Autodesk (ADSK) released their Q1 2010 results yesterday showing revenues of $426 million, down 29 percent from Q1 2009 but meeting guidance. Carl Bass, CEO, in his call with analysts had a few interesting comments that might indicate that the economy is bottoming out. While many areas of the business are still in decline, the rate has somewhat slowed. In addition, with regard to leveraging stimulus money coming from the U.S. as well as other countries around the world, he had this to say:
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by Joe Francica on 05/22 at 07:45 AM |
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Recovery Map, part of MetaCarta Labs, is now live. Maps of stimulus related activity are created from the Main Street Economic Recovery, KML feeds, Flickr photos, and newswire feeds. You can view examples (Chicago, Wind power) or make your own, that can be saved and shared.
After visiting the samples, I confess that I really wanted to see the source of the dots on the map and could not really figure out how the Flickr pictures connection to stimulus. Point locations are color coded by votes at Stimuluswatch.org where visitors are asked to rate projects as critical or not.
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/21 at 07:35 AM |
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Per an article at WSLS at that references a press release, of the $11 million allocated for enhancements at Philpott Lake and the John Kerr Reservoir by the Army Corps of Engineers:
$100,000 [will be used at the Resevoir] to update natural and cultural resources data for geographic information system (GIS) database including level one inventory data. Contract will provide critical data to enhance Corps and state partner management of natural resources of nearly 50,000 acres of public lands.
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/01 at 07:11 AM |
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by Adena Schutzberg on 04/30 at 07:08 AM |
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