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Deal Radar
The Deal Radar 2010: LivingSocial ,Washington, DC
LivingSocial is an online community that connects more than 85 million people and powers group buying through Deals, its social commerce program. Through Deals, LivingSocial users and their friends can save 50%–70% or more each day on restaurants, spas, sporting events, hotels, and other local attractions in major cities. The company is also the creator of the Facebook application Visual Bookshelf and the flagship LivingSocial, a comprehensive place on the Web for people to engage with others around topics such as entertainment, food, fashion, and technology. >>>
Deal Radar 2010: Appirio
Appirio is a cloud solution provider that offers products and professional services to help enterprises accelerate their adoption of cloud platforms and services. Moving any business into the cloud or even deciding whether to do so can be confusing, as ReadWriteWeb’s Audrey Watters points out. Through its professional services package and cloud connectors, Appirio aims to ease the transition. >>>
The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Coupa ,San Mateo, California
Coupa is an e-procurement and spending management provider with a mission to build “procurement for the masses” through its SaaS solution. It says that existing solutions were developed to support a model characterized by scarcity of information, mandates from management, and a centralized bureaucracy that placed buyers in each business unit to purchase on behalf of others; market dynamics that foster the free flow of information and a self-service mentality have rendered existing models obsolete. The Coupa cloud spend management (CSM) solution includes e-procurement, expense management, executive dashboards, and benchmarking modules. Collectively, they provide companies with visibility into and control over all nonpayroll indirect spending. >>>
Deal Radar 2010: Nautilus Environmental
Nautilus Environmental is an environmental consulting and testing firm that specializes in toxicology, biology, and ecology and integrating its understanding of those areas with chemistry and hydrology to answer questions with a science-based approach. Says founder Marilyn O’Neill, “We are very much applied scientists and work predominantly where land touches water – streams, oceans, estuaries, rivers.” The company aims to take a broad, multi-disciplinary perspective and thinks that this approach strengthens its science, adds value, and moves the field forward. Collectively, the laboratory and consulting divisions offer a bridge between laboratory tests and real-world conditions that ensures accurate and useful interpretation and application of environmental data. >>>
The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Fantage
Fantage (short for “Fantastic Age”) is a virtual world created specifically for young computer users from about age 6 to age 14 but is accessible to everyone. Developed as a flash game, this virtual playground requires no download. The site offers “towns” to explore through a user’s avatar, games to play, and ways to chat safely and meet new friends. >>>
The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Trademarkia Mountain View, California
Trademarkia is a startup search engine providing the largest free global search engine for registered trademarks on the Internet. The company has licensed the trademark database of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and provide all of that office’s data, updated daily, in a graphical context. It has also licensed historical trademark data dating back to 1870 that is unavailable on the USPTO’s site. Trademarkia’s integration of services and content enables existing brands to monitor marks and new brands to design and register new marks at a much lower cost than using an intellectual property (IP) attorney or to select from among expired marks. >>>
The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Nextrials ,Pleasanton, California
Nextrials offers a hosted software solution for the data collection and project management of clinical trials. Prism, its award-winning electronic data capture (EDC) solution, has been used at over 1,200 research sites around the world to streamline clinical research and bring products to the market faster. >>>
The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Cheezburger Network ,Seattle
Cheezburger Networks is one the largest humor networks in the world. The company has more than 50 humor sites, including I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog, Failbook, Oddly Specific, Failbook, Pundit Kitchen, ROFLrazzi, and There, I Fixed It. It also publishes books and sells t-shirts through its LOL Mart. The company specializes in Internet memes – jokes, gags, or ideas that appear on the Internet and spread rapidly from person to person. >>>