David Hart, a small software developer in South London, got a rather frightening document through the post one morning.
In June, the company announced it was buying a small software company, GeCAD Software, with the aim of selling virus protection as a subscription service.
But late in 2001 the company hired Robin Curle, a consultant who had founded and run a series of small software outfits.
"Taking money from people is always hard, " says Zachary Nelson, chief executive of NetSuite, a small-business software firm in San Mateo, Calif.
In June a small New Jersey software company called AccessIT announced a joint venture with Christie Digital Systems, which supplied the Cinerama Dome's new projector.
Moorman wanted a technology answer, so he bought software from a small firm called MultiModal Applied Systems.
While open-source e-mail and calendaring software, such as Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail software and the Lightning calendaring plug in, is good stuff, it's not easy for a small office to set up messaging software of any kind without a bit of professional help, unless you're an office full of techies.
Presumably, to obtain the design for a widget will be as easy as downloading a song (both legally or illegally) because the design is all software, a small file that a CAD program would handle, for example.
In interviewing for a job at a small start-up software company, I went through 6 hours of interviews with all 11 employees.
Filipowski started with a small outfit that produced software for IBM mainframes, then went on to found an accounting and inventory-data software company called Platinum Technology.
The Europe, Middle East and Africa accounts for just a small piece of the software-as-a-service market, 13% last year, according to IDC, versus 74% in the Americas.
He is founder and CEO of PeopleLinx, a small company that provides software and training for organizations wanting to get their employees using LinkedIn as effectively as possible.
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Imagine that a portfolio manager in 1999 told clients he thinks this small outfit called Microsoft could have a real growth spurt from core software sales as households and many small businesses were increasing their PC purchasing into the 1990s.
The new technology is coming from outfits like Advantage Learning Systems, a small but fast-growing software company in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. that sells instructional aids and computerized quizzes to monitor their results.
This has been a boon to two small browser-makers, Opera, a Norwegian software company, and Mozilla, which developed the Firefox browser based on an open-source version of Netscape.
He sold off a financial services arm and began acquiring small school-software companies, piecing together what is now a soup-to-nuts school-automation-software package.
Back in its earliest years, Facebook was a tiny outfit where software developers zipped around on RipStiks in a small, open-plan office to relieve stress during late night work breaks.
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The finding is in-line with previous rumors, but since Zambrini has made a hobby and small fortune breaking and breaking into iPhone software, it would be a report worth considering either way.
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But successful software entrepreneurs are a small fraction of the population, and most likely no judges of the Federal Circuit have close relationships with one.
According to Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. officials, Wednesday's halt was caused by a software problem in its Small Order Executive System and its quote update system by Carlsbad, Calif.
Aside from buying into cable companies and funding a small, unsuccessful foray into educational software, Allen has focused his investments on things Microsoft doesn't invest in--like sports teams, music museums and the film industry.
We played around with it a bit, and while the 800 x 600 E Ink screen resolution is a little disappointing, and the resistive touchscreen layer impacts readability in a small but noticeable way, the software is certainly pleasant, and iriver is up to its usual standard in hardware design.
Matsushita Communication, the world's fourth-biggest mobile-phone maker, announced that it was taking a 9% shareholding in Symbian, an 11-month-old software joint venture fostered by Psion, a small but pioneering British company that makes handheld computers.
Mr Lynch founded software company Autonomy as a small start-up and turned into one of the UK's largest technology companies.
My friends and associates thought I was nuts to invest my personal funds, time and energy to helping six guys turn their small piece of software into a company.
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In the not too distant future, sales people will be able to search for doctors who are interested in a new diabetic drug, small businesses who are interested in sales enablement software, or nonprofits who would like a new phone system, in the same way that they search for restaurants on Facebook.
While a keyword job search for "certified public accountant" might turn up ads seeking a small-business chief financial officer who is also a CPA, semantic-search software would intuit that the user is looking for accounting jobs and list only those openings.
Competing against such heavyweights was the small-fry Financial Technologies, a software firm co-owned and run by Jignesh Shah.
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