Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Pluck Signs Miracle-Gro Pluck Corp., a publisher of white-label social media applications, said today that the Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. has added Pluck's social-networking technology to its Scotts.com Web site. The financial impact of the customer win was not disclosed. Pluck said Scotts implemented social media capabilities—ranging from blogs and forums to photo galleries—to its popular lawn and gardening site earlier this year and, as a result, observed an 18 percent increase in year-over-year traffic. A subsidiar (More info...) posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008(Full story) Rackspace Bumps Sayegh to GM of Mosso Unit IT outsourcing firm Rackspace Hosting reported Monday that it has promoted Emil Sayegh to general manager of its cloud-computing business unit, Mosso. The San Antonio-based company said Sayegh previously was vice president of its product group, where he supervised development, marketing and management of new products and services. Rackspace described Sayegh as a 15-year veteran of the IT industry who most recently served as services marketing and development director for powerhouse computer manu (More info...) posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008(Full story) ACS Lands $48M Contract Renewal from Wyoming Dallas-based business process outsourcing firm Affiliated Computer Services Inc. announced Tuesday that it has renewed a service contract with Wyoming's Health Department worth an estimated $48 million. Specifically, ACS said it will provide fiscal agent services for the department's Medicaid and Dental program. According to ACS, the five-year contract represents the third-consecutive win for ACS in the Cowboy State. Teri Green, Wyoming's state Medicaid agent, said ACS has helped the state provi (More info...) posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008(Full story) |
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