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We are announcing an exciting extension to our Capital IQ partnership today. We started this partnership almost 2 years ago – with this announcement – and over the last two years we have both grown our service to Capital IQ’s end clients and grown our relationship with the excellent team there. My guys really enjoy [...]
We’re busy ramping up our partnership with FactSet now – and the FactSet team invited me to talk on a webinar about how you can generate alpha (that’s gains over and above the market for you non financial types) from information that is freely available on the web today. It’s a fun talk – it’s [...]
A warning tremor rippled through the telco business last week – did you notice it? Apple announced that it will now allow iPhone users to use Internet calling services over cellular networks. Up until now you could use VoIP but only through Wi-Fi, i.e. not in most of the places you’d like make a phone [...]
There is a fundamental change already underway in the world of books and it just accelerated yesterday. I don’t know whether to be happy to sad. I have a Kindle. I love it, but I know I am a bit of a geek. To me, evidence that the world of books was shifting forever came [...]
On the eve of the rumored Apple tablet announcement, after Apple has just announced the best quarter ever, it’s interesting to look at how we stay on top of a hot topic like Apple rumors. FirstRain has a topic called “Apple Rumors” because there is an abundance of chatter on the Web trying to answer [...]
FirstRain is starting out the year with some exciting news – we are expanding our relationship with FactSet and enabling FactSet to sell the FirstRain research engine directly to its customers. You may recall that in 2008 we began our partnership with FactSet – allowing their users to access FirstRain directly in FactSet Marquee. Now, [...]
The three most recent Signals on FirstRain tell an interesting story: Combine this with a look at volume of content on the web around Apple. This is a chart of web content volume for Apple – here you can see that the discussion on Apple went quiet for a while, it then heated up around [...]
We hired a new, senior sales rep at FirstRain this week. Very seasoned guy, has worked for our VP sales before, and I asked him to tell me why he joined. I am always curious what motivates people to join us — how good a job do we do of sharing what’s in our crazy [...]
We have a new customer that we have been deploying over the last few months and my sales person sent me an amusing customer commentary today. The customer is a very large software company in the security business. They are using FirstRain in both sales and marketing to stay current on major customers and market [...]
We’ve made a terrific change this year to our vacation policy – which is basically not to have one. As of January 1 our employees can take as much vacation as they need provided they are getting their work done. The idea of doing this for all employees was pioneered by Netflix and we’ve decided [...]
