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SpectraGenics:
SpectraGenics' At-Home Laser Hair Removal Device Cleared by FDA

SpectraGenics' TRIA is First Entry to Home-Based Device Market Featuring Diode Laser Technology for Hair Removal

February 7, 2008 – PLEASANTON, CA – PRNewswire. SpectraGenics, a leader in light-based therapeutic beauty devices, today announced over-the-counter (OTC) clearance from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their patented hand-held laser hair removal device designed for at-home use, a market projected to grow exponentially over the next three years.    More>>

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Greystripe:
Greystripe Wins Red Herring 100 Global Award for Advertising- Supported Take on Mobile Content and AdWRAP Catalog Platform

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, – December 20, 2007 – Greystripe, the largest distributor of ad-supported mobile games and applications and the creator of the first mobile in-game advertising network, announced today that they have been selected as a Red Herring 100 Global Winner, placing them amongst the top 100 technology start-ups in the world.    More>>

GigaFin Networks:
GigaFin Networks Partners With Amer.com to Help School Districts Control Bandwidth Drainage and Identify Network Misuse

CUPERTINO, CA and LARGO, FL. – January 22, 2008 – GigaFin Networks today announced that it has teamed with leading network solutions provider Amer.com to help education administrators curb bandwidth drainage and ensure networks are free of misuse. "School districts need to keep their networks open, but equally need to prioritize traffic types so that they can remain effective," says Wes Van de Polder, Director of Sales at Amer.com. "Unfortunately, the ability of school networks to deliver and receive essential information is threatened by the increasing use of networks for online gaming, unauthorized peer-to-peer traffic, encrypted proxies, oversubscribed bandwidth and constrained budgets."    More>>

SpectraGenics:
Beauty Attracts Some Venture-Capital Beholders

October 13, 2007 – The Wall Street Journal Online.   Venture capitalists have tended to shy away from investing in the vanity niche -- wrinkle-erasing or flab-zapping concoctions and devices -- a field better known for hype than scientific innovation. But with people spending more of their disposable income on beautifying themselves, investors are starting to express more interest in products like these.  The success of the antiwrinkle drug Botox, which hit $1 billion in sales last year, has fueled much of this interest.  At the same time, cosmetic lasers and other skin-treatment devices are gaining popularity in doctors' offices, shopping malls and holiday resorts.  As a result, the so-called cosmetic-medicine market, though still small, is starting to attract traditional technology and life-sciences investors.    More>>

Greystripe:
Greystripe Added to Motley Fool's IPO Watch List

Featured in Motley Fool's Baby Breaker Birth Announcements

May 25, 2007 – Greystripe allows anyone with a mobile phone to download free games in exchange for viewing advertisements... Talk about a great business to be in. Analysts are gushing like Old Faithful over what could happen when thumbs go wild. Juniper Research, for example, estimates that the market for mobile gaming will grow more than fivefold from now through 2011.    More>>

OpVista:
OpVista's AnyWave Optical Network Paves the Way for Carrier Ethernet Transport Networks

ANAHEIM, CA – March 27, 2007 – PRNewswire. OpVista today unveiled the AnyWave(SM) Optical Network, a networking approach that finally allows communications service providers to achieve reliable carrier class Ethernet services over existing network infrastructure. Service providers are eager to adopt the carrier Ethernet transport (CET) model to reap the many advantages of Ethernet and IP (Internet Protocol), such as converged networks with flexible service provisioning and high-capacity wavelength (DWDM) links, to handle the growing onslaught of video and other high-bandwidth traffic. By simply installing OpVista's products into their existing network infrastructures, service providers can now obtain a carrier class (meaning 99.999% reliability) Ethernet transport backbone, easily and cost-effectively.    More>>

Greystripe:
Emerging Economies Offer Growth Paths; Pricing Poses Hurdle

Mobile-Phone Games Stir Designers, Operators

LONDON – March 5, 2007– WSJ By Danleil Thomas. With revenue from mobile-phone gaming set to explode over the rest of this decade and beyond, videogame studios and mobile operators are flocking to the industry to make a fast buck. According to Juniper Research, the mobile-gaming market is likely to increase from about $3 billion today to nearly $17.6 billion by 2011. But despite that robust growth, the industry will need to overcome technical and pricing issues if it is ever to become a mass market.    More>>

AviaraDx:
Researchers From Erasmus Cancer Center Validate the Clinical and Prognostic Utility of the HOXB13/IL17BR Ratio in Breast Cancer Patients

CARLSBAD, CA, – February 26, 2007 – AviaraDx, Inc., a leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, announced today the publication of an independent 1,252 patient retrospective clinical validation study in the February 20, 2007 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology entitled: "HOXB13- to-IL17BR expression ratio is related with tumor aggressiveness and response to tamoxifen of recurrent breast cancer" by Maurice Jansen, Anieta Sieuwerts, Jan Klijn, John Foekens, Els Berns, and colleagues at the Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC/Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.    More>>

Greystripe:
Greystripe Gets the Jump on Mobile Market

NEW YORK, NY – January 18, 2007 – ADWEEK By Laura Blum. Greystripe, which distributes and acts as an ad server for mobile games via its GameJump portal, has inked a partnership with Asian mobile community network myGamma. The alliance combines myGamma's 1.5 million members with the San Francisco startup's 5 million gamers to create a global user base that brings Greystripe closer to its goal of building critical mass.    More>>

 

 


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