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Worktopia Secures $5 Million in Series A Funding Led by DFJ Gotham ...
NEW YORK, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ .- Worktopia (www.worktopia.com), the first direct online booking engine for meeting space in hotels, airport lounges and other venues, today announced that it has completed a $5 million financing from a syndicate led by New York-based DFJ Gotham Ventures and including Milestone Venture Partners and High Peaks Venture Partners. Worktopia will deploy the additional capital to drive expansion of its network of hotel partners, to build on its foundation of corporate travel distribution relationships and to extend its leadership position. Worktopia is the first service to allow meeting planners to search, compare and book meeting space, equipment and simple catering online in real-time, a $24 billion market that has until now been conducted over the telephone. .
Liberty begins at home
Moral authority (not to be confused with religious conviction, age or experience) is going to be the political must-have of 2008. To complicate matters, it is in the eye of the beholder, somewhat relative, and travels in a peculiar way. For example, the magic words "Scotland Yard" may inspire more confidence in Pakistan than Peckham. No doubt the allegations of multimillion-pound corporate credit-card abuse that have already prompted the resignation of several top officers will seem trivial in that desperately troubled country. More seriously, our prime minister's busy holiday season, filled it seems with more phone calls to the Commonwealth than mince pies, demonstrates the force for democracy and the rule of law that Britain might still be in the world. We've all seen Gordon Brown exuding moral authority.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2008
Or you hear others your age doing the same thing. Most Americans, after all, are younger than you are. The popular culture of the 1950s is as strange to them as the silent movies of the 1920s are to you. And you sound somehow phony (does anyone use that word anymore? J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield used it a lot in the 1950s) to them. more >> .
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