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insideARM.com is in the blog game now. So, what is a blog anyway? We can’t really tell you, but we can let you know what we intend to do with ours.
Zero-Interest Loans for Liposuction?
According to a recent New York Times article zero-interest loans are all the rage for elective medical procedures.
Credit Crunch Impact on ARM M&A
With credit market turmoil in the news so much lately, how is this going to affect mergers and acquisitions in the ARM industry?
Collection Agency Celebrates Busy 10th Year
Since September of last year, Phillips & Cohen Associates has opened four new offices, including two outside of the U.S. The firm also celebrated its 10th anniversary earlier this month.
SoundBite Seeks $69 Million in its IPO
SoundBite Communications Inc. yesterday reported its plans to go public, filing a registration document with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Burlington, Mass.-based SoundBite seeks to raise $69 million in its initial public offering, according to its S-1 filing with the SEC. SoundBite is a provider of on-demand automated voice messaging (AVM) systems for [...]
Revolution Money AIMs to Combine Money Transfer, Credit, Debit and More
Revolution Money, the new payment platform launched earlier this week by Revolution LLC, is best described as “PayPal meets American Express, but without the fees,” company President and CEO Jason Hogg told insideARM.com. Revolution Money’s first two offerings are Revolution MoneyExchange, a free money transfer service for online transactions, and RevolutionCard, an anonymous, PIN-protected credit [...]
PR – Wachovia Launches PatientPOS for Healthcare Providers
Wachovia Bank, N.A., yesterday announced expansion of its Treasury solutions for the healthcare industry with the addition of PatientPOS, an innovative solution proven to improve revenue cycle management for healthcare providers. PatientPOS is an enterprise payment solution that facilitates convenient up-front point-of-sale (POS) patient payment collection. It enables payment plan management and integrates these activities [...]
PR – First Horizon Msaver and TSYS Join for HSA Card
First Horizon Msaver, a leading administrator of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), and TSYS, one of the world’s largest payment-solutions providers, today announced they have teamed up to offer a multi-purse healthcare and benefits payment card unmatched in the healthcare industry. A multi-purse card allows an employee to use a single debit card to access HSA, [...]
PR – Study Finds Student Loan Debt Outpaced Starting Salaries in 2006
The average student loan debt for graduating seniors was eight percent higher in 2006 than in 2005, while starting salaries only increased by four percent in the same period, according to a new report by the Project on Student Debt. The average student loan debt nationwide is $19,646 for 2006 graduates, although the Project on [...]
PR – Cisco Buys Call Center Analytics Firm Latigent
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) yesterday announced a definitive agreement to purchase Chicago-based Latigent, LLC, a leading provider of web-based business intelligence and analytics reporting solutions, focused on contact centers. Latigent’s products are built from the ground up to take advantage of Web 2.0 principles that help enable customers to create flexible, scalable, easily customizable, and intuitive [...]