Stories by: Eugene Grygo

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Feature: Corporate venturing on the edge 14 March, 2002 09:00

With little surprise, large enterprise investment in new technologies and IT startups took a hit in the past year. Some innovations -- wireless for instance -- will get funding even with corporations and venture capitalists putting the brakes on investment. But caution controls.
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XML replacement for paper reports lacks backing 07 January, 2002 09:01

A version of XML aimed at replacing paper-based financial reports is gaining some ground in the financial services industry, but the effort needs greater backing from major software vendors, said industry observers.
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SPSS buys NetGenesis to bolster CRM division 31 October, 2001 08:20

In keeping with its push to provide integrated, multichannel analysis of customer behavior, SPSS Inc. announced plans this week to acquire NetGenesis, a provider of software for analyzing Web trends.
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CaseCentral targets hosted service at investment banks 26 September, 2001 08:16

CaseCentral launched Monday a hosted online documentation and collaboration service targeted at investment banks.
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Customers to charge for giving out personal data? 13 September, 2001 07:45

Customer Care is the key to the future for enterprises, and if security and privacy issues are not successfully resolved, customers will begin charging for the information that they hand out freely now, said a high technology futurist at the CIO Forum, an IT strategy conference sponsored by Richmond Events.
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SAP unleashes b-to-b initiatives 12 June, 2001 08:21

Portals will be central to SAP AG's product strategy at its Sapphire 2001 conference this week in Orlando, Fla., where the software giant will strive to portray itself as the vendor of choice for B-to-B (business-to-business) commerce, resource planning, and collaboration.
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IBM banks on S1 alliance 08 June, 2001 08:44

With competitors Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems in mind, IBM announced Thursday an expanded alliance with Atlanta-based software provider S1 Corp. to help banks bolster their consumer-oriented, online retail banking and trading services.
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Cordiem exchange kicks off 08 March, 2001 15:43

A major, public, business-to-business trading exchange for the airline industry promised via the combined efforts of AirNewco and MyAircraft has come to fruition with the formation of Cordiem, officials announced Wednesday.
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Java helps trading move into wireless age 28 February, 2001 16:32

Although Java-based technologies play key roles in the infrastructures of many institutional securities trading systems, they will become increasingly important for a variety of wireless, mobile trading options.
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IBM, Agillion to Offer Small-Business Service 24 October, 2000 12:01

IBM and Agillion announced Monday that they are joining forces to deliver IBM's Small Business WebConnections solutions and Agillion's CustomerPages hosted customer relationship management (CRM) services in a single offering to small businesses.
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Planet 2000: B-to-B and B-to-C Combo Readied 11 October, 2000 12:01

A joing offering for the business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce realms will be coming from I2 Technologies and BroadVision, bringing greater personalisation to i2's supply-chain management. The vendors made the announcement Monday at Planet 2000 in San