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deal radar 2011
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Contify, Delhi, India
Contify is a content aggregation and distribution company based in New Delhi, India that markets content obtained through its partnerships with 250 of India’s leading and niche publications. That content, more than 3,000 business news stories, is then distributed daily to clients in the form of global information databases such as Dow Jones Factiva, Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Bloomberg. The idea
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: BonitaSoft, Grenoble, France
Deal Radar revisits open source with Grenoble-based BonitaSoft. The company creates a functional open source business process management (BPM) solution that designs, simulates, and automates processes. The aim is to allow businesses to turn their processes into business applications. Bonita Open Solution is designed to be comprehensive and scalable BPM solution that includes three main
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: DisputeSuite, Tampa Bay, Florida
DisputeSuite develops niche technology and education services to assist credit repair companies in the management and growth of their business. These companies help consumers who notice an error on their report or whom want assistance in rebuilding or repairing their credit. DisputeSuite provides an interactive platform for professionals to communicate with consumers in a secure environment while
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: CapLinked, Manhattan Beach, California
My regular readers may be surprised to the see the subject of today’s 1M/1M Deal Radar. For the past three years, Deal Radar has been covering companies that have at least $1 million in annual revenue. It’s an important milestone that we take seriously. So why CapLinked, a pre-revenue company? Well, primarily because it’s a company
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: mopay, Palo Alto, California
According to Mashable, the global combined market for all types of mobile payments is expected to double from its current value to reach more than $600 billion by 2013. The mobile payment market for goods and services, excluding contactless near field communication (NFC) transactions and money transfers, is expected to exceed $300 billion globally by
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Spigit, Pleasanton, California
Regular readers will be familiar with The 1M/1M Deal Radar’s coverage of crowdsourcing through companies such as crowdSPRING, UserVoice, and the 1M/1M partner CrowdEngineering. Today’s post looks at a different kind of idea management: innovation management. Pleasanton, California–based Spigit makes social business collaboration and innovation management software. This software is designed to tap into the collective
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: VirtuOz, Emeryville, California, And Paris, France
The February 2011 victory of IBM’s Watson, a “question-answer computer,” over two human competitors in the popular trivia game show “Jeopardy” was a milestone in artificial intelligence that caught the attention of scientists and the general public alike. Today’s Deal Radar company, VirtuOz, points to Watson’s humanlike reasoning capabilities as a testament to the viability of
1Mby1M Deal Radar: Digital Photo Academy, New York City
Typical studies of of the economic contribution of the arts tend to focus on the income jobs in the field produce. This approach is wrong, says Financial Times columnist John Kay, and reveals only a poor understanding of wealth creation. As funding for libraries, museums, and public school programs in art and music is cut,
