The recent outages have caused my company to start looking for alternative CRM solutions unless Salesforce.com is able to stabilize their systems, and fast.

In November 2003 we merged Galaxy Entertainment Inc., with the Canadian assets of Cineplex Odeon Corp and named the company Cineplex Galaxy

[AdManager's extensive targeting capabilities were also a factor in CCTVI's move to Accipiter. The company is currently using AdManager to target ads based on niche market content. With over half a million pages of content, the CCTVI network has an extensive network including healthcare, home, legal, and automotive topics, among many others. While the corporate entity defines the initial tagging structure, stations within the network control ad delivery at the local market level.] This solution has provided us with a new way to sell ads, ... By allowing our TV station networks to traffic their own ads, we have seen direct operational cost savings.

It's not necessary to sell the company, they could to a (licensing) deal.

We don't want to just deliver stuff. We aren't a TV company. We are a content company. We think about the platform very early in the process and everyone must be on board.

[The company said it would offer 280,000 flex-fuel vehicles that run on gas or ethanol next year, including, for the first time, a version of its Ford F-150 pickup truck.] With fewer than 400 ethanol stations in the entire country, it will be important for them to follow through on plans to promote ethanol sales, ... Otherwise, their increased flexible-fuel vehicle sales will actually exacerbate our oil dependence.