Growth Strategy includes International Expansion and Acquisitions
Global private equity firm The Carlyle Group, OpenLink Financial, and TA Associates announced that Carlyle has agreed to purchase OpenLink Financial, a software developer for the commodity, energy and financial services industries, from TA Associates. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected [...]

Recognized Once Again as Leading Technology Provider to the Global Financial Services Industry
OpenLink, a leading provider of cross-asset trading, risk management and operations processing software announced that the company has once again been officially positioned among the top 100 vendors by Financial Insights and American Banker in the FinTech 100 rankings as a [...]

Houston-based BigSprocket, LLC today announces Tourneys 1.1, an update to their popular poker tool for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Designed for the Internet poker player, Tourneys puts the schedules of upcoming tournaments from the most popular Internet poker sites in the palm of your hand. It allows players to quickly find out what games [...]

OpenLink Hosts Clients from Twenty Countries
Open Link Financial, Inc. (”OpenLink”)(www.olf.com), a leading provider of cross-asset trading, risk management and operations processing software solutions, commences its 2009 Worldwide User Conference this week, at the Pullman Barcelona Skipper in Barcelona, Spain.
With over 250 participants from 20 countries, the event is the largest client gathering hosted [...]

Open Link Financial, Inc. (”OpenLink”), a leading provider of cross-asset trading, risk management and operations processing software solutions, announced that Petrobras, one of the largest integrated energy companies in the world has selected OpenLink’s Endur and cMotion solution sets to operate its crude oil and refined products business in Rio de Janeiro, London, Houston and [...]

gate39MEDIA, a leading website, marketing, and brand developer for the futures industry and Velocity Futures, a rapidly growing Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), have aligned forces offering customized website solutions for Velocity Futures’ Introducing Brokers (IBs). The specially developed websites integrate Velocity Futures’ cutting-edge features with gate39MEDIA’s marketing tools, enabling IBs to create leads and support [...]

HealthHelp®, a Houston-based radiology benefit-management company, recently upgraded its customer care technology with Qwest services. Now, physician offices can operate more efficiently with self-service, around-the-clock voice and data access to HealthHelp’s radiology benefit-management programs thanks to technology powered by Qwest Communications (NYSE: Q).
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HealthHelp uses Qwest Contact Center Solutions to manage the company’s integrated [...]

Growing Local Shopping Website Will Deliver Customers to Businesses and Millions in Savings to Consumers Through the Power of Group Purchasing
Groupon (http://www.groupon.com), a shopping website offering a daily deal on the best local goods, services, events, and culture, will launch in Phoenix on August 17.
Groupon negotiates unprecedented deals with top businesses through its [...]

TechRadium, Inc., a leading mass notification company based in Sugar Land, Texas, has filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Houston against the popular social network and micro-blogging giant, Twitter, Inc., alleging that Twitter has infringed on three TechRadium patents.
“TechRadium has spent a lot of time and money developing our technology and we will [...]

Digital Signage Expo (DSE), the world’s largest International tradeshow and conference dedicated to digital signage, interactive technology, and out-of-home networks was just named one of Tradeshow Week Magazine’s 2009 Fastest 50.
This award recognizes the fifty fastest-growing trade and consumer shows in North America based on total net square footage and percentage growth between 2006 and [...]