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Smelling blood at the presumed decline of Yellow Pages, a number of sites have launched that provide leads to local service SMBs. You got Angie’s List on the membership side. And ServiceMagic , Tree.com’s DoneRight , Sears’ ServiceLive and a number of regional companies (i.e. RedBeacon , Fixr , LocalPrice ) using some type of leads model. Now add HelpHive . Launched this summer in Seattle by four veterans of Real Networks , HelpHive builds on licensed listings from iBegin to provide a “hand curated” directory of SMBs in 50 categories. Its business model is to charge SMBs an annual fee of $199 for a variety of “Pro” level services (introductory priced at $99) and five percent of the total job value. When leads don’t result in jobs, the service takes a $5 fee from the SMB. It is interesting to note that the commission is half... [read full story]
U.S. Bancorp (USB) announced on Wednesday that its lead bank, U.S. Bank National Association is planning to sell the three Texas banks that were recently acquired from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as part of...
Summary: Updates on four companies and products that enable Microsoft to 'tax' Linux with imaginary patents IT has been another quiet week for SUSE, but Novell has bragging rights for recapturing the #1 spot in the world's top...
Mercedes ramp up efforts to poach Schumacher Mercedes Grand Prix has upped the ante in its bid to lure record-breaking F1 legend Michael Schumacher away from Ferrari and out of retirement, reports claim - with the offer of any...
Nov 28, 2009 (Zacks.com via COMTEX) -- TiVo Inc. (TIVO) reported a net loss of 6 cents a share for the third quarter of fiscal 2010, a penny below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of 5 cents, and fell substantially from...
