Catching Up On Readings: Juggling Mothers
Sun, Jun 28, 2009
Here is a summary of the posts from this past week, in case you missed them.
Why Institutional Investors Should Be Concerned About High Frequency Traders
By Guest Authors Sal L. Arnuk and Joseph Saluzzi [This post on high frequency traders is part of the blog's continuing effort to shine the light on various problems in the financial system as lawmakers, industry players, and journalists debate how to best reform it.] It is now generally understood that high frequency traders (HFTs) [...]
From Startup To 500 Million Dollars: VistaPrint CEO Robert Keane (Part 4)
Sat, Jun 27, 2009
SM: What differentiated VistaPrint in such a crowded market? RK: In retrospect, a couple of things differentiated VistaPrint and made us succeed. We didn’t try to apply the Internet just to the traditional printing industry. We came from a desktop publishing background and a manufacturing background.
Demystifying Horizontal vs. Vertical Searches
Sat, Jun 27, 2009
By Guest Author Saad Fazil In an earlier post I argued that Google would benefit from acquiring search engines in verticals such as travel, jobs, and products. By doing so, Google can retain “rich” traffic which otherwise might directly go to those search engines for specific needs.
From Startup To 500 Million Dollars: VistaPrint CEO Robert Keane (Part 3)
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
SM: The catalogue business was at $3 million dollars. What level had it declined to when you sold it, and who did you sell it to? RK: It had declined to $2 million and it was only in Europe. We sold it to the management team in February of 2001. We then put all of [...]
Palm Back In The Smartphone Race
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
On June 6, Palm (NASDAQ:PALM) launched the Palm Pre, a great product that has brought the company back into the smartphone race. Yesterday, it reported fourth quarter results that beat analyst estimates. Palm also reported that the number of applications downloaded from the Palm App catalog has grown from 150,000 at launch to over 1 [...]
Digital River Set To Benefit From E-Commerce Consolidation
The recession doesn’t seem to be troubling Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ:DRIV) too much as they continued to execute flawlessly. Q1 revenues of $102.9 million beat the projected $96-$100 million guidance, and slipped a minor 1% over the last year’s $103.6 million. EPS of $0.56 grew over last year’s $0.53 and exceeded the company’s projected EPS of [...]
From Startup To 500 Million Dollars: VistaPrint CEO Robert Keane (Part 2)
SM: So you did not really take that model to market. RK: When we finally launched I was able to convince Microsoft France to distribute our catalogues in every box of Microsoft Publisher. That gave us a mechanism to reach out to small businesses who were already buying desktop publishing and who we thought would [...]
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