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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Groupon
By Sramana Mitra and Melanie Blake Deal Radar ends 2010 with a company that has made as many headlines this year as it has dollars – Groupon. Just a few weeks after turning down a $6 billion offer from Google, Groupon plans to raise $1 billion in private funds. First reported on VC Experts and
The 1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: AppMakr.com and PointAbout, Washington, DC
As Deal Radar draws to a close for 2010, it’s fitting that one of final companies to be covered has its finger on the pulse of many of the decade’s important tech trends. AppMakr.com is a “no coding” platform that enables non-developers to create iPhone (and soon Android and Windows) mobile apps for their brands,
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Deal Current, San Diego, California
The launch of Groupon just over two years ago sparked a remarkable, if sometimes overhyped, trend for group buying. Now, even companies such as Yahoo! want some of the action. What’s more, the group-buying model is changing and evolving as players such as Deal Current become part of the mix. Deal Current is a white-label
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: PINK, Atlanta, Georgia
Whether they are presented as generally satisfied and happy (for example, June Cleaver in the early sitcom Leave It to Beaver) or as wanting something more (Betty Parker in the 1998 movie Pleasantville or Betty Draper in the AMC series Mad Men), the stereotypical image of a 1950s and early 1960s woman, often a housewife, has
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: BeyondTrust, Los Angeles, California
Today Deal Radar goes deep into the IT machine to discuss an often overlooked topic: privileged accounts. Many readers will remember the highly publicized hacking of Google last January, which is again in the news following the release of the U.S. diplomatic cables. Let’s take a step back, says BeyondTrust, which creates products for privileged
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Smart Guard Systems, Ahmedabad, India
Deal Radar’s NASSCOM 2010 Emerge 50 coverage continues with Smart Guard Systems, an Ahmedabad, India–based company that has developed high-definition Internet protocol (IP) surveillance cameras with triple codecs (devices or programs capable of coding and decoding digital streams or signals) using H.264, MPEG4, and MJPEG technologies. It is the subsidiary of eInfochips Ltd, which provides
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: SaleSpider, Toronto, Canada
Digital media company SaleSpider owns a 720,000-member social network for small and medium businesses (SMBs) accessed through the site, Facebook, and a mobile app, and an ad network for branding and direct response campaigns. The company focuses on helping small business owners make new contacts, maintain their networks, and find sales leads – a rapidly
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Quickoffice, Plano, Texas
While it may not be practical for most companies to shift entirely to smartphones run their business, the improvements in smartphones and apps over the past few years has been only good news for companies such as Quickoffice, a maker of mobile and productivity products and services. Pre-installed on hundreds of millions of devices worldwide
