Michael Singer

VA Linux Systems (Nasdaq: LNUX) Wednesday announced it is getting out of the hardware business and instead focusing more on its Linux-based software and services. The Fremont, Calif.-based company also said that 153 employees, or 35 percent of its workforce would be let go in the process. “Our differentiating strength has always been our software […]

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) Tuesday pumped new life into its 4-month-old Oracle.com initiative with the revamping of some of its services. This time around, the Redwood Shores-based database software giant says its customers can store its applications on their own servers and still have Oracle run them remotely. “This way, the customer has what they want […]

Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) Tuesday says it is acquiring Toronto-based e-learning company ISOPA for an unnamed amount of cash and stock. The specifics of the deal will depend on stockholder approval. The Palo Alto-based networking company says it plans to incorporate ISOPIA into Sun’s Educational Services a worldwide IT training solutions organization. ISOPA’s main products […]

Here is the scenario: Your Web design production team just finished a beautiful spread for a client complete with the latest Flash animation and Shockwave plug-ins. You go live and now your client wants to make major changes. So, the first thing you do is order more take-out. The second – get Sitespring. That’s the […]

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) Friday says its penned a deal with Scotts Valley, Calif.-based PureCarbon to sell PureCarbon’s JobPlanet solution. The solution will be sold to the Times’ advertisers through its various business units, including The New York Times, NYTimes.com, The Boston Globe and Boston.com. JobPlanet is an ASP (application service provider) […]

Internet professional services firm, Organic (Nasdaq: OGNC) Thursday announced a deal with Mediaplex (Nasdaq: MPLX) that will help Organic’s clients with their online and offline advertising campaigns. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. San Francisco-based Mediaplex’s proprietary MOJO technology platform can automatically configure messages in response to real-time information from a marketer’s enterprise data […]

Handheld computer maker Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) and international business software maker SAP (NYSE: SAP) say they’ve reached a deal that essentially puts the popular mySAP.com and its e-business applications in the hands of wireless Palm OS users. In a joint statement made Wednesday at SAP’s conference in Orlando, Florida, the two companies promise to jointly […]

FinancialContent.com Monday says it is adding financial filings from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to its product line. The new service will affect the company’s client base of more than 85 global companies. The SEC filings are based on documents derived from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissions EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis […]

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison says he has just the facts and just the numbers. “The fact,” he told developers (archived Keynote address) at the JavaOne developer’s conference in San Francisco Thursday, “is that we are not the only implementer of J2EE (a platform-independent, Java-centric environment developed by Sun Microsystems) but we […]

Not to be outdone by the competition, handheld computer maker Handspring (Nasdaq: HAND) Thursday launched a new trade-up program where you can exchange almost any handheld computer and get $100 toward the purchase of a new $399 Handspring Visor Edge. The competition in this case is Santa Clara-based Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) who slashed prices on […]

After reports of a possible deal, Napster made it official Tuesday joining Seattle-based MusicNet, the recording industry’s new music download platform, as an official affiliate. By signing the agreement, the Redwood City-based Internet song-swapping service becomes the third distribution partner to team with MusicNet. The first two affiliates are AOL (NYSE: AOL) and RealNetworks (Nasdaq: […]

Crossvue, a vertical service provider for the retail market, Thursday says it signed a deal to supply its Digital Receipt services to Virgin Entertainment Group‘s Virgin Megastores. The deal means the popular entertainment retailer can now track promotions across online and offline sales channels and to more effectively manage the success of ongoing marketing campaigns. […]