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Koofers of Reston Receives Funding

Brian — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:05:29 +0000

Koofers, of Reston raised a little over $1.5 MM according to this filing and intends to raise another $500,000.

Koofers is an academic community for information sharing. Through collaboration users can obtain instructor ratings, grade distributions, past exams, quizzes, study guides and more. They originally received funding from Launchbox Digital.

Second Round of Presenting Companies Announced for 2010 Southeast Venture Conference

Brian — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:12:41 +0000

The 2010 Southeast Venture Conference (SEVC) announced the second round of companies selected to present at their upcoming conference. The conference is scheduled for February 24-25th at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia.

The second round of 2010 SEVC presenting companies include:
AvidXchange – Charlotte, NC
avVenta – Mt. Pleasant, SC
BestThinking – Cary, NC
Blue Ocean Biomedical – Pembroke Pines, FL
CallMiner – Fort Myers, Florida
Columbia Power Technologies – Charlottesville, VA
Creative Allies – Asheville, NC
Deposco – Alpharetta, GA
GetWellNetwork – Bethesda, MD
HitFix – Washington, DC
LinkConnector – Cary, NC
MiserWare – Blacksburg, Virginia
Oversight Systems – Atlanta, GA
Parabon NanoLabs – Reston, VA
Patient Point – Orlando, FL
RivalHealth – Raleigh, NC
Sestar Technologies – Gainesville, FL
Skoodat – Chattanooga, TN
smartRealm – Leesburg, VA
SoloHealth – Duluth, GA
Voices Heard Media – Knoxville, TN
X-Ray Robotics – Raleigh, NC

Chesapeake Regional Tech Council Mobile Apps Discussion

Brian — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:47:01 +0000

Chesapeake Regional Tech Council presents “Mobile Apps as/for a Business!” with the following Panel:

David Troy, Moderator
Michael Ryan, South River Technologies
Elliott Hamilton, TeleCommunication Systems
Catharine McNally, Keen Guides
Todd Marks, Mindgrub

Details & Registration can be found here.

comScore Welcomes Chief Product Officer

Brian — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:43:12 +0000

comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), announced that Eric Bosco will be their Chief Product Officer. He is the CPO.

See full press release here.

New Tech Show and Tell Meetup

Brian — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:20:48 +0000

New Tech Show and Tell Meetup on 1/21/2010. Full information here.

Location
IBM Rational Offices
8401 Greensboro Dr.
4th Floor
Mclean, VA 22102

– Presenter 1: IBM will talk about their strategies, capabilities, and technologies necessary to help agencies preemptively protect Web applications from threats and address the complexities and growing costs of security risk management and compliance.

- Presenter 2: Symantics will cover security to protect data from internal and external threats. With a highlight on security solutions for desktops, servers, and the gateways.

- Presenter 3: eVigilant Security will cover seamless communication between physical security advanced access control systems and IT network access using an enterprise network authentication infrastructure.

- Presenter 4: SunBlock Systems is a technology consulting firm specializing in Computer Forensic investigations. They will discuss their experiences conducting forensic examinations as well as provide interesting tips on what every IT technician needs to know (or be careful) about.

- Presenter 5: Planet Web Entertainment Inc. (PWE) is an IPTV service offering real-time TV content. This presentation is an overview of both the security and performance of PWE’s OTT (over-the-top) IPTV service – safely delivering premium content to the consumers.

TSG Presents Microsoft’s Steve Deming

Brian — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:51:40 +0000

TSG Signature Group has Microsoft’s Steve Deming speaking about Implementing Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and System Center at the Tower Club in Tyson’s Corner. It will be January 12th, 8am to 1pm. Read more about it here and click the hyperlinked title in this post to register.

First Round of Presenting Companies Announced for 2010 Southeast Venture Conference

Brian — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:23:10 +0000

The 2010 Southeast Venture Conference (SEVC) announced the first round of companies selected to present at their upcoming conference. The conference is scheduled for February 24-25th at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia.

* Acumatica – Bethesda, MD
* Advanced Liquid Logic – RTP, NC
* Blue Nano – Charlotte, NC
* Box Tone – Columbia, MD
* Braintech – Washington, DC
* Channel Intelligence – Celebration, FL
* Computable Genomix– Memphis, TN
* Corporate Events Group – Falls Church, VA
* CURRENT Group – Germantown, MD
* Envisionier Medical Technologies – Woodstock, GA
* GeneEx – Hialeah, FL
* Halo Monitoring – Huntsville, AL
* Heart Imaging Technologies – Durham, NC
* Imbera – Melbourne, FL
* Kaulkin Information Systems – Rockville, MD
* Microcell – Raleigh, NC
* New River Innovation – Greensboro, NC
* Overture Networks – Morrisville, NC
* Semprius – Durham, NC
* Sharklet Technologies – Alachua, FL
* SciVera – Charlottesville, VA
* StudioNow – Nashville, TN
* Synapse Wireless – Huntsville, AL
* Twiigg – Reston, VA
* Vocalocity – Atlanta, GA
* YadaHome – Washington, DC

January 2010 DC SEO Meetup

Brian — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:33:03 +0000

This meetup is at Ruby Tuesdays in Washington DC. From the announcement:

Getting Back to basics. It has been a couple months since the last SEO meetup and I would like to kick off the New Year with a “getting back to basics” SEO meetup.

comScore to Speak at the 20th Annual Citi GEMTC

Brian — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:46:43 +0000

comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), to Speak at the 20th Annual Citi Global Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications Conference. See their press release here

The presentation is scheduled to begin at 2:55 pm PT (5:55 pm ET) on Wednesday, January 6, 2010. While the conference is in San Francisco, the presentation will also be available via live audio webcastand via replay from the same link beginning about one hour after the conclusion of the presentation.

ePlus to Present

Brian — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:25:53 +0000

ePlus Inc., of Herndon, VA, (Nasdaq:PLUS) announced that it will participate in two investor conferences in January 2010. ePlus is a provider of technology solutions. There are two conferences, one hosted by Sidoti and one at the 12th Annual ICR XChange. From their press release:

Management will be participating in small group meetings at each event the day of the presentation. There are no webcasting capabilities being arranged for the Sidoti conference. A live webcast from the ICR XChange event will be accessible via the Company’s investor relations website here, and a replay of the webcast will remain accessible for approximately 90 days.