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Leading Insurance and Financial Services Provider Selects Hearsay Social to Achieve Social Sales, Marketing, and Compliance Success on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google+ San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 10, 2012 COUNTRY Financial®, a Fortune 1000 group of insurance and financial services companies, and Hearsay Social, provider of the leading social sales and marketing platform, today announced their partnership in a pilot program to use Hearsay Social as a social media sales...

Financial Services Expert Lee M. Gammill, Jr. to Advise Leading Enterprise Social Sales and Marketing Company San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 10, 2012 Hearsay Social, provider of the leading social sales and marketing platform, today announced that it has appointed Lee M. Gammill, Jr., Retired Vice Chairman of the Board of New York Life Insurance Company, to its Advisory Board. Mr. Gammill will bring his rich experience in the insurance industry to guide Hearsay Social to further...

Leading Financial Services Marketing Company Selects Hearsay Social to Achieve Social Sales and Marketing Success on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, and Foursquare San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 10, 2012 Primerica, the largest independent financial services marketing company in North America, and Hearsay Social, provider of social sales and marketing software for the enterprise, today announced that Primerica has selected Hearsay Social to power their social networking...

MindSnacks Educational Games Downloaded More Than 4 Million Times San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 02, 2012 MindSnacks, the leading developer of educational games for iOS, announced today that it has raised $6.5 million from Sequoia Capital to expand its portfolio beyond language acquisition and test preparation. With over 4 million downloads, MindSnacks is expanding its subject offerings by hiring more engineers and designers. “We’re thrilled MindSnacks selected us as their business...

FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ZNYX, an innovator of high-density solution enabling platforms for carrier-grade and mission critical environments, today announced a new LTE collaboration with Adax, an industry leader in high-performance packet-processing, security and network infrastructure. Together, they offer the LTE market a mid-size AdvancedTCA(®) (ATCA) LTE Core solution based on Aricent EPC Lite framework. Easy to deploy and highly scalable, this integrated...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Meraki, the leader in cloud managed networking, today announced a major upgrade to its MS-series cloud managed access switches. This upgrade brings a slew of management and security features, including layer 7 visibility, an industry-first feature that provides an unprecedented view into application traffic at the network edge. Layer 7 application visibility - demystifying multi-use and BYOD networksAs the explosion of devices and...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung Venture Investment Corporation has made a strategic investment of US$5 million in Mobile Broadband innovator Stoke, Inc. supporting their accelerated penetration of the worldwide LTE market. "Samsung has deployed and commercialized very large LTE networks and this proven experience in LTE deployments demonstrates the company's ability to support customers worldwide in this new era of communications," said Brian Kang,...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Meraki, the leader in cloud managed networking, today announced a major upgrade to its MR wireless solution. This upgrade introduces Air Marshal, a state of the art wireless intrusion detection and prevention suite. Also included in the upgrade are advanced mobility features and dozens of other enhancements.Air Marshal - next generation cloud managed wireless intrusion detectionCustomers with uncompromising security requirements, such as...

IPO Information and news website is seeking marketing interns. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 04, 2012 IPO Initial Public Offering announces they are looking for qualified SEO, social media and marketing experts to help get their message out to business owners of private small businesses and start-up companies. The IPO Initial Public Offering site recently announced that it was doing an international search for US or foreign corporations that would like to go public. The IPO website would...

EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J., June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Aricent Group, a leading global innovation and technology services company, today announced at the Small Cells World Summit in London that it has licensed its market-leading LTE eNodeB software frameworks to CPqD, one of Latin America's leading Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) R&D institutions. The framework will be used to develop innovative and competitive LTE RAN solutions for global markets, including...