Friday Q&A: Business continuity with Ginnie Stouffer from IDC Partners

The holiday shopping season is again going to pack — our economy hopes — hordes of consumers into shops, malls and onto roads. The Liberty Bell is going to remain a practical militarized zone.

And while no one thinks the apocalypse is good for business, there is something to be said for having your business ready for disaster.

Wayne-based business continuity services company IDC Partners has built a business on that reality since 1991. They help companies prepare for the worst, and they’re using cool, local technology to do it.

Below, Ginnie Stouffer, vice president of consulting with IDC, takes her 15 years of industry experience to tell us about the cool technologies they implement to keep their clients ready for the worst and just what disaster movie is the favorite of someone who thinks plenty about disaster.

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Shop Talk: Viddler takes care of business

To call the online video space crowded would be an understatement.

Youtubes, Blips and Vimeos all crowd the scene, each searching their way toward profitability. One, though, local online video company Viddler, may have just found the answer.

Yesterday the Bethlehem–based company announced a robust package of video analytics, directly targeted at the site’s business users, that takes Viddler one step further away from money-hemorrhaging consumer platform YouTube and closer to revenue-generating business-based Brightcove.

Earlier this year, Technically Philly spoke with Sandie about the company’s self-serve advertising platform.

The company’s recent focus on business services has founder Robert Sandie thinking that next year will be huge for the company as it plans to expand and reinvest revenue in itself. Having received a few funding offers, the company is holding its ground.

“We’re done funding,” Sandie says.

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Semiconductor company Ciclon sold to Texas Instruments

King of Prussia-based Guggenheim Ventures, the venture-capital arm of financial-services firm Guggenheim Partners, announced today it has sold Ciclon Semiconductor Device Corp. to Texas Instruments for an undisclosed total, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Ciclon, which is based in Bethlehem, makes semiconductors that aim to allow computers to use less electricity. Texas Instruments is based in Dallas.

Photo courtesy of Qdev.de.