3D Systems preannounces, shocks Wall Street
3D Systems Corporation today preannounced results for Q4 that sent its share price tumbling, down 20% at 11AM Eastern. The topline news is good: full year revenue is expected to be around $513 million, just below the midpoint of its prior guidance. Organic revenue is...
Look up … Look around … CAD+?
My second blog post went live yesterday over at the PTC Creo website. We’re continuing the discussion of whether you need a new CAD system and the pros and cons of switching, focusing this week on how today's “CAD” systems offer so much more than you may realize. One...
Morning coffee: PTC’s FQ1, SolidWorks World & so much more
We're trying something new. So much happens during the typical week that, by Friday, we've forgotten most of it in a TGIF haze. Come Monday, we need to reboot and wrap our minds around it all again. To help you jumpstart this week, we're going to recap last week, post...
HUGE news: DS and Accelrys to merge PLM & chemistry
Dassault Systèmes announced today that it has signed a definitive merger agreement with Accelrys, the provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management (aka SILM) software for chemistry, biology and materials. Under the agreement, DS will make an all-cash offer...
AVEVA hints at good Q3, is “performing well”
AVEVA today issued one of its periodic interim statements, press releases that don't say much but hint a lot. The big headline: things are going well and conditions haven't changed since the company's November report. AVEVA said that business in Latin America is soft;...
PTC’s Q1 call blends caution, excitement
PTC kicked off earnings in style last night, providing more details on the barebones announcement made in December with the acquisition of ThingWorx. The Internet of Things (IoT) was a big topic on the investor call as PTC continues to educate its investors about the...
Quickies: CFD, chocolate, collaborating & manufacturing — oh my!
Some headlines to get your week going, if you had yesterday off for the MLK remembrance. Of course, if you're somewhere else in the world, you're already well into your week, but let's get you caught up anyway: I've written a lot about the Internet of Things, most...
Totally OT: Honoring MLK
Today the US stops (mostly) to remember and honor Martin Luther King, Jr. --known as MLK-- for his work and legacy, redefining what it means to fight for the right to be equal. I was too little to remember Dr. King's speeches from when he was alive but I do remember...
Quickies: DS/Realtime & ADSK/Delcam inch closer; Softech, Stratasys earnings news
So much news, so little time. A quick listing of what's captured our imagination lately. On the acquisition front, two deals have moved forward a bit. If you remember, Dassault Systèmes announced back in December that it was acquiring a controlling stake in Realtime...
Google buys Nest for a cool $3.2 billion
I've been nattering on about the Internet of Things (IoT) lately, in part because PTC snapped up ThingWorx last month. But I'm far from alone in finding the IoT interesting: yesterday, Google announced that it was acquiring Nest Labs, the people who designed those...