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Money woes force cancellation of parade

Mon, 13/12/2010 - 06:39 by Prince damin

Orlando, Fla. -- The 2010 Orlando Christmas Parade has been canceled because of money problems, organizers in Florida said.

Organizers said it will be replaced by a smaller event called the Santa Farewell Festival, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported.

"With better economic times ahead, the parade will hopefully return in 2011," parade producer Teri Boardman said. "Thank you to all past participants and parade supporters."

Boardman said dwindling sponsorship forced her to cancel the 2010 edition of the parade, which is not funded by the city.

"It all comes down to sponsors equal money to pay city [fees]," Boardman said.

May the (sales)Force(.com) Be With You

Wed, 10/11/2010 - 22:38 by Motley Fool

 A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, if an organization wanted to streamline its sales pipeline or manage its collective company Rolodex, it purchased a traditional piece of customer relationship management (CRM) software. This software came with an aggressive salesperson, was shipped in a box, installed on a server, and managed by someone whose career it was to keep that server and the software cool, safe, updated, and bug-free -- at least until the next CTO arrived, at which point you repeated the process. This is what we nerds call software as a product or SaaP.

 

This Stock Has the Edge

Fri, 08/10/2010 - 23:16 by Jason Moser

We see it all the time. Companies say they possess a competitive advantage because of (fill in the blank). If it were only that easy, I could just read through a handful of annual reports, plunk down my money, and call it a day. Alas, it's not so simple. Much like waking my daughters up for school in the morning, sussing out a real competitive advantage will require some work, some finesse, and most of all, some time.