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 small, as demonstrated by the attacks on Twitter earlier in the year, the security measures offered by companies such as Trustwave have become a necessity for most organizations. >>>

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 know and do not know. >>>

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 Sugar Enterprise. >>>

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 hitting the link above.

“Luck is not a repeatable event!”

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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 portal, HR411. Let’s take a closer look. >>>

A Scalable K-12 Education Solution: K12 CEO Ron Packard (Part 5)

SM: It sounds as though you are getting the home schooling market.

RP: We do, but not as many as you would think. A lot of times the home schooling market wants religion embedded in their courses, and our programs are a little more secular than that. That being said, one out of every four or five kids that comes to us is previously home-schooled. >>>