InsideView, which describes its applications as sales intelligence products, has extended Inside View Connections. The new tool, the InsideView Private Connection Cloud, enables employees to connect personal networks with corporate connection networks. That lets sales and marketing personnel utilize personal contacts within Facebook, LinkedIn or Outlook to discover relationship connections.

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Avalara said it is supporting its rapid growth by opening a second office in Seattle, Wash. The company’s new facility is located at the foot of Seneca Street on Pier 55 on Seattle's Central Waterfront. And for those not familiar with the geography that means that for Avalara, which is headquartered on Bainbridge Island, a 35-minute boat ride away, the new facility is not far from the ferry terminal at Pier 52. Read more...

Blackbaud has eased the terms of the non-compete clause in CEO Marc Chardon's employment contract. The Charleston, S.C.-based nonprofit software vendor reduced the period of any post-employment limits to one year from two years. It also limited the geographic scope of the contract to the United States, which means the rest of the world is immediately open to Chardon, should he choose to leave the company. The company said this is simply to be consistent with the employment agreements for other executives. Well, it is a slow news week.

 

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When is Quicken not Quicken? It is when it is the newly named Reckon Accounts, marketed by the company which has been Intuit’s partner in Australia. In March, Reckon told Intuit it would not renew the agreement via which it has sold Quicken and QuickBooks products in that country. That agreement expires on Feb. 14, 2014 and the company expects to save about $6.2 million in annual royalty payments to Intuit.

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