BlueGlass Interactive, Inc. an innovative Internet marketing company specializing in social media marketing and search engine optimization, today announced the acquisition of Voltier Digital, a digital agency specializing in content marketing, infographic creation and data visualization. As part of the agreement, all Voltier Digital employees will join BlueGlass and Voltier’s three founders will hold senior roles on BlueGlass’ production and marketing teams.
“It’s hard to express how excited our team is about joining BlueGlass,” said Nicholas Santillo, CEO of Voltier Digital. “We have watched the impressive trajectory BlueGlass has taken since it’s inception and we are eager to add our team’s experience to an already stellar group of Internet marketing visionaries.”
The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but BlueGlass Interactive Co-founder Chris Winfield described the move as strategic:
“I first started working with the team at Voltier in 2007 and I have always been amazed at their ability to constantly innovate and stay at the forefront of the inbound marketing industry. The
Today: Apple blows away any and all observers with a record-breaking quarterly earnings report, so here’s an attempt at some context for the incredible numbers. Also: Yahoo earnings and Google’s new privacy policy.
There are no words for what Apple just did, so here are a bunch of numbers
The final quarter of 2011 was a historic one for Apple, as the company had the highest earnings in one three-month period of any tech company in history, challenged the record for most profits in one quarter for any U.S. company, and subsequently took the title of most valuable U.S. company from the quarterly-profit record-holder, Exxon.
Here’s an attempt to process all the extravagant numbers Apple threw out Tuesday afternoon.
– Revenue: Apple reported that it hauled in $46.3 billion in the last three months of 2011, nearly double the $26.7 billion it pulled in during the holiday-shopping quarter of 2010. That is the biggest quarterly revenue for a
Doug and Heather Klof moved to Denver from Los Angeles via Portland in March as part of DaVita’s corporate relocation.
“I came to visit in February and fell in love with Denver,” said Heather Klof. “It was a very easy move for us and a good transition. We are happy here.”
Sam and Isobel Brooks and their 2-year-old son, Alex, came to Boulder County in August from New York, without jobs lined up.
“My primary reason for moving was to give my son a good environment to live in,” Sam Brooks said. “I had my heart set to come here, and nothing was going to deter me. It was going to happen.”
The two couples are among the 31,195 people the U.S. Census Bureau estimates relocated last year to Colorado from other states, after subtracting out those who left.
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Royal Philips Electronics NV has warned that its fourth quarter profits were worse than expected due to a weak European market that made it difficult to charge customers as much as it wanted to for light bulbs.
Philips, the world’s largest lighting maker, is due to report full earnings on Jan. 30.
The company said free cash flow would be euro1 billion ($1.28 billion) compared with euro1.2 billion a year ago. Sales grew by a “mid single digit” amount, but margins slipped, the company said.
Operating profits in the fourth quarter were around euro500 million at a margin of at least 7 percent of sales, Philips said.
Trans-Atlantic private jet flights to and from the US and Europe or Middle East can be some of the most expensive trips a private flyer can take. Making these trips nonstop requires some of the largest and longest ranged aircraft equipped with flight attendant, full onboard amenities and sleeping configurations. A typical Van Nuys to Paris flight on a Gulfstream V can run as high as $270,000 if one is paying for the aircraft to return to its home base. The price tag can be higher if the aircraft is coming from Europe or Middle East.
Empty Legs are a way to help reduce some of these high costs. Empty legs, as they are referred to in the aviation industry, are aircraft flying empty from point A to point B for a variety of reasons.
WASHINGTON — Most Americans want Congress to vote to continue the payroll tax reduction, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll that comes as Democrats and Republicans wrestle over whether to extend the cut through 2012.
It’s the latest instance in which lawmakers on Capitol Hill have allowed partisan sniping to hold up action that polls show most Americans support, like ending the Bush tax cuts or adding a surcharge on millionaires.
The dragged-out debate over whether to extend an expiring payroll tax reduction is one of many developments that have kept voters furious with their leaders all year. On the brink of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections, virtually all Americans are disappointed and frustrated with the political scene and nearly 6 in 10 say they are angry, the AP-GfK survey showed.
after subtracting out those who left.