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Marketplace operator Adatom.com Inc. Monday afternoon slashed 45 percent of its workforce en route to restructuring to focus on international operations. Adatom will transition from its operation of the superstore and AESP properties, which have been the dominant source of the company’s revenues, to licensing the properties to Adatom’s international partners and others. With the […]

Sixteen of Oregon’s top up-and-coming companies will get the unique opportunity to present their businesses to a targeted audience of investors at Venture Oregon The annual event, which will take place on October 3rd, attracts venture capitalists and private investors from along the entire West Coast. This year’s event will feature 16 of the top […]

After two years of working under the ambiguous name of Internet Direct Media, with few people outside of the company aware what they were doing, WideVine Technologies today announced the release of their first product, The WideVine Cypher, at the Digital Hollywood Conference in Los Angeles. The release of the product brings what WideVine executives […]

FreeShop.com Partners With BeFree to Expand Affiliate Program Direct marketer FreeShop.com said it will incorporate products and services from cost-per-acquisition marketer Be Free in its affiliate program. Through the FreeShop affiliate program, partners earn commissions by placing promotions and generating FreeShop customer referrals directly on their Web sites and through e-mails. Be Free’s technology helps […]

Score one for application service provider plays, a still-hot area for venture capital in an extra-choosy funding environment. Abridge, Inc., whose bot technology interprets electronic messages to help groups coordinate on projects, said it raised $7 million in Series B financing. Venrock Associates, EMC Corporation and Angel Investors, LP, took part in the round. Former […]

It hasn’t been a fun week to be Priceline.com, but at least one analyst with a “buy” rating on the company thinks the recent bad news is just a media feeding frenzy. In fact, Steve Marotta of Wasserstein Perella & Co. said the firm has a buy rating on the stock and a 52-week high […]

Person-to-person auction payment service company BidPay.com said it has uncovered a large Indonesian group that is using stolen identities to defraud users of online auction sites such as eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, MSN and a number of other online e-commerce sites. The group is hiding behind phony domain registrations, BidPay said, and is using stolen credit […]

Application service provider iClique, Inc. , has six new deals with companies that will provide content for iClique’s products. The Alexandria, Va.-based iClique is a business-to-business media company that employs proprietary technology to deliver aggregated content with contextual e-commerce. The specific terms of each deal vary, and most are one-year contracts with renewable clauses. The […]

Are you worried about content that may be entering into your company through the email system? Bellevue-based Content Technologies, yesterday launched PORNsweeper, the first solution for organizations seeking to prevent unacceptable images, including pornography, entering or leaving their e-mail network The software is the first to allow organizations to prevent what they consider unacceptable images, […]

Tacoma’s edge2net Inc, a provider of international telecommunications services, announced yesterday their intentions to invest $80 million in Asia during the next twelve months. The investment includes the installation of a $6 million Nortel DMS-GSP carrier grade switch and VoIP equipment required to deliver value-added IP based applications and services to customers in Hong Kong […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] According to a newspaper article, the telecommunication provider Mobilcom is planning to sell its subsidiary, the ISP Freenet. As the London Financial Times (FT) reported in its Wednesday edition, the proceeds are intended to finance the recently purchased UMTS license. Mobilcom has already commissioned banks with the sale of its 77 percent share […]

MP3.com Introduces New Marketing Tool for Digital Artists Music site MP3.com Tuesday revealed a new feature that allows the site’s digital artists to send opt-in announcements to consumers announcing the availability of new music or live performances. The new version of the site’s “Notify Me!” service allows listeners to sign up to receive e-mail notification […]