Baidu
Baidu's (www.baidu.com) flagship product, the Baidu Chinese Search Engine, is the fastest, largest, most relevant searchengine with the freshest crawls in China. The company also assists Chinese websites with the enhancement of delivery times through the enablement of content caching and intelligent routing. The company has also developed China's leading pay-for-placement service, whereby introductions are made between the users of Baidu's affiliate partners' sites and businesses that pay for priority placement in search results. Baidu went public on NASDAQ in 2005, where it became the most successful first-day foreign IPO in U.S. history.

Skype
Skype (www.skype.com) is the developer of a unique peer-to-peer Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) program that enables Internet telephony. Skype provides free and simple software that enables users to make free calls anywhere in the world. Skype, created by the developers of KaZaa, uses innovative P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect users with other Skype users. Skype is quick and easy to install, has excellent sound quality, uses sophisticated end-to-end encryption, and does not require any router or firewall reconfiguration. On September 12, 2005, Skype announced that it had agreed to be acquired by EBay for cash and stock of up to $4.1 billion.

Cyanea
Cyanea develops enterprise application management solutions for the data center. The company's flagship product, Cyanea/One, is the first application-centric solution built from the ground up to address the needs of both developers and operations specialists involved in managing complex, distributed and mainframe-based business environments. Cyanea/One is able to extract data that provides the information to allow enhanced performance management, exception management and capacity planning. Cyanea was acquired by IBM in 2004.

End2End
End2End, named as one of the top 100 emerging technology companies in Europe by Tornado-Insider, is a Mobile Application Infrastructure Provider operating a carrier-grade network of data-centers from which it delivers managed mobile data services, technology hosting and outsourcing services to the leading mobile operators, portals, and application providers in Europe. End2End acts as a distribution channel for application and content providers by hosting and aggregating best-of-breed applications and content, which are delivered with associated middleware solutions, as well as infrastructure services such as user provisioning, mediation and billing.

Focus Media
Focus Media is the leading digital outdoor media advertising company in China, operating the largest nationwide network of
LCD-TV Screens in thousands of high-end apartments, office buildings, shopping centers, and other commercial venues throughout China. Through the use of proprietary synchronization and broadband technologies, the company is able to deliver uniform, networked, high-reach, and highly-targeted advertisements countrywide at an extremely competitive CPM (cost per thousand exposures). Focus Media went public on NASDAQ on July 13, 2005.

KongZhong.com
KongZhong is the leading provider of advanced second generation, or 2.5G, wireless interactive entertainment, media and community services, in terms of revenue, to customers of China Mobile Communications Corporation, or China Mobile, which has the largest mobile subscriber base in the world. China Mobile ranked KongZhong as the number one wireless value-added service provider on its network in terms of revenue for 2.5G wireless value-added services in 2003 and the first quarter of 2004. In addition, KongZhong provides wireless value-added services on the networks of China United Telecommunications Corporation, or China Unicom and China Netcom Group Corporation, or China Netcom. KongZhong went public in July 2004 (NASDAQ: KONG).

Longcheer
Longcheer, based in Shanghai, China, is a leading Chinese mobile-phone handset design house specializing in module design. As China's domestic handset manufacturers continue to expand in the world's largest handset market, Longcheer provides them with the advanced design capabilities necessary to compete in a highly-segmented domestic market that demands great variety. As a result, domestic manufacturers are able to concentrate on the manufacturing and branding of their product. Foreign companies that outsource their manufacturing to China also benefit from Longcheer's ability to provide advanced application R&D. Longcheer went public on the Singapore Stock Exchange on May 13, 2005.

Point-I
Point-I, based in Seoul, South Korea, is a leader in location enabling technologies and application services.
Point-I provides carrier-grade location-based services (LBS) and geographic-information system (GIS) platforms that allow for the rapid and flexible deployment of powerful location based services across mobile networks. Point-I is delivering platforms and services to major mobile operators in Korea and China, as well as to public and private sector organizations with the need for LBS/GIS services.

Safeview
Safeview has acquired the exclusive right to commercialize a technology that is designed to rapidly identify hidden weapons, explosives and other contraband - even plastic, ceramic, and other non-metalic weapons - through clothing. The technology, which uses millimeter waves to generate holographic images, was developed by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the Federal Aviation Administration to scan airline passengers as they pass through airport security checkpoints. The company's system has enormous potential for use in screening people at points of entry to mass transit systems including airports; subways and trains; border crossings; government installations such as courtrooms, military bases, prisons, embassies and office buildings; crowded public places such as sports arenas; concert halls and museums; and commercial buildings. The company also believes that its technology can be used to protect against theft by identifying concealed items that people might try to remove from facilities, ranging from museums to nuclear power plants.

Techpacific Capital, Ltd.
Originally founded as an incubator, Techpacific has diversified into corporate finance and asset management activities. Techpacific's investment banking activities are carried out through its subsidiary Crosby, one of Asia's premier independent corporate finance and investment firms. Crosby has been providing capital raising, merger and acquisition, restructuring, corporate finance, and strategic advisory services for clients across the Asian-Pacific region.

Thermâge
Thermâge is a medical technology company that has developed an FDA approved radio-frequency-based device designed for the treatment of skin in dermatology and plastic surgery applications. As the only non-surgical procedure that has been scientifically proven to significantly tighten lax tissue, the Thermâge procedure allows cosmetic surgeons to improve the appearance of many patients without having them suffer the pain and discomfort of a prolonged recovery period.

 

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