Box Triples Enterprise Revenue in 2011

PALO ALTO, CA, Jan 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
Box(R) today announced that it ended 2011 with a 3X year-over-year
increase in enterprise revenue as organizations like AAA, Dow
Chemical, McAfee and Procter & Gamble selected Box to share, manage
and collaborate on content in the cloud. As one of the
fastest-growing enterprise services of all time, Box closed out the
year with more than 8 million users, and doubled its enterprise
customer base. The company closed $129M in funding in 2011 to fuel
its enterprise expansion, and hired 215 new employees, bringing total
headcount to 340.

“As we head into 2012, organizations are embracing...

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Arts news roundup

Bellevue Youth Theatre Foundation gala and auction

BYT presents its annual fundraiser, Singin in the Rain. The evening will include entertainment, food, Emmy Award-winning Pat Cashman as master of ceremonies and special performances by Mayor Conrad Lee and former Mayor Don Davidson. Proceeds will support BYT programs and new theater. The event is 6-9 pm, Saturday, Jan. 21 at the Westin Hotel, 601 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue. Tickets are $100. For more information, go to www.bytf.org or call or call 425-440-3777.

Artist panel discussion with artEast

Join the discussion with artEAST artists and others from the current exhibition of Unfinished Business at University House...

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Tech CEOs Invest $1.1 Million In ‘Enterprise Tag Management’ Company Tealium

Tealium, which specializes in enterprise tag management solutions (more on that below), has raised $1.1 million in Series A funding from a bunch of digital marketing CEOs and former CEOs including Limelight Networks Jeff Lunsford, Collectives JoeApprendi, eValue Groups Thomas Falks and EyeWonders John Vincent.

Jim MacIntyre, founder of Visual Sciences (acquired by WebSideStory) and former chief of e-commerce technology for GSI Commerce, participated as well, and also joined Tealiums board.

Founded in 2008, Tealium provides page tag management solutions that do not require customers to run application servers to load digital marketing vendor tags onto Web pages, relying instead...

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5 trends in enterprise social media you must know

Undoubtedly, social, mobile, and local technology will continue to transform the way businesses connect with their customers, prospects, and other stakeholders. Last year was a banner year for social because platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn experienced rapid growth. And as savvy marketers already know, consumers sit firmly in the drivers seat, controlling brand perception and shaping trends. Armies of happy or angry consumers have a direct financial impact on a companys top and bottom line.

Looking at the social media adoption bell curve last year, the leaders have advanced to second-generation platforms, processes, and people. Most companies in the middle of the bell...

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Has Enterprise Products Partners Become the Perfect Stock?

Every investor would love to stumble upon the perfect stock. But will you ever really find a stock that provides everything you could possibly want?

One things for sure: Youll never discover truly great investments unless you actively look for them. Lets discuss the ideal qualities of a perfect stock, then decide if Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) fits the bill.

The quest for perfection
Stocks that look great based on one factor may prove horrible elsewhere, making due diligence a crucial part of your investing research. The best stocks excel in many different areas, including these important factors:

  • Growth. Expanding businesses show healthy revenue...
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WANdisco Offers Discounts of up to 50% on Enterprise Subversion Training

SAN RAMON, CA, Jan 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
WANdisco, a leading provider of Apache Subversion based software
and services for the enterprise, and a major corporate sponsor of the
Subversion project, is offering discounts of up to 50% off on any of
WANdisco’s Enterprise Subversion training courses. These discounts
are available to customers who purchase uberDollars training tokens
between now and January 31st.

uberDollars training tokens can be redeemed for any of WANdisco’s
Enterprise Subversion training courses for one full year from the
date of purchase. The following discounts are available:

— A 15% discount...

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Siemens Enterprise Communications selects Fortinet appliances

Siemens Enterprise Communications has deployed multiple FortiGate network security appliances for its OpenScape Cloud Services.

The FortiGate-1240B appliances will provide rich functionality to support voice-over-IP, UC and application data for Siemens, which said it required security and reliability for its OpenScape Cloud Services, as well as performance and scalability.

Andreas Seum, vice-president of converged networks and security at Siemens Enterprise Communications, said: “On a technical level, the FortiGate appliance proved to uniquely function in compliance with the SIP standard and support all the voice and UC application functionalities without impairing the performance...

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A performing arts high school in downtown’s future

The Houston Independent School District has identified the 1300 block of Capitol as the preferred future home for a new High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

The district has been talking about relocating the school for years, but it came up again last week at a panel discussion on the future of downtown. HSPVA is now at 4001 Stanford in the Montrose neighborhood.

Despite public enthusiasm for the move, it wont happen anytime soon. No district funds have been identified for construction, said spokesman Jason Spencer.

The downtown tract, which is now a parking lot, once housed a public school. The district-owned site also formerly served as the home of HISDs central...

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Relaxing hair rehab at John Carne

Cold and frosty nights and foggy mornings mean just one thing for hair: frizz. Mine was lank, dull and frizz-licious when I checked out the John Carne salon in Knightsbridge. A three-salon franchise with two branches in Wimbledon and Guildford, Carne offers a seasonal treatment menu to gives manes exactly what they need at particular times of the year.

Mine, I was told, was in need of some Autumnal calm, so a Holiday Hair Rehab Treatment it was. There were all kinds of techy things that salon co-owner Sean told me about Schwarzkopf Seah Black Pearl helping smooth particles and moisture and sealing in the shine, but frankly by that point Id zoned out due to the oh-so-relaxing massage...

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Is Jack Lew’s Bank Background Bad News For Financial Reform?

As President Barack Obamas new White House chief of staff, ex-banker Jacob Lew assumes a powerful position at the height of a Washington battle over the future of bank trading divisions like the one he used to run.

For most of his three-decade career, Lew has worked in government, most recently as head of the Office of Management and Budget, where he was praised by both parties. But he took a three-year break from public service during one of the most calamitous economic stretches in modern US history at Citigroup, where in 2008 he ran Citi Alternative Investments, the banks then-$54 billion proprietary trading, hedge fund and private equity unit.

Those types of bank units...

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