Randy Scasny

When AT&T, IBM and Lotus announced this week that the three companies will jointly market an ASP Enablement Suite, a new Web hosting solution for the ASP market, Chicago-based iemagine smiled with joy: the new collaboration expanded their partnership and provided a new avenue to market their rentable webware solutions. The Chicago start up has […]

Galileo International, Inc. (NYSE: GLC) today announced it has formed an alliance with EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) to offer new managed hosting services based on the EMC’s E-Infostructure. Additionally, Galileo announced its participation in EMC’s exclusive xSPerience Provider Program. Galileo’s new offering includes fully managed, scalable infrastructure and data storage resources in response to the […]

eBusiness firm Xpedior, Inc.(NASDAQ: XPDR) today announced that it has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Hewlett-Packard Company. The agreement enables Xpedior and HP consultants to work together on projects and designates Xpedior and HP as preferred deployment providers for BroadVision (NASDQ: BVSN) solutions. HP plans to invest capital and technical resources into Xpedior to […]

Minneapolis-based Digital River (Nasdaq:DRIV), a global Commerce Service Provider, today announced that its Software and Digital Commerce Services Division reached profitability, prior to depreciation and amortization expenses, for the fourth quarter of 2000. The company anticipates reaching overall company profitability, on the same basis, in the fourth quarter of 2001. “This profitability milestone in the […]

A.T. Kearney, the management consulting subsidiary of EDS (NYSE: EDS), and i2 Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: ITWO), the leading provider of marketplace solutions, announced a global strategic partnership to deliver technology-enabled Strategic Sourcing, supplier management, procurement and content solutions for companies, e-marketplaces and all industry verticals worldwide. The partnership’s combined service and product offering, which will […]

ASP Vation, Inc. announced that it has secured a bridge round of financing, which shores up the Chicago-based company after lead investor ABN AMRO Private Equity backed out of its $4 million promise last month. It is working on obtaining a Series B round of financing and is talking with some West Coast and Texas […]

Citing the soft market conditions in the Internet advertising sector, Chicago-based e-mail marketer yesmail.com has implemented a cost-cutting initiative — which includes the laying off of 24 workers, or 14 percent of the company’s workforce. Yesmail president Dave Menzel indicated the cuts were across all areas of the business, with the primary impact being on […]

Managing Editor for chicago.internet.com Bellevue-based Apex Learning Inc., a builder and operator of virtual schools, announced yesterday it will provide the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) with online infrastructure, accredited courses and support services to help build the Illinois Virtual High School (IVHS). The agreement, completely funded by a grant from the Illinois legislature […]

eServices company marchFIRST seemed to be getting a handle on its $100 million shortfall and the financial turmoil stemming from failing market conditions by the recent investment of $150 million by Francisco Partners and a $12 million interest-free loan from Microsoft. But Friday, the Chicago-based company revealed it was in the process of laying off […]

Application Service Provider Vation, Inc. postponed the close of its second round of funding when lead investor ABN AMRO Private Equity withdrew its committment to contribute $4 million of the $7.5 million round, but will oversee the company’s fundraising efforts. Vation’s Chief Strategy officer Jay Prasad told chicago.internet.com that “it is unfortunate that our lead […]

Sales professionals in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry number in the tens of thousands, most operating on the road or from home offices around the world. Leveraging just the right information from these increasingly mobile, global road warriors provides one of the greatest supply chain challenges for CPG companies such as Quaker Oats (NYSE:OAT) […]

colo.com, the colocation facilities provider, announced that it is opening a new 6,800 square foot, high-tech facility in Chicago. The company’s new carrier-neutral colocation (Neutral Optical Hub) facility will be located at 725 S. Well Street. colo.com’s Neutral Optical Hubs help Internet and communications companies deploy new broadband products and services businesses and consumers desire–from […]