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CallGate - Sungnam, Korea

CallGate is expanding the fundamental utility of the mobile phone by enabling mobile subscribers to push a variety of applications and services to individuals who call them, shifting the default mobile application from voice communication to targeted data services. The CallGate service targets the youth and young adult demographic looking for greater community, as well as heavy web “publizens” in search of greater self expression. An adjunct service, the Visual Automated Response System (VARS), targets call centers that are highly depend on sales reps for serving customer’s requests.

Minigate - Seoul, Korea

Minigate is a provider of platform technology that interlinks desktop PCs and mobile handsets. Its mobile widgets allows mobile users to access real time Internet contents and applications that are linked with desktop PCs. Its technology enables carriers and consumer device manufactures various applications and services. Key applications include IPTV interactivity, MP3 music services for wireless carriers, and device-accessed digital mall services.

Creative Design Systems (Acquired by Maxtor) - Santa Clara, CA
NASDAQ: MXTR

Creative Design Systems provides a hot-pluggable thin-server solution enabling the NT and Unix network attached storage markets. The company addresses the market need for cost-effective and high-performance solutions for data access.

DemandTec [DMAN] - San Francisco, CA

DemandTec provides pricing optimization software for retail stores with large numbers of SKUs. Its algorithm leverages differences in price elasticity for different SKUs to optimize storewide profitability.

Imparto Software (Acquired by Primus Knowledge Solutions / ATG) - Mountain View, CA
NASDAQ: ARTG

Imparto develops marketing automation software enabling enterprises to manage web content, with tools to keep sites up-to-date, manage outbound email campaigns, and reduce time spent on administrative details.

Impli (Acquired by PRN) - Dublin, CA

Impli delivers a rich mix of information, entertainment and advertising to customers waiting in line. Strategically placed video screens capture and hold consumers' attention and provide an unbeatable advertising opportunity. Impli's screens are placed where customers often have to wait - at gasoline pump islands, in grocery checkout lanes, at convenience store registers and at ATMs.

IPivot (Acquired by Intel) - Poway, CA
NASDAQ: INTC

IPivot provides an intelligent content routing load-balancer that increases the reliability, performance, and scalability of web-sites, e-commerce servers and corporate intranets.

Persist Technologies, Inc. (Acquired by Hewlett-Packard) - Pleasanton, CA
NYSE: HWP

Persist provides application-centric storage software that meets the needs of today's enterprises by providing simple, high-performance solutions for scalable content management. With solutions from PERSIST, users are able to use intelligent storage devices to cost-effectively store and retrieve a rapidly growing volume of static content, such as e-mail messages, electronic office documents and digital media.

ProfitLogic (Acquired by Oracle) - Cambridge, MA
NASDAQ: ORCL

ProfitLogic leads the market with its markdown optimization software solutions for retailers in the fashion goods industry. ProfitLogic processes large amounts of sales data through its operating center with advanced algorithms, and provides pricing markdown solutions to optimize net income for its retailer customers.

Vivid Semiconductor (Acquired by National Semiconductor) - Chandler, AZ
NYSE: NSM

Vivid Semiconductor designs and markets mixed-signal analog integrated circuits for high volume computer and consumer applications. The company developed a patented process for manufacturing extended voltage ICs using a standard digital CMOS process. A rapidly growing application for this technology is LCD driver ICs for flat panel displays.

Zantaz.com (Acquired by Autonomy) - Pleasanton, CA
London Stock Exchange

ZANTAZ solves urgent regulatory, audit and litigation compliance problems for clients through innovative technology, cost-efficient outsourced archiving and consulting expertise. Based upon the proven ZANTAZ Digital Safe archiving service, patent-pending Indexing Technology and Rapid Response Professional Services team, the company provides solutions that help clients capture, restore, archive and instantly retrieve electronic documents, while complying with pertinent governmental and industry regulations.