Tag Management System, TagMan closes $2.2 Million Series A Investment Led by Greycroft Partners

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 11, 2011

TagMan, the Tag Management System with real-time Attribution for enterprise e-commerce, today announced it has closed $ 2.25 million in Series A funding led by Greycroft Partners. Other investors in this round include iNovia Capital and Angels.

TagMan, the smart container, that sits on more than 100 e-commerce sites, including Subaru, Virgin Atlantic and Air New Zealand, previously raised $ 2.1 million in Angel funding, the most recent in February 2010 led by Cambridge Angels and the London Business School E100.

TagMan is used to manage online marketing tags/pixels (the pieces of code used by the digital advertising industry to track the performance of online campaigns) - and the data they provide - much more effectively, independently and with more control over privacy. It is used by e-commerce businesses to connect or switch between online marketing technology providers such as data systems, retargeting networks and web analytics providers more freely, and track the entire multi-touch attribution path to conversion of online customers in one system, in real time.

"TagMan was the first Tag Management System and has established itself as the market leader and trend-setter in both the US and Europe," says TagMan founder and CEO Paul Cook. "We will put the new funding to immediate use in releasing version 3 of our technology, building out our infrastructure to support the continuing flow of new, enterprise e-commerce clients and to develop the technology so that we can continue to break new ground on behalf of those businesses."

"Tagman has been very successful in helping e-commerce companies and marketers improve the performance of their online marketing, and this has ancillary benefits for consumers and innovative vendors in the ad tech market," says Ian Sigalow, partner at Greycroft Partners, who has previously invested in Buddy Media and Collective. "We are very excited about the potential for TagMan's agnostic and universal solution to the problems presented by tags, pixels, and attribution.

Following the new investment, TagMan has expanded its Board of Directors with three new non-executive appointments: Seth Brody, representing Greycroft, an experienced digital media executive was previously a Group Vice President/GM of online travel agent Orbitz Worldwide; Shaun Gregory, new media director at O2 who also becomes Chairman; and John Taysom, representing Cambridge Angels, a director, founder or investor in several online companies, including Advertising.com. The remaining Board will continue to be comprised of CEO Paul Cook and TagMan General Manager Jon Baron.

Greycroft Partners LCC (http://www.greycroftpartners.com) founded in 2006, is a venture capital partnership, formed to invest in promising digital media companies. Greycroft has raised over $ 200 million and invests between $ 500,000 and $ 5 million at inception, and will increase on a staged basis to double that amount over time. Their portfolio companies benefit from active, hands-on assistance in all phases of expansion, including marketing, finance, and management development.

With offices in New York and Los Angeles, the company leverages an extensive network of media and technology industry connections to help investees gain visibility, build strategic relationships, and successfully bring their products to market. A list of its portfolio companies can be found here: Portfolio | Greycroft Partners LLC

iNovia Capital (http://inoviacapital.com/) provides venture capital to entrepreneurs who transform innovations into successful companies. The team comprises sector experts focused on mobile, consumer internet, internet communications, software and digital media. iNovia has $ 165 million under management across two seed and early stage IT and Life Sciences funds.

TagMan is the smart container tag for enterprise e-commerce. By acting as a single, universal tag and interface through which tracking tags and pixels can be deployed, online marketers can save time and money in the way they implement, manage and track campaigns. TagMan goes beyond last-click by capturing the complete path to conversion of online customers and providing real-time attribution reports that alleviate discrepancies between display, CPA and PPC online advertising channels.

TagMan was founded in November 2007 and has offices in New York and London. Clients include Virgin Atlantic, Subaru, Boden, Laura Ashley, Thomas Cook and Air New Zealand. TagMan recently won the DPAC Award as the Best Advertising Analytics company as determined by peers in digital media and marketing.

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Survey Reveals 38 Million Americans Claim Identity Theft In Their Lifetime

Norwalk, CT (PRWEB) December 6, 2010

A November 2010 study revealed that one would find a victim of identity theft in 19% of American households. And 12.5%, or 38 million American consumers, claim to have been have been a victim of ID theft. The results are part of the 2010 U.S. Consumer Study on Identity Theft, commissioned by IdentityHawk and fielded by Survey Sampling International.*

While 38 million U.S. citizens claim they have been victimized in their lifetime, research from Javelin Strategy & Research shows that 11.1 million Americans say they were ID theft victims in 2009.

The IdentityHawk study also revealed that better educated and married/living with a partner/divorced/widowed persons were more likely to have been a victim of identity theft. Results are as follows:

Education level/victims of identity theft:

High school or less: 9% of respondents

Some college/college: 15% of respondents

Marital status/victims of identity theft

Single: 10% of respondents

Married/living with partner: 13% of respondents

Divorced/widowed: 16% of respondents

The Javelin Annual Identity Protection Services Scorecard also shows a steady increase in identity theft since 2007 when 8.1 million people were victimized. That figure rose to 9.9 million in 2008, according to according to the Javelin results released in a published report: http://www.pymnts.com

Findings:

Ever been a victim of identity theft (IdentityHawk):12.5% yes = 38 million

Victim in past year (2007): 8.1 million

Victim in past year (2008): 9.9 million

Victim in past year (2009): 11.1 million

According to Phil Sandler, Spokesman for IdentityHawk.com, We are seeing a steady recent increase in identity theft. It suggests that consumers need more preventative and predictive measures rather than just being able to take action after their identity has been breached. Further, we believe that the incident of identity theft is actually underreported.

An FTC report confirms Sandlers premise of under reported incidences. According to the FTC 2008 Consumer Sentinel Report, 65 percent of those who reported identity theft to the FTC did not report the crime to their local law enforcement agencies.

About IdentityHawk

IdentityHawk help consumers safeguard their assets, their properties, and their good names. Through its suite of protective benefits, IdentityHawk members can view the health of their identity protection, identify areas where they're most at risk, and take proactive steps to reduce those risks. IdentityHawk members receive instant e-mail or text alerts whenever a potential risk is uncovered. Whether it's the unauthorized use of a member's personal information or a data breach that could potentially affect a wide range of the general population, IdentityHawk informs its members about the latest threats to their identity as quickly as electronically possible.

All information that our members provide is protected by state-of-the-art SSL encryption safeguards. For more information, go to http://www.IdentityHawk.com

*The data for the U.S. Consumer Study on Identity Theft was collected through Survey Sampling International in Shelton, Connecticut. Results have a margin of error +/- 5%.

The articles and information available are for educational and reference purposes only. They do not constitute, and should not be construed as, legal or financial advice. Any legal or financial principles discussed here are for general information purposes only and may differ substantially in individual situations and/or in different states or countries. For specific legal or financial advice, please consult a licensed attorney or a financial professional. IdentityHawk does not control or guarantee the accuracy of any information provided through external links from the articles on this website to any other website, nor does the IdentityHawk privacy policy apply to any personal information that may be collected via the external links.

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The PayPerPost Revolution Accelerates, Sponsored Blogging Marketplace Secures $7 Million Series B Draper Fisher Jurvetson Leads Round and Joins Board of Directors

Orlando, FL (PRWEB) June 13, 2007

PayPerPost, the leading marketplace for advertisers to reach bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has completed a $ 7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the companies Series A and one of the world's leading high-technology venture capital firms.

The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $ 10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry's leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. Additional participants in the round include insiders Inflexion Partners and Village Ventures as well as new investor DFJ Gotham. With this investment, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein also joins PayPerPost's Board of Directors.

"PayPerPost created this exciting new advertising space and has established itself as the industry leader," said Ted Murphy, chief executive officer of PayPerPost. "Although we've only used a portion of our first round capital, this added support from investors unlocks significant growth potential. Our content creator and advertiser ROI metrics clearly demonstrate the upside for PayPerPost's model. We intend to use this capital to build the infrastructure, visibility and professional expertise necessary to reach and retain a greater network of advertisers and content creators than ever before."

Since its founding in June of 2006, PayPerPost has signed more than 6,500 advertisers to its groundbreaking service, which has enabled Consumer Content Creators to be compensated for their efforts discussing specific companies, products or services via blogs, videos or other media. The content creators are required to disclose relationships with advertisers on their blog, providing transparency for the end reader. Over 125,000 Internet postings, most in the form of blogs, have already earned money for their creators through PayPerPost's innovative marketplace. PayPerPost recently released PayPerPost Direct, a disruptive new service that allows advertisers to contract and negotiate directly with individual bloggers they identify through a safe, managed system.

"PayPerPost has laid a strong foundation for the future," noted Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. "It continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. Analogous to Overture's sponsored search model, we believe PayPerPost's business model holds disruptive potential and will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena."

To mark the $ 7 million dollar funding, PayPerPost has launched a new website detailing the company's service offering at http://www.payperpost.com. Bloggers and advertisers can easily sign up at the site and begin leveraging the self service marketplace.

About PayPerPost:

PayPerPost is the leading marketplace for Consumer Generated Advertising. The PayPerPost platform connects advertisers with bloggers and other consumer content creators in order to develop and distribute compelling content throughout the blogoshpere and social networks. Advertisers compensate bloggers to promote their products, services and websites, providing bloggers with a way to monetize their blog and traffic unlike ever before. The company is backed by prominent investors including, Inflexion Partners, Village Ventures, DFJ Gotham and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Join the PayPerPost Revolution at, http://www.PayPerPost.com.

About Draper Fisher Jurvetson:

Draper Fisher Jurvetson is the only venture capital firm with global presence through a network of affiliated funds, with offices in more than 30 cities around the world and more than $ 3.5 billion in capital commitments. DFJ's mission is to identify, serve and provide capital for extraordinary entrepreneurs anywhere who are determined to change the world. Over the past twenty years, DFJ has been proud to back approximately 300 companies across many sectors including such industry changing catalysts as Hotmail (acquired by MSFT), Baidu (BIDU), Skype (acquired by EBAY), United Online (UNTD), Overture (acquired by YHOO), Interwoven (IWOV), 411 (acquired by YHOO), Parametric (PMTC), and Digidesign (acquired by AVID). For more, please visit http://www.dfj.com.

About Inflexion Partners:

Inflexion Fund, L.P., "Florida's Venture Fund", is a seed and early-stage venture capital fund organized with an emphasis on company building and harnessing the regional, national, and international resources of the fund's managers and strategic partners. The managing partners of Inflexion leverage a mix of operating and venture experience in over sixty early-stage companies to back passionate entrepreneurs, build companies as a trusted partner and help founders turn their vision into reality. For more, please visit http://www.inflexionvc.com.

About Village Ventures:

Village Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building information technology and life sciences companies in emerging domestic geographies. Village Ventures identifies promising investment opportunities in partnership with its nationwide network of 13 early stage venture capital funds that are focused on these emerging domestic geographic markets. The model combines local Partner Fund capital and hands-on investment practices with Village Ventures' centralized services and national network to help create compelling and innovative companies. For more, please visit http://www.villageventures.com.

About DFJ Gotham:

DFJ Gotham Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies primarily in the Northeast U.S. Since its first investment in 2000, DFJ Gotham has backed over 20 companies spanning a wide array of technology sectors. DFJ Gotham partners with extraordinary teams of entrepreneurs to build strong and successful businesses that make a huge impact in their industries. DFJ Gotham takes pride in being an active partner, leveraging its experience, knowledge and relationships to provide substantial value to its portfolio companies. DFJ Gotham is proud to have backed such category leaders as Massive (acquired by MSFT), XOsoft (acquired by CA), Q-Link (acquired by Adobe), Mimeo.com and ContextWeb, among others. For more, please visit http://www.dfjgotham.com.

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PHP Fog Announces $1.8 Million Investment, Led by Madrona Venture Group

Portland, OR (PRWEB) January 11, 2011

PHP Fog, a PHP-based Platform-as-a-Service (PHP PaaS) cloud computing platform today announced that is has secured $ 1.8 million in financing from Madrona Venture Group, First Round Capital, Founders Co-Op, and other prominent angel investors.

PHP is the most popular web development language in the world, with millions of active developers and tens of millions of PHP-based sites already in deployment. PHP Fog is the only company offering effortless deployment and infinite scaling of PHP applications in the cloud. The company offers one-click deployments for many popular PHP apps and frameworks including WordPress, Drupal, Kohana, Zend, and SugarCRM. Also, with PHP Fogs N-tier scaling, customers no longer have to worry about reliability, since every part of their web stack has built-in redundancy and failover. The company is currently in private beta but expects to launch publicly in the first half of 2011.

PaaS is a red-hot sector and recent industry developments have validated the market need for cloud application platforms that help customers build, deploy and scale web apps, said Tim Porter a Partner at Madrona Venture Group who will join the companys board. PHP Fog identified an important customer need and developed an innovative, differentiated service with an all-star team that uniquely addresses it. Great companies start with great people and we are excited to help them grow PHP Fog to a large company.

"PHP Fog is precisely the kind of company - and Lucas is exactly the kind of entrepreneur - that Founders Co-op exists to support, said Chris DeVore from Founders Co-op, a seed-stage investment fund based in Seattle. He's a developer's developer, tackling an acute pain that he and his peers experience in scaling their own software businesses."

The company was founded in 2010 by Lucas Carlson, a PHP developer for over 8 years and one of the leading Ruby developers in the world. Prior to starting PHP Fog, Lucas was engineer #1 at Mog and helped to build and scale the site to tens of millions of monthly pageviews. Lucas also wrote the Ruby Cookbook for OReilly and is active in the open source community.

I couldnt be more excited about all the strong investors the company has been able to attract, said Lucas Carlson. We are in a space that is changing every day, but the opportunity is massive. Now we have the resources to scale quickly and provide a world-class service to PHP developers.

About PHP Fog

PHP Fog provides simple one-click installations of some of the most popular PHP applications out there.

It just works.

You get full access to the source code of your PHP application through git. Push your code changes to us and we will publish these changes to the cloud.

We handle deployment, failover, database maintenance, scaling, and all the other plumbing that can take an army of programmers and systems administrators to handle. Automatically. You pay only for what you use.

About Madrona Venture Group

Madrona Venture Group (http://www.madrona.com) has been investing in early-stage technology companies in the Pacific Northwest since 1995 and has been privileged to play a role in some of the region's most successful technology ventures. The firm invests across the information technology spectrum, including consumer Internet, commercial software and services, digital media and advertising, networking and infrastructure, and wireless. Madrona currently manages nearly $ 700 million and was an early investor in companies such as Amazon.com, Isilon Systems, World Wide Packets, iConclude, Farecast.com and ShareBuilder.

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Study Shows 30 Million Americans Have Unhealthy Stress Levels - Little Voice Mastery Offers Solutions

New York, NY (PRWEB) September 13, 2011

SelectBooks is pleased to announce the arrival of best-selling author Blair Singers second edition of Little Voice Mastery: How to Win the War Between Your Ears in 30 Seconds or Less and Have an Extraordinary Life! Publishers Weekly's review of this new book stated, If the goal is to inspire confidence and belief in oneself, Singer--whose attitude mirrors his compatriot, Robert Kiyosaki of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad seriessucceeds.

According to the National Health Interview Survey, 75 percent of the general population experiences some level of work-related stress every two weeks. Stress.org reported on a study that showed 30 Million Americans have unhealthy stress levels, costing $ 300 billion annually in the U.S work industry. The goal of Singers book is to empower people to stop the debilitating chatter in their heads that can cause this stress and improve their overall quality of life. His 21 proven techniques are designed to reprogram that Little Voice in peoples thoughts in 30 seconds or less, and have them break through self-sabotaging habits. Singer provides his readers with the tools he has used to maintain power in any pressure situation, uncover and realize lifelong dreams, and resurrect the hero inside.

Little Voice Mastery has already generated an astounding amount of pre-launch buzz, hitting top 3 in sales on Barnes & Noble and placing 7th in the Business & Investing category on Amazon.

SelectBooks President, Kenzi Sugihara, says, Through a series of simple, yet remarkably powerful strategies you can stop that debilitating internal dialogue and learn how to overcome the fear of making mistakes, handle any objections and use bragging rights to expand your presence and change your state of mind. Singer's 21 proven techniques to reprogramming that Little Voice can break down the barriers and make you more confident and effective

I recommend this for anyone whos readyIn Little Voice Mastery, Blair brilliantly identifies how we all have a Little Voice between our ears that controls our thoughts, and therefore actions, and how, too often, our Little Voice is negative and self-sabotaging. Little Voice Mastery provides easy-to-follow tools and techniques to help you take charge of your Little Voice. I recommend this for anyone whos ready to create the life theyve always wanted.

T. Harv Eker

Author of #1 NY Times Bestseller Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

Little Voice Mastery is available from SelectBooks, Amazon and book sellers nationwide on September 13th, 2011.

About Blair Singer

For more than two decades, Blair Singer has empowered people to go beyond their ordinary selves and reach peak performance rightfully earning him a global reputation as the ultimate go-to guy in sales, business and personal growth. As a World Leading Personal and Business Development Specialist, Singer has worked with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies like Singapore Airlines, Deutsche Bank, IBM and Dunkin Donuts, to small business owners, entrepreneurs and just regular folks. He applies the same tried and true principals that work for big corporations to the Business of Everyday Life. Thousands have turned to Blair Singer for his expertise and, now, in an ongoing effort to provide readers with the best in business and personal growth SelectBooks is excited to add this newly revised edition of this already in-demand book to their roster. Little Voice Mastery will shortly be offered in 10 languages in over 30 countries.

For more information on Blair Singer or Little Voice Mastery, visit http://www.blairsinger.com or contact

Karen E. Mileski at karen(at)littlevoicemastery(dot)com or 949.285.2332.

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Lijit Networks, Inc. Secures $3.3 Million Series B Investment Round Led by Boulder Ventures

Louisville, CO (PRWEB) June 25, 2007

Lijit Networks, Inc., a company that provides revolutionary search tools and statistics for blog publishers, announced today that it has secured $ 3.3 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Boulder Ventures, who joins existing investors, Colorado Fund I, managed by High Country Venture, and Brad Feld. The investment is designed to fuel Lijit's continued exponential growth, as more and more publishers adopt Lijit's services and technology.

"Lijit provides tangible value to both readers and publishers by delivering highly relevant search results and turning search interactions into compelling statistics", remarks Peter Roshko, General Partner at Boulder Ventures, who will join Lijit's Board of Directors. "Publishers have very few feedback channels that help them better understand and serve their reader community. With this investment Boulder Ventures can help Lijit capitalize on their success to date in fulfilling this need and take their services to the next level."

Lijit's search service allows readers to search blog publishers' posts, bookmarks, blogroll, and more from a widget placed on the publisher's property. "Lijit's Search Wijit turns my technology industry interests and expertise into a powerful resource for my readers," says Dr. Paul Kedrosky, venture capitalist, media personality, entrepreneur, and author of one of the best known business blogs on the Internet, Infectious Greed (paul.kedrosky.com). "I'm able to use Lijit's search statistics to understand what brings readers to my blog, what they search for while they're there, and which results they find most useful. It's given me valuable insight into my reader community."

Creating and maintaining a personalized Lijit Search Wijit is very quick and simple, thanks to Lijit's automated identity and network discovery technology. "Each month Lijit's search capability is seen over 8 million times on publishing properties across the Internet, which is a testament to the service's value and ease of use," comments Todd Vernon, CEO of Lijit. "This investment will allow us to keep pace with our growth curve, continue development of new and exciting features, and explore new partnering opportunities."

About Boulder Ventures, Ltd.

Boulder Ventures manages over $ 300 million in venture capital partnerships, making equity investments in start-up, early stage, and emerging growth companies. Boulder Ventures primarily seeks opportunities in enterprise software, Internet-based business applications and services, communications infrastructure and services and life sciences tools and services. Boulder Ventures works in partnership with entrepreneurs, providing easily accessible, active support to develop novel business concepts into important companies. Boulder Ventures has offices in Owings Mills, Maryland and Boulder, Colorado. For more information, visit http://www.boulderventures.com.

About High Country Venture

High Country Venture manages Colorado Fund I (http://www.coloradofund1.com), a venture capital fund seeking to invest in seed and early stage businesses in Colorado. To date, the fund has made several investments in various industries including life sciences, information technology, and retail. It is located in Boulder, Colorado.

About Lijit Networks, Inc.

Lijit Networks, Inc. was incorporated in June 2006. The Lijit service was developed to search people, their content, and connections in order to deliver search results with unprecedented relevance. The company is led by Todd Vernon, CEO. Vernon, a founder and former CTO of Raindance Communications, brings to the team his management experience in the high-tech sector and enthusiasm for leading-edge web technologies. Stan James, founder and CTO of Lijit, brings years of research in social trust and a portfolio of intellectual property in the space. http://www.lijit.com

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AppsGeyser -- The Fastest Growing Free Android App Creation Platform Reached 1 Million Installs

Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) April 14, 2011

AppsGeyser - the fastest growing free Android DIY (do-it-yourself) app creation platform reached a new milestone today. Shortly after breaking the 10,000 (ten thousand) mark for total number of apps created on the platform, altogether these have also achieved a significant milestone: 1 million installs. This is great news since the platform was merely launched in January of this year. In a short period, AppsGeyser has quickly accumulated an audience of people and organizations who are excited with the simplicity of the app creation process.

Vasily Salomatov, co-founder of AppsGeyser recently participated at a Mobile Web and Apps World Forum panel during CTIA Wireless 2011 and he mentioned We are providing the people a way to create mobile apps instantly and because we are Android we allow them to iteratively test their app ideas with customers. We see people creating 3 apps, gathering statistics the next day, improving them and discovering what works the best.

Already there is a distinct variety of applications created on AppsGeyser, with News and Blog apps dominating with 21% of the total. This category is quickly followed by the Game apps, with 15%. People are benefiting from a new way to bring their existing web content to natively inhabit on mobile devices. This generates a new distribution channel and user experience.

AppsGeyser is also growing in the Enterprise field, with employees from companies of the likes of Walmart having tested the platform to create android apps.

About AppsGeyser:

AppsGeyser is the web platform that allows converting any web content into an Android App in 2 easy steps. Built to help people to transfer their ideas into apps the platform is free. Launched in January 2011 we have 10 000 apps created and more than 1 mln downloads.

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Aspen Avionics Completes $8.5 Million Series B Financing

Albuquerque, NM (PRWEB) July 23, 2007

Aspen Avionics (http://www.aspenavionics.com) announced today the closing of an $ 8.5 million round of venture financing led by Wasatch Venture Fund and joined by Sun Mountain Capital. In this Series B round, all of Aspens original investors matched or increased the size of their original investments, and Sun Mountain came in as a new investor.

"We are extremely pleased by the confidence our investors have shown in Aspens strategy and progress," said John Uczekaj, Aspen Avionics President and CEO. As we showcase our major new product introduction at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, this round of funding ensures that Aspen has the resources to continue to build a major avionics company, delivering state-of-the-art products and world-class support to our customers.

In a related move, Stephanie Spong, a principal of Wasatch Venture Fund, will take a seat on Aspens Board of Directors.

"We are delighted to welcome Stephanie Spong to our Board," said Uczekaj.

Aspen closed its Series A venture round in December 2005, with investments by Granite Ventures, Fort Washington Investment Advisors, vSpring Capital and Wasatch Venture Fund.

About Aspen Avionics, Inc.

Aspen Avionics (http://www.aspenavionics.com) specializes in bringing the most advanced technology and capability from the commercial and business aviation markets into general aviation cockpitsand budgets. Our products increase situational awareness and reduce pilot workload, making it even easier and safer to fly in both VFR and IFR conditions. The way we look at it, getting the latest avionics technology shouldnt always mean spending a lot of moneyon equipment or installation. At Aspen Avionics, we design products to be affordable, easy to install, and easy to own. The company can be found on the web at http://www.aspenavionics.com or may be reached at (505) 856-5034.

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Perfect Market Raises $9 Million in New Financing

Pasadena, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) January 18, 2011

Perfect Market, Inc. (http://www.perfectmarket.com), a leading provider of traffic and content optimization solutions for web publishers, has completed a $ 9 million financing round led by Comcast Interactive Capital. Existing investors Idealab, Rustic Canyon Partners, Tribune Company and Trinity Ventures also participated in this financing round.

Perfect Market, headed by CEO Julie Schoenfeld, enables branded publishers to compete in the online economy by creating value from their content. The company was originally formed by Idealab in 2007 and now counts Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Orlando Sentinel as major customers.

Perfect Market has developed a number of patented technologies that help customers unlock the value of their assets through programs that include traffic generation, content optimization, and improved packaging that all combine to yield improved monetization. The company helps publishers make more money by driving incremental traffic to content that has been 'Perfect Market' optimized.

Perfect Market continues to pioneer online revenue growth strategies for the nations premier publishing brands, Schoenfeld said. The substantial support weve received from investors to date affirms Perfect Markets mission as we satisfy a gap in finding new monetization opportunities for leading web properties in the ever-expanding online advertising marketplace.

Perfect Market has a unique proposition in unlocking value in content from web publishers. Im excited to work with this seasoned management team and impressed by the results that Perfect Market has achieved with its roster of blue chip publishers, said David Horowitz, Managing Director of Comcast Interactive Capital who will join Perfect Markets Board of Directors.

About Perfect Market, Inc.

Perfect Market works with professional publishers to create distribute and monetize content more effectively online. Perfect Markets patented solutions helps publishers, including San Francisco Chronicle, Orlando Sentinel and Chicago Tribune serve readers with exactly what they are looking for in online content. By delivering the right content in the right format to the right user with the right relevancy, Perfect Market has significantly increased the revenue for its publishing partners. Perfect Market is headquartered in Pasadena, CA with offices in New York.

Resources:

*About Perfect Market (@perfectmarket): http://www.perfectmarket.com

*About Comcast Interactive Capital: http://www.civentures.com/

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Centice Corporation Closes on $6.1 Million Series C Financing - Funds to Support Commercialization of Innovative PASS Rx

Morrisville, NC (PRWEB) October 21, 2009

Centice Corporation, a pioneer in drug verification and safety products, announced today the successful completion of a $ 6.1 million Series C financing from its existing investors along with a new investor, Fulcrum Financial Group, LP. The funds will be used to support ongoing commercialization efforts for Centice's innovative PASS Rx prescription verification product for the retail and hospital outpatient pharmacy marketplace. Along with Fulcrum Financial Group, L.P., existing investors participating in the $ 6.1 million financing include The Aurora Funds, Inc., S-Group Direct Investments Ltd., Innovation Ventures LP and several individuals.

"We are pleased to have received the new funds. This shows the continued support of our current investors. We are also very excited about the addition of Fulcrum Financial Group to our investor base and we look forward to working with them", said Scott Albert, CEO and Chairman of the Centice Board of Directors. "Release 3.0 of our PASS Rx system will be out in the near term and these funds will allow us to appropriately position, market and sell the product to pharmacies nationwide", he added.

Increased script volume, fewer resources and manual subjective verification methodologies can unfortunately result in a greater risk of medication errors in the pharmacy. PASS Rx is the first and only product that utilizes patented spectroscopy and machine vision sensor technologies to confirm the accuracy of a pharmacy's dispensed solid dose medications in a matter of seconds. Centice technologies have additional applicability beyond just the verification of solid medications in the pharmacy, and the company has plans to develop future products for solid drug identification, liquid medication verification and counterfeit drug detection.

About Centice Corporation

Centice, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Morrisville, NC, is commercializing patented and patent-pending computational sensor and machine vision technology. The PASS Rx

A&A Video | NICO Photo Creates Amazing Father Daughter Dance Video And Receives Over 6 Million Hits

Houston, TX (PRWEB) November 04, 2011

This all began last August when A&A Video was hired for what seemed like a normal wedding for Ashley Sparks and David Richmond. The video showcases a bride and her father as they share their father daughter dance. What seems to be a normal dance quickly became something more. Without anyone knowing, the bride and her father had been practicing a very well choreographed dance for over a month and a half. According to the brides dad, David Sparks, It was a combined effort, I wanted to mix old school with new school, and I was the old school and she was the new school. In the end everyone can be seen on the video having a great time and Ashley was able to share this once in a lifetime memory with her father. "You know we uploaded it on YouTube, we never thought it would be this big," Ashley said. "So its exciting."

To view this video logon to http://www.ana-nico.com/wedding/video/

When interviewed on local Fox affiliate, KRIV, John Graves, Director of Marketing for A&A Video | NICO Photo stated, "Her dad's got moves!" Graves also stated that "You can just feel the love that Ashley and her father share, and he's very happy she's getting married. "She found the man of her dreams, and he's happy to move her along to the next chapter in her life."

Sometime all the cards end up in the proper order. This video captured this amazing moment in the life of a bride and her father. This just goes to show that you never know what will happen at the next wedding you attend.

A&A Video | NICO Photo has been providing Cinematic Wedding Imagery to clients for over 10 years. They are an award winning videography company, including the coveted, Crystal Icon ISES award for Best Videography in Houston. They have been featured as best of The Knot.com for the last 3 years and well as a platinum rated vendor with Weddingwire.com. While capturing over 400 hundred wedding a year the company has had to opportunity to work with a wide variety of clients. Everything from high-end celebrity wedding such as NFL and NBA players, to daddys little girl getting married in the back pasture. They have also had the opportunity to work with the TLC network to capture 3 Platinum Weddings. Constantly striving to raise the bar on wedding videography, A&A Video | NICO Photo is always developing new way to provide their clients with the best possible products available. Being on the cutting edge of new technologies, they are typically the first to embrace and implement these new technologies.

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Aurora Biofuels Closes $20 Million Series B Funding

Alameda, CA (PRWEB) June 10, 2008

Aurora Biofuels, Inc., a leader in open-pond algae aquaculture technology, announced today it has completed a second round of funding, raising $ 20 million. The round was led by existing investor Oak Investment Partners. Previous Series A investors Gabriel Venture Partners and Noventi also participated in the round. Aurora Biofuels will use the funds to expand its field operations and to increase its efforts to optimize the production cycle of growing, harvesting and extracting microalgae to produce bio-oil, which can be converted into biofuels.

"We are ahead of our company growth and development plans and the new funds will allow us to accelerate our efforts in the field even further," said Matt Caspari, founder and CEO of Aurora Biofuels. "Obviously, there is a great need today to decrease dependence on foreign oil. We believe that algae are an exciting alternative to traditional agricultural sources of biofuels and we are committed to bringing algae-derived biofuels to fruition."

Microalgae have several advantages over traditional biofuel crops including their ability to produce much more bio-oil per acre, and their ability to be grown on marginal land using marginal water so they do not compete with food resources.

"Over the past eighteen months, Aurora Biofuels has made tremendous progress in developing an end-to-end process for producing bio crude oil from algae," said Brian Hinman, Venture Partner at Oak Investment Partners. "We're convinced that the economic model is viable, and believe that Aurora has a stable and productive aquaculture technology that works in low-cost open ponds. It's time to test the process at scale."

About Aurora Biofuels

Aurora Biofuels, Inc. was founded to develop the lowest cost solution for growing algae and producing bio-oil. To achieve this goal, Aurora has assembled a diverse team with the expertise spanning biology, biotechnology, aquaculture and agricultural, chemical and process engineering. Aurora Biofuels was founded in 2006 and has its headquarters in Alameda, CA. For more information, please visit http://www.aurorabiofuels.com.

About Oak Investment Partners

Oak Investment Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm with a total of $ 8.4 billion in committed capital. The primary investment focus is on high growth opportunities in communications, information technology, internet new media, financial services, clean energy, healthcare services, and consumer retail. Over a 28-year history, Oak has achieved a strong track record as a stage-independent investor funding more than 435 companies at key points in their lifecycle.

About Gabriel Venture Partners

Gabriel Venture Partners

1.5 Million UK Jobs in e-Commerce by 2015

(PRWEB UK) 14 July 2011

An estimated 1.5 million UK staff will work within the e-commerce industry within the next four years according to new research from IMRG and eDigitalResearch.

The second annual IMRG e-Jobs Index shows that 63% of online businesses increased staff levels over the past year alone, with an estimated 730,000 now working in, or in support of, the e-commerce industry as revenues continue to grow.

The study, conducted in association with eDigitalResearch, shows that 74% of e-commerce departments and businesses have increased their turnover since last year and presents a huge opportunity for the industry to develop further, as another 60% of e-businesses are looking to increase staff numbers over the next 12 months.

However, this figure is considerably lower than what was anticipated. Last year, over 80% of those surveyed said that they hoped to recruit over the coming months. The actual number of companies that recruited new members of staff stands at 17.45% lower than this and is likely to be attributed to the recent and rapid growth of the m-commerce market.

Chris Russell, Director at eDigitalResearch, explains, As we continue to see the popularity of smartphones and other emerging channels increase with consumers, retailers are beginning to merge and combine multiple departments and operations in order to create a coherent message across the board for all of their customers. This is not to say that the e-commerce jobs market is beginning to decline. It simply means that, along with everything else in the e-commerce industry, it is evolving in order to cope with the shifting consumer trends we are witnessing.

Almost half (43.24%) of those surveyed suggested that up to 50% of their total revenue is generated via the internet. More importantly, another 40% (41.08%) indicated that 91-100% of overall revenue comes from e-commerce channels, an increase of 4% on the same figures last year, and represents the continued growth of the e-commerce industry and the importance for dedicated e-commerce teams and staff members.

James Roper, CEO at IMRG, comments, The continuing strong growth in e-jobs is particularly welcome now when so much employment is being lost across the rest of the economy. The UK leads Europe in e-retail, so many of these new jobs are well paid and right at the cutting edge of commercial innovation, with the skills being developed here arming Britain to win in the ultra-competitive global online marketplace that is already worth billions of pounds per annum to thousands of UK e-retailers who are selling cross-border. Despite the recession, domestic e-retail continues to grow at 18% year-on-year as millions of hard-pressed consumers shop online to make their money stretch further, and with a third of the UKs adult population yet to shop online, e-retail is set to continue to be a key employment generator for years to come.

Unsurprisingly, Christmas remains the most popular time of the year for online businesses to recruit extra staff, with one in four retailers (27.5%) declaring that they will look to employ temporary staff to help with the increase in online activity.

It is also important to acknowledge that a considerable amount of staff also work in areas supporting the e-commerce industry, including distribution and delivery, customer support and website development. It is estimated that 115,700 delivery staff will distribute over one billion parcels to online customers in 2011.

For a copy of the e-Jobs Index white paper, please visit the IMRG website: http://www.imrg.org/ImrgWebsite/User/Pages/WhitePapers.aspx?pageID=93&isHomePage=false&isDetailData=true&itemID=5497&specificPageType=0&pageTemplate=11

For more information regarding the IMRG e-Jobs Index please contact Andy Mulcahy on 020 7189 8373 or email andy.mulcahy@imrg.org. Alternatively, for more information regarding the results, including copies of graphs and tables, please contact Lisa Bonczyk on 01489 772920 or email lisa.b@edigitalresearch.com.

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About the IMRG e-Jobs Index

The e-Jobs Index in IMRGs annual survey of employment generated by British retailers trading on the internet and the businesses in support of their trade. The Index focuses on the attitudes of business performance of IMRG members and ISIS-accredited retailers. It is based on a survey of 185 online retailers. The survey was conducted by IMRG and eDigitalResearch between February and April 2011. Additional information was provided by eBay.

About IMRG

IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group) is the industry association for global e-retail. Formed in 1990, IMRG is setting and maintaining pragmatic and robust e-retail standards to enable fast-track industry growth, and facilitates its community of members with practical help, information, tools, guidance and networking. Consumers can be confident when dealing with IMRG Members because all interact in an environment where they are encouraged to operate using methods that are Honest, Decent, Legal, Truthful and Fair, and have undertaken to not bring the industry into disrepute. The strength of IMRG is the collective and cooperative power of its members. For more information please visit http://www.imrg.org/ or email market(at)imrg(dot)org

About eDigitalResearch

eDigitalResearch are research specialists with expertise in online business. When you have to make critical business decisions we can give you the precise multichannel insight and informed direction you need. Surveys, panels and communities combine to provide holistic insight which gives clients the confidence and evidence to make crucial decisions on product range, marketing, customer service, supply chain and even basic positioning. For more information please visit http://www.edigitalresearch.com or email info(at)edigitalresearch(dot)com

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