Archive for January, 2007
Domain Name Scam
From McGuire Woods’ Technology & Business eNewsletter – 1-18-2007
A new scam involving domain name registration has been reported among a number of clients of the firm in recent weeks. The client receives an email, or in some cases a telephone call, from a domain name registrar outside the U.S. (often in China or in the [...]
Bad News for Santa
Just how bad were holiday retail sales? It seems to depend on who you ask, or what set of figures you want to use, or when you want to ask. The National Retail Federation stuck throughout the holiday to its forecast of a 5% increase in holiday retail sales, and is waiting to reconcile that [...]
CommercialWare Product Announcements
Datavantage/CommercialWare Press Release 1-15-07
Wanted to make sure you saw that Datavantage/CommercialWare (a MICROS subsidiary) made several important product announcements today.
Datavantage/CommercialWare serves a combined customer base of over 450 brands and retailers and delivers complementary solutions to many common customers including Abercrombie & Fitch, J.Jill, Ritz Camera, Patagonia, Jos. A. Bank and Frederick’s of Hollywood.
CommercialWare Launches [...]
$7.5 million invested with Junction Solutions
Junction Solutions’ Press Release 1-15-07
An excellent 100% revenue growth year for Junction Solutions (www.junctionsolutions.com) in 2006 has attracted the attention of one of the largest software venture capital investors in the Midwest.
I thought you might have an interest in the announcement below that MK Capital has invested $7.5 million in Junction Solutions, the leading provider [...]
It’s not just about price—
Consider Wal-Mart’s current situation. No one would deny the mega-retailer’s clout, but Wal-Mart had a lackluster fourth quarter in 2006, and headed into December expecting more slippage (the company is now reporting an anemic 1.6% increase in December sales), got shut out of a planned expansion into Germany, and weeks before Christmas suffered an internal [...]
Do-It-Yourself ROI
We’re noticing recently that finding a DTC systems vendor that can actually assist its prospective clients with doing an ROI study isn’t as easy as it should be. In other words, companies interested in purchasing or upgrading major systems may have difficulty finding DTC vendors who have a way to help them figure out how [...]
Datavantage/CommercialWare breaks into Top 10
Datavantage/CommercialWare breaks into top 10 on the 2006 RIS Leaderboard
Combined Company Emerging as Major Retail Solutions Provider
Cleveland, OH —January 4, 2007 — Datavantage/CommercialWare, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MICROS Systems, Inc., and the leading provider of retail technology for specialty retail, general merchandise, and cross-channel commerce solutions, today announced that it has broken into the coveted [...]
Dim, Dimmer, Dimmest
It will be interesting to see how shippers react to the pricing changes announced by all the major carriers. The change with the most ripple effects may come from the new dimensional weight charges for oversize ground shipments. Oversize ground packages shipped by UPS, FedEx, and DHL—3 cubic ft., or 5,184 cubic inches or lager—will [...]
