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Metacloud Launches Private Cloud Service

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OpenStack is the set of open source components, software, and hardware which allows companies and service providers to deploy their own, interoperably cloud services, and is considered a competitive technology to Amazon''s cloud services suite. Pricing on the new Private Cloud offering from Metacloud was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

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If you are a merchant, say you are Home Depot, or Ticketmaster, or Nordstrom, or Walmart, or Hotels.com, prior to Wildfire, there was no way for them to efficiently motivate and reward people for recommending their products. At the same time, there's not that intensity of competition for engineers as in Silicon Valley.

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Catching Up With Dave Hagan, Boingo

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A convergence is happening, and it's thoroughly complementary rather than being competitive. I came back to the states for Ticketmaster Citysearch, and I had actually been looking to go back to Canada as my son was at school at University. Wi-Fi is now a lot more like cellular network technology, rather than a separate network.

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Interview with Wes Brodsky, SaveFans

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On the primary side, when you're talking about Ticketmaster or Tickets.com, or the box office, they usually price seats by bundling them into price groups. If you understand the primary side, it's not necessarily Ticketmaster that is setting prices, or bearing the risk on the sale. Wed Brodsky: It's not a matter of not knowing.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

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Bringing in Steady engineers too early could result in a less competitive product, bringing them in too late could result in instability. Ive personally seen big companies such as Ticketmaster and MySpace do a great job building an extremely talented team of highly motivated, Scrappy engineers.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005).

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: The Kool-Aid Test: “Why do I need anything? Why do I need yours? Why do I need it now?"

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The world’s most demanding enterprises, such as Ticketmaster, Fox Sports/MSN, Intuit and Williams-Sonoma turn to StrongMail for their critical customer communications. because they are so focused on being better than their competition. Why do I need yours? Why do I need it now? > Most companies can answer #2 (Why do I need yours?)

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