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Liquidia Technologies Receives $3 Million in Funding
Liquidia Technologies announced it will receive approximately $3 million in funding from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to further develop and scale‐up the company’s PRINT manufacturing process.12/17/2009 - Liquidia.com

SimpleTuition Acquires TuitionCoach
SimpleTuition, Inc., the destination for personalized student loan research and comparison, has acquired TuitionCoach, the leading website for personalized college financial guidance. Since its launch, SimpleTuition has helped millions of college-bound students research and better understand...12/2/2009 - SimpleTuition.com

everRun Software Named 2009 Gold Medal Winner by Windows IT Pro Magazine
Marathon Technologies announced that everRun VM was named a gold medal winner in the “2009 Editor’s Best Awards” in the Best High Availability/Disaster Recovery category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro magazine. 12/2/2009 - Marathontechnologies.com

Suniva® Solar Cell Technology Powers India’s First Large-Scale Solar Project
Suniva®, Inc. announced the completion of its collaborative project with Titan Energy Systems Ltd. to create India’s first large-scale project in Jamuria, West Bengal. Suniva’s cells power the 1MW solar electric power plant which is expected to expand an additional 250kW early next year.11/24/2009 - Suniva.com

James Cash, Jr., Ph.D., Joins Veracode Board of Directors
Veracode Inc., provider of cloud-based application risk management services platform, announced that James Cash, Jr., Ph.D., Emeritus James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University Business School, was named to its board of directors. 11/16/2009 - Veracode.com

Marathon Technologies Named Tech Awards Circle Winner
Marathon Technologies, the award-winning provider of fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual servers, announced that is has been selected as a winner of the Tech Awards Circle, with everRun 2G taking Bronze in the “Best Midrange Software” category.11/10/2009 - Marathontechnologies.com

Zeugma’s SmartBoost App Selected as a Finalist for Telco TV's Vision Awards
Zeugma Systems announced that its SmartBoost application has been named a finalist for the “Innovation in Broadband Networks” category of TelcoTV’s annual Vision Awards. This prestigious nomination recognizes groundbreaking technologies that benefit both broadband operators and their customers. 11/5/2009 - Zeugmasystems.com

Security Innovation and Veracode Partner to Provide Security Training
Security Innovation, provider of secure software lifecycle management solutions and Veracode, provider of cloud-based Application Risk Management Platform, today announced a partnership to expand Veracode’s SecurityReview service with additional eLearning content from Security Innovation. 11/3/2009 - Veracode.com

Suniva and FLS Energy Target Southeast U.S. with High-Performance U.S. Solar Farm
Suniva, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon solar cells and modules, and FLS Energy, a North Carolina-based solar energy generation company, announced they will integrate Suniva’s high-power, solar modules in a series of installations in the southeastern U.S. 10/27/2009 - Suniva.com

Jitterbug LiveNurse(TM) Wins Best Mobile Consumer Application Award
At an October 8 ceremony at International CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2009®, GreatCall, Inc., creators of the Jitterbug cell phone and service, received the CTIA Hot for the Holiday's "Hottest Mobile Consumer Application" award for their Jitterbug LiveNurse™ service. 10/27/2009 - Thefreelibrary.com

nCircle Expands Patent Portfolio
nCircle announced the award by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of their sixth patent, affirming nCircle's position as a leading innovator in the field of network security. nCircle's patent portfolio covers a breadth of security techniques representing the company's continuing innovation...10/23/2009 - nCircle.com

How to Reduce System Downtime by 70 Percent without Spending a Dime
Marathon Technologies, the award-winning provider of fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual servers, announced a new on-demand webinar and white paper to help organizations of all sizes dramatically reduce system downtime without additional resource or technology investments.10/19/2009 - Marathontechnologies.com

Mintera and Nokia Siemens Networks Announce Joint 40 Gbps Deployment
Mintera Corporation, a high performance optical transport systems solutions provider, and Nokia Siemens Networks announced that Nokia Siemens Network’s updated hiT 7300 transport product now incorporates Mintera’s MI 4000XM Adaptive-DPSK module, which is in full deployment supporting 40 Gbps services. 10/19/2009 - Mintera.com

GlassHouse Technologies Acquires Systems Group Integration to Broaden Virtualisation Offerings
GlassHouse Technologies, a global provider of independent IT infrastructure consulting services, announced it has acquired virtualisation infrastructure consulting company, Systems Group Integration (SGI). The acquisition broadens GlassHouse's existing virtualisation capabilities...9/29/2009 - Glasshouse.com

GameLogic Announces New Tournament Poker System, Poker Play™
GameLogic, Inc., a provider of interactive marketing services for the U.S. regulated gaming industry, today announced its newest product, Poker Play, a tournament-based poker system specifically developed for regulated U.S. casino and lottery operators. 9/23/2009 - Gamelogic.com

Brainshark Launches myBrainshark Web Site
Brainshark has, for the first time, made its award-winning technology available at no cost – through a unique and powerful Web site that enables anyone with Internet access to harness the benefits of voice-enriched, on-demand presentations.9/21/2009 - Brainshark.com

Vormetric Achieves Record Breaking Sales and Profitability
Vormetric, Inc., a provider of data security management and encryption solutions, announced that it has set multiple records for bookings, revenue and profit for the second quarter of 2009. The Company’s strong performance is attributed to rapid growth in the global encryption market… 9/15/2009 - Vormetric.com

Cadent Closes $15 Million Funding Round
Cadent, a provider of 3-D digital solutions for the orthodontic and dental industries, announced the completion of a $15 million round of financing. This financing was led by new investor Fortissimo Capital and included participation from current investors in the company. 8/24/2009 - Cadentinc.com

Liquidia Raises $7M in Series C Funding Round
Liquidia, a Morrisville, N.C.-based developer of fluoro-polymer materials for the life sciences and advanced materials market, has raised $7 million in Series C funding. Canaan Partners led the deal, and was joined by Pappas Ventures and return backers New Enterprise Associates and Firelake Capital. 8/3/2009 - Masshightech.com

Suniva Raises $75M in Series C Funding Round
Suniva Inc., announced the completion of a $75 million Series C financing round, led by Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm. Also participating in the round were APEX Venture Partners and returning investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA), HIG Ventures and Advanced Equities. 7/27/2009 - Suniva.com

Veracode Announces First Solution to Secure Mobile Applications
Veracode Inc., announced expansion of its SecurityReview® cloud-based subscription service to support mobile applications. With more than 100,000 mobile applications already in the market and millions of mobile users accessing critical business data, the security risk posed by these applications is staggering. 6/30/2009 - Veracode.com

Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent Receives Veracode's Highest Possible "A" Security Rating
Sendmail, Inc., provider of reliable and secure email and messaging infrastructures, and Veracode Inc., announced that Sendmail’s open source Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) has received Veracode's highest possible rating - A - for a non-web based application. 6/24/2009 - Veracode.com

SimpleTuition Launches Sister Company, MortgageReport.com
For many homeowners, the daily news about the housing crisis is increasingly worrisome. The recent rise in interest rates has sent even more homeowners careening, and those with ARMs are acutely aware that their home financing situation might become unstable. 6/19/2009 - SimpleTuition.com

Veracode Named to the 2009 SD Times 100 List
Veracode Inc., announced that it has been named to the prestigious 2009 SD Times 100. The list recognizes companies, organizations and individuals that most broadly "set the agenda" for software development managers, developers, and the industry through leadership and innovation. 6/18/2009 - Veracode.com

GameLogic Announces PlayerVantage™ Interactive Marketing Platform
GameLogic, Inc., the provider of interactive marketing products and services for the gaming industry, today announced the release of PlayerVantage, the gaming industry's first turnkey platform for harnessing the power of the Internet to improve a casino or lottery's database marketing activities. 6/17/2009 - GameLogic.com

Marathon Wins Award for Bringing Fault-Tolerant, High Availability to Server Virtualization
Marathon Technologies announced that its everRun VM software was named a “Best of Show” winner at Interop Tokyo. everRun VM was selected by a jury of influential IT professionals after a rigorous examination. 6/17/2009 - Marathontechnologies.com

Enterprise Strategy Group Delivers Tips on Deploying Server Virtualization
Marathon Technologies today announced that a new research report from leading analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) identifies both the potential of server virtualization for enhanced business resiliency and the additional steps recommended to realize that potential. 6/8/2009 - Marathontechnologies.com

Pearl River Resort Selects GameLogic's New Internet Marketing Platform
GameLogic announced that Pearl River Resort Casino is using GameLogic's solutions at its Silver Star and Golden Moon Casinos to create effective marketing programs that attract new, qualified players while maximizing revenues from existing ones. GameLogic's newly released interactive marketing platform... 6/4/2009 - GameLogic.com

Veracode CEO Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year ® 2009 Award Finalist
Veracode announced CEO Matt Moynahan is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2009 Award in the New England region. The Ernst & Young LLP awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who demonstrate extraordinary success in the areas of innovation, financial performance... 5/28/2009 - Veracode.com

GameLogic Named a Top Emerging Technology Company
GameLogic, a provider of interactive marketing services for the gaming industry, announced that it has been selected as an AlwaysOn East 100 top company. The award is given to private, emerging technology companies that create new business opportunities in high-growth markets. 5/27/2009 - GameLogic.com

SignaCert and Veracode Announce First Solution for End-to-End Software Compliance
SignaCert, a provider of IT Compliance solutions based on whitelisting and Veracode, provider of cloud-based Application Risk Management Platform, announced a broad collaboration around their respective methods for code validation and security verification. 5/21/2009 - Veracode.com

Southern Craft Dental Lab Partners with Cadent
Southern Craft Dental Lab has announced a partnership with digital scanning company Cadent, to streamline the digital modeling process and produce crowns more quickly and efficiently. In recent years, Southern Craft has milled crowns for dental practices that use the Cadent iTeroTM digital scanning system...5/21/2009 - Accessnorthga.com

Veracode Honored with SC Magazine Excellence Award
Veracode announced today that it has won a major SC Magazine Excellence Award. Veracode’s SecurityReview®, the first comprehensive solution for managing application security risk delivered as a cloud-based service, was the winner in the Best Security Solution for Financial Services category. 4/29/2009 - Veracode.com

ISTO Technologies Announces FDA Approval to Initiate a Clinical Trial for NuQu™
ISTO Technologies announced today that it has received notification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowing the company to proceed with a Phase I clinical study for NuQu™, a cell-based injectable formulation of juvenile chondrocytes designed to regenerate cartilage...  4/28/2009 - Istotech.com

nCircle Announces Continued Revenue Growth, Profitability and Expansion
nCircle, the leader in automated security and compliance auditing solutions, announced revenue growth of 33% year over year for the quarter ending March 31, 2009. The results mark the company’s third consecutive quarter of profitability and kicks off the company’s eighth consecutive year of revenue growth.4/20/2009 - ncircle.com

Marathon Launches First System-Level Fault-Tolerant Software
Marathon Technologies today announced two new high availability software products, everRun® VM Lockstep for Citrix® XenServerTM and everRun 2G, that help bring fault-tolerant computing to the mainstream. Marathon's everRun is the industry’s first system-level fault-tolerant software solution...4/20/2009 - Marathontechnologies.com

Mintera Ships 1000th 40Gbps DWDM Adaptive-DPSK Module
Mintera Corporation, the leader in high performance optical transport systems, has shipped its 1000th 40 Gbps DWDM DPSK MSA transceiver module. Mintera’s MI 4000XM Adaptive-DPSK™ product delivers industry leading optical performance in a standard 300-pin package.3/23/2009 - Mintera.com

Brainshark Announces 2009 Sharkie Award Winners
Brainshark today announced the winners of the first annual Sharkie Awards. The awards recognize organizations and individuals that have demonstrated excellence in their use of Brainshark to deliver compelling sales, marketing, training and corporate communication presentations. 3/23/2009 - Brainshark.com

Zeugma Announces Series C Funding
Zeugma Systems, a supplier of open telecommunications solutions for broadband service providers, has closed $9 million in Series C funding. Investors include Granite Ventures, Ventures West, Vertex Venture Capital, GrowthWorks Capital Ltd., Yaletown Venture Partners, BC Advantage Funds, and GTD Capital.3/17/2009 - Zeugmasystems.com

SchoolNet Hits Grand Slam with Four CODiE Finalist Awards
Schoolnet today announced that it is a CODiE Award finalist in four categories: Best K-12 Enterprise Solution, Best Classroom Management Solution, Best Student Assessment Solution, and Best Social Networking Solution.3/13/2009 - Schoolnet.com

SchoolNet Merges with Campusware Provider of Leading Online Grade Book: GradeSpeed
SchoolNet announced a merger with Campusware™, the provider of GradeSpeed™, the leading web-based district grade book with attendance, scheduling, parent access and customizable online reports. GradeSpeed can be used as part of Campusware’s Student information system (SIS)... 2/23/2009 - Schoolnet.com

Veracode Positioned as Visionary in Magic Quadrant for Static Application Security Testing
Veracode, a leader in on-demand application security testing solutions, announced that leading research firm, Gartner, Inc., has placed Veracode in the "Visionary" quadrant of its "2009 Magic Quadrant for Static Application Security Testing." This achievement follows...2/19/2009 - Veracode.com

Zeugma Extends Smart Series Applications with SmartMeter
Zeugma Systems, a supplier of open telecommunications solutions for broadband service providers, today announced SmartMeter, a new addition to the Zeugma Smart Series of applications introduced last fall. Smart Series applications run within the Zeugma Open Application Sandbox (OAS)… 2/3/2009 - Zeugmasystems.com

Cadent Signs iTero Distribution Agreements
Cadent announced that the company has signed distribution agreements and began sales with Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), Benco Dental, Burkhart Dental, and Goetze Dental. Under the terms of the agreements, these partners will market iTero to more than 100,000 dental professionals...2/2/2009 - Reuters.com

GlassHouse Technologies Acquires CSSG
GlassHouse Technologies announced it has acquired CSSG, a Chicago-based security services consulting company. This acquisition extends GlassHouse’s offerings into data security services, including assessments, optimization and policy framework development.1/26/2009 - Glasshouse.com

SchoolNet Closes $13 Million Financing
SchoolNet, Inc., an education technology company that helps public school districts improve efficiency and increase academic achievement, today announced that it has completed a $13 million Series D financing led by The Carlyle Group, along with other returning investors including… 1/26/2009 - Prnewswire.com

SimpleTuition Raises $6mm in Series C Financing
SimpleTuition, Inc. has closed $6 million in Series C financing from Atlas Venture, Flybridge Capital Partners, and North Hill Ventures. The company plans to use the funding for continued development of its award-winning site, SimpleTuition.com, as well as for expansion of its innovative loan comparison service.1/14/2009 - SimpleTuition.com

Marathon and Microsoft Expand Relationship to Provide Fault Tolerant Computing
Microsoft and Marathon Technologies today announced a development and marketing agreement designed to address the fault tolerant and high-availability computing needs for business customers running Windows Server-based applications in enterprise information technology departments and datacenters. 1/9/2009 - Microsoft.com

Liquidia Technologies Announces Collaboration with Abbott
Liquidia Technologies announced that it has entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Abbott to develop PRINT® nanoparticles for the delivery of siRNA-based therapeutics. Liquidia’s PRINT technology offers the ability to fabricate nanoparticles of precisely defined size, shape, surface chemistry...1/7/2009 - Liquidia.com

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