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London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - July 31, 2008 - British web hosting company, and high bandwidth dedicated hosting provider, UK-2 Group, has completed its acquisition of managed datacenter solutions firm, …
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Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - July 30, 2008 - Email hosting services, DNAmail, is highlighting cloud computing, through its presence at the 2008 HostingCon tradeshow in Chicago, Illinois this week.
As part of their attendance, George Mitsopoulos, VP and General Manager of DNAmail will be speaking on mail services and how to help ‘’server huggers” inside organizations let go of their mail server hardware and maintenance and feel comfortable about outsourced ‘cloud computing’ technologies.
DNAmail assists small and mid-sized businesses, organizations, and Internet service vendors to harness the power of web-based mail and messaging tools like Microsoft Exchange 2007, Blackberry Enterprise Services, and Google Apps.
Dean Russ, VP of Information Technology at DNAmail noted, ”There are three economic factors that will drive companies of all sizes to consider outsourcing their email. These include the declining costs of digital storage, the declining costs of servers, and the rising costs of labor in relation to in-house IT maintenance. Internal server administrators can’t keep up with the flood of spam, server filters, fixes, and patches. Most companies were not created to deliver and support email. DNAmail allows IT administrators to focus on their business, customers and employees rather than the constant server upkeep associated with email.”
Information workers in small and mid-sized companies are becoming highly fluent in customer-driven online ”cloud computing” services. Email is still the heart of company communications, and workers are adopting new mobile services including over-the-air push email devices like the iPhone 3G and Blackberry.
George Naspo, CEO, IKANO Communications Inc., parent company of DNAmail remarked, ”Now is the right time for organizations to be outsourcing their mail services. IT administrators can look to DNAmail for their email needs. Microsoft Exchange and Google Apps for businesses and service organizations are serious email solutions that can reduce IT costs and improve uptime and support.” DNAmail is at HostingCon 2008 (Booth #322).
DNAmail provides Microsoft Exchange 2007 email technology to enhance business collaboration and productivity. Connecting employees to a secure, central area for messaging, calendaring, and contacts, DNAmail gives businesses the freedom to easily work between multiple office locations and across multiple mobile devices. With IT professionals who specialize in maintaining guaranteed uptime, spam filtering, virus protection, security and reliability of communication services, DNAmail delivers enterprise-quality e-mail hosting at a fraction of the cost. Plans start at $9.95 a month per mailbox, with a 30-day free trial. DNAmail is a Blackberry Alliance Member, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and Google Apps Aggregator.
IKANO, founded in 1999, is a provider of IP solutions including email, Internet access, hosting, billing and end user support. IKANO makes it easy for customers and service providers to maintain their unique brand while eliminating the hassle of maintaining servers, network contracts and call centers. IKANO provides Google Apps services and support for businesses and organizations. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, the company has offices in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Toronto. IKANO is backed by Insight Venture Partners and other investors.
To learn more about IKANO, please visit: www.ikano.com/googleapps.
HostingCon is the largest conference and trade show for the hosted services industry, this year to be spread over 56,000 square feet reserved specifically for the event, with approximately 20,000 net square feet of booth space in an easy to navigate floorplan. The exhibit hall will feature over 70 vendors displaying products and services, offering demonstrations and activities related to the hosted services industry.
To learn more about HostingCon 2008, please visit: www.HostingCon.com.
Editor’s note: TechPad Agency (parent company of The Hosting News) returns as a HostingCon 2008 media partner, and will be exhibiting in booth #418.
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Some skeptics have publicly predicted the death of Ask.com. With IAC planning to spin off its properties into four units, that’s a bold prediction indeed.
For the divisions that will become the new IAC, including Internet services such as Ask.com and Match.com, revenue rose 11% as earnings improved 3%.
The Ask-Google partnership is already paying dividends. More people are using Ask more often.
Here’s how the IAC Search business breaks out:
Media & Advertising consists of proprietary properties such as Ask.com, Fun Web Products, Citysearch and Evite and network properties which include distributed search, sponsored listings, and toolbars.
Proprietary revenue grew strongly during the quarter and now represents 75% of total Media & Advertising revenue.
Media & Advertising revenue growth was driven by improved economics associated with the renewed partnership with Google, which resulted in an increase in revenue per query across all proprietary search sites.
Revenue per query at Ask.com grew, even excluding the benefits of the renewed contract.
Ask.com continued to grow its core user base which searches most frequently, while queries declined overall due largely to significantly reduced marketing.
Media & Advertising profit benefited from lower marketing spend at Ask.com and higher margin traffic resulting from the ongoing shift in query mix towards proprietary and away from the partner network.
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IAC, the parent company of top-5 search engine Ask.com, has posted a 7% year-over-year growth in revenue for the second quarter of 2008.
IAC is preparing for a transition, spinning off various assets into different companies.
“We are now right around the corner from the separation of IAC into five separate companies and the dissolution of the complexity surrounding the combined structure,” said IAC’s Chairman and CEO, Barry Diller. “Besides the detailed numbers contained throughout this release, focusing on consolidated results is only about the past, and I would think it far more productive for the future to analyze and judge the entities on their own merits … as a large shareholder in each that is certainly what I intend to do.”
Earlier this year, Ask.com changed up their management and cut 8% of their workforce. IAC also announced a bunch of new niche sites that serve up a mix of search and social media.
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