Helping At-Risk High School Students with Online Solutions: Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe (Part 1)

Cheryl Vedeo is the CEO of Apex Learning. Her background as a software engineer, marketer, and senior manager gave her a solid technical foundation. It was at Apple, as the head of the K-12 education division, that she was introduced to education in the technology space. Cheryl holds a BA in Mathematics from Wheaton College,

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Deal Radar 2009: Trustwave

Trustwave provides on-demand data security and payment card industry compliance management solutions to businesses and organizations worldwide.  The company helps both Fortune 500s and small and mid-sized businesses to secure their network infrastructure, data communications, and critical information assets as well as manage compliance.  Today, when cyber thieves can hack into networks of companies big and

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Mark Hurd Continues To Run HP With A Sure Hand

The recent move by HP to acquire 3Com is the best possible move to attack Cisco. The networking sector is dominated by Cisco, and for a long time I have advocated the need for consolidation to threaten Cisco’s dominance.  Let’s take a closer look at the acquisition and at HP’s latest quarterly results.

A Scalable K-12 Education Solution: K12 CEO Ron Packard (Part 7)

SM: Conceptually, what is going on behind the scene with these skill assessments? RP: We look at the state standards for every state we operate in. In those states, we deliver a curriculum that meets or exceed that states standards. In some cases we will give a child an assessment to figure out what they

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Deal Radar 2009: SugarCRM

Deal Radar returns to open source with SugarCRM. Founded in 2004 by John Roberts, Clint Oram, and Jacob Taylor, SugarCRM began as an open-source project on Sourceforge, something that the company still maintains. The company, which is headquartered in Cupertino, California, develops CRM software in four editions: Sugar Community Edition, Sugar Express, Sugar Professional, and

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A Scalable K-12 Education Solution: K12 CEO Ron Packard (Part 6)

SM: You are a public company. How has the public market received this business? RP: Overall it has been OK. Originally it was very strong, and lately our stock has not been trading where it should be, but we are doing well compared to most companies.

November 13 Telepresence Conference With Indian Media

Many of you asked for more details on the press conference. Murali, deputy editor of The Hindu Business Line, attended the conference from Chennai and has posted a series of videos on YouTube of the session. I am picking up a few clips for here, but by and large, you can access them all by

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Intuit and ADP Make SaaS Acquisitions, But High Unemployment Hurts

This month, both Intuit and ADP made some SaaS acquisitions. Intuit has followed an aggressive acquisition strategy this year. It began its SaaS rollup with PayCycle for $170 million in June, and early this month it bought Mint.com for $170 million. ADP made its first acquisition this year with HRinterax, which has an award-winning Web-based

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