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SEVEN Open Channel Named Most Innovative Mobile Traffic Management Solution
SEVEN announced it has received the 2011 RCR Wireless Innovation Award for Most Innovative Mobile Traffic Management Solution. In recent tests, SEVEN's Open Channel was shown to dramatically reduce levels of background smartphone data traffic by 66 percent for certain apps, such as Yahoo Email, and 44 percent across all apps supported by the software.10/11/2011 - Seven.com
Sportvision Form Partnership to Enhance Baseball Statistical Analysis
Sportvision, the leading innovator of digital sports content and broadcast enhancements, today announced a strategic partnership with SmartSports designed to revolutionize the analysis of player performance data at the amateur through collegiate level of baseball competition. This alliance combines SmartSports' patented technology system that provides quantitative metrics of athletic performance with Sportvision's successful baseball data capture applications, providing the ultimate in player performance analysis.8/25/2011 - Sportvision.com
Vormetric Completes Fiscal 2011 with Record Revenue and Profits
Vormetric announced record business results for its 2011 fiscal year. Vormetric more than doubled the number of systems protected and achieved its eighth consecutive quarter of operating profitability. The world’s leading retail, healthcare, semiconductor, high tech, outsourcers, governments and financial institutions, including seven of the Fortune 20, rely on Vormetric to protect their sensitive data and meet regulatory compliance requirements.5/4/2011 - Vormetric.com
Pearson to Acquire Schoolnet for $230 million
Pearson announced the acquisition of Schoolnet, a fast-growing and innovative education technology company that aligns assessment, curriculum and other services to help individualize instruction and improve teacher effectiveness. Schoolnet’s data-based solutions will complement Pearson products and services that help boost student achievement through diagnostic tools and tailored instruction. 4/26/2011 - Pearsoned.com
Align Technology Buying Cadent for $190 million
Align Technology Inc., which makes the Invisalign tooth-straightening system, said that it has agreed to buy dentistry services provider Cadent Holdings Inc. for $190 million in cash. In January, Align said it teamed up with Cadent to develop Invisalign software that will run on Cadent scanners. Align said buying Cadent will help streamline the Invisalign procedure for patients and orthodontists.3/29/2011 - Businessweek.com
Liquidia Receives Investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Liquidia Technologies announced the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has made a $10 million program-related investment in the company to support the development and commercialization of safer and more effective vaccines and therapeutics. This follows recent announcements of the first Liquidia clinical trial of its lead seasonal flu candidate (LIQ001) and a collaborative agreement with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI).3/4/2011 - Liquidia.com
SoloPower Recieves $197 Million DOE Loan Guarantee
SoloPower, a San Jose, California-based manufacturer of flexible thin film solar cells and modules, announced that it has received a conditional commitment from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office for a $197 million loan guarantee. The funds will support construction of a facility that is expected to produce approximately 400MW of thin film Photovoltaic (PV) modules annually.2/17/2011 - SoloPower.com
Vormetric Releases Data Security for Amazon Web Services
Vormetric announced Data Security for Amazon Web Services, allowing customers to leverage the cloud while maintaining governance and proven security for sensitive data. This solution extends Vormetric's combination of encryption, access control and audit to data in the Amazon Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering. Enterprises can meet regulatory compliance and data governance requirements with a single offering that applies persistent security policies to data in physical, virtual and cloud environments.
2/9/2011 - CT Review
Newark's 17th Street School Uses Schoolnet to Drive Student Achievement
By using Schoolnet data to monitor student progress and inform instruction, the 17th Street School in Newark, New Jersey has improved their test scores by an impressive 25%.1/26/2011 - abclocal.com
FolioDynamix Secures $16 MM Growth Equity Investment
FolioDynamix announced today a $16 million equity investment led by ABS Capital Partners, a growth equity firm based out of Baltimore, MD. Existing capital partners Edison Ventures, Cambrian, and Velocity Financial Group also participated in the capital raise.1/4/2011 - Foliodynamix.com