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About.com
provides a Web guide to online resources covering over 600 topics. Each About.com GuideSiteTM is devoted to a single topic and contains site reviews, feature articles and discussion areas. Each site is created by a qualified Guide, a company-certified subject specialist responsible for helping users get the most from their time online. Guides host live chats, recommend books, keep abreast of relevant news, update links, publish newsletters, and respond to email.
Arroyo Video Solutions
offers video operators a unique, network-centric on demand architecture that uses open-standard hardware platforms. Arroyo's Video Accelerator technology improves improves performance ten-fold over other leading VOD (Video-On-Demand) products and is the first solution to deliver "Always ON" nonstop VOD. Other investors in the company include DCM-Doll Capital Management, Foundation Capital, Matrix Partners, and Time Warner Investments. The company was sold to Cisco in September 2006.
Broadbus Technologies
develops fully scalable, next-generation VOD server systems designed to solve streaming scale, space, power consumption, and live ingest issues for cable system operators deploying advanced video services such as Video-on-Demand (VOD), Subscription VOD, and ultimately, full-scale Television-on-Demand or TOD. Other investors in the company include Battery Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Infineon Ventures, and Star Ventures. The company was sold to Motorola in September 2006.
Counterpane Internet Security
is the leader in Managed Security Services, providing global enterprises with the highest level of corporate IT asset protection in the industry. The Counterpane Enterprise Protection Suite is a sophisticated suite of scanning, management and consulting services based on its Managed Security Monitoring service. Combined with its renowned security analysts and global visibility, Counterpane simplifies security by providing a single source for protection and compliance. Other investors in the company include Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Dell Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, and Morgan Stanley Venture Partners. The company was sold to British Telecom in October 2006.
Expand Networks
is an Israeli-based provider of caching solutions that improve the bandwidth utilization and throughput of data communications networks. Expand's products enable customers with increasing data requirements to reduce the response time for corporate intranet and Internet traffic, improve a network's effective capacity, and delay the need for higher bandwidth lines. The company's product offering is a combination of proprietary caching hardware and software that is typically placed at multiple points in a corporate or private network. Customers include enterprises with wide area networks (WANs), private line networks, virtual private networks (VPNs), and intranets in addition to Internet service providers (ISPs).
Half.com
is a person-to-person e-commerce site that offers shoppers an online retail environment to browse, search and shop for previously-owned books, music, movies and video games, and significantly streamlines the process for sellers to list items for sale. Unlike auctions, where the selling price is based on bidding, pricing for items at Half.com is based on half the price of major Internet retailers or the suggested list price of the same item new. The company's site had its preview launch in December 1999. The company was sold to eBay in July 2000.
Internet Capital Group
is an Internet holding company engaged in managing and operating a network of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce companies. This focus enables ICG to capitalize rapidly on new opportunities and to attract and develop leading B2B e-commerce companies. As of June 30, 1999, ICG owned interests in 35 B2B e-commerce companies. Comcast first made an investment in Internet Capital Group in March 1996. The company has been an active partner in sourcing deals and managing co-investments (e.g., Linkshare, PrivaSeek, Who?Vision). The company completed its initial public offering in August 1999 and trades on Nasdaq under the symbol ICGE.
LinkShare, Inc.
provider of technology solutions to track, manage, and analyze the performance of sales, marketing, and business development initiatives. LinkShare empowers clients with the ability to collaborate with partners online and develop cost-efficient pay-for-performance campaigns. LinkShare was purchased by the U.S. division of Rakuten, Inc.,the number one portal in Japan for shopping, on-line finance and travel, and the seventh largest Internet company in the world.
Lightspan Partnership
creates and sells educational content targeted primarily at the K-8 market. The company's core products are: Lightspan Achieve Now, a comprehensive curriculum program that is proven to raise test scores; Lightspan PageOne, a free tool for educators to assemble Web resources into a customized class resource page; Lightspan Network, the leading resource for curriculum-aligned content on the Internet; and Lightspan Local Connect, a convenient tool for schools to build an online community including teachers, students and parents. In September 2003, Lightspan merged with Plato Learning, Inc.
MetaTV
is a global provider of software that enables the automation and optimization of interactive TV (iTV) applications, services and content. The Company's technology platform enables network operators and content providers to deliver innovative, adaptive and compelling iTV offerings to subscribers. The MetaTV Platform™ features iTV application and services management combined with commerce and advertising solutions that are optimized for each network operators' specific environment and infrastructure. By leveraging existing digital, video-on-demand and Internet infrastructure, MetaTV provides a low-risk and cost-effective way to bring to market revenue-generating iTV offerings. MetaTV was acquired by TV Works, a joint venture of Comcast Corp. and Cox Communications.
NDS
is a leading supplier of conditional access software systems and interactive applications to digital pay-television broadcasters and set-top box manufacturers, offering open and flexible software solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to television sets and personal computers. NDS pioneered the use of secure smart-card based solutions inside TV set-top boxes and is extending the application of its solutions to secure distribution of data over the Internet and other data networks. NDS trades on Nasdaq under the symbol NNDS.
Nuera Communications
is a leading provider of Voice over IP carrier-grade gateways and softswitches for broadband network operators, long-distance operators, local-exchange carriers, and corporations. The Company's ORCA (Open, Reliable Communications Architecture) enables carriers to migrate from circuit-switched networks to packet-based networks. Nuera recently has deployed product into Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, Charter, Shaw, Rogers, Eastern Broadband Telecom (Taiwan), StarHub (Singapore), and Liberty Media (Puerto Rico). Other investors include Argo Global Capital, Bay Partners, Cox Communications, Deutsche Bank Capital Partners, Gleacher & Co., Goldman Sachs, HarbourVest Partners, J.F. Shea, SAIC Venture Capital, and Sandler Capital Management. The Company was sold to Israeli based AudioCodes in July 2006.
Quantum Bridge Communications
is pioneering the development of Optical Access Networking equipment that will enable telecommunications service providers to cost-effectively deliver high-bandwidth services to business customers. Optical Access Networking is a breakthrough technology which empowers service providers with the scaleable, high-speed network required for the cost-effective delivery of new business services. Motorola acquired Quantum Bridge in April 2004.
ReplayTV
was founded in 1997 with the dream of creating next-generation products that will shape the future of television. ReplayTV, Inc.'s first product is a personal television product that gives consumers the ability to watch all their favorite shows on demand. ReplayTV was acquired by SONICblue in August 2001.
Soundview Technology Group
sets its mission to be the premiere Internet investment banking firm focused on the offering and selling of securities through the Internet to a community of online individual investors. The company opened for business in September 1997 and is a registered broker-dealer and a member of the NASD and SIPC. The company provides public underwriting and financial advisory services, makes private equity investments, and will offer a digital trading facility that will permit members to trade of Nasdaq-listed shares directly with other investors. The company's stock trades on Nasdaq under the symbol WITC.
SkyStream Networks
is a leading developer of video and data networking solutions for service providers, large enterprises, and government agencies. SkyStream's products enable customers to deliver advanced video and data services (such as multichannel television, interactive distance learning, streaming video and data, and backhaul services) to enterprises and consumers. All of SkyStream's products leverage the company's core competencies of video and IP networking expertise. Founded in 1996 with headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA, SkyStream has a growing customer base of more than 150 service provider and enterprise customers. Other investors in SkyStream include 3i Group, Mayfield Fund, Norwest Venture Partners, IVP, Amerindo Investment Advisors, AOL Time Warner Ventures, and Shaw Communications. SkyStream was acquired by TandbergTV in March 2006.
TiVo
offers Personal Television Service that lets the viewer control what, when and how to watch TV in ways never before possible. The viewer can pause, rewind, and render in slow-motion live TV and never miss the action. Strategic investors include NBC, The Walt Disney Company, CBS, Sony Corporation of America, and Philips Electronics. The company trades on NASDAQ under the symbol TIVO.
VeriSign
is the leading provider of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificate solutions used by enterprises, Web sites, and consumers to conduct secure communications and transactions over the Internet and private networks. VeriSign's integrated PKI platform -- VeriSign OnSite -- is available through VeriSign regional account representatives, resellers, and global affiliates or directly through the Web site. Secure Server IDs and Personal Digital IDs are available directly through the Web site. VeriSign trades on Nasdaq under the symbol VRSN.
VerticalNet
is the first new media company to focus exclusively on the needs of industrial audiences. Reaching engineers, scientists and manufacturers around the world, VerticalNet individually-branded, industry-specific sites are among the leading online destinations for professionals from many sectors. VerticalNet provides its audience a variety of services including superior editorial content, an online marketplace and a career center. The company trades on Nasdaq under the symbol VERT.
V-SPAN
is a global leader in the management of virtual conferences -- videoconferences, web conferences, data conferences, and tele-conferences. The company provides network management, gateways, coordination, and connectivity to create flawless conference connections. V-SPAN's clients include more than 1,000 Fortune 500 multinationals, educational institutions, government agencies, international and U.S.-based carriers, and equipment manufacturers that need enhanced "virtual meeting services." The company was sold to Wireone, Inc. in October 2004, and continues to operate under the Wireone name.