Deal Radar 2010: Layer 7 Technologies, Washington, DC

In the past year, adoption of Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) has accelerated with the advent of cloud computing, which uses these technologies to programmatically connect applications and infrastructures between the cloud and the enterprise. Layer 7 Technologies provides security and networking solutions for connecting applications across the extended enterprise and cloud. Its products

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Deal Radar 2010: Demandbase

From virtual trade shows and downloadable white papers to advanced Web analytics, approaches to B2B online marketing have evolved over the past decade to include products that better track and measure the effect of B2B campaigns and target customers more precisely. Industry observers say that in 2010, there will be a decided shift toward social

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Deal Radar 2010: Webyog

By guest author Shailesh Otari Today’s Deal Radar goes back to India, to a Bangalore-based product company called Webyog. Webyog is a leader in GUI and monitoring tools for MySQL databases. Its flagship product, SQLyog, is a graphical environment for MySQL. The company also provides MySQL monitoring and advisory tools called MONyog for MySQL DBAs.

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Deal Radar 2010: Urban Green Energy

Urban Green Energy (UGE) is a manufacturer of wind turbines and related products such as wind- and solar-powered street lamps. The company is a player in the “small wind” market, which includes turbines with rated capacity of up to 100 kilowatts. Such turbines are used from northern Canada to Antarctica for a variety of on-grid

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Deal Radar 2010: PressOK Entertainment

In 2008, as readers will recall, the field of mobile games publishing underwent a dramatic change following the launch of the iPhone and its App Store, which disrupted the relationships between large, entrenched publishers and mobile operators and OEMs. Since that time, operators have launched their own versions app store, opening up their platforms to

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Deal Radar 2010: MaxiScale

MaxiScale, a cloud-scale file serving and storage platform provider, was founded in 2007 by Gianluca Rattazzi and Francesco Lacapra. At that time, major cloud computing and Web companies were transitioning away from standard enterprise storage platforms to commodity hardware and smart software.

Deal Radar 2010: Firm58, Chicago, Illinois

Firm58 provides financial management software to capital markets firms. The company’s SaaS-based platform is designed to help clients better manage post-trade processes such as billing, profitability reporting, client commission agreements, and soft dollar programs, thus increasing revenue and operational efficiency and lowering costs.

Deal Radar 2010: 99designs, Australia

99designs is a marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design. The company runs contests through which clients submit design briefs to the site along with how much they want to pay. Designers registered with 99designs submit their entries, and the client chooses which design they want and pays the winning designer. This approach has proved popular among

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