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Heres the Qpass formula for building a great company to work for: Hire people who actually like working with each other. Qpass has managed to attract 175 hard-working, fun people who just click — and part of it was just luck, admits Mark McNeely, one of the companys founders. “At the risk of sounding Pollyannaish, […]

IBM is looking to help ISVs build versions of their products for application service providers with an online version of its ASP Prime initiative. ASP Prime Online, which was announced last week, should bolster ASP Prime. The original service required ISVs to first enter a waiting list and then travel to one of IBM?s regional […]

Ever bowled over bottles of Irish beer with cabbages? It sounds like a St. Patricks Day party — and it was — but its also one of the ways helpdesk and customer relationship management software vendor Remedy does stealth team-building. In Remedys offices you can find a masseuse, someone to run errands to the dry-cleaner […]

Starbucks coffee, in-office massages, fitness club memberships, employee movie nights, foosball, stock options, flexible work schedules, telecommuting privileges and company-subsidized high-speed home Internet access: These arent perks to most high-tech employees — theyre givens. But in blue-collar Pittsburgh, these are novel enough business practices to have won CoManage the accolades of its 165 employees — […]

Internet consulting companies are doing everything they can to raise cash in order to survive the dramatic pullback in IT spending. While the lucky ones with enough staying power are looking for buyers or cash infusions from various sources, others like US Interactive have no steam left. On the hunt for buyers, Scient Corp. is […]

As the enterprise ASP industry continues to evolve, an interesting trend is playing out: Companies that converted to application hosting from other industries are hitting hard times, while pure-play providers are quietly emerging as leaders. That trend, experts say, could make it easier for current and potential customers to determine which application service providers to […]

What do you get when you mix a red-hot market for IT skills with a willingness to put in elbow grease to gain new skills and key IT certifications? If your names Erik Weinmeister, you get two promotions and a cumulative 60 percent salary hike in three and a half years. Weinmeister, an operating system […]

For an industry that loves to talk, the major Hollywood studios are remaining oddly silent about plans to distribute movies over the Internet. But plenty is going on behind the scenes. The Walt Disney Co. and Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment have taken the lead with separate initiatives, and each is looking for partners. AOL Time […]

Trans Union, one of the largest credit information providers in the U.S., this week is expected to launch RocketBridge, a subsidiary that will provide Internet businesses a way to verify peoples identity online through Trans Unions database. RocketBridges main selling pitch is that its services can dramatically cut online credit card fraud. Fraudulent transactions are […]

The department of commerce will soon have two important issues before it that could have major impact on the future function of the Internets domain name system, but there are concerns that the agencys new management may not be paying sufficient attention. The situation gained new urgency on April 2 when the board of the […]

The latest commodity market to rally its biggest competitors into a consolidated online exchange is the dairy business. Momentex Inc. late last month formally launched Dairy.com, an independent e-marketplace whose 34 member companies include such names as Kraft Foods Holdings Inc., Land OLakes Inc., ConAgra Foods Inc. and The Dannon Co. Inc. The exchange enables […]

The days of cheap connections and multiple choices are disappearing for thousands of businesses as competitive local carriers fall like high-speed dominoes, dragging the New Economy with them. In San Francisco, Scott Hauge, president of CAL Insurance & Associates, is struggling to keep up with his insurance clients after losing Internet service in the wake […]