News: Search Engine Developed for Product-Specific Industry
Portland, Oregon - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 15, 2008 - A new search engine, developed specificially for searching the web's best knife, sword and blade sites, has been released by OnlyKnives.com, a leading blade website, with the BladeSearch tool.
Ken Aversano of OnlyKnives noted, ''Specialized search engines work extremely well for niche products such as blades. The market is very disjointed, so it's not always to find what you're looking for. BladeSearch is an excellent tool for solving that problem.''
BladeSearch is designed to make researching and finding blades of all kind faster than with a generalized search engine.
Using Google technology, BladeSearch searches the entire internet but focuses results on a hand-selected list of the best blade websites and blogs. This specialized focus allows BladeSearch to provide only high-quality results while filtering out irrelevant sites and pages.
Leading industry websites included in BladeSearch results include discussion forums such as KnifeForums.com, BladeForums.com and Sword Forum International, retailers such as eBladeStore.com and Korin.com, as well as many others. Site owners who wish to have their sites included in BladeSearch should contact OnlyKnives.com.
Blade styles found in BladeSearch include sporting knives -- such as pocket knives, survival knives and tactical knives -- kitchen knives, martial arts blades, swords and razors.
Specialized search engines such as OnlyKnives' BladeSearch are part of an emerging movement toward topic-specific search. These search engines provide an improved search experience by leveraging human expertise coupled with Google's industry-leading search technology.
OnlyKnives is a leading online portal for blades of all type. Kitchen knives, pocket knives, swords and sporting knives are among OnlyKnives' featured blades. OnlyKnives has been providing lively reviews and discussion of blades and industry news since 2007.
Posted by editor on Monday, December 15 @ 11:44:46 EST (365 reads)
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News: Web Hosting Castaways, Invited by Hivelocity
Tampa, Florida - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 12, 2008 - Web hosting provider, Hivelocity.net, has launched an ad campaign targetting hosting firm refugees, with banners inviting ''hosting castaways'' to relocate to its data center.
Steve Eschweiler, General Manager at Hivelocity noted, ''We definitely keep an eye on the competition and try to capitalize when they stumble. It's unfortunate one of our competitors has left a lot of people scurrying to find a new home for their dedicated server, especially at this time of year. We only want to let these people know, while-be-it aggressively, they have a data center willing to help them out in their time of need.''
As part of the campaign, Hivelocity offers data migration assistance to any person currently hosted by a fledgling data center.
Hivelocity's new 'castaway campaign, with a picture of the now famous Wilson volley ball from Tom Hank's Hollywood blockbuster, asks people to ''not be castaway by your host,'' inducing a chuckle while attracting new business.
Since 2001, Hivelocity has offered 99.9 percent network uptime, specializing in dedicated web hosting and colocation, providing services to thousands of customers from all over the world. Hivelocity has over 100 hardware and bandwidth combinations available, with flexible options in hardware, software and bandwidth. Hivelocity's servers can be used for online gaming, credit card processing, video and audio streaming, web hosting, software development, email, and data storage, among other businesses. The company offers 24/7 tech support with live reps on site at all times, to service its thousands of customers. Hivelocity currently maintains an 8 Gbps connection to the internet with multiple tier 1 carriers. Hivelocity is privately held and carries zero debt.
Posted by editor on Friday, December 12 @ 12:00:48 EST (279 reads)
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News: Search Engine Technologist, Apptera, Acquires Former Yahoo! Exec
San Bruno, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 12, 2008 - Search engine technologist, Apptera, has secured an additional $10.5M funding, while appointing former Yahoo! Senior Vice President of Sales to its board of directors.
The mobile advertising firm investment was led by existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures, and Walden International. In addition, the company announced that former Yahoo! senior executive David Karnstedt has joined its board of directors.
Carl Showalter, board member remarked, ''Apptera is a very dynamic and innovative company in the fast-growing mobile advertising sector. Apptera's solutions are especially valuable to publishers and advertisers in today's tough economic climate as they help publishers significantly offset costs and generate new revenue streams while enabling marketers to more cost-effectively reach their target consumers. We are also very excited to welcome David Karnstedt to the board. David's breadth of experience and strong track record of success building new direct response and branded advertising networks will be a valuable catalyst for Apptera's continued growth.''
The new investment will be used to fuel growth of the company's voice and visual mobile advertising network. Apptera's flagship MobileAd Xchange enables marketers to cost effectively reach the valuable mobile trend-spreader demographic and helps publishers significantly reduce costs by monetizing their phone channel while enhancing the customer experience with contextually relevant messages. Apptera has partnered with many large publishers like AT and T and AOL, and its robust technology platform is serving millions of ads a month, growing at a triple-digit rate.
David Karnstedt has been a leader in digital media and online advertising for more than a decade. Karnstedt was on the executive teams of early startups such as Wired Digital, Alta Vista and Overture, which helped define the online advertising and search marketplace. Most recently, he has led Yahoo's world renowned sales force, and helped build an impressive network of partnerships with major brands and direct response advertisers. Karnstedt also co-founded the first advertising industry committee focused on the merging importance of search and advertising and has served on the board of directors for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) as well as the Ad Council.
Apptera provides voice and visual mobile ad network systems, generating revenue for leading players in the entertainment, communications, social media, financial services, retail and other industries. Apptera's award winning MobileAd Xchange delivers relevant voice advertisements in-call as well as follow-on visual components, such as SMS messages and MMS coupons. Members of the Mobile Ad Xchange and customers of Apptera's technology include AT and T's 1-800-YellowPages, AOL's Moviefone, MovieTickets.com, Bank of America's ATM locator, SaveMart supermarkets, RadioShack, GSI Commerce, SayNow's social music service and many others. Privately funded by leading venture capital firms including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures and Walden International, Apptera has a presence in San Bruno, CA, Hollywood, and New York City.
Posted by editor on Friday, December 12 @ 11:51:28 EST (307 reads)
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News: Web Hosting Solutions Firm, NaviSite, Releases Financials
Andover, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 11, 2008 - Application solutions, hosting and content delivery services firm, NaviSite, has released its latest financial data, indicating an EBITDA increase of 23% with a 16% increase in year over year revenue.
Arthur Becker, Chief Executive Officer of NaviSite recently hosted a conference call to discuss the Company’s results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2009. Mr. Becker remarked, ''The modest sequential growth of our Enterprise Hosting business this quarter resulted from minor delays in the implementations of some of our larger customers. Despite the economic climate this quarter, bookings for Enterprise Hosting were only fractionally lower than our seasonally adjusted expectations and margins from our Hosting practice grew—overcoming the lower margins from our professional services practice.''
NaviSite, Inc.'s reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009 includes:
Total revenue for the quarter ended in October 31, 2008 was $39.9 million representing a year-over-year increase of 10% and sequential decrease of 1% due to an anticipated decrease in our professional services revenue in the quarter .
Enterprise Hosting revenue which includes the recurring portion of Application Services revenue was $35.4 million for the first quarter representing a year-over-year increase of 16% and a sequential increase of 2.5% .
EBITDA, excluding impairment costs, stock-based compensation, severance, costs related to discontinued operations, and other non-operational charges (''EBITDA''), for the first quarter was $8.5 million representing a year-over-year increase of 23%. Sequentially, excluding the one-time gain of $1.6 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008, EBITDA was consistent with the prior quarter.
Income from operations for the first quarter was $0.4 million representing a 48% year-over- year increase.
Net loss attributable to common shareholders for the fourth quarter was $3.5 million, or $(0.10) per share, representing a reduction of 25% from the loss of $4.8 million reported in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008.
Cash provided from operating activities for the first quarter was $9.0 million, an increase of $8.8 million from the first quarter of fiscal year 2008
Quarterly Business Highlights include:
Booked approximately $0.6 million of new monthly recurring hosting revenue (MRR) in the first quarter of fiscal year 2009, consistent with the $0.7 million booked in the first quarter of fiscal year 2008
Signed $13.4 million of total hosting contract value with an average contract term of 23 months during the first quarter for recurring applications services and enterprise hosting business
Signed professional services contracts with a total value of $2.3 million during the first quarter of fiscal year 2009 compared to $3.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2008 and $4.2 million in the prior quarter
Customer churn, defined as the loss of a customer or a reduction in a customer’s monthly revenue run rate from our overall active customer pool, was 1.4% per month during the quarter compared to 1.2% in the prior quarter and 2.5% a year ago. The quarter’s churn reflects the loss of one significant customer as a result of the acquisition of the customer by merger earlier in the year
NaviSite is a leading provider of enterprise hosting and application solutions. Customers depend on NaviSite for managed application services, application development, implementation and management on its web infrastructure platforms in 16 state-of-the-art data centers supported by more than 650 professionals. NaviSite provides customized and scalable solutions leveraging its broad range of application development capabilities, packaged software implementation expertise, deep portfolio of best in class technologies and a full suite of web-hosting and internet infrastructure options.
For more information about NaviSite, please visit: www.navisite.com.
Posted by editor on Thursday, December 11 @ 12:17:57 EST (441 reads)
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News: Search Engine for Malaware, Developed by Trusteer
New York, New York - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 11, 2008 -
A free malware search engine for financial institutions, has been developed by Trusteer, with an attack trace tool, providing visibility into leading trojans and threats aimed at specific websites.
Trusteer, the customer protection company for online businesses, today announced the availability of a free malware search tool that provides financial institutions with visibility into web attacks targeting their websites. The Trusteer Attack Trace search engine, available at, allows IT professionals to submit their organization's web address and see a list of malware configuration files that are designed to commit fraud against their brand.
By typing their URL address into the Attack Trace search engine, users get a glimpse into the cross section of malware that is specifically aimed at their website and what the code is written to accomplish. The Trusteer Attack Trace search engine searches for leading Trojans and other attack codes including Torpig/Sinowal, WSNPOEM, and NetHell. A more comprehensive version of the Attack Trace engine is available at no cost by completing a short registration form at www.trusteer.com.
The Attack Trace search engine was developed and is constantly updated by Trusteer's research organization (www.trusteer.com/research), which is led by noted web security researcher Amit Klein. Klein is credited with discovering and reporting numerous DNS vulnerabilities.
Amit Klein, CTO of Trusteer and head of the company's research organization remarked, ''The amount and sophistication of malware targeting financial websites is growing at an exponential rate. The Attack Trace tool gives security professionals a view into the type and number of crimeware files that are directly attacking their website and users. It provides a barometer of web threats and quantifiable evidence for making IT security investments.''
Trusteer enables online businesses to establish a secure communication tunnel with their customers over the Internet that stretches from user's keyboard into the company's website. Trusteer's flagship product, Rapport, allows online banks, brokerages, and retailers to protect their customers from identity theft and financial fraud. Unlike conventional approaches to web security, Rapport protects users' confidential information even if their computer is infected with malware including Trojans and keyloggers, or is victimized by pharming, phishing attacks. Trusteer is a privately held corporation led by former executives from Cyota/RSA Security, Imperva, and NetScreen/Juniper.
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