Warner Connect starts emergency
service
Minneapolis-based Warner Connect said it is launching
a 24/7 IT Emergency Solutions service designed to help businesses
quickly address and resolve IT infrastructure crisis situations.
Warner Connect understands that when a company experiences a
technical emergency they may not have the bandwidth to effectively
address the situation and continue operations. In response, Warner
Connect is formalizing a 24x7 on-call IT Emergency Solutions
service.
The service specializes in problems with network failure,
servers, routers, remote access, and remote
offices.
HickoryTech to buy Allete
unit
Mankato-based HickoryTech Corp. will buy Duluth-based
Allete Inc.'s Enventis Telecom unit, adding to the communication
company's statewide footprint and bringing an end to Allete's five-year
venture into the telecom market.
HickoryTech will pay $35.5
million for the Enventis business, which had $43 million in revenue in
2004.
Enventis Telecom, a unit of Allete, sells fiber-network
access, Internet telephony, and data services to more than 300 business
customers in over 40 communities in the Upper Midwest.
HickoryTech
had revenue of about $93 million last year.
BuyOnline
noted by Inc.
Rochester-based BuyOnlineNow.com, an online
office supply retailer, was named the 215th fastest growing privately
held company in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine.
The Inc. 500 ranks
privately held companies according to year-over-year sales growth from
2001 to 2004.
About BuyOnlineNow.com: Opened in May 2000,
BuyOnlineNow.com provides office supplies and office furniture to
businesses throughout the United States.
Minnesota firms
make Tech Fast 500
Ten Minnesota companies made the 2005
Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the fastest growing
technology companies in North America.
Multiband Corp. was the
highest-ranked Minnesota company, coming in 17th. The New Hope-based
communications networking company's revenue grew from $73,000 in 2000 to
$11.1 million in 2004.
The other Minnesota companies on the list
were Minneapolis-based Alebra Technologies Inc. (106), Bloomington-based
MGI Pharma Inc. (233), Eden Prairie-based MakeMusic! Inc. (234),
Roseville-based Shavlik Technologies (285), Eden Prairie-based Digital
River Inc. (346), Plymouth-based Enpath Medical Inc. (427),
Plymouth-based Convey Compliance Systems Inc. (452), Maple Grove-based
Vascular Solutions Inc. (471) and Coon Rapids-based Possis Medical Inc.
(480).
California had the most companies on the list with
105.
The list, based on percentage revenue growth over five years,
was compiled by Deloitte & Touche.
Wireless Data, IDA
complete merger
Wireless Data Solutions, a Utah corporation
headquartered in St. Cloud, and IDA Corp., a private Fargo, N.D.,
company, have completed their respective due diligence and signed a
merger letter of intent.
WDS has one subsidiary, Distributed
Networks Inc., located in Oceanside, Calif.
Reed Danuser will
remain as IDA's president and become a member of WDS's board of
directors.
Identix works Middle East
deal
Identix Inc. has received a follow-up order for its
fingerprint-matching technology from an unnamed Middle Eastern
country.
Under the deal, valued at roughly $800,000, Identix will
upgrade the country's existing border security identity-management
system. The technology is used to take fingerprints and match them
against a database, as people enter and exit the country.
The
country also plans to greatly expand the use of the technology from a
few ports of entry to approximately 100.
Identix has already
received an initial payment under the order, which was recognized in the
company's first-quarter fiscal 2006 revenue. The remaining payments will
be received over the course of the fiscal year ending June 30,
2006.
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