Homestead Technologies
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| Type | Private company |
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| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Menlo Park, California, USA |
| Key people | Justin Kitch, Founder and CEO David Wu, COO |
| Industry | Web hosting service |
| Products | Web services |
| Website | http://www.homestead-inc.com/ |
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Homestead Technologies is the owner and operator of a paid web hosting service based in Menlo Park, California. It has existed in various forms since launching in 1998 as a free service. Since then, it has expanded to include WYSIWIG site building tools and e-commerce services [1].
Homestead Technologies was also home to Photosite, a web hosting service tailored to amateur digital photography. In March 2005, Photosite was sold to United Online [2].
Homestead's CEO, Justin Kitch, maintains a blog. It was the source of controversy [3] when Mr. Kitch stated that customers were its third highest priority [4].
On November 26, 2007, it was announced that Homestead would be purchased by Intuit in a cash transaction valued at roughly $170 million. [5]
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[edit] References
- ^ Steiner, Ina (2007-02-04). "Homestead Sites for eBay Sellers". Auction Bytes. http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y207/m02/abu0184/s03. Retrieved on 2007-04-25.
- ^ Homestead Technologies (2005-03-28). United Online Acquires Online Digital Photo Sharing Business from Homestead Technologies. Press release. http://www.homestead.com/~site/Scripts_LiveContent/LiveContent.dll?CMD=CMDShowUrl&Url=PR_Archive18_3446. Retrieved on 2007-04-25.
- ^ e-Rod Tech Watch Blog » Homestead.com CEO says screw customers!
- ^ Kitch, Justin (2006-11-16). "Maybe you should fire that customer?". http://ceounplugged.homestead.com/2006/11/maybe_you_shoul.html. Retrieved on 2007-04-25.
- ^ Intuit (2007-11-26). Intuit to Acquire Homestead Technologies. Press release. http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071126005984&newsLang=en. Retrieved on 2007-11-26. ""Joining Intuit will help us continue pursuing our dream of enabling every small business, entrepreneur and organization to effectively compete by leveraging the power of the Internet," said Justin Kitch, founder and chief executive officer of Homestead Technologies."
[edit] External links
- Homestead.com
- Homestead corporate site
- Photosite
- Company profile on Hoover's
- Best Home-Based Business Ideas - BusinessWeek interview with Homestead on the best ideas for small home businesses in 2007.
- Ten Clues that your Website is Dead - SMB News
- Web Sites: They're Not Just for E-commerce - Small Business Computing
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| Type | Public |
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| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Key people | Mario Puig (CEO) |
| Industry | Information Technology |
| Services | IT Services & Consultancy for SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) clients |
| Website | www.wsic.es |
[edit] WSIC - We Sell It Consultants
We Sell It Consultants is a Telecom consultancy and a COLT Telecom Group Partner Platinum that starts in 2005 in Barcelona (Spain). Since then, it has awarded by Colt Telecom as the Best European & National New Partner in 2006, Best IT Project in 2007 and Best Account Management in 2008.
WSIC has a wide range of IT solutions: Consultancy, Services Externalisation,Voice Solutions, IN Services, PBX, VoIP, Data Center, Virtualization, Back-up, Managed eMail Services, Videoconference, Monitoring systems, WiMax Networks, mobility, etc…
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