• Brightstar Closes $250 Million High Yield Bond Offering

    Posted by TWEBT on December 2, 2010

    Brightstar Corp., a global leader in services and solutions for the wireless industry, closed its High Yield Bond offering today. Brightstar issued $250 million in Senior Unsecured notes due in 2016. Brightstar will use proceeds from this offering to repay existing indebtedness.

    Marcelo Claure, founder & CEO of Brightstar, stated, “This bond offering is an important step…


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  • GeoLearning Releases Extended Enterprise Podcast

    Posted by TWEBT on December 1, 2010

    GeoLearning, provider of the leading Software as a Service (SaaS) GeoMaestro™ Learning Management System (LMS) and comprehensive Managed Learning Services, presents a discussion with Frank Russell, president and CEO of GeoLearning, entitled “Getting Started with Extended Enterprise,” the company’s latest solution for partner training, sales enablement and reaching external audiences.

    “What we’re talking about here with this…


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  • IBM Awards Powerful Computing System to University of Lugano

    Posted by TWEBT on November 30, 2010

    Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a Shared University Research (SUR) award in the form of a modern high-end server to the University of Lugano, Switzerland, to advance the design of future computer systems and applications for multi-core processors. The powerful new computer, an IBM Power 755, will be used to investigate how future computer systems…


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  • Dell, Facebook, Alliance Partner to Develop, Promote LivingEfficiently.org

    Posted by TWEBT on November 29, 2010

    The Alliance to Save Energy is undertaking a trio of initiatives to raise the profile of energy efficiency nationally and globally in the digital age:

    • Entering into an innovative partnership with its newest Associate member, Facebook, that employs the explosive power of the social network to empower consumers worldwide to save money with energy…

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  • Landmark Resolution Passed to Preserve the Future of Privacy

    Posted by TWEBT on November 27, 2010

    A landmark resolution by Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, was approved by international Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Jerusalem today at their annual conference.

    The resolution recognizes Commissioner Cavoukian’s concept of Privacy by Design – which ensures that privacy is embedded into new technologies and business practices, right from the outset – as an “essential component…


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  • HPTi Named Family-Friendly Workplace

    Posted by TWEBT on November 25, 2010

    High Performance Technologies, Inc., (HPTi) is pleased to announce that it received a 2010 CARE (Companies As Responsive Employers) Award, which recognizes outstanding companies that provide family-friendly workplace policies and benefits. The CARE Awards are presented by Northern Virginia Family Service. This is the fourth consecutive year that HPTi has been honored with the…


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  • TLC Awards TV Net Media Group as Business of the Year in Tampa

    Posted by TWEBT on November 23, 2010

    The ceremony took place in the Doubletree Hotel in Tampa. Baron accepted the award saying: “this is the recognition of all the work we do for our community. Receiving this prize in a time when so many businesses are closing and different publications are being squeezed out of the market, it is an honor more…


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  • Applied Software Adds Sales and Technical Staff

    Posted by TWEBT on November 22, 2010

    Applied Software, a leading and nationally recognized Autodesk Value-Added Reseller, announced today that it has hired several experienced Autodesk reseller sales executives and technical experts in manufacturing, AEC and plant solutions, in support of its recent territory expansion to encompass all of Alabama and Mississippi. An Autodesk Gold Partner in Architecture, Engineering…


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