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CyOptics CallGate - Seoul, 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. In a CallGate-enabled world, voice becomes just one of many applications that callers can invoke when they ring someone’s mobile phone. The net result is a more targeted experience and immediate gratification for callers, greater efficiency and self-expression for subscribers, enhanced revenue for carriers, and increased efficiency for call centers. 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 depending on sales reps for serving customer’s requests.
CyOptics CMI - Masan, Korea

CMI is a leading developer of direct drive in-wheel BLDC (Brushless Direct Current) motors. Compared to conventional BLDC motors, its BLDC motors generate much higher torques and operate at much higher power. Its technical breakthroughs are in both the motor and controller designs and enable the potential replacement of internal combustion engines. The company initially targets the electric motorcycle market and began shipping products. Its long-term target is the electric vehicle (EV) market.

CyOptics Khancera - Daejon, Korea

Khancera develops the Diesel Engine Particulate Filters (DPF). The company has developed a high performance products for the automotive and industrial diesel engine markets. Its innovative product design allows the low cost manufacturing while maintaining high performance. Its products are targeting the global market but initially Korea and China.
CyOptics Minigate - Seoul, Korea

Minigate is a provider of platform technology that interlinks desktop PCs and mobile handsets. Its mobile widgets allow 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.

CyOptics OGPlanet - El Segundo, CA

GameFactory is an online game and community portal. The companies brings casual MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) games from Korea and markets in the US and Europe. Games available include Rumble Fighter, Cabal Online, La Tale, and Lost Saga that span across a broad genre.
CyOptics Precursor Energetics - Santa Clara, CA

Precursor Energetics is a novel materials developer for a variety of industrial applications including thin film photovoltaics, phosphors and TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxides). Its initial market is thin film solar cells. Its technology allows a radical improvement the solar cells efficiency and manufacturing yield.
CyOptics Vapro - Menlo Park, CA

Vapro is a developer of breakthrough thermal management solutions for electronics. Today's electronic systems run faster and generate more heat than ever before. Existing thermal management solutions for CPUs and GPUs are not keeping pace and are often limiting device performances. Heat Pipes have reached the upper limit of their effectiveness and Vapor Chambers are too expensive for the mass market. Vapro has developed a novel cooling solution combining the benefits of Heat Pipes and Vapor Chambers. Its solution is based on a 20-year research and is protected with a strong patent portfolio. The company promises to deliver significant performance improvements at competitive costs.
 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.