can truly develop their breadth of skills and technological understanding is if a vendor has solid policies and procedures in place for transferring knowledge.
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