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And what companies got our attention this October?

• Andys Pharmeceuticals – Great investment, great product, good location.
• Apture – They're involved in a technical partership with Scribd that shows promise.
• Asus – Not just a crush object, their tablets look promising.
• AOL – Because, look, seriously.  They're up to something.
• BNI – Raised $16 Million.
• Brightcove – A new CEO and a bunch of investment makes them resume-worthy.
• Buddy Media – $23 million in funding is worth making this social media company your buddy.
• Care.com – $20 million in funding, a family service rating system, and a prime domain.
• CyberSports – Raised $6.8 million and has an interesting business model.
• Eventbrite – They raised $20 million, but I'm also positive on their business model.
• Exelixis – They got a nice amount of VC and are in the bay area.
• Kabam – They're on a roll.
• InfraReDx – Got $21 million and works in the area of coronary imaging.
• Intel – Spending on factory upgrades – and of course whatever they're doing with MacAfee may be resume-worthy.
• MBA Polymers – $32 million in investment and helping the environment!
• Nimbuzz – Quietly growing, in Silicon Valley, and competing with Skype.
• PlayFirst – They have hit games and got $9.2 million in investment.
• Samsung – Look, just follow the news.
• SeatGeek – They've got a good niche (ticket deals for events) and a deal with the Wall Street Journal.
• Study Blue – They raised $3.65 and are in the area of online study tools.  Have an interesting pricing plan as well.  Intriguing enough you may want to check them out.
• Research In Motion – They appear to be up to something tablet wise, and they're stock is up.
• TubeMogul – $10 Million in investment.
• Twitter – They're on a hiring spree.  They're also not going anywhere.
• VeeBeam – Award winning and got $6 million in investment.

Location Notes:

• It appears a lot of money is flowing in Seattle and Massachucetts (y'know, beyond IBM buying everything).
• A list of the 100 most innovative cities for your consideration.

Now go forth!

– Steven Savage

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.

– Steven Savage