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iVillage 1Q02 Report (Jun 2002)
iVillage, 1Q02 revenues increased 20% to $15.1 million compared to revenues of $12.6 million for 1Q01. Net loss for the first quarter of 2002 before the cumulative effect of the accounting charges was $8.7 million, or ($0.16) per share.
September, 2002
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We Are Just Starting to Learn About How People Use the Internet
Internet users are beginning to show their preferences. Health information, travel services and information, online entertainment, and retail shopping have become some of the most popular online activities. We have also started to grasp what works and what flops on the web. Customer service, user friendly sites, and email marketing are among the most important aspects of successful Internet marketing.
September, 2002
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Almost Everyone Yahoos
Net revenues for Yahoo! in the first fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2002, totaled $192.7 million compared to net revenues of $180.2 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2001. EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and stock compensation expense) for the first quarter 2002 was $24.4 million, or 13% of revenues, compared to EBITDA for the first quarter 2001 of $0.9 million.
September, 2002
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Get on Top of Supply Chain and Customer Management Applications
Supply chain difficulties and customer relationship management (CRM) missteps directly impact the corporate bottom line. Solutions center around sharing information through new partnerships conducted through the Internet. But, accomplishing this goal requires an unprecedented openness and trust among participants.
September, 2002
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Supercomputers Move Into Commercial Applications
If you need scalability, nothing beats the capabilities of a supercomputer. Today TFLOPS (trillion floating point operations per second) machines are common, and within the next ten years, supercomputers will be running ten times faster. While supercomputers have long been used in government laboratories, the widespread use of these machines in commercial applications has been a quietly growing phenomenon.
September, 2002
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Choosing the Right Off-Shore Outsourcing Company
During the past few years, offshore IT outsourcing has emerged as a viable and economic solution to today's crippling domestic IT worker shortage. Companies have found that offshore IT outsourcing saves them up to 50% or more in total project costs by eliminating personnel recruitment costs, sky-high IT payrolls, and the expenses associated with offering benefits and providing physical space and equipment for new hires.
September, 2002
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Global Telecom Consolidation: What Goes Around Comes Around
The global telecom industry stands on the verge of a major realignment, one as significant to the global market as the breakup of the AT&T monopoly in 1984 was to the U.S. market.
September, 2002
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Making the Case for Outsourced Storage
Consider the savings from not having to purchase additional storage units, servers, and communication equipment; to license or update databases and operating systems, to obtain space for equipment; and to hire IT staff to manage your enterprise storage needs. These may be the payoffs of a successful outsourcing of your organization's storage requirements.
September, 2002
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Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Feb 2001)
In January 2001 nineteen of the nation's leading high tech companies announced the formation of a new Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC) to cooperate on cyber security issues. The objective of the IT-ISAC is to enhance the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of networked information systems.
September, 2002
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Will Peer-to-Peer Computing Move Into Your Enterprise?
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing may become the cornerstone for new applications that make PCs more cost effective and provide users with more flexible and powerful collaborative capabilities. P2P computing applications reside on local clients distributed over a network that does not need intervening servers. This architecture is significantly more capable than the infamous Gnutella and Napster music file servers that use similar technology.
September, 2002
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Intel Bets on Diversity
In an attempt to bounce back from lackluster performance over the last three quarters, Intel is evolving away from its processor core business into an Internet and networking company. Many of these capabilities are not being grown internally, but rather are being bought.
September, 2002
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Next-Generation Windows Aims at Webability
Microsoft is trying mightily to avoid the burdens of becoming a maturing company. As its product line ages, innovating and battling competing ideas grows increasingly more difficult.
September, 2002
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Cyber-Law Helps and Hinders E-Commerce (Dec 2001)
Legal actions of the U.S. government, along with those of the various states, have begun to affect e-commerce, and these effects will grow in the near future as the legal status of e-commerce becomes better defined. International laws, as well, will influence how e-merchants conduct their businesses and will limit their activities.
September, 2002
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Application Development Contract Rates 3Q02
This article shows commonly charged hourly contractor rates for application development, for Q3, 2002. The rates were collected from a variety of sources and clients. It also provides the average rate per position across all contractors.
September, 2002
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Contract Cost Per Keystroke (Aug 2002)
Figure 1 shows competitive cost per keystroke rates for contracted data entry. Prices will vary by region and the type of contractor.
September, 2002