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Ingram Unveils Service Renewal Portal For VARs

Ingram Micro Inc. announced a new Reseller Services Portal value-added resellers (VARs), powered by MaintenanceNet. The new web portal, available to US customers, automates IT product service renewal contracts, in and effort to make it easier to drive incremental revenue on product sales.

Multiply Equals Discretion-Based Networking

Multiply CEO Peter Pezaris has moved beyond his past of contributing to Xemacs and selling companies to CBS Sportsline to help build a social networking site; we managed to avoid discussion of a certain other social media site in a recent conversation.

Social Media Spending to Hit $757M in 2010

The total marketing spend on social media is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of 106.1% from 2005 to 2010, reaching $757.0 million in 2010, according to a research report that will be available on April 11 from PQ Media.

Yahoo Socializes MyWeb Bookmarks

A recent upgrade performed by Yahoo's MyWeb team has tweaked a few of the features in the service, with one being an easier way to find and share bookmarks with others.