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Baidu
Baidu's (www.baidu.com) flagship product, the Baidu Chinese Search Engine, is the fastest, largest, most relevant search engine 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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