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Will Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Make Bing the Next Big Thing?
With less than a 10 per cent share of the online search market, Microsoft’s Bing search engine would have a long way to go to catch up with its biggest competitor, Google, which has at least 70 per cent of the search market share. Microsoft is taking a new approach by partnering with Yahoo!, a…
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Twitter Site Knocked Down in Hack Attack
(Reuters) – Twitter, the popular Internet micro-blogging service, said it is fending off a cyber attack that prevented people from accessing its website for several hours on Thursday. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on Twitter’s blog that the site was the victim of a denial-of-service attack, a technique in which hackers overwhelm a website’s servers…
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At Websense, Layoffs and Executive Shakeup
After a tough earnings call last week, Websense announced yesterday that it plans to cut 5 percent of its roster in order to adjust to the slumping economy. “We have been aggressively managing our expense structure during the recession without any reduction in personnel costs,” said Kate Patterson, vice president of corporate communications and investor…
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VARs at CompTIA Show Marketing Savvy
Historically, marketing investments have been treated as a near-luxury—or sometimes an afterthought—among a majority of solution providers and resellers. In some respect it’s understandable; most in the business come straight out of the technology expert pool, engineers with an entrepreneurial zeal who over time got fairly accomplished at sales activities. But marketing? That’s remained a…
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Kaseya-Powered ASCII MSP Fuel Helps VARS Jump into Managed Services
Resellers looking to get into managed services now have yet another option to choose from with the introduction of ASCII MSP Fuel from the ASCII Group. The community of independent resellers says that ASCII MSP Fuel is currently in beta and is being powered by Kaseya, a provider of software and services to MSPs. The…
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CompTIA and MTCPerformance Partner On Membership Discounts
A partnership between CompTIA and MTCPerformance will offer discounts on incentive community Spiffs.com to CompTIA members and discounted membership in CompTIA for MTCPerformance customers. CompTIA gets a lot of member feedback regarding strategies and best practices they can use for their sales personnel, so the partnership with MTCPerformance will offer them a discount on an…