SM: Earlier you explained how you made a transition from your core business to a much wider variety of businesses. One area that seems like an obvious opportunity for you is in the software-as-a-service business. SaaS does carter to a lot of small businesses with various solutions, including email marketing and CRMs. Have you considered [...]
Last week, the leading payroll processing company, Paychex (NASDAQ:PAYX) reported fourth quarter and fiscal year 2009 results that missed analyst estimates as the weak economy and rising unemployment — according to the most recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, new unemployment claims were higher than expected — finally take a toll. Let’s take a [...]
Deal Radar returns to a hot topic, enterprise open source, via an area that it has not covered recently: business process management. South America-based Colosa develops software solutions that help companies automate approval-based workflow processes by interconnecting people and systems across the organization. The company offers a free open source application, ProcessMaker®, which is an AJAX-enabled, [...]
SM: What is your current operating margin? RK: Our net profit after tax is about 10%. Our EBIDTA is about 23%. Our operating profit is in the teens.
Sal Arnuk is partner, co-founder and co-head of equity trading of Themis Trading LLC. Mr. Arnuk has extensive experience in equities trading and is an expert in electronic trading. Prior to Themis, Mr. Arnuk established an equity agency trading business (OTC and Listed equities) at Smith Jacobs & Company in 2000. Prior to Smith Jacobs, [...]
CNN’s ratings soared last Thursday evening as viewers tuned in to coverage of Michael Jackson’s death, demonstrating that traditional broadcast news still has a strong pull. But when it’s not a case of breaking news, broadcasters, advertisers and publishers are still trying to figure out what forms twenty-first century media and its distribution will take. Tonight’s Deal Radar company is [...]
PDF Solutions, (NASDAQ:PDFS), the leading provider of yield improvement technologies and services for IC manufacturing process life cycle, earlier in the year saw its stock crash to under a dollar per share.
SM: The strategic moves you implemented seemed to have allowed you to scale very quickly. RK: They certainly did, especially in the 2003 to 2004 timeframe.
