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Portfolio Company News , 2004
December 20
InPhonic To Acquire A1 Wireless For $20.9 Million

December 16
Blackboard Course Cartridge Catalog Grows to More Than 3,500 Course Offerings

December 16
Blackboard Announces Appointment of Tim Hill as Senior Vice President of Marketing

December 14
Global eXchange Services Ranked a Leader in Emerging Product Information Management Solutions

December 14
RadioShack and InPhonic Initiate Online Sales of Mobile Handsets and Service Plans

December 14
StrikeIron Continues to Gain Momentum with more Finacial Services Offerings

December 9
Blackboard Wins Array of Government Clients Including US Army Training and Doctrine Command Schools

December 8
WIREFLY Debuts Online Holiday Shopping Catalog

December 8
George Washington University Selects BbOne(SM) to Manage Off-Campus Merchant Network

December 7
StrikeIron Expands Data Quality Offerings with Three New 24-Hour Directory Information Web Services

December 2
Global eXchange Services Doubles AS2 Services Adoption

December 1
Main Street VCs

December 1
Blackboard Used By More than 70% of Schools on the 'Forbes.com Most Connected Campuses' List

December 1
Gomez Holiday E-Tail Performance Index reveals a high degree of consistency in critical Internet application speed and availability across 26 leading online retail sites

November 30
Global eXchange Services and VeriSign Announce Partnership to Enhance GXS Trading GridSM with Electronic Product Codes

November 22
Global eXchange Services Accelerates Global Data Synchronization Network Adoption by Powering GS1 Data Pool for Hong Kong

November 22
StrikeIron named Early Stage Company of the Year

November 22
InPhonic Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering

November 19
Emageon Inc. Files Registration Statement with the SEC for an Initial Public Offering

November 16
StrikeIron Announces Beta Release of OnDemand Web Services for Excel

November 16
StrikeIron Expands WSBizNet with Five Financial Management Web Services

November 16
InPhonic Prices Initial Public Offering

November 16
Blackboard Communities of Practice Forum Live Online

November 15
Global eXchange Services Provides National Instruments with Order Lifecycle Visibility and Managed Services

November 15
Global eXchange Services Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in 2004 Integration Service Provider Magic Quadrant

November 11
Blackboard Expands BbOne(SM) Reach with a Dozen New Universities

November 9
International Growth, Strong Renewals Drive Gomez Q3 Success

November 9
Blackboard Inc. Announces Third Quarter Financial Results

November 9
StrikeIron adds D&B Business Information to its Roster of Premium Web Services

November 8
Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce Forges Strategic Partnership with MAP ROI™ to offer G-Force OpportunityNet™

November 8
Global eXchange Services and webMethods Form Strategic Partnership

November 8
Blackboard and North Carolina Community College System Offer Students and Faculty New e-Learning Options

November 8
Microsoft to Utilize MAP ROI's G-Force Solution to Enable Partners to Further Penetrate the Government Sector

November 4
Foresight Makes New Companion Guides Available Electronically to Customers Free of Charge

November 1
StrikeIron and DreamFactory Team Up To Deliver StrikeIron’s Premium Web Services to Salesforce.com Customers

October 27
Komatsu Zenoah and Iseki Select Global eXchange Services for Customer Order Management Solutions

October 27
Komatsu Zenoah and Iseki Select Global eXchange Services for Customer Order Management Solutions

October 27
City University of Hong Kong Moves to Blackboard

October 26
Centice Corporation Delivers on Promise of Computational Sensor Research

October 26
Centice Names Steve Kaye Chief Executive Officer

October 25
Associated Builders and Contractors Deploys G-Force OpportunityNetTM Powered by MAP ROI for Government Contractors

October 25
Emageon Attains Market Clearance for Diagnostic Viewing of Digital Mammography

October 22
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Expands Existing Blackboard System for Statewide e-learning Platform

October 21
Francisco Partners, Majority Shareholder of Global eXchange Services, to Acquire IBM’s EDI and Business Exchange Services Business

October 21
Blackboard Integrates with Macromedia Contribute 3 to Enhance Content Management Capabilities

October 20
Blackboard Learning System For Microsoft .NET Framework Unveiled

October 20
Global eXchange Services Launches Next Generation Suite of Extended Enterprise Forecast-to-Pay Applications for Trading Grid Platform

October 20
InPhonic Named #1 on the Inc. 500

October 20
Nobex, Biocon to Develop Oral Insulin Product

October 20
Wireless service provider, InPhonic, tops the 2004 Inc. 500 list.

October 20
Blackboard Reaches Out to Teachers Across the Country with New Online Course Contest and Grant Program

October 19
Three-Fourths of U.S.News & World Report's Top-Ranked National Universities Use Blackboard Software

October 19
U.S.News & World Report's Top Ranked Colleges and Universities Use Blackboard

October 18
Blackboard and MiCTA/ATAlliance Reach Agreement for e-Learning Products

October 18
Global eXchange Services Announces Addition to Executive Team

October 17
Novel Drug-Antidote Strategy Provides Greater Control of Drug Action

October 13
Norak Biosciences Partners With Purdue Pharma for Access to Transfluor® Technology

October 13
Metabolon Closes $9 Million Series A Funding Round

October 10
Covelight President Warns Against Danger of Web App Hacking

October 7
Homeland Security Industries Association Deploys G-Force™ by MAP ROI for Government Contracting Members

October 6
StrikeIron, Zack’s Team Up for On-Demand Wall Street Info

October 6
Norak Biosciences Signs License Agreement Granting Merck

October 5
Merix Bioscience Changes its Name to Argos Therapeutics

October 5
Merix Bioscience Changes its Name to Argos Therapeutics

October 4
Web services without warranties

September 30
Next Wave: Security hole offers a way in

September 28
Emageon Announces New Board Member

September 28
StrikeIron Offers Affiliate Program for Web Services

September 22
Covelight Systems Names Industry Veteran Jim Ford Vice President of Finance and Administration

September 22
Consulting Firm Adds StrikeIron Service to GoldMine

September 21
VECTORsgi and Foresight Alliance Automates HIPAA Transaction Processing

September 21
Blackboard Content System Wins Add to UK Success and Expansion

September 20
Blackboard to be Added to the Russell 2000(R) Index

September 20
InPhonic sets IPO at 7 M shares

September 16
One of Germany

September 16
Federal Business Council Deploys G-Force OpportunityNetTM Powered by MAP ROI for Government Contractors

September 16
MAP ROI and Dialog Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver Real-time News and Information to Government Contractors

September 13
University of London Consortium Adopts Blackboard Academic Suite

September 13
StrikeIron Launches Do Not Call Premium Web Service

September 8
Roche Has Exercised Its Second Year Option to Screen More GPCR Targets With Norak's Transfluor® Technology

September 7
MAP ROI and Bayesian Systems Announce New Integrated Solution for Identifying, Evaluating, and Tracking Government Contracting Opportunities

September 7
Blackboard Partners with blendedschools.net to Bring eLearning to 80 Rural School Districts

September 2
Colby-Sawyer College Selects Blackboard for Transaction Card Program

September 1
Blackboard and MERLOT Broaden Learning Network

August 27
TriVirix Sets Pace for 2004 North Carolina ‘Top 50’ Tech Firms

August 25
StrikeIron Lands $2.6M From Familiar Faces at Aurora

August 19
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama Adopts Foresight Technology for Claims Performance

August 19
Foresight's New InStream™ Acknowledgment Interpreter Improves Partner Communications

August 18
Quixtar Names InPhonic 2004 Partner of the Year

August 15
Protection Against Friendly Fire

August 11
Norak Will Combine Its Transfluor® Technology, High Throughput Screening Systems and Diverse Compound Library to Discover GPCR-Based Active Ingredients

August 10
Lundbeck Has Exercised Its Option to Screen Another GPCR Target at Norak With Transfluor® Technology

August 10
Merix Bioscience Announces New Leadership and Board Members

August 9
Metabolon Awarded Biomarker Study from NINDS

August 4
U.S. Patent Claims Cover Broad Transfluor® Compositions of Matter

August 3
Gómez Senior Management Team Strengthened With Strategic Sales Hire

July 27
Gómez Continues Growth Run In Recently Completed Q2

July 22
Foresight Announces Full NCPDP Support

July 21
Foresight Growth Fuels Expansion

June 30
Emageon Announces New Board Members and General Counsel

June 22
Merix and Kirin to Develop Personalized Dendritic Cell Vaccines for Cancer, HIV and Other Disease

June 21
Emageon Announces Promotions

June 15
Blackboard Inc. is IPO of the week

June 10
Foresight and Pacific Dental Benefits, Inc. Announce Contract for InStream™

June 8
Global eXchange Services Announces Worldwide Restructuring Program to Improve its Competitive Position

June 8
Merix Bioscience Launches Trial for New Kidney Cancer Vaccine

June 7
Foresight Corporation Hires Satyen Hombali as Director of Product Management

June 7
Covelight Systems Releases Covelight Percept – The First Application-Level Threat and Risk Management Security Appliance

June 7
Software helps contractors find opportunities, manage proposals

June 7
Geron Reports Presentation of Positive Results of Telomerase Cancer Vaccine Clinical Trial

May 26
Blackboard Launches New Software Release Strategy for Education Industry“Application Packs” to deliver new innovations faster through easy-to-manage software updates

May 24
Blackboard and Giunti Interactive Labs announce Strategic Technical Alliance

May 24
Former President and CEO of the CTIA Joins InPhonic's Board of Directors

May 20
Gómez Unveils Next-Generation Internet Performance Management Solution

May 19
Emageon Announces Contracted Backlog Has Exceeded $100M

May 18
Emageon Announces Financing Agreement with IBM Global Financing

May 11
Blackboard to Power Online Community For 25th National Educational Computing Conference (NECC)

May 5
Technology Marketing Veteran Dr. James Neiser Joins StrikeIron

May 5
Transaction Insight™ From Foresight Corp Provides First BAM Based Transaction Processing Solution for Healthcare

May 4
TriVirix Enters Manufacturing Agreement with QRS Diagnostic

May 1
Centice wins the 2004 Duke University Start-Up Challenge

April 29
TriVirix Forms Manufacturing Partnership with Sterion

April 28
Blackboard Appoints Frank R. Gatti to Board of DirectorsSenior Financial Executive to Chair Audit Committee

April 26
Strong Gómez Q1 2004 Results Driven By Accelerating Global Account Growth

April 26
Metabolon Moves to New Location

April 13
Norak Biosciences and SCYNEXIS Announce Chemistry Collaboration

April 13
Gomez - Internet Performance Management Specialist Expands To Germany

April 6
Blackboard Inc. and Open Universiteit Nederland Announce Strategic Alliance

April 6
Norak Biosciences Licenses Transfluor® to DCB

April 6
Development Center for Biotechnology in Taiwan will use Norak's Transfluor® for GPCR Drug Discovery in Government Sponsored Research

April 1
WiDeFi Secures $6.8 Million in Venture Capital

March 30
Patent Issuance Represents Broadened Claims Protecting Norak's Proprietary Transfluor ® Technology

March 23
Norak Biosciences Delivers on an Agreement with Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals

March 17
FDA clears Stemco's Aldecount 510(k) submission

March 11
Paradigm Genetics Completes Acquisition of TissueInformatics, Inc. Positioning Paradigm Genetics as a Systems Biology Leader

March 11
Untangling Your Wireless Number

March 9
Foresight increases transaction processing speeds 4X

March 9
Real-Time Filtering Capabilities from Foresight Significantly Increase Efficiency of Transaction Process

February 19
NOBEX Oral Insulin Study Results Published in Metabolism

February 18
StrikeIron Praised for Innovation in Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures

February 17
Dow to Produce NOBEX Peptide in Plant-Based System

February 16
Company Committed to the Support of SCORM 1.2 Content in the Latest Release of the Blackboard Learning System

February 13
Global eXchange Services Completes Acquisition of HAHT Commerce

February 12
Metabolon Awarded Biomarker Study Collaboration Funded by the ALS Association

February 12
Blackboard Releases Building Block APIs Built on the Microsoft .NET Framework

February 12
Blackboard Inc. Named a Finalist in Three SIIA Codie Award Categories

February 11
Norak Partners with Cropsolution for Compound Library Access

February 6
NOBEX Announces Personnel Changes to Support Drug Pipeline Advancements

January 29
Foresight and SBPA Systems Announce Product Integration Agreement

January 29
Paradigm Genetics to Acquire TissueInformatics Creating a Unique Systems Biology Platform for Life Sciences Discovery

January 23
Metabolon Selects ESA CoulArray® Technology for Key Metabolomics Studies

January 22
Strong Customer And Investor Confidence And Industry Recognition Mark Banner Year For Gómez

January 21
Emageon Joins IBM's ISV Advantage Initiative to Help SMB Customers in Medical Imaging and Information Industry

January 20
Emageon to Provide Intelligent Visual Medical System and Workflow Integration to Lourdes Hospital

January 20
Emageon to Provide Intelligent Visual Medical System and Workflow Integration to Lourdes Hospital

January 8
Emageon to Provide Intelligent Visual Medical System for Wisconsin's ThedaCare

January 6
Norak Enters Research Evaluation Agreeement With National Cancer Institute