Pandora posts record revenue of $ 67 m in the first quarter as a public company

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In the first quarter as a public company music streaming service Pandora posted record revenue in Q2 2012 year. For the second quarter of fiscal year 2012, total revenue was 67 million dollars, 117% year-over-year growth. For the second quarter of fiscal 2012, on the basis of GAAP net loss per share was $ (0.04). Non-GAAP earnings per common share was completely $ 0.02.

In terms of net income loss of $ 1.8 million Pandora took over the quarter. But Pandora's Q2 ad revenue amounted to $58,3 million, 118 percent year-over-year growth. Subscription and other income amounted to $ 8.7 million, 112% year-over-year growth.

The company showed that total listener hours approximately 1.8 billion quarter growth of 125 per cent, compared to approximately 800 million during the same quarter a year ago. Approximate percentage of total United States radio to listen to at the end of the second fiscal quarter amounted to 3.6%, 1.8% from a year earlier. According to the Pandora Services had 37 million active users in July.

In the release, Joe Kennedy, President of & CEO of Pandora said this in his speech: "Pandora radio Personalization — and enthusiastic consumers have become much better experience ...At the same time, advertisers continue their adoption of Pandora's multi-platform ad decisions that led to our 6 consecutive quarters of triple-digit year-over-year revenue growth. In addition to the continued high rates of income growth web Pandora mobile advertising revenue for the first time included about half of all ad revenue as we pave the way for the nascent but rapidly growing market for mobile advertising. Pandora continues to grow our market share of United States radio as we radically transform one of the latest forms of traditional media. "

Proceeds to call Kennedy says that mobile represents 70 per cent use Pandora. And mobile now accounts for half of the company's ad revenue. As we reported at the time of Pandora's IPO, mobile, as it contributes significantly to Pandora in the company's growth.

Another area of growth, said Kennedy, is the placement of Pandora in your car. The company already has a number of deals, including one with Ford Motor Company.

Kennedy also said that Spotify is not really a threat to its business and use. There wasn't any effects from digital music services, in the past few months, "says Kennedy. "We are focused on the radio".

Pandora predicts Q3 revenue range of $ 72.5 million to $69,5 million (representing year-over-year growth between 84% and 92% respectively) and annual income in the range of $ 270 million to $ 275 million (representing year-over-year growth between 96% and 100%, respectively).

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Social enterprise company Jive files for IPO of $ 100 m; 2010 Year income totaled $ 46 m

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Social Enterprise giant Jive has just filed its S-1 and increase as much as $ 100 million in hosting.

Modeled to offer Facebook such opportunities to enterprises, Jive Software combines computing with social interactions offer full-fledged social networking for business. Suite Help business collaborate on various tasks, including discussions, communication, exchange of documents, blogs, polls, and social networking features and more.

Some of the key information in respect to revenue. For the period ended December 31, 2008, 2009 and 2010, and for the six months ended June 30, 2011, Jive, raising $ 16.9 million income million, $ 46.3 million and 34.0 million, respectively.

The company actually took the loss in 2008, 2009, 2010 and a six-month period ending in June 2011. Loss appears to actually increase — the company lost $ 27.6 million in 2010, and $30,6 million this year. The company says that it continues to invest revenues back into infrastructure, development and sales and marketing and expects that operating expenses increased significantly.

Jive also said that he was switching their clients DATA from third-party service provider for the blend Fund managed by Jive's own network operations, which will require significant capital.

From June 30, 2011, Jive has 635 corporate clients, including Hewlett-Packard Company, SAP AG, T-Mobile and UBS AG, with more than 15 million users. Currently, the company had 358 staff on June 30, 2011 year.

Jive, said that he plans to use proceeds from the offering to repay outstanding loans (20 million United States dollars) and for general corporate purposes, including working capital and potential acquisitions.

From the point of view of the Jive raised total investment 57 million dollars and the company's largest investor Sequoia Capital owns more than a third of Jive (36 per cent). Kleiner Perkins owns 14.24% Jive.

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Boku mobile payments company expands direct carrier billing transactions in France

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Today, mobile payments company Boku starts directly to the carrier billing agreements with two of the largest mobile operators in France-Bouygues Telecom and SFR, offering more than 32 million Spanish customers to pay for virtual goods and services using their existing wireless service account.

Historically, mobile payments companies are faced with the problem of high carrier rates. Wireless carriers charged about 30% to 40% to process transactions made via the mobile phone that makes it very difficult for mobile payments companies such as Boku to expand beyond virtual goods. These costs are passed to developers who use Boku, which are then passed to the consumer. To avoid these costs, Boku talks direct relationships with carriers in order to possibly avoid these costs. While the companies declined to reveal financial terms of the agreements, Boku said that France levels are the same as talks in United States and Germany.

These transactions provide almost 100% coverage of the Boku French mobile market, which is almost 50 million mobile subscribers in total. Bouygues Telecom and SFR actually start a new service called Internet + Mobile, allowing consumers to buy goods over the Internet and use Boku pay with their mobile phone number. Boku said the purchase process only requires two clicks and gives online merchants access to the full range of price points up to 10 euro.

Direct expanded distribution by establishing carrier relationships serve only to enhance the strength and the demand for mobile payments for a company like Boku and Zong competitor. And Zong was actually acquired by eBay earlier this year for $ 240 million. The company is also eyeing Boku and reported that the company has become a target acquisition for Google and Apple.

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Activision: assessments of the social gaming company "Out Of"

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With skyrocketing room for upstart tech companies is not just a naysayer scientists, crying "bubble". Activision (Activision-Blizzard, to be precise) skeptical of numbers made for competitors like Zynga and Rovio evaluated or several billion dollars to put them out of reach for easy purchase. Maybe they hope to pick up their song after the alleged bubble POPs. Activision, long game, or is it just wishful thinking?

Speaking at Gamescom in Cologne, Activision Publishing director Eric Hirshberg poured cold water on the idea of making major investments in social gaming through high-profile acquisition of the company:

Evaluations of some companies in this space not in order, so this is a problem when it comes to acquisitions ...But don't be mistaken, thorough and methodical planning for inaction. Any new place, where people play the game, is that we are interested in.

Unfortunately, in the fast moving social gaming space, sometimes too much planning meant inaction. While Activision has many successful titles, no single approach or even trying to replicate, super-wide, super-shallow distribution titles like angry birds and Farmville. In the meantime, million sellers made overnight in wave virality that Activision seems not able to produce.

At the same time, the rate of growth of the sector said the volatility of the market. While Rovio is unlikely to suddenly reveal that it was folding underdiversified game library, it is possible that next year will bring more sobering results or mixing in the field of more examples of rapid growth suggests that the template is not only for those companies — in this case, the high valuations could be looked at as optimistic. At this time, Activision will be waiting for him.

In any case, the commentary does not imply Hirshberg any great level of illumination at Activision's part. This kind of bemused skepticism does not inspire confidence, either, which (as Nintendo) probably impatient with the failure of the world's largest Game maker take advantage of this new paradigm. They can begin to see light, though: they plan on social izing Call of Duty, one of the most popular franchises in the game, a social network of elites in the game. They are still late side; I think they hope that will be a very good thing.

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Journalist Crowdsources article on Crowdsourcing company, hilarity ensues

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Adam Penenberg aka the man who took down Stephen glass decided to write about Serv drop.IO, crowdsourcing content farm that allows publishers to request articles for rapid publication. They call it the "engineering," which does not bode well for my work as I have MA or MSc.

The article written with tongue in cheek firmly is an excellent example of the dangers of "content engineering". Unlike say, Bank programs, it is difficult to engineer. If you carefully, writing about the company is a hard slog and if you're not careful you need to at least be dynamic. Penenberg the crowdsourced PIN for Servio was, in fact, either.

He notes:

The basic facts are accurate; However, all that requires interpretation, is ripe for abuse. They simply avoided the questions that I have presented, which requested them to inform the company's greatest shortcomings and criticize their competitors, and I never learned that the company's revenues. Anything with the company's co-founders Jordan Ritter and Alex Edelstein painfully subservient. They were described as "hip, young businessmen" with "boyish good looks," so that "it's not hard to imagine how they became so successful in a hip world of Internet business.

You can paint-stained wretches as Penenberg (and presumably me) replace the contents of engineers? Absolutely. Most of the stories are rehashed press releases and, except sometimes scoop/investigative piece, it was thus with broadband. There is no money in shaking the Crown from the lowly perch. There's money in a novel information ravenous, neophilic audiences.

Penenberg article was a fool, of course, but it indicates that the element, we read online-even this one can be transferred or crowdsourced. Does it matter? Not much but it's nice to know that there's a real man behind the curtain ... Oz at least some of the time.

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EZOfficeInventory SMB allows you to easily track and manage the assets of the company (the cloud)

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Office list control systems: not exactly the world's sexiest software to be sure. Nevertheless, without inventory and asset management systems, many businesses likely will work similar pace DMV. Currently, small and medium-sized businesses have no shortage of funds to choose from when selecting a software system for tracking asset management and inventory; However, most of these settings requires working tirelessly with Excel or using a desktop product like TurboSystems data or, in the village of FoxFales, to name a few. If the company has more than a few dozen staff, however, Excel, and desktop solutions can be a pain in the ass.

Ali Sayeed, a former employee of Sun Microsystems (before the company was acquired by Oracle) and his team and software geeks, said that they were tired of having to deal with repeated instances of inventory of obsolete and mismanagement in the modern tracking solutions. Saeed said that he and his team collectively has worked with many different companies that, for example, actually keep property lists, but specific information related to who has what (as track records check outs) are often completely missing or worse deprecated — not to speak of the fact that the wrong assets often are assigned the wrong employee even may not work in the company anymore.

As you can imagine, very numerous. To help solve these problems, Syed and his team today are EZOfficeInventory, SaaS-based solution that untraditionally asset management approaches through the delegation model, in which responsibility is shared by the inventory, reducing the load on administrators.

The solution allows the assets of the joint bureaux will be tracked easily through check-in and check-out mechanism for staff members, as well as the activities of news to administrators, allowing them to review and take responsibility only when necessary. Employees can also find free tools that they need to carry out its work and can instantly access the guides and drivers.

Since the EZOfficeInventory live in the cloud solution uses QRCodes as asset tags so that asset with a unique URL in QRCode, employees can quickly provides links to information on capital assets and determine the rightful owner, if something is lost. And employees can do this with a quick scan of the iPhone or Android device with QRCode reader and Web client.

The decision also works to minimize efforts during inspections, as administrators can request photos of an asset or other custom workflows from employees by using a few mouse clicks. EZOffice also allows administrators to view reports, track the checkouts and checkins, total cost of ownership and even serve the story on their assets.

Companies can also change the security settings in their decision that it was compatible with existing business processes and add additional privacy features when needed.

Some readers may find the following images news like Basecamp (a well-known product released by 37Signals, the same company is home to David Heinemeier Hansson, the guy who created the Ruby on Rails). EZOfficeInventory is also implemented in Ruby on Rails, as Saeed said that he is an avid fan "in the Web development platform.

EZOfficeInventory offers a free trial of the two months of its cloud app with packages for more than two users, starting at $ 29 per month.

Asset management system is still in very early stage (seed and start-up) at the moment and there is work to be done on Web design and user interface (and name), but the software itself attacked a major pain for many small and medium-sized enterprises.

At the time of deposit of the responsibility for the management of the assets in the hands of staff (along with, of course, the system of checks and balances) may well be to increase the efficiency and confidence among these employees, it is risky. But Saeed said it was "part of the fun of mergers with Web development and the process of using Web technologies to target the problem of the enterprise. This shot of the status quo, and the Director-General believes that this shot is worth taking, despite the risk.

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Web.com buys the domain registrar and hosting company network for $ 560.8 million.

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Internet services company Web.com purchased the domain registrar and hosting provider network solutions for $ 405 million in cash plus 18 million shares Web.com valuation of the transaction as $ 560.8 million

Network solutions, which now belongs to a private company General Atlantic provides domain registration, e-commerce, search engine optimation, other online services promotion, hosting and email millions of small businesses.

Web.com says, there's plenty of room for the sale of their SEO, Internet marketing, Facebook and mobile services network solutions two million retail customers and hundreds of thousands of wholesale customers.

Web.com said that the combined company will generate a non-GAAP revenue in the mid-$ 450 million range for 2011 and pro forma adjusted EBITDA of at least $ 120 million in 2011 and cost synergies and transaction costs.

Last year Web.com fired from 135 million dollars for Register.com.

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Japanese company develops sound absorption blinds (video)

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If you are sensitive to noise and looking for discreet way to solve this problem in your apartment or office building, for example, the so-called Feltone [JP] could do the trick for you. Based on the Japan Tokyo blinds, Jalousie, which is Feltone can absorb sound and push down the power of noise up to 60%.

Feltone, which as the name suggests is made of felt, looks like a normal blind and can be used on windows or walls – just like normal blinds without any special modifications. Tokyo blinds said that installation takes about two hours with their decision, worth up to 90% less than the acoustic panels, for example.

The company explains:

This sound absorbing the blind works because the sound is very good, if there is a layer of air back 50-200 mm thick, between blind slats and the wall when the blind is attached in the normal way. We used this phenomenon in order to achieve the effect as absorbs sound group, by adding the sound absorption of felt.

Feltone (which is only available in Japan at this time), not cheap: 2mx2m blind is worth $ 1500. In 2009, Tokyo has put blind blinds for the owners of the home theater company (conference rooms, server rooms, etc.), families with children, etc.

This video was shot in Tokyo provides Diginfonews deeper, (English):

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