Acquity Group is a web design company that focuses on digital applications for web retailers. Digital marketing services include search engine marketing/optimization, online advertising, affiliate marketing/product syndication, social media, landing page development and mobile marketing. Design services include audience segmentation and persona development, user experience and interaction design, information architecture, visual and motion design, and campaign development and execution.

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Acumium’s Gravity Market platform is designed to support search marketing with text-based, search-optimized web addresses, unique title tags and keyword-rich content. Acumium also provides web content management, e-marketing applications and web analytics along with e-commerce platform technology. Acumium’s Web Content Management System is fully web-based, requiring only a browser to manage content. It allows online management of files, images and other downloads.

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Adobe Scene7 is hosted software for managing, enhancing, publishing and delivering dynamic and rich visual merchandise to the web, mobile, e-mail, Internet-connected displays and print. The company's creative services group offers a range of production services including image authoring for dynamic rendering, dynamic image production for zoom and spin, template creation for personalization, viewer skin development, custom reporting and targeted e-mail services.

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Adobe Systems, a digital marketing and graphics technology provider, offers Adobe Search&Promote, a site search and merchandising application designed to help web retailers anticipate visitor search intent and promote the most relevant products and content across desktop and mobile web site searches. The technology is designed for businesses that offer a large amount of content and products online and require a high level of marketer control, data analysis and personalization.

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• Oracle buys a social marketing platform provider

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Akamai Technologies is a provider of cloud-based services for optimizing web content and applications. The company's Intelligent Internet Platform is made up of nearly 100,000 service points, deployed in 72 countries and spanning most of the networks within the Internet. The Akamai Shopper prioritization helps online retailers identify and prioritize shoppers in the purchase funnel based on customer-defined criteria, such as active login, active shopping cart or visiting history.

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• A new TigerDirect mobile site increases conversions by a roaring 63%

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ARS Interactive is a full-service interactive marketing agency for retailers with online and mobile sites. The company's services include marketing, advertising, design, technology and product content. ARS Interactive on-demand product content management technology enables retailers to create, catalog, standardize, modify, import and export content. It works with a retailer's marketing staff to create information, descriptions and images for selling products.

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Autonomy e-commerce technology offers directed parametric navigation, a customized interface which allows buyers to find products by filtering information from a series of drop-down options. Automatic Query Guidance clusters results into relevant product groups. When buyers select a category, AQC automatically suggests further products through the clustering of complementary items. Autonomy also creates customized customer profiles based on customer interaction with the site.

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• Apparel retailer links print to web with mobile

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BlueKey works with web retailers and companies in other vertical markets to design sites, build e-commerce applications and develop content management systems. Its system features web-based password protection, a robust page editor, user accounts with multiple levels of access and editorial review, and an events calendar with Google map integration. BlueKey's content management system also comes with other advanced tools, including home page content, and event and news teaser tools.

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Software vendor Bridgeline is the provider of the iAPPS e-commerce product suite. Bridgeline's iAPPS Product Suite is a Software-as-a-Service application that combines content management, e-commerce, e-marketing and analytics capabilities. Features include a content preview feature within iAPPS Content Manager search results and the ability to access that content in a single click, using icons that display within the search results. Comments within iAPPS Content Manager can be edited.

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CDC Software offers the eCommerce CMS platform and the eCommerce CMS Auction platform. The eCommerce program provides functions that include search and merchandising, shopping cart, business intelligence and back office services. The merchandising engine features advanced site search, guided navigation, keyword/product promotions, path dependent promotions and rule-based campaigns. The auction platform allows retailers to create eBay auctions, in-site auctions and loyalty programs.

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CDNetworks is a Seoul, South Korea-based content delivery network. Founded in 2000, CDNetworks has subsidiaries in the U.S., United Kingdom, France, China and Japan. It provides a suite of technology for video streaming, large-volume file downloads and image caching. The company's Web Performance Suite integrates a range of web performance tools to accelerate web content delivery and application performance. CDNetworks also offers dynamic web and network acceleration software.

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CNET Content Solutions provides products and services, including standardized and normalized product information, suggested selling products and hosted services, and professional review and ratings. CNET's products include DataSource, comprehensive product information available for custom data sheets, refined searches, side-by-side product comparisons and other applications, and Intelligent Cross-Sell, a product that simplifies the automating and optimizing of the cross-selling of accessories.

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• eBillme adds two executives to its roster

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Commerce Guys is a provider of e-commerce web site development, web site maintenance and support, web-site hosting, e-commerce training and on-demand e-commerce services. The company works with Drupal, an open source content management system. Commerce Guys developers and programmers can design web applications and modules to fit retailers’ specific needs. It also can work with web agencies on themes and user interface, focusing on core e-commerce features, such as web site architecture.

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• E-commerce services provider Commerce Guys raises $5 million

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Comosoft provides integrated, multichannel media planning, product information and production workflow management for large multichannel retailers. The company's LAGO application uses a centralized database and a set of application services to manage content (product images, copy and marketing content) and its relation to product attributes (factual data about products and product groups) and media usage information. The LAGO applications are integrated with the retailers' other systems.

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CrownPeak is a provider of web content management and optimization technology delivered as Software-as-a-Service. It Cloud web content management systems is designed for non-technical users, with simple tools to enable speedy content updates. Its web CMS software includes features like mobile content management, social media management, purpose-built templates, multilingual content management and management of multiple web sites. It also features management of blogs and user-generated content.

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Digital Element is a developer of customized visualization tools and mobile phone applications. It specializes in high-end three-dimensional and two-dimensional visualization work, binary runtime environment for wireless and Java development, cross-platform and proprietary platform development, and low-bandwidth Internet projects. The firm also creates custom software for PC, Macintosh, and mobile, and custom artwork for landscape architecture, film and computer games.

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Ektron's web content management platform offers search features based on Microsoft Search Server, including faceted navigation and dynamic search relevancy tuning. Developers can build the templates and develop functional widgets needed by marketing departments to build web pages. Users make content changes directly on the site in-context or in browser-based content authoring form. The company also offers Ektron eMobile Tools for managing mobile web content.

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• Content management tool enables quick change

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Enterworks provides content management technology for multichannel catalog publishing, product information management, master data management and enterprise workflow. The commerce suite offers advanced tools for purchasing, order tracking and other e-commerce requirements. It also offers enterprise portal applications that support productivity and collaboration in critical business processes. Enterworks' PIM capabilities integrate product data from multiple sources into a central repository.

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Group FiO Inc. in April formed a strategic alliance with PSI, a global information technology services company, to provide high-tech e-commerce applications to businesses across the globe. The alliance will cater to the niche social media market providing web-based technologies to B2C and B2B segments. Group FiO provides two industry-specific applications addressing the needs of e-commerce companies: Web Merchandiser and e-Multichannel. Web Merchandiser allows any web site store owner to manage every aspect of what their customers see, including content and multiple landing pages to enrich the customer’s shopping experience. Group FiO also offers the FiOtiger Online Store Front and FiOCheetah Online Store Front platforms.

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Ifeelgoods provides technology that allows retailers to offer promotions using relevant digital goods and virtual currencies in place of traditional promotions such as discounts, coupon codes or gifts with purchase. The Ifeelgoods platform is a hosted application that manages retailer virtual goods promotion offers, redemption and customer service. Its Facebook Credits incentive allows retailers to offer customers Facebook credits by signing up for e-mail or enter a contest.

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Kaon Interactive is a vendor of three-dimensional marketing applications for retailers, product manufacturers and distributors. Its Kaon 3D catalog provides realistic, interactive product models coupled with product messaging. Customers can investigate moving parts, view products from every angle, sample color options and explore unique product features. It can also deliver consistent multichannel branding and messaging. Kaon also offers 3D PDFs for sales sheets, specification and user manuals.

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• SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Creating product information for online and offline shopping

• Bringing the web to consumers

• New 3D e-CATALOG offers unprecedented interactivity and realism; customers `experience` products

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Lionbridge, a provider of globalization and testing services, offers the Logoport language technology platform and Freeway, a free, web-based translation management platform. Logoport provides a web-based translation memory technology and related linguistic production and quality assurance tools. It has more than 52,000 individual client translation memories and 14,000 individual translators. It maintains centers in 26 countries and provides services under the Lionbridge and Veri Test brands.

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Mirror Image is a provider of Internet infrastructure and content delivery services. It provides content delivery, streaming media, and edge computing and reporting technology. Its services allow online retailers to accelerate, customize and control the delivery of content and rich media. It features a real-time traffic monitor to quickly identify problems before they impact business and integrates with most analytical tools through automated delivery of industry standard web logs.

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• Crafting a web business

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A provider of linguistic translation, MotionPoint enables web sites to display content in multiple languages and translate new content as it is added. Its One-Link Deployment program inserts a language link to the navigation bar on the retailer's mobile web site allowing consumers to access an alternative language site by clicking on the link and selecting their language of choice.

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Open Text is a provider of enterprise content management software. The company offers full-text indexing and string search technology that supports standard generalized markup language and searchers user-defined documents. It also structures site search without loss of performance. Its ECM Suite allows retailers to add social media capabilities to content. It also features digital asset management for creating and managing rich media for the web, print, broadcast and other marketing channels.

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Sitecore is a provider of .NET web content management system and portal software. Its online marketing suite unifies web content management capabilities, web analytics and marketing automation for customer personalization. The suite provides web analytics out-of-the-box, without coding. Content editors can profile content upon creation, establish the relevancy for segmentation analysis and the delivery of targeted content. The software automatically develops profiles on-site.

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Stibo Systems, formerly Stibo Catalog, is a global provider of product information management and master data applications. Its STEP master data platform enables businesses to aggregate raw master data from partners and disparate sources in a central repository; enrich and manage data; make consistent data available throughout the company; and deliver approved data throughout the product lifecycle, from procurement to multiple sales and support channels.

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The TIE Kinetix Content Syndication Platform offers comprehensive content syndication, including the collection of content, the management of digital assets, the syndication of rich digital marketing materials, the activation of the channel and reporting. During the collection phase all information is gathered and structured in a way that allows it to be most successfully syndicated and pushed out onto subscribing partner web sites. The platform allows manufacturers to schedule campaigns or content pieces to launch on different dates. The manufacturer may edit any of their campaigns without re-creating new campaigns. During the reporting phase manufacturers are able to identify how effective their syndicated campaign is performing via real-time analytics.

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Ugam Interactive provides competitive intelligence to online retailers. Its offerings include content services, data feed management and search engine optimization applications. PriceTrac, the company's price tracking software, tracks and gauges competitor prices, promotions and an assortment of products and categories online that are susceptible to change. It uses proprietary web crawlers, combined with teams of analysts, to track and retrieve information from competitors' web sites.

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• Ugam Interactive Releases its Latest Competitive Intelligence Tool

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• Ugam Interactive Releases New Watch List Feature in PriceTrac

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WebCollage offers a content syndication monitoring system using web performance monitoring and testing from Gomez, a provider of web application management services. The service enables WebCollage to simulate the way retail web site users interact and view marketing content by measuring and tracking how its syndicated content performs on retail web sites. The Gomez service runs tests from multiple geographic locations, 24 hours a day, providing a user's point of view.

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• WebCollage Expands to Furniture Category

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• WebCollage Partners with Channel IQ to Add Pricing Intelligence

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YellowBrix is a provider of content analytics, content syndication services and content management technologies. It provides business, industry and financial markets news and general consumer information for web sites, intranets, wireless devices and telephony services. YellowBrix ArchiText is a web-based Software-as-a Service program that allows users to create or customize their news categories. Its content analytics services help companies interpret real-time business news and information.

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