November 2011
- Rocket Fuel #22 on Forbes list of most promising companies.
October 2011
- PlayPhone released PlayPhone PXP™, a full suite of advanced virtual goods management tools through its PlayPhone Developers website supporting Android, iOS and HTML5 platforms.
- Ustream raised $10 million from telecommunications company KT Corp. to launch a joint venture expanding its business into South Korea
- Marrone Bio Receives EPA Approval of Insecticide.
August 2011
- Pandora reported record revenue of $67 million in Q2 2012 representing a 117% year over year increase.
- PlayPhone announced an agreement with Perfect World Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: PWRD), a leading online game developer and operator based in China, to bring a slate of Perfect World’s mobile games to the PlayPhone cross-platform mobile social gaming network.
July 2011
- PlayPhone has signed a deal with two of the largest Chinese mobile game developers, China Wireless Arts and Magic Universe.
- Pandora reaches 100 million listeners.
- Pandora unveils its first major site redesign since its launch 7 years ago to rave reviews.
- Rocket Fuel, Silverpop and Ustream.tv were named to the AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies list – a list of the top emerging companies that are “demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing game-changing technologies in digital media, mobile, social media, cloud, and SaaS computing.”
June 2011
- Pandora (ticker symbol P on the NYSE) successfully completed it's IPO and was valued by the market at $2.8 billion after it's first day of trading.
May 2011
- Marrone Bio Innovations completed a $25.4 million financing.
- Pandora has expanded their personalized radio offering beyond music to include comedy through the addition of 10,000 comedy bits each analyzed by Pandora’s newly developed comedy genome.
April 2011
February 2011
- Pandora files for $100 million IPO.
- PlayPhone announced the launch of a $10 million marketing fund for developers of social games for mobile devices published via PlayPhone's platform. Games launched on the PlayPhone platform will benefit from regional branding, advertising, community and multi-language support in more than 25 countries.
- Aperto Networks was selected to deliver a complete, $2.6 million broadband wireless network solution by one of India's largest telecommunications service providers. This is the second Tier 1 operator that has selected Aperto in the last few months. Initial shipments are expected to begin in Q1 and continue throughout 2011.
- Tremor Media Acquires Mobile Video Ad Platform Transpera.
January 2011
- KickApps was acquired by KIT Digital.
- Rocket Fuel released Video Booster that offers highly targeted 15- or 30-second pre-rolls with companion display placements. Video Booster is integrated with BrightRoll’s ad exchange and Adap.tv Marketplace.
- Mixbook announced that it has acquired scrapbooking service Scrapblog for an undisclosed amount.
- CNBC interviewed Pandora’s founder Tim Westergren in their coverage of “Pandora Everywhere” at CES.
- UStream came in at number four in VentureBeat’s top 10 VC startup fundings in 2010.
October 2010
- Yardbarker was acquired by Fox Sports Interactive Media.
- EoPlex announced availability of its new high performance, clean-tech lead carrier for semiconductor packaging. The product, known as EoPlex xLC™, is a cost-effective replacement for the lead frames currently used in QFN (Quad Flat No Lead) type packages.
- PlayPhone launched social gaming platform. PlayPhone Social will let consumers participate in social games with friends across the iPhone, Android, and web-based Flash platforms.
September 2010
August 2010
- Ustream executed a site-wide redesign with an emphasis on content.
- Yardbarker was named among the “50 Best Websites for 2010” by Time Magazine.
- InfoAxe completed a $3 million financing led by Stephen Oskoui, CEO of online advertising company Smiley Media. Gokul Rajaram
, the “godfather” of Google AdSense, has joined InfoAxe’s board.
July 2010
- Integrated Materials, Inc. was acquired by Ferrotec.
- Pandora and it’s founder, Tim Westergren, were featured in a Billboard Magazine cover story. Pandora also recently received significant TV exposure with Tim’s interviews by Stephen Colbert and by Charlie Rose.
June 2010
- PlayPhone was profiled in a VentureWire/WSJ story entitled “The $100M Revenue Club: PlayPhone More Than Just Ringtones.”
- Aperto, a subsidiary of Tranzeo Wireless (TSX: TZT), announced that China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, the largest integrated energy and chemical company in China, has deployed Aperto's PacketMAX WiMAX products to build a region-wide wireless broadband network in the Sichuan province of China.
- Pandora closed a round of financing led by GGV Capital, with additional investment from Allen & Company. The company plans to use the funds to invest in resources that will further fuel its growth.
- Rocket Fuel was named “Best Startup of 2010” by the San Francisco Business Times Technology and Innovation Awards.
- Transpera completed a new financing, totaling $9 million led by new investor the BlackBerry Partners Fund. Transpera also announced The Attention Network delivering interactive video ads placed as pre-roll video or as video interstitial for any mobile application.
May 2010
- Pandora was featured prominently and positively in Time Magazine’s article concerning online recommendation services.
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- Solaicx was acquired by wafer giant MEMC for $76 million with an additional $27.6 million as part of an earnout based on milestones.
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- Tim Westergren, Pandora’s founder, was named to Time magazine’s 2010 Time 100 list of people who most affect our world.
March 2010
- Pandora passed the 50 million registered user mark and announced their newly designed app for the iPad.
- Aperto Networks was acquired by Tranzeo Wireless, a premier manufacturer of wireless broadband and WiMAX communication systems.
- iPV closed on an $8.5 million round of financing led by Peninsula Ventures.
- Eoplex was featured in a Design News article entitled “Multi-Materials Printing Shakes up Antenna Manufacturing.”
February 2010
- Ustream’s live stream of Tiger Woods’ 14 minute statement received 683,000 views.
- Labrador ’s Larry Kubal judged proposals for information technology startups in the 11th annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition.
January 2010
- Pandora was featured in a Business Week article focused on its expansion into cars, Blu-ray players and other connected devices beyond computers and cell phones.
- Pandora was featured in a Wall Street Journal article entitled: “Pandora Bringing Web Radio to Cars.”
