TDCI Inc., which makes product-configuration software to reduce errors in orders to manufacturers, has been acquired by Infor, a New York business-software company. When I wrote last year about former Sterling Commerce Inc. CEO Bob Irwin taking over as TDCI president, co-founders Dan DeMuth and Rhonda DeMuth said they had been thinking about stepping back from day-to-day operations of the ...

With 20 start-up investments and nearly 30 acres of land, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is slowly, but surely, fulfilling his promise to revitalize downtown Las Vegas.When Inc. last checked in with the Downtown Project, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's plan to revitalize Downtown Las Vegas, some Vegas natives were skeptical. At the time, local lawyer and restaurant critic John Curtas told ...

Want to hire someone on an H-1B visa? It'll be a lot easier if they're a model.Beauty beats brains, and it's better to be sexy than tech-savvy--at least if your goal is to work in the United States under an H-1B visa.The highly coveted visas, which allow U.S. employers to employ foreign workers temporarily in certain specialized occupations, go quickly. ...

With the blessing of its board on Sunday, Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO 1. Broadcast.com (1999) Mark Cuban founded broadcast.com with Christopher Jaeb and Todd Wagner as AudioNet in 1995. The company broadcasted talk radio live on the Internet and later added sports and even presidential conventions. Broadcast.com went public in 1998, setting a one-day record for IPOs (at the time) by rising almost ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. said on Monday it will acquire Tumblr for around $1.1 billion. "Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business," Yahoo said in a statement released Monday. David Karp will remain CEO of Tumblr. The Wall Street Journal and other media had reported ...