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Autodesk Wins Appeal in Vernor Case

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Randall Newton

Autodesk wins Round Two regarding the right of individuals to resell software products. Today a US Circuit Court of Appeals ...

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SYCODE CEO Deelip Menezes: My Blog is a Hobby That’s Gone All Wrong

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Randall Newton

In an exclusive interview, SYCODE CEO Deelip Menezes talks about the CAD industry, his growing business creating utilities for CAD ...

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CAD Moves to New Platforms, Expands Its Territory

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Randall Newton

We are moving into a new era of computing. But exactly how Cloud-based computing will affect CAD and related technologies ...

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ZWSoft Acquires VX and Targets the 3D Market

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Kathleen Maher

Chinese developer ZWSoft hopes to displace AutoCAD in China. Now,  ZWSoft has acquired VX Corporation and plans to take advantage ...

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Autodesk Announces AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD WS App for iPad and iPhone

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Randall Newton

The worst-kept secret in software is out; Autodesk returns to the Macintosh platform with a new version of AutoCAD, and ...

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Acquisition-Minded PTC Hikes Line of Revolving Credit

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Randall Newton

In a mandatory filing with the SEC, PTC says it will increase its line of credit to $300 million, and ...

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Project Butterfly Gets an Update

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Kathleen Maher

Autodesk's Project Butterfly is flapping its wings. Project Butterfly is Autodesk's work on extending AutoCAD the cloud. The company is also working on Project Dragonfly, a 2D and 2.5D project for interior designers, and there is the much higher profile Project Twitch work that puts Inventor, Revit, and Maya in the Cloud for customers.

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2008: Avatech’s George Davis: ‘We Can Weather the Storm’

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Randall Newton

When George Davis became CEO of Avatech Solutions in 2007, the company was in the middle of its own economic ...

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Resellers Rand and Avatech Merge Business Operations

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Randall Newton

The reverse merger returns Rand Worldwide to the stock market. This deal is about three things: Strength, Liquidity, and Cashing ...

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2009: New Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz: Give “Some Friggin’ Breathin’ Room” So We “Can Kick Some Butt”

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Randall Newton

When former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz took over as CEO of Yahoo! in January 2009, most tech media pundits were ...