EastEdge Partners Creates New Japan Real Estate Business in Changing Market

Tokyo, Japan (PRWEB) October 30, 2008

EastEdge Partners, an innovative Tokyo-based real estate advisory firm, is seizing opportunities in Japan’s dramatically changing property market.

“This is a strategic time to buy real estate in Japan, our clients are looking for stability in fundamentals and value,” says Jason Holt, CEO of EastEdge Partners.

Despite turmoil in the global equity markets, October has been a month of growth for the new real estate firm. EastEdge’s advisory division recently completed the sale of a two-acre prime view estate in Hakone, Japan for a foreign high wealth buyer. The company was appointed as exclusive Japanese broker for the Above + Beyond luxury hotel condominiums in Niseko, Japan. And in the Philippines, EastEdge signed a hotel management contract for a luxury resort property.

Holt views EastEdge’s business mix as a unique model for Japan.

“We are succeeding in this market by focusing on opportunities that are not traditional. We attempt to be very progressive and build on an international perspective,” says Holt. “For example, helping foreigners find Japanese vacation properties and get a mortgage to buy it, or helping a ryokan owner to improve his marketing and bottom line, or simply sourcing good offmarket deals for institutional size investors and then providing what other advisers can’t: a hands-on solution adding value applying hospitality, such as branding or services.”

EastEdge was founded last year by Holt, who has significant experience on the forefront of the Japanese real estate and equities markets, participating in various capacities of public and private investment management and project management.

EastEdge Partners Creates New Japan Real Estate Business in Changing Market

Cleo Communications Partners with Thru to Offer Best-in-Breed Solutions for Advanced Managed File Transfer with Full-Featured Ad Hoc Capabilities

Loves Park, IL and Irving TX (PRWEB) June 15, 2011

Cleo Communications, leading provider of secure enterprise managed file transfer (MFT) solutions and, Thru, Inc., the leading provider of globally networked enterprise cloud-based managed file transfer platform as a service (MFT PaaS), today announced their newly-formed partnership. With both parties driven to find market-leading feature sets to enhance their current file transfer offerings, the pairing of two best-in-breed solutions was an ideal way to offer their respective customers more. This joint effort is further supported by Gartner in a report entitled Predicts 2011: Application integration: A Nimble Veteran of IT, Nov. 23, 2010, which states that by 2015, 40% of integration projects involving application to application (A2A), B2B, MFT and cloud services will be implementing with one IT solution.

The Cleo-Thru partnership brings with it the most flexible options on the market for enterprises of all sizes looking to secure and manage their file transfers. Thru will offer Cleos best-in-breed managed file transfer solution, VLTrader as a hosted solution alongside their existing cloud-based offerings. In turn, Cleo will offer Thrus best-in-breed ad hoc capabilities as an add-on to both existing and new VLTrader customers with on-premise installations. This joint effort supports A2A and SOA, and gives enterprise customers the flexibility to choose the best infrastructure to support their changing business needs by leveraging the strengths of both partners experience.

What Gartner Says

Organizations who are consolidating file transfer solutions are looking for solutions that support a wide range of use scenarios, including A2A, SOA, B2B, cloud and ad hoc Managed File Transfer while also providing the same level of security, compliance, and functionality across all use scenarios, said Thomas Skybakmoen, Sr. Research Analyst Gartner.

What Cleo Says

This partnership gives us the opportunity to offer our customers more flexibility in VLTrader. And, not just more from anyone, but more from a tried and trusted, best-of-breed solution that is a natural addition to our current offering. As an AS2 Leader with a dominant history in secure EDI and B2B communications, Cleo brings to the table more than 30 years of expertise that is apparent in the power of the Cleo solutions. We pride ourselves on offering our customers the best secure and managed file transfer solutions on the market. Thrus ad hoc capabilities combined with those in VLTrader put us in an advantageous position to offer the most advanced, easy to use and full-featured enterprise MFT solution available. Todd Enneking, Vice President of Business Development, Cleo

For Cleo, this is another testament to the truly flexible, advanced managed file transfer capabilities of VLTrader and commitment to demand-driven enhancements. For Thru, this solidifies the position of a comprehensive, secure file transfer hosted solution. These combined market-leading solutions will make a powerful impact on the MFT market.

What Thru Says

Cleos steady-handed approach is without rival and we have long admired them as the unquestioned leader in premised-based B2B solutions, said Lee Harrison, CEO of Thru. As Thru proudly marks our 10 years of building what the analysts dub a best-of-breed platform as a service, this agreement gives us the ability to continue to offer our customers unequaled service offerings of both Cleo and Thru. Customers who require unobstructed visibility to all file transfers, A2A, B2B, ad hoc, cloud or premised- based will benefit from combined current and future joint offerings. Thrus accelerated global network is now available to Cleos VLTrader community for faster large load global communications projects. Thru and Cleo are truly a dynamic duo!

Best-in-breed solutions. Flexible offerings. Dedication to securing enterprise file transfers. Cleo and Thru allow enterprises to take control of various methods of file transfer, gain visibility to all sensitive, mission-critical and ad hoc files transfers and bring peace of mind to those responsible for information security and compliance.

About Cleo

Cleo Communications provides proven, secure, advanced software solutions to companies that have enterprise-wide managed file transfer needs. Powerful, easy-to-use software helps clients secure, manage and consolidate data while meeting the most comprehensive requirements of multiprotocol communications. VLTrader, Cleos flagship managed file transfer solution, helps businesses across numerous vertical industries save money, optimize IT resources, consolidate communications, streamline workflows, control ad hoc communications and meet both SLAs and regulatory compliance mandates. Comprehensive reporting keeps customers in the know. With over 30 years of EDI experience and the leader in AS2 communications, Cleo solutions are customer and partner-ready to help move businesses forward today. Find out more at http://www.cleo.com.

About Thru

Thru, Inc., the leading cloud-based enterprise Managed File Transfer Platform as a Service (MFTPaaS), moves extremely large files with no downtime. Files go rapidly and efficiently, whether across the street or around the globe and without the tremendous IT overhead of deploying and managing global server farms and high-bandwidth internet connections. Thru was named a ‘Cool Vendor’ by Gartner, Inc., in the Cool Vendors in Platforms as a Service 2011 report, April 7, 2011.

For more information, go to http://www.thruinc.com, call 1-(800) 871-9316 or (214) 496-0100, or email info(at)thruinc(dot)com, subscribe to the Thru blog at http://thrumft.wordpress.com/, follow Thru on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thru-Inc/179418792101092 and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ThruF=MFT.

Cleo Communications Partners with Thru to Offer Best-in-Breed Solutions for Advanced Managed File Transfer with Full-Featured Ad Hoc Capabilities

12seconds.tv Partners with Current TV and Flixwagon to Cover the US Presidential Election

Santa Cruz, CA (PRWEB) October 30, 2008

12seconds.tv, the video sharing site known for short form content, is partnering with Current TV and Flixwagon on Election Day to bring user generated content to millions of households worldwide. Current TV is a media company that works with its young adult audience to create and distribute media that informs, enriches and inspires, and Flixwagon is a live mobile broadcasting provider. 12seconds.tv is known for its twelve-second limitation on all videos that greatly lowers the barrier for consumers to share thoughts, moments and activities, and also makes it easy for viewers to consume content.

On November 4th, Current TV will receive a feed of all election-related content from 12seconds that will be incorporated in Current’s election coverage. Beginning 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on election night Current will bring the best of the Web to television with a real-time stream of the most important results, facts and information, creating a comprehensive newsfeed that gives viewers a completely new way to experience election night.

“We want to feel the pulse of the election so we’re asking our 12ers armed with mobile phones and webcams to document their experiences on Election Day,” says Sol Lipman, 12seconds Co-Founder. “We hope to gather content from parties, experience the emotions and hear plenty of opinions.”

12seconds members submit video using webcams, mobile phones and now through the live streaming service Flixwagon. Flixwagon provides high-quality live video broadcasting from mobile phones to the Web and TV. Flixwagon users who link their account with 12seconds will have the first twelve seconds of their content published to 12seconds.tv. This content will then also be available on Current.

12seconds.tv was founded by a team of passionate entrepreneurs, developers and designers. It is based in Santa Cruz, CA.

About 12seconds.tv

12seconds is the best way to share video moments from your life, using your web cam or mobile phone. Show your friends where you are, share your thoughts, or tell the world how you’re doing. 12seconds was conceived and developed by a small team, mostly from Santa Cruz, CA. Why only 12 seconds? Because anything longer is boring.

About Flixwagon:

Flixwagon is changing how people and organizations capture and share video on the Web. It provides an application to easily stream live, high-quality video from a mobile phone directly to the Web and TV. With Tier-1 customers such as MTV, Flixwagon’s scalable solution powers largest mobile broadcasts worldwide. Flixwagon is privately held with offices in Boston, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, visit http://www.flixwagon.com, http://blog.flixwagon.com, and http://twitter.com/flixwagon.

About Current:

Current is a cross platform media company that works with its young adult audience to create and distribute media that informs, enriches and inspires. The company is comprised of Current TV and Current.com, the first fully integrated online and broadcast platforms that help users determine the news and information that is relevant to them. Current connects young adults with what’s going on in their world through its unique blend of citizen journalism and viewer participation, offering programming and content that’s authentic, often surprising and consistently compelling. Current pioneered the television industry’s leading model of interactive viewer created content (VC2) that comprises roughly one-third of Current’s on-air broadcast. The network has also advanced advertising models via Viewer Created Ad Messages (VCAMs).

Current is now viewed in the U.S., U.K., Italy, and Ireland in more than 58 million households through distribution partners Comcast (Channel 107 nationwide), Time Warner (nationwide), DirecTV (channel 366 nationwide), Dish Network (channel 196 nationwide), Verizon, AT&T, BSkyB (channel 183), Virgin Media (channel 155) and Sky Italia (channel 130). For more information, please visit http://www.current.com.

Useful Links:

More about 12seconds: http://12seconds.tv/

12seconds blog: http://12seconds.wordpress.com/

Current: http://www.current.com

Flixwagon: http://www.flixwagon.com

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12seconds.tv Partners with Current TV and Flixwagon to Cover the US Presidential Election

TalentWise Affiliate Program Gives Participants Competitive Edge National Purchasing Partners and Vendormate Sign On to Extend Value to Clients

Bothell, WA (PRWEB) August 24, 2010

TalentWise, the #1 ranked employment screening solution provider that offers employment screening and onboarding solutions designed for human resources, staffing and recruiting professionals, announced today the TalentWise Affiliate Program. The TalentWise Affiliate Program is designed to help participating organizations offer additional solutions to their clients that will help differentiate themselves from their competitors, while earning referral commissions. Dozens of organizations – including one of the leading national group purchasing program companies, National Purchasing Partners (NPP), and a leading healthcare vendor information management solution, Vendormate – have joined the program and are already delivering high-quality and cost-effective solutions to their member bases nationwide.

“The TalentWise Affiliate Program is a great way to extend the TalentWise brand in the market and broaden the reach of our innovative products and services. We are excited to work with other industry-leading companies, like NPP and Vendormate, to deliver cost-effective, complementary services to their member bases,” said Todd Owens, General Manager of TalentWise.

TalentWise’s Affiliate Program offers participating companies the following benefits:

TalentWise Affiliate Program Gives Participants Competitive Edge National Purchasing Partners and Vendormate Sign On to Extend Value to Clients

Leading Search Marketing Firm Wpromote Partners with Cutting-Edge Website Design Firm, WebWorks

El Segundo, CA (PRWEB) February 13, 2012

Wpromote, five-time Inc. 500 Honoree and #1 ranked Search Engine Marketing Firm, is proud to announce their recent partnership with WebWorks & Graphics. WebWorks, a Wpromote SEO client, is known for providing reasonably priced website development and graphic design services for small businesses. This partnership will merge Wpromote and WebWorks expertise and technology to provide affordable and simple website solutions for small business clients.

After spending years struggling with the poor quality of many small business websites based on the jump between inexpensive and good, our executive team made a concerted effort to find a solution with a partner to provide a product for small businesses that will be appealing, technically sound and absolutely affordable, said Lonny Schwartz, Wpromotes Director of Small Business Solutions. Together, we have worked hard to provide a product that our clients will not only be proud of showing off, but will also be a much stronger conversion platform really enabling them to get the most out of their advertising investment.

The website development services will include the creation of a deployed WordPress site customized for each client, which includes search engine optimized content throughout the site. Other imperative SEO factors such as sitemaps, targeted title tags, meta descriptions, and optimized URL structures will also be included as part of the new website at the time of deployment.

These services will be available to small business clients by March 1, 2012. Clients will have the option of monthly payments, so those with a new website presence can break into the market without breaking the bank.

About Wpromote

Wpromote is an award-winning online advertising firm headquartered in El Segundo, CA. Founded in 2001 by Michael Mothner, Wpromote has helped over 37,000 clients grow their businesses online. With unmatched experience in search marketing and an unrivaled dedication to our clients’ results, we always stand out above the crowd. The 70+ employees at Wpromote currently manage more than 3,500 clients spanning a wide range of industries and verticals in over 60 countries worldwide. A few integrated search engine marketing clients include Bayer HealthCare, Vans, Toyota, Allied Van Lines, HP, Southern California Edison, Symantec, Fisher-Price and Universal Music Group.

About WebWorks

WebWorks & Graphics has been providing businesses with website development, internet marketing and graphic design services for over a decade. Headquartered in Redondo Beach, CA, they have a dedicated and efficient team of programmers, designers, artists and marketing experts who manage many clients in a wide range of industries.

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littleBits Closes Series A and Partners with PCH International to Spark New Generation of Inventors

(PRWEB) July 18, 2012

Electronic building blocks company littleBits today announced a $ 3.65 million Series A round led by True Ventures and including Khosla Ventures, OReilly AlphaTech Ventures and Lerer Ventures. The company also announced a major partnership with leading supply chain management company PCH International, which will begin producing littleBits in August.

littleBits is a system of electronic modules that snap together with magnets for both prototyping and play. Each bit has a simple, unique function (light, sound, sensors, buttons, thresholds, pulse, motors, etc.), and modules that snap together to make larger circuits. littleBits enables anyone to create interactive electronics projectslike racecars, dragons and interactive greeting cardswithout any background in engineering, programming or wiring. With the companys flagship product, the 10-piece Starter Kit (US$ 89), users can build simple electronics quickly and affordably.

We spend more than seven hours with technological devices every day, yet most of us don’t even know how they work, said littleBits founder and MIT Media Lab alum Ayah Bdeir. littleBits aims to break the boundary between the things we consume and the things we make, and make everyone into an inventor. We want littleBits to be an affordable educational tool that is used in schools everywhere, and our new funding and new relationship with PCH means that we can now expand our team of super stars and reach even more people around the world.

Bdeir was recently awarded the TED Fellowship and participated in TED2012 in Long Beach where she delivered a talk about littleBits and the future of play, available at TED.com.

We are thrilled to be a part of the littleBits vision, said Jon Callaghan, co-founder of early-stage venture capital firm True Ventures. Ayah is exactly the type of founder we strive to work with at True, and her passion for building a platform that inspires and propels the creativity of the world’s next generations of creators aligns perfectly with our mission,” he said. “littleBits is a product that captures the imagination and has the potential to dramatically change the way the world thinks about education and play in the digital era.

To further expand littleBits global reach, PCH International will run its manufacturing, supply chain and logistics, making littleBits the youngest company to ever partner with PCH on a wide-scale product launch.

Ayah has the vision and ability to take littleBits global and make it a household name, said Liam Casey, CEO and Founder of PCH International, manufacturer of consumer and medical electronics, packaging, and accessories for some of the most iconic companies in the world. We work with companies that are passionate about design, about their brand and about the consumer experience. We are proud to partner with littleBits to help them reach the next phase of their rapidly growing trajectory.

To encourage innovation, the littleBits platform is open source and enables anyone to redesign and share their own creations online, turning electronics and circuits into collaborative tools.

Open source software lowered the costs of innovation for software and Internet services and pushed it from big companies to startups, said Joi Ito, who led a seed round for littleBits in September 2011 and played an integral role in the development of open source as a movement. The same thing is now happening in hardware, and littleBits is one of the companies leading the way.

Since its debut in September 2011, littleBits has created and released more than 30 products on the market. The company has been overrun with demand and has sold to parents, artists, designers, developers, schools, universities and many others in countries including the U.S., Canada, India, Japan, the UK, Australia, Mexico and Chile. The Museum of Modern Art has acquired littleBits for its permanent collection, and Popular Science named littleBits Best of Toyfair 2012.

About littleBits Investors

Investors in littleBits Series A funding include round leader True Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in promising companies like Automattic (makers of WordPress), Fitbit and Makerbot; OReilly AlphaTech Ventures, the venture fund known for helping put world-changing technologies on the map; Khosla Ventures, a fund dedicated to computing, Internet, mobile and silicon technology; Lerer Ventures, a seed stage venture fund; Jeffrey Walker, educator, advisor to the MIT Media Lab and former managing partner at JP Morgan; Joi Ito, MIT Media Lab director and former Creative Commons CEO; Joanne Wilson, prominent angel investor; and Salah Chamma.

Previous investors at the seed level included Joi Ito, Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the MIT Media Lab and of the One Laptop per Child Association, as well as Taha Mikati, Fadi Ghandour, Josh Spear, Jason Port, Joanne Wilson and Salah Chamma.

littleBits Closes Series A and Partners with PCH International to Spark New Generation of Inventors

Cubic Zirconia Jeweler Birkat Elyon Partners with Bridaluxe, the Affiliate Marketing Network for Weddings

Boston, MA (PRWEB) October 14, 2009

For more than 25 years, Birkat Elyon has marketed its fine cubic zirconia jewelry as everyday wear, and as gifts for special occasions. By joining the Bridaluxe Affiliate Network Birkat Elyon expects to reach a new audience, brides looking for affordable fine jewelry for their wedding day.

“We are very excited to work with Bridaluxe and its publishers because we offer the perfect complementary products for weddings, including cubic zirconia rings, earrings and necklaces priced more affordably than diamond jewelry.” said Joshua Sloan, Birkat Elyon’s affiliate program manager. “The folks at Bridaluxe understand our value proposition and product line. We’re eager to see the benefits of their knowledge of and experience with bridal and wedding affiliate marketing.”

Rebecca Daniel, senior designer and sales director for Birkat Elyon says some of her most enthusiastic customers are politically conscious celebrities who don’t want to wear so-called “conflict diamonds” which come from war-torn countries. “We think brides will love our jewelry for the same reasons.” says Daniel “These women demand quality jewelry, but they view cubic zirconia as a more politically correct choice for their engagement ring or wedding day jewelry.”

Birkat Elyon’s cubic zirconia jewelry is now fully integrated with Bridaluxe’s innovative marketing tools. “We’ve put together a variety of tools to help publishers promote our advertisers in the way that works best for them.” says Jeff James, CEO of Bridaluxe. “For example, our storefront and WordPress plugin are great maintenance-free tools for affiliate marketing, while more advanced publishers really like using our API and datafeed.” Birkat Elyon’s products are updated in real time across the entire Bridaluxe toolset.

Bridaluxe publishers promoting Birkat Elyon’s cubic zirconia jewelry receive a competitive 10% commission and a 365 day cookie. For additional information on how to join the Bridaluxe Affiliate Marketing Network, please visit Bridaluxe.

About Birkat Elyon

Birkat Elyon is a leading online provider of high-end cubic zirconia jewelry set in 14K and 18K gold, and platinum. Birkat Elyon has over 25 years of jewelry experience, and offers personalized service and a commitment to quality.

About Bridaluxe

Bridaluxe, the affiliate marketing network for weddings, helps advertisers and publishers thrive in the $ 60 billion dollar bridal industry. Bridaluxe publishers are automatically approved to promote all 32 of its advertisers.

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Cubic Zirconia Jeweler Birkat Elyon Partners with Bridaluxe, the Affiliate Marketing Network for Weddings

Vocalyze Media Announces New Brand, Partners, Apps, New Website and Integration with WordPress

Waltham, MA (PRWEB) August 18, 2011

Vocalyze Media, which offers advanced real-time streaming Web-text-to-speech technology, today revealed new clients, new Android and iPhone apps, a new brand and a new website design plus a new widget for WordPress. The company, founded in 2010, was previously known as VoKnow.

The companys flagship product, Vocalyze, a mobile audio news and entertainment service, has launched with two high profile web publishers, allowing them to stream audio versions of their articles: Mass High Tech (masshightech.com) and The Good Men Project (goodmenproject.com).

The company has also released Android and iPhone apps, available for download in the Android Marketplace and in the Apple iPhone Store.

Instead of being tied to reading on a screen, Vocalyze streams audio of news stories, tweets, or other text posted online in a streamlined, customizable app, like a personal news radio station. No synchronization or downloading is required. Vocalyze helps people to be more productive,” says Frank Qiu, Vocalyze Media CEO. “During our beta period we have seen the average user spend 37 minutes per visit listening to content they wouldn’t otherwise have read or know about. Vocalyze users can listen at their desktops or on a smart phone when they are on the go. This is also a new way to repurchase content easily and inexpensively, and for content developers to have a new revenue stream.

“This partnership will make it easier for our audience to access our articles wherever and whenever they want, whether on the computer screen or listening,” said Lisa Hickey, CEO and Publisher, The Good Men Project. Vocalyze makes it simple to hear our stories while commuting, working out or multitasking at your computer.”

“Our readers are technology-savvy business people,” said Douglas Banks, Publisher, Mass High Tech. We not only report on technology and innovation in New England for those readers, but also support such work by partnering with local startups working to create new channels for media and information.”

Vocalyze Media is gearing up sales, marketing and customer support operations.

Mass High Techs Vocalyze page posts the daily news stories in one widget on its MHT Radio page at masshightech.com/radio.html

The Good Men Projects Vocalyze feed is available at goodmenproject.com/vocalyze-player/

For more information about the new WordPress widget, visit wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vocalyze/

Users may also create Vocalyzed playlists and learn more at vocalyze.com

About The Good Men Project

The Good Men Project explores the world of men and manhood in a way unlike any existing media company. It is an engaged, thoughtful, ongoing platformwith its hub at http://www.goodmenproject.com, but continuing across multiple networks around the web. The Good Men Project explores the difficult conversations: pornography, war, race, politics, thoughtful sex, psychology, aging, and a brand new form of fatherhood.

About Mass High Tech

Mass High Tech (http://www.masshightech.com), The Voice of New England Innovation, is owned by American City Business Journals, largest owner of city business journals in the country. MHT specializes in covering the region’s incubation of next generation technologies and the people and companies behind our innovation economy.

About Vocalyze Media

Vocalyze Media offers advanced real-time Web text-to-voice technology using patent pending audio generation and streaming technologies. The company was founded by Frank Qiu and Gary Ma in 2010. For more information, visit http://www.vocalyze.com.

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Travel Partners, Vacation Companions and Trip Tours are Easy to Discover with the Globetrooper Trip Creator

London, UK (PRWEB) October 27, 2011

Finding a travel partner is a simple process with the innovative ‘Globetrooper Trip Creator.’ Adventure travelers and vacationers from around the globe can use the trip creator to locate travel companions, meet friends and join existing trips to the worlds most exciting and exotic locations.

The Globetrooper trip creator has been improved and relaunched in October 2011 and now enables travelers to join or create around the world trips and vacations in addition to creating regular adventure trips.

For single travelers locating a trip partner is a daunting task that Globetrooper offers a serious solution to. Trip organizers use the travel companion to create trip descriptions, upload a trip itinerary and grade each trip by culture, difficulty, risk and remoteness.

Single adventurers and holidaymakers use Globetrooper to select and join a trip that appeals to them and engage with other interested participants.

Chris Blagden, managing director at Globetrooper commented, “Globetrooper offers a clear and simple way for vacationers, event planners and tour operators to meet associates and participants and organize or schedule even the most demanding of trips.”

Trip participants at Globetrooper are reliably informed from the outset and use Globetrooper to make friends for vacations, to share journey costs and plan aspects of the trip such as cheap flights, car rental and hotel accommodation as they journey around the world.

For those travelers who operate a travel blog or travel review web site Globetrooper offers a free WordPress Plugin that slots easily into a blog for the purpose of recording the trip and where they are. As a group member moves around from place to place their location can be updated as the journey progresses.

Travel companions can communicate via private messaging and use the social networking capabilities of Globetrooper to make contact with other adventure travelers, backpackers and fans of global travel.

About Globetrooper

Globetrooper is a travel web site and social network for organizing trips, meeting travel partners and planning adventure excursions around the world. In addition to the trip creator Globetrooper offers destination guides, vacation news, trip reviews and daily content from the exciting world of global travel.

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Travel Partners, Vacation Companions and Trip Tours are Easy to Discover with the Globetrooper Trip Creator

Digital Subscriptions Provider MediaPass Raises $1.75M in Series B and Partners with Automattics WordPress.com VIP

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 28, 2012

MediaPass (http://www.mediapass.com), a leading subscription solution for websites, announced today it raised a $ 1.75M Series B round. Comprised of several investors, the funding will fuel the companys rollout of extensive tools and solutions that simplify subscription deployment for MediaPass partners.

The news of the funding raise follows on the heels of MediaPasss participation in Automattics new Featured Partner Program for WordPress.com VIP. MediaPass Subscriptions is now one of the select new publisher tools available to WordPress.com VIP customers with seamless integration into the webs leading CMS. MediaPass Subscriptions will support configuration and management of a sophisticated subscription model directly from the WordPress.com VIP dashboard. Carefully vetted and reviewed, MediaPass Subscriptions (http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mediapass/) is now one of the exclusive WordPress plugins officially certified by the WordPress.com VIP staff.

The webs largest publishers can no longer ignore the monetization opportunities emerging from subscription based models, said Matthew Mitchell, CEO of MediaPass. Our solutions make it easy for content publishers of any size to deploy subscriptions for any portion of their content. WordPress.com has taken notice of the web’s growing desire to optimize revenue opportunities via premium content models, and our new partnership with Automattic allows us to be the premier solution for subscription management issues. Were thrilled to use our funding to propel the most robust content monetization offering on the web.

Based in Los Angeles, MediaPass is a full-service subscription solution with customizable features and secure billing management. Merchant processing, fraud protection, and subscriber support is provided to all MediaPass publishers. The latest version of MediaPass Subscriptions for WordPress will also be available to WordPress.orgs more than 30 million websites through the official WordPress.org Plugin Directory: http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/.

About MediaPass

MediaPass (http://www.mediapass.com) is a leading subscription solution for websites and works on any platform or CMS. Using MediaPass, a website can sell recurring subscriptions to their online content, without the resources and costs typically associated with in-house development. Founded by experts in online subscription models, MediaPass aims to service the growing world of web publishers who are frustrated with the limitations of an advertising-based revenue model and desire a simple, yet customizable subscription product.

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Active Web Group, Inc. Partners with Kentico to Offer Clients a Content Management Enterprise Grade Solution

Hauppauge, NY (PRWEB) November 02, 2012

Active Web Group, Inc. today announced it has entered a partnership with Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, to provide their clients with the online tools they require for greater facility and more autonomy in directing their online businesses toward increased success.

Active Web Group is known for its ahead-of-trend, search engine friendly website designs for its clients which range from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations. Active Web Group chose Kentico CMS as the platform for their clients websites for its expansive tool set which includes the facility to build websites, intranets and to provide e-commerce solutions on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform.

Responsible Internet Marketing companies always look to upgrade their toolset and offer their new and current clients the best possible options to grow their online businesses, said Scott Forde, President, Active Web Group. By offering the Kentico CMS, we are confident that we will continue to provide our clients with the services they require in a shorter timeframe and within budget.

We are very pleased to be partnering with Active Web Group and proud to be able to recommend their expertise in not just Web development but also SEO, PPC campaign management and e-commerce, email and social media marketing solutions, states Lenka Navratilova, Partner Manager at Kentico Software. The combined strength of the Kentico CMS and the solid experience of the team at Active Web Group is sure to bring powerful solutions to their clients.

About Active Web Group: A full-service agency, Active Web Group has extensive experience in Web Design and redesign, Digital Media, Programming (all proficiencies including php, asp and asp.net), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Media Marketing, Email Marketing, Graphic Design, E-Commerce, Magento Ecommerce, WordPress Ecommerce, custom solutions and Pay-Per-Click Marketing.

About Kentico CMS : Kentico CMS is an enterprise Web Content Management System and Customer Experience Management System that provides a complete set of features for building websites, intranets, community sites and e-commerce solutions on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform. It supports mobile websites, SEO, document management, online marketing tools, multilingual websites, multisite management and it ships with 40 modules, 340 configurable Web parts and source code available.

Kentico CMS customers can expect a highly flexible platform with a uniquely easy-to-use user interface. Its currently used by more than 12,000 websites in 87 countries. The clients include Microsoft, Guinness, McDonald’s, Vodafone, O2, Orange, Brussels Airlines, Mazda, Ford, Subaru, Isuzu, Samsung, Gibson, ESPN, DKNY, Abbott Labs, Medibank, Ireland.ie and others.

About Kentico Software

Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com) helps clients create successful dynamic websites, intranets, community sites and e-commerce solutions using Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. It’s committed to deliver a full-featured, enterprise-class, stable and scalable Web Content Management solution on the Microsoft .NET platform. Founded in 2004, Kentico is headquartered in the Czech Republic and has offices in the United States (Nashua, NH and Seattle, WA) and United Kingdom (Reading). Since its inception, Kentico has continued to rapidly expand the Kentico CMS user base worldwide. Its partner network consists of 1,200 partners in 80+ countries. Kentico Software is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. In 2010, Kentico was named the fastest growing technology company in the Czech Republic in the Deloitte Technology FAST 50 awards.

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ITX Design Partners With SpamSoap To Provide Best Spam Filtering Solution

Houston, Texas (PRWEB) November 06, 2012

ITX Design has partnered with SpamSoap to provide the best spam filtering solution on the web. SpamSoap is guaranteed to reduce spam by 99.7%. Its features include policy based spam, virus, content and attachment filtering, disaster recovery mail spooling for 5 days, spam quarantine report emails and easy administration.

ITX Design is a Christian operated /owned business that specializes in web hosting and support. It has over 10 years of experience and is one of the first web hosting companies online. ITX Design offers the best web hosting services and support. The web hosting plans support WordPress and it includes a one click WordPress installer. http://www.ITXDesign.com offers 99.999% uptime, superfast and reliable tier 1 connections, 24/7 technical support, free website builder and 30 days money back guarantee. The award winning support team of ITX Design is available to support customer 24/7 via telephone, email, and its help desk. The technicians monitor the servers 24/7/365 for uptime and also monitor systems health. Monitoring systems health helps to identify increases in load or problematic areas before they create downtime.

Over the years ITX Design has seen explosive growth with its full line of web hosting solutions. Additionally, it has successfully completed a large number of web hosting company acquisitions. The reviews on ITX Design suggest that over the last 10 years it has developed a proven technique/ strategy for migrations that allows to seamlessly integrate/migrate other hosting companies in its system. Many online review companies have conducted extensive reviews on ITX Design and have termed the organization as one of the best and the most trusted service providers of this industry.

ITX Design is a web hosting and domain registration provider. It provides dedicated servers, shared web hosting and domain registration for small businesses including server hosting, WordPress Hosting, Reseller Hosting and more. ITX Design has established a strategic position within the web hosting market in order to provide their clients with the ultimate hosting solution. It specializes in expandable hosting that is capable of meeting the hosting requirements of small websites as well as large scale corporate networks with server clusters. To learn more visit http://itxdesign.com/

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Globalization Partners International Releases WordPress CMS Plug-In to Enable More Cost-Effective and Efficient Translation Workflows for WordPress Websites

Washington, DC (PRWEB) July 13, 2011

Globalization Partners International (GPI), a provider of comprehensive document, software and website translation services, announced today the release of its WordPress Plug-In which enables users of WordPress-based websites to export and import content and initiate professional human translation workflows with a single click.

The GPI Plug-In built for the WordPress CMS ensures easy translation services integration, a simplified export/import process and content exported as industry standard XLIFF all seamlessly from within WordPress, says Martin Spethman, Managing Partner, Globalization Partners International.

Globalization Partners comprehensive WordPress website translation services include:

Web CMS strategy, development, implementation and training
Multilingual glossary and style guide development
Translation and copy writing
Country-specific multilingual search engine optimization (SEO)
Localization QA and website testing
Localization workflow and training under WordPress for ongoing site maintenance

WordPress is a very popular web content management system and without a plug-in content would require manually cutting and pasting from various sections of the website within the CMS to export it, said Marcelo Volmaro, Director Website Globalization Services at GPI.

Globalization Partners International Releases WordPress CMS Plug-In to Enable More Cost-Effective and Efficient Translation Workflows for WordPress Websites

WP Engine Secures $1.2 Million in Series A Round of Financing Led By Silverton Partners

Austin, Texas (PRWEB) November 15, 2011

WP Engine, the WordPress hosting and security service for bloggers and small businesses, today announced the closing of their Series A round of venture financing.

The $ 1.2 M investment was led by Silverton Partners from Austin, TX, and includes angels Eric Ries, Loic Le Meur, Dharmesh Shah, Jeremy Benken, Bill Boebel, Rob Walling and others. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, also participated with a strategic investment.

Automattic today also announced VIP Support for Web Hosts, a new partner program for web hosts that excel at hosting WordPress sites and blogs. WP Engine is the launch partner for the program.

Kip McClanahan, a partner at Silverton, joins WP Engines board of directors.

This round of funding allows WP Engine to further recruit for and scale its product and customer happiness teams, which are comprised of the very best WordPress developers and consultants. The company also plans to ramp partner relations with other elite WordPress service providers.

WP Engine has grown rapidly since its launch in 2010 and now has an install base of over 30,000 personal and professional WordPress blogs.

WP Engine leads the managed WordPress hosting segment with fastest page-load times, scalability, security and a staff of WordPress experts. Additionally, WP Engine provides all customers with a managed CDN for static content delivery, full daily backups, a complimentary staging area, and consultation on themes and plugins.

Were devoted to providing the absolute best customer service and the investment from Silverton allows us to expand the WP Engine platform with the right people to support our growing customer base, said Jason Cohen, founder and CEO of WP Engine. Our roadmap balances building out the features, add-on services and high-touch support teams that customers ask for the most, while avoiding services creep, which is critical. We want to remain the fastest and simplest WordPress hosting company, period. Trust in this business is everything.

Because of the one-stop approach, WP Engine works closely with a network of top WordPress consultants to provide them with the tools they need to get client sites up and running faster than they could alone.

“We’re excited to add WP Engine to our portfolio of leading Texas technology companies,” said Kip McClanahan, a Partner at Silverton. “WP Engine is helping to build out a high-touch platform and services ecosystem for bloggers and consultants, so everyone can focus on what they do best. There is a big opportunity between the plethora of lightweight, downstream hosting companies that casually talk about WordPress on their marketing pages, and Automattics VIP program, which is for only the largest sites and services. WP Engine is for anyone who is serious about WordPress, but not yet ready for VIP.

WP Engine was founded to be the fastest and easiest way to keep your content or commerce-based blog up and running at optimal speed. Key features include:

WP Engine Secures $1.2 Million in Series A Round of Financing Led By Silverton Partners

WordPress Analytics Platform PressTrends Partners with WooThemes, Plans Integration, Takes Strategic Investment

Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) March 29, 2012

PressTrends, the WordPress-centric analytics platform and provider of real-time trends and insights for developers, designers, consultants and publishers, today announced a major partnership with WooThemes, one of the largest theme and infrastructure providers for WordPress sites. The partnership also includes a strategic investment by WooThemes in PressTrends current round of financing.

The agreement is part of a broader strategy to support and integrate strong players in the WordPress ecosystem, and further solidify WooThemes as an end-to-end platform for the best sites, services and stores worldwide. PressTrends will be integrated into all WooThemes themes and plugins, including WooCommerce, opening up the tool to hundreds of thousands of new users.

Offering a beautiful and easy-to-read dashboard interface, PressTrends gives developers, designers, consultants and publishers a robust picture of how audiences are interacting with their themes and plugins, as well as the actual content on the underlying sites.

There are currently over 45,000 WordPress instances sending data through PressTrends with over 5,000 sites added per week on average. PressTrends is currently integrated into over 300 themes, over 300 plugins and has tracked almost 3 million activations.

We’ve been using PressTrends ourselves for months now. We finally have visibility into how our customers are interacting with WooThemes product offerings, in real-time, said WooThemes co-founder Adii Pienaar. PressTrends has made us more responsive and adaptive. It gives us insights we cant get anywhere else. No other platform out there right now can track and analyze qualitatively as well as quantitatively. A deep partnership and strategic investment made obvious sense, and our forthcoming integrations will provide our community with the same powerful capabilities we currently enjoy.

With PressTrends, anyone can track engagement across whole WordPress sites and individual elements alike. PressTrends isolates usage trends within themes, plugins and content categories. PressTrends makes it easy to track multiple products. It can also look at how a given site or blog performs against the larger community.

Most importantly, PressTrends provides suggestions to improve performance, based on historic and real-time data.

The foundation of PressTrends is the pursuit of a better Web. We identify what design, development and content strategies facilitate the most user interaction, said founder and CEO George Ortiz. Were thrilled to have the support, both financially and organizationally, of WooThemes, and look forward to combining our resources to provide the entire WordPress community a better tool for understanding their own audience.

PressTrends plans to leverage the investment to help further build out and improve the current platform and is also exploring strategic partnerships with other premium vendors to help increase traction and adoption. They will also be building out their team and infrastructure to accelerate the growth of the platform in the coming months and are building out a suite of premium features.

WooThemes co-founder Adii Pienaar and KissMetrics co-founder Hiten Shah have also been added to the PressTrends Board of Advisors.

Anyone can download the PressTrends plugin directly here. For more documentation and guides to help implement PressTrends into themes, plugins and sites, visit the PressTrends library.

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SoMoLend Partners with City of Cincinnati to Support Small Business Growth

Cincinnati, Ohio (PRWEB) December 06, 2012

SoMoLend (http://www.SoMoLend.com/), a leading debt-based crowdfunding platform, and the City of Cincinnati have announced a new partnership to help Cincinnati, Ohio-area small businesses and entrepreneurs gain access to the funding they need to continue to grow. SoMoLend is designed to match small business borrowers with investors looking to make a return on investment.

Through the partnership with the City, SoMoLend will identify qualified small businesses to which the City would potentially lend capital. The City would make loans of up to $ 400,000 in order to stimulate economic growth and job creation within the City. The partnership was approved this morning by the Citys Small Business Advisory Committee and announced shortly thereafter at a City Hall press conference.

Our partnership with SoMoLend provides an optimal way of sourcing good deals that lead to investment in small businesses and job creation in a comprehensive way, said Cincinnati Economic Development Director Odis Jones. The City wants small businesses to prosper so the local economy prospers at all levels.

Candice Peters, SoMoLend borrower and owner of the Hyde Park Body Boutique in Cincinnati, who took part in todays announcement, describes why she chose to seek a loan through the SoMoLend.com platform.

“I was attracted to SoMoLend because their platform gave me the opportunity to submit all of my financial information in one place, and from there my information could be seen by multiple investors wanting to lend to small businesses. The funding from SoMolend has given Hyde Park Body Boutique a huge boost. We were able to purchase Spinning bikes and are now offering total body indoor cycling classes called Spincinnati. We are now in negotiations to open a second Body Boutique facility in the Greater Cincinnati area,” said Peters.

SoMoLend is a debt-based crowdfunding platform that enables small businesses to obtain the money they need to launch and sustain their operations. SoMoLends software is designed to use the Web to match borrowers with lenders, connecting business borrowers with investors looking to make a return on investment. SoMoLends goal is to help U.S. business owners secure the funding they need at the lowest interest rates possible. In addition, small businesses that apply for a loan through the SoMoLend platform will pay no transaction fees now through December 31, 2012.

Candace Klein, Founder and CEO of SoMoLend, echoed Jones economic development comments. “We are thrilled about this partnership. By choosing to lend on SoMoLend, the City of Cincinnati has made a very important investment in the local small business community. It is our hope that this partnership will continue to build on the level of entrepreneurship and innovation this city has seen over the last few years. I look forward to working together to help Cincinnati businesses grow and thrive.

To learn more about SoMoLend, as well as the crowdfunding industry, visit https://www.SoMoLend.com/, http://www.facebook.com/SoMoLend, or the SoMoLend blog at http://somolend.wordpress.com/.

About SoMoLend

SoMoLend is a Web-based lending platform that uses patent-pending technology to connect small business borrowers with individual and organizational investors (lenders), executed within a hyper-localized geographic scope. SoMoLend’s user-friendly technology allows small business borrowers to obtain loans from friends, family, customers, community supporters and interested organizations, as well as from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn connections. For more information, visit http://SoMoLend.com/ or http://somolend.wordpress.com/.

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Social Infrastructure Provider LoginRadius partners with Mozilla Corporation

Edmonton, AB, Canada (PRWEB) August 21, 2012

Canadian startup LoginRadius, which offers social infrastructure to web sites, closed a partnership deal with Mozilla Corporation on their identity project Persona. Both companies are working to streamline online identity management and reduce the hassle of managing multiple online identities not only for users but also for the website owners. With this partnership, LoginRadius becomes an official Persona partner by offering Persona to its customers.

LoginRadius has integrated Persona on its SaaS (Software as a Service) as well as on its website http://www.loginradius.com. Persona has also been built into all of LoginRadius add-ons: 6 CMS plugins for Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, osCommerce, PrestaShop, and DotNetNuke, as well as 6 SDKs for PHP, .NET, Java, Python, Ruby on Rails, and Classic ASP. LoginRadius will integrate Persona in its future add-ons as well.

Talking about Persona integration, Rakesh Soni, co-founder of LoginRadius said: Persona is all about the ease of maintaining a single identity while keeping user information highly secure and private. The mission of both companies aligns when it comes to improving online identity management, protecting user privacy, and enhancing data security. I am sure that our current customers would love to get Persona on their sites.

Dan Callahan, Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla said, “The LoginRadius team is responsive and committed to supporting a wide range of platforms and programming languages. We’re excited to see Persona amongst their login offerings, giving their integrating partners a new, simple way to authenticate users and limit password proliferation on the web.”

When asked about the future of online identity management, Deepak Gupta, co-founder of LoginRadius responded: Based on the explosive growth rate of LoginRadiuss userbase that weve seen so far, I see the internet moving towards centralizing online identities in the next few years. In fact, I wouldnt be surprised if forms were soon to become an archaic part of the registration process as more and more users discover the ease of managing their online profiles from one location. With this Persona integration, we are moving one step closer towards hassle-free login.

While LoginRadius is mostly focused on offering login through social ID providers, the non-social media concept behind Persona gives users an additional option for online identity management. LoginRadius is the first Social Login provider with such a wide range of options and features for end-users and continuously strives towards its mission of making it easier for users to manage their online identities.

ABOUT LoginRadius:

LoginRadius is a social infrastructure provider that boosts user engagement, increases user base, and helps with online identity management through its five products: Social Login, User Profile Data, Social Analytics, Social Sharing, and Single Sign-on. These innovative solutions eliminate the need for traditional registration forms and login systems and allow users to log in with their existing accounts on popular networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, and over 20 more!

Soni and Gupta founded the company in mid-2011 and launched the product in October 2011 in private beta phase. Since then, LoginRadius has grown to over 18,000 customers worldwide and gained the Alexa Global Traffic rank of 30,000. It is also a Canadas Top 100 Startups by TechVibes a leading Canadian technology news website. It is also a Microsoft BizSpark Startup.

MORE INFORMATION:

Website: http://www.loginradius.com

Introduction Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLYbVNsU36U

Live Demo: https://www.loginradius.com/demo

Blog: http://blog.loginradius.com/

Mozilla Persona: https://www.persona.org/

Social Infrastructure Provider LoginRadius partners with Mozilla Corporation