Web-Based POS provider Vend raises funding from Point Nine Capital and angel investors

Auckland, New Zealand (PRWEB) August 12, 2011

New Zealand based online pos software start-up Vend has secured a significant injection of capital from a European investment consortium led by Point Nine Capital.

The investment will accelerate the company's rapid international growth, expansion of the New Zealand based development team and the opening of a San Francisco sales office.

Vend provides an intuitive and powerful web-based POS (point of sale) software that lets retailers process sales, track inventory, and manage customers. The worlds first HTML5 retail POS, it works on any device or platform, including an iPad, or even existing POS hardware.

Just like Zendesk has revolutionized the customer service industry, Vend wants to bring a revolution to the POS industry and improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people working in retail, said Point Nine Capital Managing Partner Christoph Janz, an early investor and advisor at Zendesk and several other successful Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies.

The setup cost to retailers for a traditional POS system can be astronomical, tens of thousands of dollars and weeks of hassle before theyve even made their first sale, says Vend Founder & CEO Vaughan Rowsell. With Vend, retailers can be up and running in minutes, for a low monthly fee. Plus, its software they actually love to use.

One of Vends competitive strengths is its seamless integration with other popular web software, such as Xero (accounting) and Shopify & Magento (e-commerce), offering retailers a full suite of low-cost, user-friendly tools to manage their business in the cloud.

Vend's user interface is intuitive, smooth, and speedy. Going with a cloud-based POS has allowed us to scale and access our data from any location and smoothly integrate the e-commerce and retail experience, says Travis Becker of Mollusk Surf Shops (New York, San Francisco & LA).

Vend now has thousands of users in more than 80 countries, less than a year after it was launched. Customers range from high street fashion chains to young hip boutiques, mom and pop stores to franchise networks, and are already processing more than $ 10M of sales through Vend each month.

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Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of data management solutions that make open source databases as reliable as commercial databases, today announced the appointment of Robert Hodges as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Hodges, previously Continuents CTO, brings over 20 years of experience in database and application engineering management. Prior to Continuent, he worked as a Senior Engineering Manager at Sybase

Computer Eye Strain And the Benefits of Eye Misting From Sharon Kleyne Hour Power of Water

Grants Pass, OR (PRWEB) November 10, 2011

Sharon Kleyne, Founder of Bio Logic Aqua Research and Host of Sharon Kleyne Hour Power of Water, has long advocated an all-water eye mist to soothe dry eye symptoms. Computer users have an extremely high incidence of dry eye and computer eye strain. For them, eye misting is convenient, easy, safe, inexpensive and best of all, instantly effective.

On her show, Mrs. Kleyne has discussed eye misting with leading computer health education experts and physicians. The Sharon Kleyne Hour Power of Water is heard on World Talk Radio, Voice America, Green Talk Network, Apple iTunes and Amazon.com.

Computer eye strain is a form of dry eye, caused by water evaporation of in the eye's protective tear film covering. When too much water is lost, discomfort is experienced. If allowed to continue, tear film water loss can cause chronic dry eye, corneal ulceration and numerous eye dehydration diseases, potentially leading to visual impairment and blindness.

Computer eye stain and dry eye symptoms should never be ignored. Sharon Kleyne recommends several proactive measures to prevent computer eye strain and soothe the symptoms. Eye misting accomplishes both.

Eye misting is the application of natural water to the eyes' tear film in the form of an ultra-fine mist. The mist hydrates the natural tear film in the same way that a humid environment hydrates the eyes. The eyes simply absorb the tiny water droplets from the air. Once the tear film's water content is returned to normal, symptoms usually disappear.

Formulated Eye drops contain little free water and mostly consist of artificial chemicals that can flood the tear film and wash away beneficial natural tear film components such as enzymes, proteins and antibodies. Eye drops can also be difficult for some individuals to apply and the label dosage much not be exceeded.

The tear film is 99% water and the only pure water, not bound in chemicals, will naturally hydrate the a water deficient tear film. Under some circumstances, eye drops may be helpful in sealing in moisture, if applied immediately following a water mist. .

The ideal eye mist application would use an all-natural water that is very pure, has a light mineral solute content with no heavy metals, and has a near neutral or slightly acidic pH balance (7.0 or slightly under). The natural tear film is pH neutral or slightly acidic when you wake up in the morning and becomes more alkaline (above 7.0) as the day wear on.

Eye mist is applied simply by pointing the container towards the face and pressing the actuator. There is no need to aim directly at the eyes or hold the eyelids opened. Just aim the mist towards the face, with a two to three second sweep around the eye area. As long as the surrounding air is misted, the eyes will benefit. The entire process should take less than five seconds.

The only all-natural pH balanced water mist application that naturally soothes dry eye and computer eye strain is Nature's Tears EyeMist, sponsor of the Sharon Kleyne Hour Power of Water. The product is available on http://www.Amazon.com under "Computer Accessories."

Listen to the Sharon Kleyne Hour Power of Water Mondays, 10 a.m., PST/PDT. The syndicated talk radio show is heard on Voice America/World Talk Radio, Green Talk Network and Apple iTunes. Go to SharonKleyneHour.com for written summaries and replays of past shows. Also visit NaturesTears.com, whatistheeye.wordpress.com, "Nature's Tears EyeMist" on Facebook and "Bio-Logic Aqua" on Twitter.

2011 Bio-Logic Aqua Research

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Talking Web 2.0 News App Gets Listeners From 119 Countries And New Features

Oklahoma City, OK (PRWEB) February 27, 2008

Web 2.0 startup PimpMyNews.com today announced new product features for its user base, which has grown to include users from 119 countries since its mid December launch.

PimpMyNews is a new media application that allows consumers to stay current on breaking stories from their favorite text news and blog sources by listening to them wherever they happen to be. The free service continuously scans the web's top 1,000 news and blog sites for breaking text stories based on user preferences, and instantly converts them to near-human sounding audio. Users can listen online on computers, or on the go on iPhones, iPods, Zunes and other MP3 players and mobile devices. The service also allows users to create playlists and personalized news podcasts, rate and share "talking stories" with friends, and post them to Facebook, Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Mixx, and other social sites.

The company has rolled out a series of enhancements based on user feedback since the December launch of its full site at http://www.PimpMyNews.com. In mid January at Macworld, the company released its iPhone-optimized mobile application at http://www.PimpMyNews.com/m, which received Apple's coveted "Staff Pick" designation.

Today, the company announced new mobile personalization features, integration with MySpace and enhancements to its home screens. The new release allows mobile users to access their PimpMyNews favorites playlists from any location, delivering the same personalized news experience of the full site on mobile devices. Users can also now post audio versions of their favorite stories to MySpace to share them with their MySpace network. Additionally, the application home screens have been enhanced to load audio versions of the latest stories from the web's top thirty blogs.

"Today, with our busy lifestyles and the vast amount of news released each day, it's difficult to stay current through traditional methods. PimpMyNews saves time by finding stories that you care about, and lets you get current by listening while you do other things like drive, work out, ride the train and more. It's like TiVo for news and blogs," said PimpMyNews Co-Founder & CEO John Atkinson.

Anyone with Internet access can sign up for the free service at http://www.PimpMyNews.com/Signup.aspx

About PimpMyNews

PimpMyNews scours the web 24/7 for text news and blog posts that you like and converts them to audio that you listen to (vs. R-E-A-D) on your iPod, iPhone or Computer - anytime, anywhere!