What companies should you geeks be looking at? Here's our list for September 2010!
- ActFio – Raised $16 million and is in the vital area of data management, including backup.
- AOL – They're buying up companies as some kind of plan and have shown a lot of ambition. They're in danger of becoming a Fan To Pro Crush Object at this rate . . .
- Citras – $10 million and they do cloud storage.
- Crunchyroll – They're making technology for online manga. Plus, they're Crunchyroll.
- DeNA – This highly aggressive company is expanding into the US. We lost track of how many articles we posted on them. They bought Gameview, just for one instance.
- Gameloft – They're selling tons of games via the app store.
- Kno – Because it's obvious they've got a lot going on.
- Motorola Mobile – They got spun off with $3.5 billion dollars from their parent company. That money is not going to spend itself, people.
- Laser Light – 3D movies may not be doing as hot as thought, but this company that helps make it possible raised $13 million.
- Netflix – Beyond ruling everything and being installed on everything, they've branched into Canada.
- NetShelter – They just got $15 million to spend, and have a definite business focus – blog advertising.
- Newsweek – They're hiring. Nuff' said.
- Quantenna – Solid business in mobile/wi-fi chipsets, and $21 million in venture capital.
- PopCap Games – As they're expanding into Korea.
- RedHat – Besides being cool, earnings were up 20% in Q2.
- Samsung – They've got new tablets and more coming and seem very savvy.
- Say Media – A heady mix of VideoEgg and Six Apart? Intriguing possibilities there.
- Skype – As they expanded conference options.
- Solve Media – Because they're finding an ad-driven way to replace annoying CAPTCHAs.
- Voxy – An interesting language education service. If they get some VC, then definitely wing them a resume.