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Pump Audio

s2admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:09:30 +0000

Founded in 2001, Pump Audio is a new kind of agent for independent musicians, digitally connecting them with buyers in the mainstream media. With Pump Audio, artists can license their music into productions without giving up any ownership, while TV and advertising producers can discover new music ready for use. With a growing catalog of tens of thousands of songs, all by independent artists from around the world, customers access music through Pump’s innovative search software and delivery services, the Soundtrack Service online, and the PumpBox™, which is currently on the desktops of thousands of creative professionals worldwide.

Sulia

s2admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:09:30 +0000

Sulia is a realtime media company focused on filtering Twitter into compelling, high-quality content Channels from just the best experts. Sulia creates Channels by continuously analyzing tens of millions of Twitter Lists to determine the best-regarded sources at any moment in time. The company then uses a combination of machine learning and human supervision to filter out all off-topic, spammy, and profane content from these sources. The result is high-quality realtime Channels that are always on-topic, readable, and relevant. Sulia currently has Channels on over 1,000 evergreen topics, and creates Channels everyday on timely events and breaking news. Sulia makes it Channels available to media companies. Channels are featured on leading sites and apps such as FlipBoard, WSJ.com, Gannett properties and Everyday Health.

TechMediaNetwork

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TechMediaNetwork is a leading technology media company that produces news and reviews reaching more than 16 million monthly visitors. TechMediaNetwork has reviewed more than 500 categories of products and services at TopTenREVIEWS.com, and publishes news, features and commentary at SPACE.com, LiveScience.com, Newsarama.com, TechNewsDaily.com, iPadNewsDaily.com, OurAmazingPlanet.com, BusinessNewsDaily.com, and LifesLittleMysteries.com. The company distributes content through its owned and operated Web sites, syndication partners, and Web site partners.

Travora Media

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Travora Media Inc. is the next generation of travel media and information –– 300 sites and 35 million travelers strong. Travora offers exclusive publisher representation across all stages of the travel lifecycle. Publishers include the ever-inspiring Rough Guides, Let’s Go, Not For Tourists, Vayama, Viator and Rand McNally. Exclusive representation means turnkey sales solutions for publishers, and total access to a 100% Travel Qualified audience for brands.

Insight Guru (d.b.a. Trefis)

s2admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:09:30 +0000

Led by MIT engineers and Wall Street analysts, Trefis.com helps you understand how a company’s products, that you touch, read, or hear about everyday, impact its stock price. You can play with assumptions, or try scenarios, as well as ask questions to other users and experts. The platform uses extensive data to show in a single snapshot what drives the value of a company’s business.

Trefis makes the same content, data, and tools that are currently available only to professional investors today, accessible to everyone. Importantly, it makes the extensive data/tools easy to use and understand, allowing investors to leverage the platform in their decision making much more efficiently than anything else available.

Babble

s2admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:09:30 +0000

Babble is a parenting magazine targeting young, educated, urban parents. Launched in December 2006, Babble already has a National Magazine Award nomination for Best Overall Website (opposite Slate.com) and a Folio magazine award for Best Online Magazine (beating out everyone but Time.com). Time recently named it one of the Top 50 websites of 2010.

Eating Well

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The EatingWell Media Group is a fast-growing, independent communications company producing an award-winning national consumer magazine, high-quality food and nutrition-related books, a content-rich website, e-mail newsletters, and serving content to strategic partners with other electronic media.
EatingWell has a 20-year reputation for delivering cutting-edge, authoritative, science-based nutrition articles and delicious recipes that represent a fusion of good taste and good health.

Everyday Health

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Everyday Health is a leading provider of health solutions. The company provides consumers, healthcare professionals, and brands with content and advertising-based services across a broad portfolio of over 25 websites that span the health spectrum – from in-depth medical content for condition prevention and management to lifestyle offerings in pregnancy, diet and fitness. With over 27 million unique users each month (source: comScore), Everyday Health offers users the tools, community, and expert advice they need to live healthier, every day.

Health Guru

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HealthGuru.com is the leading destination site for health video on the web (comScore Video Metrix, November 2010). Our unique approach to health education was developed specifically for the “under 35″ demographic, and is differentiated in three key ways.

Makeover Solutions

s2admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:09:30 +0000

Makeover Solutions, Inc., is an interactive media company that has been developing and delivering image processing tools and has just delivered its fourth generation virtual try-on technology. The company introduced its consumer-facing brand, Daily Makeover and its online beauty community, DailyMakeover.com in 2007. Makeover Solutions has incorporated its innovative “try-on” technology into its Makeover Studio application, which allows women to create virtual makeover and view representations of themselves wearing a wide variety of hairstyles, cosmetics and accessories. Its image gallery includes more than 8,000 hairstyles and 7,000 cosmetics and accessories women can try-on.