Strategic plan

Strategic plan
The Chattanooga area should build on landing Volkswagen and Alstom’s big expansion, but it ought to identify other target sectors to diversify the economy, a new strategic plan says.

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Netvibes Makes It To Profitability By Appealing To Businesses

Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini announced today that the startup founded five years ago has finally made it to profitability. The site has seen a lot of changes since then. It began as one of the original Web 2.0 personalized homepages, became a distributed widget platform, changed CEOs (when founder Tariq Krim stepped down in 2008 to start Jolicloud), then started appealing to enterprises, brands, and advertisers with intranet offerings and social media dashboards.

I chatted with Mini today, who says that the company is profitable on a net income basis. He won’t go into details on revenues, but the company has 40 employees and two offices. Just to cover salaries, it’s got to be pulling in a few million dollars a year. Mini did break down the revenues by product line, however:

Netvibes for Enterprise: 50%
Netvibes Premium Dashboards: 40%
Widget Distribution: 10%

The enterprise version, which accounts for half of the company’s revenues, lets employees customize their intranet homepage with a mixture of company and personal widgets. Think iGoogle for businesses. The dashboards are more for advertising and PR agencies, who can use them to push media on an opt-in basis to interested consumers. Netvibes also recently launched a Dashboarding Guide, which is a “dashboard of dashboards,” says Mini. It pulls together different monitoring and analytics tools (such as Google Trends, Compete, Yelp, Hootsuite, and Trendrr) all into one dashboard.

The consumer-oriented homepage now has 3.5 million visitors a month, and Netvibes continues to improve that experience with its new realtime stream reader Wasabi, but that the paying customers are businesses.

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FAST NEWS
Following the financial meltdown, markets have certainly become more cautious and investors have become more diligent with their investments. Unlike market heady days, investors are not in a hurry to rush into investments.

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Gowalla On The iPad. Why? (Screenshots)

There is obviously a lot of excitement around the iPad. Kleiner Perkins is doubling its iFund to launch more companies around the new device. And everyone from existing iPhone app developers and media companies is rushing to create iPad versions of their apps. As the screenshots leaked to us below show, you can add Gowalla to that list. I’ve confirmed the screenshots are real with CEO Josh Williams.

But why would you want geo-location check-in app on a huge iPad. It’s bad enough to have to pull out your iPhone every time you enter a restaurant or some other public gathering place. Pulling out the iPad will be much more conspicuous.

The bigger screen, however, does open up new possibilities for seeing calling up full menus at a ballgame, for instance, or photos that other people uploaded to Gowalla from that very same spot. A bigger screen is just better no matter what the app. Will Foursquare launch on the iPad as well?

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Iberian Minerals Conference Call to Be Rescheduled

Iberian Minerals Conference Call to Be Rescheduled
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – 03/30/10) – Iberian Minerals Corp. (TSX-V: IZN – News ) today announced that the conference call originally scheduled for tomorrow, March 31st, concerning year-end financial results will be re-scheduled for next week due to company scheduling conflicts. The Company’s year-end financial statements, MD&A and Annual Information Form are still due to be filed on SEDAR …

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