Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - February 23, 2009 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has unveiled a promotion that is designed to provide resellers with increased hosting revenues.
Urvish Vashi, general manager of dedicated hosting for The Planet remarked, ”In the competitive hosting landscape, resellers are tasked with offering their [...]

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Cambridge, Massachusetts - (The Hosting News) - February 27, 2009 - Web hosting provider, Dotster’s RevenueDirect, a provider of top-tier domain parking services for professional domain investors, has been aquired by online marketplace for buying and selling domain names, Sedo.
Tim Schumacher, chief executive officer of Sedo offered, ” Securing Dotster as a strategic partner [...]

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Los Angeles, California - (The Hosting News) - February 27, 2009 - Search, video, mobile and social media marketing services consulting firm, Infuse Creative, has acquired former Google Executive, David Mr. DiNucci, as its new Senior Vice President of Infuse Creative’s entertainment division business development.
Mr. DiNucci’s extensive Google search and marketing experience for Google [...]

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Tempe, Arizona - (The Hosting News) - February 27, 2009 - Business VoIP communication solutions and Hosted PBX provider, Nextiva, has partnered with nonprofit climate solutions organization, Carbonfund.org, to join the national movement of environmentally responsible businesses and organizations leading the fight against global warming.
T. Griffin Conrad, CEO and President of Nextiva remarked, ”Consumer [...]

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Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - February 27, 2009 - Web services provider, Steadfast Networks, will offer R1Soft’s high-performance Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to customers as an all-in-one backup solution.
The new service is designed to afford users with an easy-to-use Web interface that allows them to schedule their own backups, while [...]

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Middlesex, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - February 27, 2009 - Hosting and storage company, Webfusion, has opened a brand new, 2.5 million, high performance UK data center, built in conjunction with IBM. The Leeds-based facility uses the latest technology to ensure green, secure and reliable data storage and hosting services.
Thomas Vollrath, managing [...]

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Madrid, Spain - (The Hosting News) - February 27, 2009 - IT security company and provider of high-performance content filtering solutions, Optenet, has released a new solution that can automatically analyse, detect and report inappropriate user-generated material.
Javier Peralta, UK country manager at Optenet remarked, ”The volume of user-generated content on the Web is [...]

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Raleigh, North Carolina - (The Hosting News) - February 27, 2009 - Data center and managed services provider, Hosted Solutions’ founder and chief executive officer, Rich Lee, was recently named “Business Leader of the Year” by Business Leader magazine’s 2009 Triangle Hall of Fame Awards.
Mr. Lee offered, ”It’s a great honor to be recognized. [...]

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Charlotte, North Carolina - (The Hosting News) - February 25, 2009 - Independent data center operator and managed services provider, Peak 10, has appointed Mark Whetstone to its management team, as vice president of business development, responsible for overseeing the company’s market development and strategic partnerships.
Jeff Spalding, executive vice president of Peak [...]

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Sunnyvale, California - (The Hosting News) - February 25, 2009 - Yahoo! Inc., web hosting search engine portal, will participate in a number of upcoming investor conferences in the upcoming months.
Conferences scheduled include:
Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference:
Blake Jorgensen, executive vice president and chief financial officer, and Hilary Schneider, executive vice president for [...]

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