December 2009
- Ustream launched Live Broadcaster for the iPhone to enthusiastic reviews. This application is the first that enables broadcast live streaming video to the web from the iPhone.
November 2009
- Infoaxe’s launch was featured in a New York Times article entitled, “Infoaxe — a Real-Time Search Engine That Doesn’t Rely on Twitter.” The launch was also covered by TechCrunch, Fortune and CNNMoney.com.
- Ustream launched a version of its Ustream Viewer for the Android market, giving mobile users the ability to access over Wi-Fi or 3G any Ustream footage, free of charge. This release supplements Ustream’s Broadcaster app for Android.
- ShotSpotter was featured in a New York Times article entitled “High-Tech ‘Ears’ Listen for Shots.”
- PlayPhone’s CEO, Ron Czerny, was appointed Acting Chair of Mobile Entertainment Forum’s (MEF’s) Latin America’s Chapter at its inaugural meeting in
- Pandora was featured in a Fast Company article entitled “Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Digital Music From Mobile Pandora.”
- Altierre was featured in a story on CNN Money entitled “Goodbye, grocery store price tags.”
- Delve Networks was selected by the NFL as their video streaming platform for their syndication initiative as well as for use by individual team websites. The NFL has already begun signing syndication deals and has advised Delve to expect 40-50 million videos watched per month.
- Altierre introduced its Out-of-Stock Sensor Solution -- a first of its kind technology that generates alerts when it's time to re-stock inventory on shelves as part of its Sensor Network applications for retailers.
October 2009
- Pandora launched station sharing and gifting via Facebook and Twitter.
- PlayPhone announced a Wireless Retailer Program that provides wireless retailers, agents and resellers a way to merchandize, sell, and monetize mobile content at the point of sale.
- Pandora received accolades from Gizmodo as one of “The Best” applications for the Android (Google mobile) platform.
- The United Nations has collaborated with Skype, Facebook, and Ustream to give users worldwide a greater degree of exposure and access to celebrities and politicians taking part in the Stand Up Take Action! movement to end poverty.
- Marrone Bio Innovations was recognized as a Top 10 “Innovation All-Star” at the New California 100 Conference.
- Showtime Networks announced the launch of its free iPhone application powered by Transpera.
- PlayPhone won top worldwide honors from Mobile Entertainment Magazine being named the “"Best Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) Company" in the 2009 MEM awards in
September 2009
- Transpera took top honors at the MOBI Awards for Colbert Nation mobile web site.
- Ustream on Facebook has had nearly 4 million total viewers and more than 6 million hours streamed since launching at the end of June.
- EoPlex was chosen, from among hundreds of other technology companies, for the third consecutive year as one of the GoingGreen Top 100 Winners.
- Ustream launched its mobile streaming application for the Android platform enabling users to broadcast video directly from their phone to the web.
- Pandora is now available on Google’s Android platform. Pandora’s Android release increases to 5 the mobile operating systems ( iPhone, BlackBerry, WebOS, Windows Mobile and Android) on which it runs.
- Delve's video platform was selected as one of O'Reilly's 50 Most Usable Rich Internet Applications along with notables like Pandora, Google Maps, Kayak, Quicken Online, among others. Delve was the only video platform selected.
- Transpera added two new members to its board of directors, media industry veterans Robert Perkins and Jeff Ballowe. Perkins was president of the Chiat/Day New York advertising agency while Ballowe was president of Ziff-Davis's Interactive Media Division.
- Delve Networks released a new version of the firm's "Player Builder", the tool which allows its customers to create their own branded video players.
August 2009
- Aperto was selected by Nostracom Telecommunications for a major deployment of high-speed Internet access and Voice over IP services covering the Andalusia provinces of
- Aperto announced a distribution deal with Crossover Distribution.com for its PacketMax base stations and subscriber units in Canada. Crossover is considered to be the leading supplier of wireless broadband equipment to Canadian Internet service providers.
- Transpera was named by Entrepreneur magazine as one of the nation’s 100 companies to watch in the June issue.
- Rocket Fuel was featured in a TechCrunch article entitled “Yahoo Veterans Launch Rocket Fuel, a “Hybrid” Ad Network.”
- Delve Networks announced a partnership with leading content delivery network Akamai in which the two companies will combine forces to provide turn-key high-quality elastic cloud-based video management to video publishers.
July 2009
- ShotSpotter technology credited as one of the four major factors in reducing homicides in
- Ustream reported that the Michael Jackson memorial was the "largest ever" event they hosted. It served 4.6 million video streams from around the world in partnership with CBS. Viewers taking part in the chat rooms left over 12,000 messages per minute.
- Transpera was selected to the 2009 AlwaysOn Global 250 List. The AlwaysOn Global 250 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets.
- Delve Networks got high marks on its video publishing solution in Information Week’s review.
- Pandora reached a new agreement with the recording industry regarding royalty rates through 2015. In addition, the company closed a substantial round of investment led by Greylock. Pandora registered users now exceed 30 million in the US.
- Rocket Fuel announced that it has now passed the mark of over 50 billion online advertising impressions analyzed in optimizing the campaigns of over 140 different advertisers.
- Ron Czerny, CEO of Playphone, at the MEM 2009 conference in
June 2009
- Ustream partnered with Facebook to offer a new service that provides live video support to select Facebook users. This functionality is an extension of what Ustream and Facebook did with a Jonas Brothers concert last month which drew nearly a million unique viewers during a one hour webcast.
- Altierre released a new wireless temperature-sensing product designed to help stores monitor the conditions under which food is stored or displayed. This extends the company’s product offering beyond wireless electronic shelf labels. At least two customers are beginning trials with the new wireless temperature sensors.
- PlayPhone launched an application that will seamlessly integrate its branded mobile offerings and make them available to consumers with Android-powered devices. The application provides a direct connection to PlayPhone's robust catalog of mobile entertainment, now featuring over 200,000 items, and offers an integrated purchase flow that allows users to browse and buy without ever having to leave the application. The launch marks the first Android storefront offering from a major off-deck content provider.
- Yardbarker’s CEO, Pete Vlastelica, was featured in an Advertising Age video report entitled “Turning Celebrity Athletes Into Bloggers -- Yardbarker Aggregates Players' Musings Into Media Hub.”
May 2009
- Pandora announced the launch of Pandora One, which is an ad-free, premium version of Pandora’s streaming music service (and for the first time, desktop application) available to listeners for a $36 per year subscription.
- Transpera was named by Entrepreneur magazine as one of the nation’s 100 companies to watch.
- Altierre was the subject of an article in Progressive Grocer which focused on a national retail chain with more than 1,000 stores and its plans to deploy Altierre’s digital signage and pricing technology solution to deliver real-time, dynamic pricing to electronic shelf labels (ESLs).
- Pandora was featured in a Business Week article entitled “Pandora: Unleashing Mobile Phone Ads.” Based on Pandora’s results for customers like Nike, Kraft, Target, and Best Buy, the article poses the question: “Is cell-phone marketing finally taking off?”
- VERSUS announced a strategic partnership with Yardbarker whereby Yardbarker content will be distributed by VERSUS as part of their Fanarchy series debuting on June 7th. VERSUS is a wholly owned company of Comcast and is distributed via cable systems and satellite operators to more than 75 million households throughout the
- Labrador V portfolio companies EoPlex and UstreamTV each won a 2009 Red Herring 100 North America Award being selected from a prestigious list of over 1,200 nominees representing the year's most promising private technology ventures in North America. Past winners include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com and YouTube.
- Delve Networks reported record revenue growth and an impressive, diversified roster of more than 100 customers.
- Eoplex won a 2009 Globe Innovators Award chosen by a panel of 5 independent judges on behalf of the Globe Forum Business Network based in
April 2009
- ShotSpotter acquired the Planning Systems Inc. unit of QinetiQ North America, a competitor of theirs in the gun shot location systems market.
- Ultriva announced 60% revenue growth, while license revenue grew by 80% and net income grew by 92%.
- Mi5 Networks was acquired by Symantec Corp.
- Altierre was the subject of an RFID Journal article entitled “Two Food Chains Trial RFID-based Electronic Shelf Labels.”
- Pandora announced that the Dave Matthews Band is launching exclusive content on Pandora. For the first time ever, an artist will be using Pandora and the Music Genome Project to introduce a new single and the new album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, directly to their fans.
- Labrador V portfolio companies Pandora, Playphone and Ustream were named to the 2009 OnHollywood 100 by AlwaysOn. The 100 top private companies were selected based on five primary evaluation criteria—innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value creation, and media attention or “buzz.”
- Transpera is engaged in powering the video delivery and advertising services for a free CBS application for the iPhone that provides access to full episodes of Star Trek, CSI, and 90210 as well as to CNET, College Sports Network and The CW.
March 2009
- Solaicx was awarded the Progressive Manufacturing 100 Award (PM100) for the second year in a row. The award honors Solaicx for its “progressive core business, the management of its operations and the optimization of its advanced manufacturing technologies.”
- George John, CEO of RocketFuel, in his ClickZ article entitled “Horses and Cars in Online Advertising” establishes the idea of combining contextual and behavioral advertising (as well as other factors) to achieve an “efficient frontier” in online advertising effectiveness.
- Kickapps, a white label social networking startup, announced that it now supports Facebook Connect
and OpenIDon KickApps-powered websites.
- Pandora launched on BlackBerry for phones running BlackBerry OS 4.3 or better.
- Pandora is now available on Vudu and represents its first music application. Pandora joins YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and 120 web-based video channels that are currently available for Vudu owners.
- Labrador's Larry Kubal participated in Rutberg & Company’s quarterly forum entitled, “What Are Advertisers Spending Money on in 2009?" on March 4th.
February 2009
- Meteor Solutions was featured in a ClickZ article entitled “Quantifying the Pass-Along Value of Online Advertising.”
- Ustream recruited Twitter co-founder and former CEO, Jack Dorsey, to its advisory board. Dorsey is the third outsider to join Ustream’s advisory board, after General Wesley Clark and former Head of Monetization at YouTube, Shashi Seth.
- Aperto announced that SimbaNET, a pan-African service provider, has selected its PacketMAX platform for new WiMAX deployments in
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January 2009
- Eoplex received ISO 9001 certification.
- ShotSpotter’s technology was credited by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department as the key that led to a 40% reduction in homicides.
- Fyreball merged with Reach Machines. The name has been changed to Meteor Solutions and Ben Straley remains CEO of the combined entity.
- Yardbarker featured in a New York Post article entitled: SPORTS WEB SITE HAS LOUD 'BARK'.
- Ustream’s iPhone viewing application was downloaded 113,000 times in its first 24 hours of availability rocketing it to the top spot of the App Store’s Entertainment section.
- Aperto Networks joined the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA).
- PlayPhone appointed Kate Barry general manager for its EMEA operations. In 2008 Barry was named one of the ‘Top 50 Women in Mobile Content’
- Ustream announced a second iPhone application that will let users record and broadcast live video from the device as well as read and participate in users’ comments.
- Transpera announced partnerships with two of the industry's leading news and information brands, msnbc.com and The Weather Channel, to host and deliver mobile video services and targeted, dynamic mobile advertising.
- Ustream announced its iPhone application which enables users to watch any Ustream channel, live, directly from their iPhone as well as participate in the live chat around the video.
- EoPlex announced that Dr.
Marvin Kilgo has been elected an officer of the company. Prior to joining EoPlex in 2007, Dr. Kilgo was Senior Director of Process Engineering for Microfabrica. - Pandora was featured in 3 major public announcements at CES: Ford announced integration of Pandora into their next generation Sync service, Vizio announced integration of Pandora into its series of Internet connected TVs and Palm announced Pandora as one of a very small number of launch partners for their new -- and very well received – Palm Pre phone.
- Altierre was featured in an article in EE Times Asia entitled “Coming soon: WLAN-powered Supermarkets.”
