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Guest author: Dave Frankel, VP Business Development I am writing this post from my American Airlines flight over Rapid City, South Dakota right now – connected to the internet via GoGo wifi . While I am generally a creature of habit when I get on my flights to and from CA (which almost always includes [...]
Exciting news for us this morning. We are announcing that Mergent has partnered with us as the source of business news into their Mergent Online information platform. Mergent provides a very rich information platform used by libraries, corporate and government functions and academic institutions and approached us to improve the quality of the business news [...]
We just passed through our half year point at FirstRain and I brought the whole US company together here in San Mateo this week. My purpose was two fold – first for training on the new research engine, how to sell it, where to sell it, and what’s coming next – and second team building [...]
I sat on a panel today at NIRI (conference for IR) today in Fort Lauderdale and the topic was the changing role of the sell-side analyst. My fellow panelists represented the differing viewpoints of independent research – and a client – but the consensus was the same. The sell-side is going through radical change. The [...]
The FirstRain application keeps growing in functionality and today we have announced yet another way you can get to it. We’ve announced our integration with RMS – research management systems. Todays RMS platforms organize research for the user. Sorting their sell-side research, independent research, internal research etc. into a file folder type of application making [...]
Your average search engine user has the patience of a toddler – they expect to leverage one or a few keywords to get the answer they are expecting and they’ll only try once or twice before giving up. If the results are bad, they’re not likely to try again – you’ve lost a user, or [...]
Last month’s announcement by Newssift (part of the Financial Times Group) of its meaning-based vertical search engine was an important new way to look at search for business professionals – you can quickly see how it’s different if you try it at www.newssift.com. This morning, Newssift and FirstRain announced that FirstRain’s technology provides the business-relevant [...]
The global publishing giants have declared war on the new technology generation of content distributors – but they have lost sight of what consumers value and how they want to get to the value. It’s time to separate content creators from distributors. It’s time for a new business model which requires technology understanding and leadership [...]
The commercial real estate crisis has been looming for months and it looks as though it’s being held back by a finger in the dam. It starts with the low mall occupancy rates. We’re already seeing store closings like Circuit City and if you walk around any but the most successful malls you’ll see closed [...]
There’s a turn in the U.S. employment market happening – there’s evidence that the number of layoff announcements and reported layoff events has started to drop. This does not mean the number of job losses will drop yet since announcements precede the actual elimination of jobs, but it is a leading indicator of the turn [...]
