The Monthly Newsletter for Web Professionals
Volume 8 Issue 01 - January 2006
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Letter from the Executive Editor
Greetings Web professionals from WOW HQ!
I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year and share with you some of the recent milestones and plans for 2006.
Thank you for being a part of this association and thank you for your continued support!
Contents:
- WOW’s Articulation Initiative Update
- New Articulation Committee Members Announced
- WOW Academy announces State of Pennsylvania Secondary School Articulation,
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The Latest Industry News
MBA job hunters find Silicon Valley more welcoming
From CNET News.com
Like the swallows to Capistrano and the New England Patriots to the NFL playoffs, the MBAs are returning to Silicon Valley.
While hard data is hard to come by, MBA candidates who have been touring the Valley in recent weeks say job prospects are better now than they have been since the Valley ran into trouble with the end of the dot-com era.
"Everyone out here seems to be hiring to some degree," said Arun Prakash, an MBA candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was among a group of college students that toured roughly 40 companies, including Intel, Yahoo and Cisco Systems, as part of MIT's annual "Tech Trek" to Silicon Valley.
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Progress nabs Actional for Web services tools
From CNET News.com
Progress Software said Thursday it has acquired application infrastructure provider Actional and its Web services management tools for about $32 million.
The deal--a combination of Progress stock and cash--is expected to close as soon as it meets approval of both companies' boards.
Bedford, Mass.-based Progress said it intends to combine privately held Actional's management tools with products from Sonic Software, a company owned by Progress that sells integration software. Progress also expects to sell the Sonic and Actional product lines separately.
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Featured Article
As Web 2.0 Beckons, Venture Capitalists Hone Internet Focus
Author: BRIAN DEAGON
The venture capital industry zeroed in on Internet and wireless companies in 2005, banking on a future incarnation of the Internet called Web 2.0.
According to the National Venture Capital Association's annual MoneyTree survey, 161 Internet companies received venture capital funding for the first time in 2005. That was a 68% rise from 96 companies in 2004. Including all rounds of venture funding, 450 Internet firms got funding last year - up 7% from the prior year. In the wireless communications field, 152 companies got venture funding in 2005 - a rise of 16% from 2004.
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