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deal radar 2009
Deal Radar 2009: The Rubicon Project
The Rubicon Project was born as a solution to one of the largest problems publishers face today: monetizing ad space. Approximately 80% of this space goes unsold across a fast-growing number of global ad networks. The company’s mission is to automate the $65 billion global online advertising industry with the goal of making advertising an effortless
Deal Radar 2009: IntraLinks
In 1996, IntraLinks founders Arthur Sculley, John Muldoon and Mark Adams, noticed that the loan syndication market depended on an informal network of couriers, fax machines and email to distribute critical documents. They realized that the process was slow, cumbersome and prone to security problems.
Deal Radar 2009: Edutainment Resources, Inc.
Even as companies such as Google, Microsoft and Nokia develop technologies to “write the future of the web” in Kannada, Russian and Nepali, and scholars question whether English will “retain its pre-eminence”, each year millions of people begin to study what is still the official language of organizations as diverse as the European Central Bank,
Deal Radar 2009: WaveMark
A recent widely-cited poll by PriceWaterhouseCoopers says that three-quarters of Americans want healthcare reform in President Obama’s first term. Such reform must reduce the cost of administering care, and many industry observers agree one way to achieve this is through higher levels of computerization. Over the past two months, Deal Radar has featured several companies
Deal Radar 2009: eMeter
It appears that President Obama’s Energy Policy will include substantial spending on smart grid technologies. Let’s look at one. San Mateo, CA-based eMeter provides enterprise scale energy information management solutions for the utility mass market with the goal of saving electricity by educating customers on efficient electricity usage. Its flexible SOA-compliant architecture integrates easily into
Deal Radar 2009: Sungevity
Sungevity uses the Internet to offer its customers an easy and affordable way to buy and install solar rooftop panels. Customers only need to provide their address and some information about their current electricity usage and bill. In less than a day, with the use of satellite data, Sungevity studies the possibilities and comes back
Deal Radar 2009: EnergyWare
I last discussed ecological data centers in my interview with Rackable Systems CEO Mark Barrenchea, who is changing the physical structure of servers and data centers in order to cut energy use. Today’s Deal Radar highlights a different aspect of green computing, processor optimization, with a discussion of Blacksburg, Virginia-based EnergyWare. This early stage pre-revenue
Deal Radar 2009: DecisionView
DecisionView is a leading provider of web-based software solutions for the life sciences industry. These solutions help companies improve their clinical trial performance by making informed decisions through predictive analytics and scenario simulation and modeling.
