Domain Holdings raises $2.9M in Venture Capital Funding led by Valhalla Partners, Debuts Retooled Domain Development Platform

Delray Beach, FL (PRWEB) July 21, 2011

Domain Holdings, an industry leader in domain lifecycle management and monetization, announced that it has launched its retooled domain development platform DomainPower on the heels of a $ 2.9 million Series A venture capital funding round from Valhalla Partners, WWC Capital and BrokersWeb Inc. Founder and CEO Matias De Tezanos, as well as other angel investors.

The newly launched platform is a complete rewrite of its predecessor Rapid Domain Builder, initially launched in November 2010. The rebranded DomainPower keeps its original intent as a turnkey solution for domain owners, offering vertical-specific frameworks for quick SEO-ready website development, site enhancement plug-ins and multiple revenue opportunities, all managed in one location.

We are excited to come out of stealth mode with a new look to our award-winning platform, Domain Holdings CEO Jason Boshoff said. This gives users a powerful domain management and monetization solution that can help identify the overall status of a domain portfolio, recognize growth opportunities and, overall, offers easy management.

The redesigns primary focus was a new user interface, developing a larger selection of vertical-specific frameworks and adding domain portfolio management solutions. The newly launched UI features an upgraded dashboard, sortable by individual domain performance or a full portfolio performance overview, with real-time updates of site and portfolio statistics. Updates include revenue, traffic, traffic sources, keywords and other site vitals integral to the growth, health and maintenance of domains.

The funds raised will go to continued technological development for the DomainPower platform, including research and development of new revenue models for site users, as well as adding resources to optimize, analyze and help increase yield and domain value.

About Domain Holdings

Domain Holdings, a full-service domain lifecycle management company, is an industry leader in the acquisition, development, management and monetization of domain portfolios and premium web properties. The company was co-founded by Chad Folkening, a longtime domain industry veteran, and John Ferber, co-founder of Advertising.com which was acquired by AOL for approximately $ 500 million in 2004, and whose collective online products and services have grossed more than $ 3 billion since 1996. DomainPower is a comprehensive monetization and domain development platform, providing domain owners with a rev-share enhancement and website development solution.

About Valhalla Partners

Valhalla Partners is a partner and advisor to technology entrepreneurs in their quest to build world-class companies. Based in Vienna, Virginia, the firms management team has made more than 120 investments over the past twenty years and produced over $ 1 billion of investment proceeds. Valhalla prefers investments where the mission of the company is to innovate, challenge and fundamentally change the dynamics of new and existing markets. Investments by Valhallas team include Advertising.com, CareerBuilder.com, Clarify, EnterpriseDB, Epicor, Exchange Solutions, JumpTap, LeftHand Networks, Mobius, NextLink, Nirvanix, Progress Software, Proxicom, RealOps, Register.com, Riverbed Technologies, SafeNet, SEPATON, ServiceBench, SolidFire, TidalTV, Trilogy, and webMethods. Valhalla Partners brings the full power and network of its experienced team to every investment it makes, helping companies grow faster and smarter regardless of size or maturity.

For more information, go to http://www.valhallapartners.com.

About WWC Capital

WWC Capital is an investment banking and private equity firm dedicated to serving middle market companies in need of capital or advisory services. WWC has deep experience in the technology, government services, and new media sectors. Our professionals have extensive advisory and transaction experience in operating companies, investment banks and professional services firms. WWC principals have completed over 325 transactions totaling over $ 15 billion in value. WWC Capital is based in Reston, Virginia.

For more information, go to http://www.wwccapital.com.

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SunGard Launches Ambit MyMoney, a Social Media-Enabled Online and Mobile Banking Platform

Dubai (PRWEB) November 22, 2011

SunGard has launched Ambit MyMoney, an integrated online and mobile banking platform, to help banks capitalize on the increasing global adoption of smart mobile devices by creating a consistent and customizable mobile banking experience. The new solution helps banks provide seamless online and mobile banking services to retail and business customers via the Web, mobile phone and tablet computer.

Ambit MyMoney includes out-of-the-box integration to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and offers greater social visibility for banks through a feature that allows customers follow via the banks own Facebook and Twitter sites. Customers can also like the banks products and services, and choose to receive alerts and notifications via these channels, thereby extending bank-to-customer communication beyond existing SMS or email channels.

The solutions personal financial management (PFM) tools help bank customers share financial savings goals via social media with selected friend groups. The tools also include modules for secure feedback and a centralized message center that is accessible across all channels.

Michael Araneta, associate director at IDC Financial Insights Asia/Pacific, said, Over the next few years, financial institutions around the world will be racing to leverage mobile social media to create service differentiators and augment customer stickiness. We believe that SunGard's Ambit MyMoney proposition brings to market unique and compelling features that are potential game-changers for banks. Ambit MyMoneys ability to harness social media, integrated with real-time analytics and functionalities for end-users customize their experience has the potential to be a hit with consumers."

David Hamilton, president of SunGards Banking business, said, Many consumers now see virtual channels as the primary window into their relationships with service providers, including their banks. The challenge for banks is how to meet these changing consumer demands. SunGards Ambit MyMoney is an additive banking solution that helps banks offer highly personalized banking to their customers, to help them build more profitable relationships and deliver a seamless experience, no matter which mobile channel the customer chooses to use.

The Ambit MyMoney multi-channel platform provides retail customers online and mobile access to a broad set of secure financial and non-financial transactions, all of which integrate in real time to the banks transactional and operational systems. For business customers, Ambit MyMoneys cash management capabilities can help them better track and manage their finances while on-the-go, through tools such as role-based authority for users, variable limits, batch payments, salary payments and maker-checker features with multiple levels of approval. Ambit MyMoney is customizable at the platform level and on an individual user basis, and includes widgets such as FX rates, news feeds and goal planners, which can be configured on the customers dashboard. Ambit MyMoneys built-in business process management (BPM) engine helps banks ensure a consistent and uniform experience regardless of channel and helps the bank measure, monitor and pro-actively manage service levels. Ambit My Money is part of SunGards Ambit Customer Management suite that helps banks create more profitable relationships while enhancing the customer experience.

About SunGards Ambit

SunGard's Ambit is a banking solution suite for retail, commercial and private banks. It provides banking professionals with solutions that support front, middle- and back-office operations, as well as solutions for financial management, risk and performance. Ambit helps banks retain and acquire customers, improve staff efficiency and effectively measure and allocate their capital. For more information, visit http://www.sungard.com/ambit.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world's leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves more than 25,000 customers in 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 5 billion, SunGard is ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company.

Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo and Ambit are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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Marketplacr Launches Platform Tool, Letting Community Create Custom Marketplaces

Boston, MA (PRWEB) September 06, 2011

Marketplacr launches its platform system allowing anyone to easily create a web marketplace for their communities. Creators invite others to join, who then buy and sell items.

The strength of Marketplacr is its ability to supplement existing

Applied Computer Systems, Inc. announces JOBPOWER as a Cloud Deployed Service using the iRent LLC Platform

Boston, Massachusetts (PRWEB) September 09, 2011

This development opens up access to this comprehensive world-class construction accounting application, JOBPOWER, for a number of industry businesses that can now benefit from its cost-cutting and streamlining capabilities, without requiring considerable in-house technical infrastructure to support it. In addition to JOBPOWER, the companion document management application DocumentVision, is also available as a cloud offering.

This is a logical step for us in that it addresses many of the needs expressed by our customers, said Rick DeLand, Vice President of Applied Computer Systems. Cloud computing is designed to provide a significant reduction of the expenses our customers incur that relate to software, servers and IT support. The savings will help our customers achieve a higher profitability, added DeLand.

In addition, our cloud solution ensures security at both the data and database levels and remains our highest priority, stated DeLand. Security has always been a concern and we have addressed this through co-location, multiple daily backups and security at the file level.

There is strong market interest in cloud services, including SaaS, due to an increasing demand for reducing TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) for IT investment and systems across many markets, stated Rick Cluthe, COO of iRent. Applied Computer Systems recognized these considerable benefits and wanted to bring them to the construction industry, commented Cluthe.

About Applied Computer Systems, Inc.

Founded in 1983 to develop and sell JOBPOWER