Summary of 2009’s Digital Year by comScore

comScore, Inc., a leading I.T. company from Reston, Va., released today their review of the digital happenings of 2009. The report entitled “The comScore 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review” will recap the major trends of U.S. digital market such as e-commerce, search engines, online videos, advertisements and mobile industry.

According to the year-end review, the digital consumer behavior surges high despite economic and environmental constraints.  The recession proves to be a challenged in the to all businesses but it did not stop the digital media industry from climbing high in 2009. The rise of digital industry is due to the internet’s evolution and becoming an integral part of the american personal and professional lives.

The comScore 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review report can be downloaded here: www.comscore.com/digital09

Koofers of Reston Receives Funding

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.