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Thrane Thrane Norge Logo Thrane & Thrane   Nera SatCom AS Aug 2006  
Telcel Telcel logo
Telcel is Mexico's largest mobile phone carrier, owned by América Móvil. Founded in 1989 and based in Mexico City, Telcel is the leading provider of wireless communications services in Mexico. As of December 31, 2006, Telcel's cellular network...
Radiomovil Dipsa S.A de C.V, Nov 1984  
Miles Miles logo   Miles IT    
ZING Zing.png
In a world with ZING, you can listen, bookmark, and collect songs from live digital streams. Mix playlists from your CD and MP3 libraries with fresh content. Discover new entertainment and share playlists with friends. And get updates on what’s...
Zermatt Systems Inc. Jan 2005  
Awareness Awareness.jpg
Awareness provides an on-demand social media platform where enterprises deploy Web 2.0 technologies to achieve real business benefits. Awareness leverages the power of user-generated content – blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking, photos,...
iUpload    
MarketLive, Inc. Marketlive.gif
About MarketLiveMarketLive, Inc. is the leading provider of e-commerce retail technology and services for selling online. Our MarketLive® platform is an enterprise-class retail e-commerce solution specifically designed to meet the unique...
Multimedia Live    
Blaze Software     Neuron Data    
TIBCO Software TIBCO Software
TIBCO Software Inc. is a global company that develops integration software for companies including those in the energy, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and financial services industries. Its headquarters is in Palo Alto, California, with offices...
Teknekron Software Systems    
Enhance Interactive     ah-ha.com    
Stamps.com Stamps_cmyk2.jpg
With over 350,000 monthly subscribers, Stamps.com™ is the leading provider of Internet-based postage solutions. Stamps.com was the first company to be approved by the U.S. Postal Service® to offer a software-only postage service that lets customers...
StampMaster.Inc.    
SOA Software SOA Software logo
SOA Software™ is the leading provider of comprehensive enterprise class Integrated SOA Governance solutions. It is the largest specialist vendor of SOA lifecycle management, registry/repository, security, mediation and management solutions, and the...
Digital Evolution    
Determine Software     Lendx    
Determine Software     capitalinfo.net    
Voltage Security Inc. VoltageLogo.gif
Voltage Security, Inc., an enterprise security company, is the global leader in information encryption. Voltage solutions, based on next generation cryptography, provide encryption that just works for protecting valuable, regulated and...
IdentiCrypt    
Vuze, Inc. Header_vuze_web.jpg
Vuze is the world's most popular entertainment platform for high-res digital content: video, music, and games. With an installed base of 11 million unique client downloads in its first nine months, more than 500,000 new viewers joining per week and...
Azureus, Inc.    
DevZuz DevZuz-logo.jpg
DevZuz's mission is to redefine the economics of enterprise application development, by accelerating product life cycles and decreasing time to market, through the adoption of the leading technologies and development practices of today's open...
SImula Labs    
Initiate Systems Initiate.gif
Initiate Systems enables you to strategically leverage and share critical data assets. Our master data management (MDM) software and experience as an information exchange leader provide complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across...
Madison Information Technologies 1995  
GAZ GAZ logo
GAZ (RTS:GAZA) or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod), translated as Gorky Automobile Plant (Russian: ГАЗ or Го́рьковский автомоби́льный заво́д), started in 1929 as NNAZ, a cooperation between Ford and the Soviet Union. In May 1929...
NNAZ    
HLTH Corporation Emdeon_BS_logo_small.gif
Emdeon delivers professional and economical automated billing and document mail services for the diverse commercial markets. Emdeon's mission  is to provide revenue cycle and clinical communication solutions that simplify the business and...
WebMD    
Unipier Unipier.jpg
Unipier Ltd. (formerly Cash-U), a pioneer in Intelligent Policy Management, is a leading provider of innovative software products that empower mobile service providers to rapidly create, control, integrate and deliver a wide range of...
Cash-U 2004  
TiVo TiVo's logo, a smiling television set
TiVo, Inc. (NASDAQ: TiVo) was incorporated on August 4, 1997 as "Teleworld, Inc." by Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay, veterans of Silicon Graphics and Time Warner's Full Service Network digital video system. Originally intending to create a home...
Teleworld, Inc Aug 1997  
PayPal PayPal corporate logo
PayPal promotes themselves as "the safer, easier way to pay and get paid online." The service allows anyone to pay in many ways, including through credit cards, bank accounts, buyer credit or account balances, without sharing financial information.
Confinity Inc.    
Wikia, Inc. Wikia, Inc.
Wikia  is a selective wiki hosting service (or wiki farm) operated by Wikia, Inc., a for-profit company founded in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. Wikia particularly targets communities, both those established...
Wikicities 2004 Mar 27, 2006
Stardoll Stardoll.gif
Stardoll is a paper doll dress-up community site for everyone who enjoys fun, fashion and making friends. At Stardoll you can create your own doll or choose from our always growing collection of celebrity dolls and dress them up in our virtual...
Paperdoll Heaven    
LSI Corporation Lsi.jpg
LSI Corporation, formerly LSI Logic Corporation, designs, develops and markets complex, high-performance semiconductors and storage systems. The Company is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable...
LSI Logic Corporation    
Myvu Myvu_logo.gif
Myvu Corporation is the leading supplier of eyewear viewers for the portable electronics industry. Medical and military applications served as the company's fundamental technology drivers, which provided the discipline for quality, adjustment,...
MicroOptical Corporation    
Active Network Header_activenetwork_logo.gif
The Active Network, Inc., got its official start in 1998 as a Web portal with regional grassroots sports information to recreational athletes, though some of the company's software development began as early as 1976 under Class Software, Ltd. Within...
Class Software, Ltd    
Data Robotics Datarobotics.jpg
The task of managing storage is quickly becoming a concern for anybody who has digital assets they hope to keep forever. Data Robotics has developed new storage technologies, and products, based on storage virtualization and cybernetics to handle...
Trusted Data    
TechProcess Techprocess.jpg
TechProcess Solutions Limited (TPSL), (formerly known as BillJunction Payments Limited), was setup in the year 2000 to provide Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment services. TechProcess Solutions Ltd. is a network company of ICICI Venture which...
BillJunction Payments Limited    
BeFunky Topheader.gif
BeFunky provides users with online tools for creating digital online representations of themselves for use on their blogs, websites, and social networks like MySpace. Their online tools Uvatar and Cartoonizer makes it ridiculously easy for you to...
IAmCartoon    
Mesmo TV Mesmo_logo.gif
"Mesmo TV" (formerly called TV Show Trivia) is the largest social TV application and community on the facebook Platform. On Mesmo TV you can play TV trivia, discuss your favorite shows and share your favorite characters and quotes with your facebook...
TV Show Trivia    
NoblePeak Vision Noble_with_tagline.gif
NoblePeak Vision produces camera core and imager products with sensitivity in the visible to SWIR (short wave infrared) spectrum, providing breakthrough night vision performance with applications in the security, transportation and defense markets. ...
Noble Devices Technologies Mar 2007  
Buzzwire LogoHeadBG.png
Buzzwire, Inc. operates as a media services company that enables users to create and receive audio and/or audiovisual content on wireless devices. It engages in the streaming of Internet content, including audio, video, and live radio to mobile...
4th Medi, Inc    
MobiTV, Inc. Logo_inside.gif
MobiTV, Inc.  is the leading provider and platform for content delivery over mobile and broadband networks; delivering live television, premium and primetime programming, video-on-demand, satellite...
Idetic, Inc.    
Connetics Connetics.gif
Connetics Corporation develops and markets therapeutics for the dermatology market, selling two products, Luxiq and OLUX, both of which use the company's proprietary foam delivery system. Luxiq, the company's first dermatology product, and OLUX...
Connective Therapeutics, Inc    
WeFi Wefi_beta_logo.jpg
WeFi makes WiFi easy. Their software makes it easy for you to find and connect to WiFi networks. With WeFi, each user contributes to the rest of the community by using the client and discovering more networks around. All this is reported to a...
Contigo Mobility    
Mozy  
Mozy is an online backup tool created by Berkeley Data Systems, of Pleasant Grove, Utah. The Mozy online backup service allows both Windows and Mac users to back up their data to an off-site server. While originally released as a product for end...
Berkeley Data Systems    
eGroups  
eGroups.com was an email list management web site. The site allowed users to create their own mailing lists and allowed others to sign up for membership on the list. The web site provided archives of the messages as well as list management...
Makelist.com    
Convex Computer Convex.jpg
Convex Computer Corporation is a leading supplier of high-performance computing technologies. The company markets its products primarily to scientific, engineering and technical users for a wide variety of applications including data management....
Parsec    
Overture     Goto.com    
Sugar, Inc. Sugar.gif
Sugar Publishing is a San Francisco based company which publishes a network of blogs aimed at women's interests including Fashion (fabsugar.com), Pop culture (popsugar.com), and cooking (yumsugar.com) among others.
Sugar Publishing    
Intuity Medical Intuity_left.gif
Intuity Medical was founded with the mission of simplifying diabetes management and ultimately improving the everyday lives of people with diabetes. They're currently developing a glucose monitoring system designed to make testing easier and much...
Rosedale Medical    
AutoTrader.com Home_autotrader_logo.gif
AutoTrader.com was created in 1997 and headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., and is the Internet's leading auto classifieds marketplace and consumer information website. AutoTrader.com aggregates in a single location more than 3 million vehicle listings...
AutoConnect.com 1997  
Techmeme Techmeme.png
Techmeme is a site that constantly scrapes news sites and blogs and compiles a continually updated list of links to the most popular tech news of the day. It is an entirely automated web service that looks at what bloggers are talking about,...
tech.memeorandum    
Green Dot Corporation Greendot.gif
Green Dot is the largest issuer of reloadable prepaid VISA and MasterCard debit cards. Green Dot created reloadable prepaid cards to serve the more than 50 million Americans who can't get or don't want credit cards. They can load and reload their...
Next Estate Communications, Inc.    
Crackle Crackle_logo_header.gif
Crackle, Inc., a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company formerly known as Grouper, is a multi-platform video entertainment network and studio that distributes the hottest emerging talent on the web and beyond. Crackle's addictive channels and...
Grouper    
Deezer.com 2316_deezer logo.png
Deezer.com formerly known as Blogmusik.net is a free Internet-based music-on-demand service. Deezer offers on-demand ad-supported streaming in a similar manner to imeem.com, with a portion of the ad revenue being delivered to content partners
Blogmusik.net    
EveryZing Everyzing.jpg
Formerly PodZinger until May, 2007, Everyzing is a Cambridge, MA based audio and video search engine that leverages speech recognition technology developed by its parent company, BBN Technologies, to look for content inside audio and video files...
PodZinger May 2007  
Gracenote Grace.jpg
Gracenote is an established mobile technology leader in the global market, powering mobile music services from the world's leading handset manufacturers, including Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The company's Mobile MusicID is built upon the...
CDDB    
Magellan Navigation Magellan_Logo_WHT.jpg
Magellan Navigation, Inc. is a producer of consumer and professional grade global positioning system receivers. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with European sales and engineering in Carquefou, France, Magellan also produces aftermarket...
August Thales Navigation    
Stion Corporation Stion.jpg
Founded in 2006, Stion is a solar photovolatics company based in Menlo Park, CA which is developing high-efficiency thin-film modules using proprietary materials.  Stion's goal is to minimize the total installed system cost of solar electricity...
NStructures    
Social Project, Inc. Logo1.gif
Based in Santa Monica, TagWorld is an online ecosystem that provides the most comprehensive and tightly integrated set of publishing, communication and networking features to support and enable the social web. Its cross platform functionality...
Tagworld.com    
Fortum Fortum HQ
Fortum Oyj is a Finnish publicly listed energy company, which focuses on the Nordic and Baltic countries, Poland and the north-west of Russia. After acquisition of Russian energy company TGC-11 in year 2008, Western Siberia has become an important...
Neste/IVO    
ElbilNorge AS     Kollega Bil    
eMusic eMusic
eMusic is the world’s largest retailer of independent music and the world’s second-largest digital music retailer overall, offering more than 2 million tracks from more than 13.000 independent labels spanning every genre of music. A subscription...
GoodNoise 1998  
Harris Interactive Inc. Harris.jpg
Harris Interactive (NASDAQ: HPOL) is an American market research company that specializes in public opinion research using both telephone and online surveys. The company is the product of a 1996 merger between the Gordon S. Black Company and...
Gordon S. Black Corporation 1975  
Harris Interactive Inc. Harris.jpg
Harris Interactive (NASDAQ: HPOL) is an American market research company that specializes in public opinion research using both telephone and online surveys. The company is the product of a 1996 merger between the Gordon S. Black Company and...
Harris Black International Ltd. 1997  
Eventful 387_eventfullogo.png
Eventful is the leading events website which enables its community of users to discover, promote, share and create events. Eventful’s community of users select from nearly 4 million events taking place in local markets throughout the world, from...
EVDB    
Untangle Untangle_company_logo
Untangle was founded with the vision of untangling the complexities of technology, initially targeting network security and control for small and mid-size businesses. The company follows Open Source development practices to create better code and...
Metavize    
GroupSystems GSLogo.gif
Since 1986, GroupSystems Corporation has transformed mundane group meetings into innovative, productive, breakthrough interactive sessions that realize the promise of Group Intelligence. Group Intelligence taps the collective wisdom of a group for...
Ventana    
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