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eAutoclaims Inc. , an Oldsmar, Fla.-based ASP that provides online claims management services for the auto insurance industry, announced yesterday it has secured an equity line of credit for up to $10 million over a period of three years. The company reports that transaction is subject to a final definitive agreement and a registration statement […]

Docucorp International yesterday announced that it has expanded its ASP services to include the United States Postal Service’s FASTforward for Mailing List Correction technology. Dallas-based Docucorp specializes in acquiring, managing, personalizing and presenting enterprise information. The FASTforward system, which Docucorp licenses from the United States Postal Service, contains several million permanent change-of-address (COA) records filed […]

Hewlett-Packard and Terremark Worldwide have signed a multi-year partnership to offer outsourced Internet infrastructure and managed services to enterprise and telecom customers. The companies will share costs of the initiative, which will largely focus on Latin America, as well as revenues generated by it. Among the planned offerings are co-location, managed networks, managed applications and […]

AOL Time Warner is preparing to take another major charge against earnings, up to $10 billion, the Washington Post reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources. The charge, related to ongoing deterioration in the value of its America Online unit, is expected to be disclosed on Jan. 29th when the media giant releases its annual earnings report. […]

Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM), which runs the MLB.com portal, has struck a multi-year distribution deal with online ticket-seller Ticketmaster . The deal makes Ticketmaster the site’s preferred provider for all online ticketing services, including ticket sales, printing them at home, selling other tickets in online auctions and managing season ticket accounts. Ticketmaster, which […]

Earlier this week, EMC and McData said fourth-quarter sales would be stronger than previously projected, citing pumped-up demand for data storage equipment and software. But before the word “recovery” could even fully form on sector-watchers’ lips, along came a string of announcements from StorageNetworks . The Waltham, Mass., firm this afternoon said it will cut […]

Applying the adage “a picture paints a thousands words” to tracking sales pipelines, Salesnet — a Boston-based Web-native ASP that offers customer relationship management (CRM) software software — yesterday unveiled its Dashboard user interface. The Dashboard (see Figure 1 below) is designed to allow users to display sales and marketing data with bar graphs, area […]

Information technology outsourcing company Computer Sciences Corporation has snagged a chunk of a government agency contract worth about $300 million, helping it increase its share of federal IT services contracts. The National Security Agency awarded the El Segundo, Calif.-based company a five-year blanket purchase agreement for extensive IT services, the company said. CSC is one […]

Online flower and gift company 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is downsizing its fiscal second quarter revenue based on lower-than-expected holiday sales. Sales were up, just not as high as the company thought. The Westbury, NY-based company said although sales were up by 20 percent during its important holiday selling season, which is part of its fiscal second quarter, […]

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is moving forward with its plans to fully automate the IRS’ Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) response process. The IRS currently receives between 50,000 to 70,000 FOIA and Privacy Act requests each year, and as many as 400 employees participate in the response process. The FOIA provides access to certain […]

Atomz today announced at Macworld Expo in San Francisco that its Web-based site content management system (CMS) is now compatible with the Macintosh platform. Atomz, in fact, describes Atomz Publish as the only Mac-compatible hosted CMS service. “We take pride in being the first company to offer Macintosh users a hosted, online Web site content […]

Riverstone Networks has won shareholder approval and met other conditions needed to close its purchase of telecommunications equipment startup Pipal Systems. Both companies are based in Santa Clara, Calif. The deal includes of 8 million shares of Riverstone common stock and $3.5 million in cash. Additionally, Riverstone assumes $6.5 million in debt and approximately $5.8 […]