Southern Technology Leaders

Month: May 2010

  • SAP to Acquire Sybase, question is WHY?

    SAP is acquiring fellow business software company Sybase for $5.8 billion in an all-cash offer. Why? Most likely to compete against their rival Oracle. I find this all very funny considering for years SAP sales and technical staff have always recommended Oracle and the primary DB platform. Oracle was always the first platform that SAP…

  • Intuit aquires Medfusion

    Congratulations to the team  Georgia Tech College of Computing graduate students who call themselves, mind the Georgia Tech Flatliners, troche the group finished first, valeologist second and third at the NHIN CONNECT Code-a-Thon Challenge, held April 28-29 at Florida International University in Miami.  The event challenged  teams to develop innovative and creative approaches for presenting…

  • Georgia Tech Students Sweep Health IT Coding Challenge

    Congratulations to the team  Georgia Tech College of Computing graduate students who call themselves, mind the Georgia Tech Flatliners, troche the group finished first, valeologist second and third at the NHIN CONNECT Code-a-Thon Challenge, held April 28-29 at Florida International University in Miami.  The event challenged  teams to develop innovative and creative approaches for presenting…

  • NAVTEQ: The content and services behind navigation and GPS (video overviews)

    These videos give a short overview of NAVTEQ, ed new spatial content and the location based services. Have you thought about how the map and spatial content for navigation devices and location based services is collected? Do you know what company provides the services behind the leading brands on the market (e.g. BMW, Oncology Mercedes-Benz,…

  • ABB to buy Atlanta software company Ventyx for over $1 billion

    Atlanta based Aldata Solutions acquires UK based Cosmic for approximately $4.5 million. Aldata, viagra buy which sells a variety of software to the retail industry, page will incorporate Cosmic’s analytics software into their mix. Cosmic calculates the optimum mix of products to meet shopper, supplier and retailer objectives. “This announcement is important for the retail…

  • Atlanta based Aldata Solutions acquires UK based Cosmic

    Atlanta based Aldata Solutions acquires UK based Cosmic for approximately $4.5 million. Aldata, viagra buy which sells a variety of software to the retail industry, page will incorporate Cosmic’s analytics software into their mix. Cosmic calculates the optimum mix of products to meet shopper, supplier and retailer objectives. “This announcement is important for the retail…

  • LivingSocial Raises $14M to Compete Against Groupon

    LivingSocial continues its push in the social networking land-grab, store with the completion of a Series C financing round worth $14 million. LivingSocial is similar to GroupOn, abortion in that it offers discounts on local deals on everything from spas and skydiving to restaurants and museum passes. The discounts range from 25% to 75% off…

  • Updated Best Practice Guidelines for Cross-carrier Mobile Advertising

    Charleston, life SC (PRWEB) April 22, 2010 — Sabal Medical, Inc., a privately held company whose products are helping hospitals deliver medications to their patients more safely and efficiently, announced today that their customer, Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS), went live March 30, 2010 with Sabal’s new comprehensive pharmacy medication supervisory system, SabalRxâ„¢.…