Miva Merchant,Inc is a privately held ecommerce software and hosting provider with headquarters in San Diego, California and offices and a data center located in Tampa, Florida. Miva Merchant provides ecommerce software hosting, web development and design and related services to tens of thousands of small and medium-sized online businesses.
History
Miva Merchant, Inc was originally founded in 1996 as HTMLScript Corporation, an early tag-based Web Scripting language development company. In 1997, HTML Script introduced KoolKat, a catalogue-based ecommerce shopping cart product.
Following the success of KoolKat, HTMLScript Corporation changed its name to Mivain 1998. The name “Miva,” according to Joe Austin, one of the original founders, comes from the hieroglyphic name for “cat,” a picture of a bird and a milk basin and pronounced “Me Waa.” The tie-in to ecommerce, says Austin, is that the word “cat” is a common abbreviation for “catalogue.”
Miva, Inc experienced significant company growth in the years that followed, continuing to develop its ecommerce platform, which was renamed to Miva Merchant, and in 2002, the company switched their underlying programming language from an interpreted language to a compiled language and released the Miva Script Compiler as well as Miva Merchant version 4.14.
In 2004, the company was sold to publicly-traded pay-per-click marketing company, Find What,Inc which changed its name to Miva, Inc. The original Miva, Inc became a division of the company called Miva Small business and this structure remained in place until 2007, when the company was purchased again, this time by a team of people which included some members of the original Miva,Inc management team. The new company changed its name to Miva Merchant, in order to differentiate itself from MIVA, Inc.
Today, Miva Merchant, Inc continues to provide both ecommerce software and ecommerce hosting to hundreds of thousands of online merchants. Since the debut of KoolKat in 1997, the company has sold over 300,000 product licenses.
Software
Miva Merchant, Inc’s core product is its ecommerce software, designed to be scaleable and customizable, and running on the company’s proprietary scripting language, MivaScript. Miva Merchant Empressa, the underlying script engine for Miva Script, is available for most operating systems.
Hosting
In 2009, Miva Merchant, Inc began offering a hosted solution directly to end merchants, and in 2011, the company acquired Hostasaurus, previously the largest independent Miva Merchant host.
Chase Instant Store Front
Beginning in March of 2011, Chase Bank began promoting Miva Merchant through a national radio and print campaign for a product known as Chase Instant Storefront.
History
Miva Merchant, Inc was originally founded in 1996 as HTMLScript Corporation, an early tag-based Web Scripting language development company. In 1997, HTML Script introduced KoolKat, a catalogue-based ecommerce shopping cart product.
Following the success of KoolKat, HTMLScript Corporation changed its name to Mivain 1998. The name “Miva,” according to Joe Austin, one of the original founders, comes from the hieroglyphic name for “cat,” a picture of a bird and a milk basin and pronounced “Me Waa.” The tie-in to ecommerce, says Austin, is that the word “cat” is a common abbreviation for “catalogue.”
Miva, Inc experienced significant company growth in the years that followed, continuing to develop its ecommerce platform, which was renamed to Miva Merchant, and in 2002, the company switched their underlying programming language from an interpreted language to a compiled language and released the Miva Script Compiler as well as Miva Merchant version 4.14.
In 2004, the company was sold to publicly-traded pay-per-click marketing company, Find What,Inc which changed its name to Miva, Inc. The original Miva, Inc became a division of the company called Miva Small business and this structure remained in place until 2007, when the company was purchased again, this time by a team of people which included some members of the original Miva,Inc management team. The new company changed its name to Miva Merchant, in order to differentiate itself from MIVA, Inc.
Today, Miva Merchant, Inc continues to provide both ecommerce software and ecommerce hosting to hundreds of thousands of online merchants. Since the debut of KoolKat in 1997, the company has sold over 300,000 product licenses.
Software
Miva Merchant, Inc’s core product is its ecommerce software, designed to be scaleable and customizable, and running on the company’s proprietary scripting language, MivaScript. Miva Merchant Empressa, the underlying script engine for Miva Script, is available for most operating systems.
Hosting
In 2009, Miva Merchant, Inc began offering a hosted solution directly to end merchants, and in 2011, the company acquired Hostasaurus, previously the largest independent Miva Merchant host.
Chase Instant Store Front
Beginning in March of 2011, Chase Bank began promoting Miva Merchant through a national radio and print campaign for a product known as Chase Instant Storefront.
Elite TV is a British babe channel or televised sex line television channel. It is broadcast on the Sky Digital satellite broadcasting platform. It is also viewable on many other FTA (non Sky) digital boxes. Freesat boxes can usually view it if set to "Other Channels" tuning mode.
It brodcast on 4 channels:
*Elite TV-Sky channel 965
*Elite TV 2-Sky channel 914
*Filth-Sky channel 920
*Dirty Talk-Sky channel 921
Models Include:
Adele Taylor, Alexis Texas, Alice Goodwin,Ashley Emma, Becky Roberts, Brandy Brewer, Caitlin Wynters, Cara Brett, Caty Cole, Charlie O'Neal, Claire Richards, Daisy Watts, Danica Hall, Delta White, Dionne Daniels, Emma Spellar, Fernanda Ferrari, Gemma Hiles ,Hannah Martin, Harley Dean, Kelly Bell, Larissa Summers, Leah Francis, Lisa Lorenzo, Lori Buckby, Lucy Anne Brookes, Melissa Debling, Mica Martinez, Paige Green, Rachel Louise Frodsham, Sammi Jo, Sophia Lares, Sophia Knight, Tori Black And Vicky Thomas.
It brodcast on 4 channels:
*Elite TV-Sky channel 965
*Elite TV 2-Sky channel 914
*Filth-Sky channel 920
*Dirty Talk-Sky channel 921
Models Include:
Adele Taylor, Alexis Texas, Alice Goodwin,Ashley Emma, Becky Roberts, Brandy Brewer, Caitlin Wynters, Cara Brett, Caty Cole, Charlie O'Neal, Claire Richards, Daisy Watts, Danica Hall, Delta White, Dionne Daniels, Emma Spellar, Fernanda Ferrari, Gemma Hiles ,Hannah Martin, Harley Dean, Kelly Bell, Larissa Summers, Leah Francis, Lisa Lorenzo, Lori Buckby, Lucy Anne Brookes, Melissa Debling, Mica Martinez, Paige Green, Rachel Louise Frodsham, Sammi Jo, Sophia Lares, Sophia Knight, Tori Black And Vicky Thomas.
Igor Ilich Semenikhin is a Russian artist. He was born in 1955, in Tbilisi, in a family of simple workers. Father - Ilya Ivanovich Semenikhin, mother - Maria Pavlovna Popova. He graduated high school in 1972. From 1974 till 1976 he served in the Soviet Army.
In 1979 entered the Tbilisi Fine Art Academy where he was trained in the full academic traditions of easel paitnings and graduated in 1985.
Since 1989 Igor has been living and working in Moscow. After many years of working in the classical style he decided to change a technique to more expressive and free manner of painting. Igor uses a palette knife thus making his works more vivid and three-dimensional.
Works of the artist are in galleries and private collections of Russia, Europe, America, Japan and other countries of the world.
Exhibitions
1985-1989 - Georgia, Tbilisi, regular participation in national exhibitions
1994 - France, Paris, exhibition "ArtRuss"
1994 - Poland, Gdansk, personal exhibition
1996 - Poland, Sopot, personal exhibition
1997 - Hong Kong, exhibition of Russian artists
2000 - Russia, Moscow, Central House of Artists, exhibition of Georgian artists
2003 - Russia, Moscow, exhibition of the Creative Union of Artists
2004 - Russia, Solnechnogorsk, exhibition of Moscow artists
2009 - Russia, Moscow, Fine Art Academy, personal exhibition
2009 - Russia, Moscow, personal exhibition in "Galart" gallery
2010 - Russia, Moscow, exhibition in "Artifact" gallery
In 1979 entered the Tbilisi Fine Art Academy where he was trained in the full academic traditions of easel paitnings and graduated in 1985.
Since 1989 Igor has been living and working in Moscow. After many years of working in the classical style he decided to change a technique to more expressive and free manner of painting. Igor uses a palette knife thus making his works more vivid and three-dimensional.
Works of the artist are in galleries and private collections of Russia, Europe, America, Japan and other countries of the world.
Exhibitions
1985-1989 - Georgia, Tbilisi, regular participation in national exhibitions
1994 - France, Paris, exhibition "ArtRuss"
1994 - Poland, Gdansk, personal exhibition
1996 - Poland, Sopot, personal exhibition
1997 - Hong Kong, exhibition of Russian artists
2000 - Russia, Moscow, Central House of Artists, exhibition of Georgian artists
2003 - Russia, Moscow, exhibition of the Creative Union of Artists
2004 - Russia, Solnechnogorsk, exhibition of Moscow artists
2009 - Russia, Moscow, Fine Art Academy, personal exhibition
2009 - Russia, Moscow, personal exhibition in "Galart" gallery
2010 - Russia, Moscow, exhibition in "Artifact" gallery
Waterproof Sand is sand that is waterproof. This type of sand has been used in magic shows. The waterproof sand is thought to have been invented by East Indian magicians. Some waterproof sand has been manufactured by toy companies and sold on the domestic market called Magic sand. Waterproof sand has been used for over 100 years and is mentioned in the Boy Mechanic book 2, published by Popular mechanics in 1915. This trick is performed by placing sand in a bowl of water. Stir the water then take out handfuls of sand perfectly dry to the astonishment of the audience. The waterproof sand is prepared before hand by heating fine sand and adding melted wax. The wax coating on the sand will repel the water.