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RollStream and Natural Insight Partner to Provide New Supply Chain Management and Execution Capabilities 
July 13, 2010
Sterling, VA — RollStream Inc., the leader in enterprise community management and Natural Insight, the leading web-based platform for task management and workforce optimization, today announced a channel partnership to help large enterprises optimize their supply chain operations by improving execution management processes and boosting trading partner compliance and performance. The joint offering brings together RollStream’s community management platform with Natural Insight’s workforce platform to accelerate task plan creation, enhance in-store project execution and improve overall trading partner collaboration and compliance to drive new supply chain efficiencies.

Hungry for funding, start-ups to pitch companies at Grubstake Breakfast
June 7, 2010
A technology veteran, Cindy Crump got interested in the idea of remotely monitoring someone's health as a way to keep tabs on her own mother. Todd Walrath decided to build a company to help people sort through senior living options after his own frustrations trying to research choices for an elderly relative.  The two entrepreneurs are among five selected to pitch their companies to investors on Thursday at what the Business Alliance for Innovation and Entrepreneurship calls its "Grubstake Breakfast" at the Ritz-Carlton in McLean.

WorkProducts Exhibits eDiscovery Product in Microsoft Partner Pavilion, "SharePoint 2010 Summit", During Annual AIIM Conference and Expo in Philadelphia
April 20, 2010
Philadelphia, PA - April 20, 2010 - WorkProducts, the revolutionary provider of the Microsoft^® Office-based MatterSpace^® ELM product for legal and IT professionals, announced today that the company was chosen by Microsoft to participate in the "SharePoint 2010 Summit" and to demo its solution in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion during the annual AIIM Conference and Expo that opens today in Philadelphia. The AIIM conference is the leading industry event that focuses on information and content management. The SharePoint 2010 Summit, supported by Microsoft, takes place during the AIIM Expo and features a selected group of certified Microsoft software partners whose solutions specifically complement the SharePoint 2010 platform.

Leading eDiscovery & Information Governance Counsel join Microsoft and WorkProducts for eDiscovery Roundtable at Annual CLM Conference
March 18, 2010
Chantilly, Virginia - March 18, 2010 - WorkProducts, the revolutionary provider of the Microsoft® Office-based MatterSpace® ELM product for legal and IT professionals, announced today that the Company founder and a senior Microsoft executive have been selected to lead a roundtable discussion on eDiscovery during the annual conference of the Council on Litigation Management (CLM). The session, scheduled for Thursday, March 25th, takes place in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida where more than 600 corporate attorneys, risk managers, litigation support professionals and other executives in the litigation field will gather to discuss best practices. WorkProducts has been named a Gold sponsor of this prestigious event.

WorkProducts Partners with Microsoft/FAST to Present Summit Series on Enterprise Search
March 3, 2010
Chantilly, Virginia - March 3, 2010 - WorkProducts, the revolutionary provider of the Microsoft® Office-based MatterSpace® ELM product for legal and IT professionals, announced today that the Company has teamed with Microsoft to sponsor a three-city Summit Series focusing on innovation in Enterprise Search trends.

Microsoft and WorkProducts Provide Webcast: "Harnessing the Microsoft® Office Platform to Reduce Info Governance and eDiscovery Cost and Risk"
February 1, 2010
New York City – February 1, 2010 – WorkProducts, the revolutionary provider of the Microsoft® Office-based MatterSpace® ELM product for legal and IT professionals, announced at the opening of today's LegalTech Conference in New York City, the sponsorship of two upcoming webcasts with Microsoft Search Evangelist Nate Treloar on February 8th and 11th at 12:00 noon EST. The one hour web program, "Harnessing the Microsoft® Office Platform to Reduce Information Governance and eDiscovery Cost and Risk," is designed for executives in IT, information security, risk and compliance management, records management as well as for corporate attorneys, their litigation support teams and their outside legal counsel.

WorkProducts Offers FREE Trial of Award-Winning, Microsoft Office-Based MatterSpace ® ELM Product for Corporate IT/Legal Departments and Law Firms
January 27, 2010
Chantilly, VA – January 27, 2010 – WorkProducts, the revolutionary provider of the Microsoft Office-based MatterSpace® ELM product for legal and IT professionals, announced today a FREE product trial in celebration of the upcoming LegalTech® conference and technology trade show in New York City on February 1-3. The Company's award-winning software product reduces risk and cost associated with information governance and eDiscovery for corporations and their outside legal teams involved in litigation.

Miserware Energy Saving Software now Cross-Platforms
January 18, 2010
Perhaps you will recall the Miserware power saving software I blogged about last year?  I’m still running it on all of my machines here and it has been great – I really don’t notice it at all. It just sits in the background and according to the logs is saving between ~20% & ~60% power consumption by my various CPUs. And that’s just what it should do.

The Scientist Magazine 2009 Top 10 Innovations 
Global Cell Solution's Benchtop BioLevitator was named a 2009 Top 10 Innovation by The Scientist Magazine.  Besides creating a 3D culture, which is closer to an in vivo enviroment, the BioLevitator also allows researchers to grow more cells in less time relative to 2D culture. 

Natural Insight Community Continues Rapid Growth 
November 10, 2009
Sterling, VA — The national and regional economic picture may still be anemic, but for one Northern Virginia technology standout, the outlook is quite healthy. Natural Insight is continuing its record of strong growth, even in a tough business environment. Over the past year, the advanced workforce management solution provider has seen its community of active users grow by more than 78%.

KZO Innovations Selected as a Top 100 Private Company Contributing to the Renewed and Continued Prosperity of Our Country 
October 15, 2009, Business Wire
RESTON, Va.-- KZO Innovations today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDC Top 100 Winners. Inclusion in the OnDC 100 signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities that contribute to the renewed and continued prosperity of our country. KZO was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

Mplayit Teams Up With Player X To Launch New Game Discovery Service On O2 UK
October 8, 2009
Washington DC, London, October 8th, 2009 — Mplayit (formerly Mpowerplayer), the leading provider of online mobile game discovery and merchandising solutions, announced today a partnership with Player X to power online games distribution on http://www.o2.co.uk.

Verical launches online component market to defeat counterfeit chip fraud
October 7, 2009
Verical is launching an online market for buying and selling electronic components from legitimate suppliers. The market is an effort to combat the mushrooming problem of counterfeit chips.

Verical Launches Electronic Components Marketplace
October 7, 2009, Business Wire
SAN FRANCISCO - Verical, Inc., the Electronic Components Marketplace, today announced the production launch of its online trading platform for global high tech manufacturers and distributors of electronic components. Countering major risks to the high tech supply chain, the Verical Marketplace uses information and technology to create a unique pedigree scoring system for component parts available in its catalog at www.verical.com.

Start-up Electronics Marketplace Aims to Thwart Counterfeits
October 6, 2009
An online marketplace for high-tech electronics will launch tomorrow with a strategy to filter out counterfeit parts and offer anonymous, secure transactions to buyers and sellers in the secondary market. Verical, a start-up backed by venture capital firm Valhalla, qualifies the sellers in its network and audits the inventory in its Web-based catalog, assigning a rating to each part based on its chain of custody, or pedigree. This enables sellers to turn their excess inventories into cash, and buyers to know just what they’re getting, co-founder John Brown, vice president of marketing & strategy, told Managing Automation in a recent interviewWhile the issue of counterfeit electronic components is not new, many in the supply chain believe the problem is getting worse as more bogus parts are being passed off as genuine components.  While there are no hard-and-fast figures that show the dollar impact of counterfeit parts in the electronic components industry, many believe more parts are being counterfeited and counterfeiters are getting better at what they do, making it harder to identify fake parts.

Firm’s drug could be a brain cancer breakthrough
October 4, 2009
A Charlottesville-based company is hoping its drug therapy program will one day prolong and enhance the lives of cancer patients.  Tau Therapeutics, a start-up company with ties to the University of Virginia, has developed a drug treatment it believes will stop the growth of cancer cells.  The treatment, known as Interlaced Cytostatic Checkpoint Therapy, accumulates and destroys cancer cells while causing no damage to healthy cells.

Mplayit and Metaflow partner to make life easier for leading mobile publishers and operators
September 29, 2009
Washington DC, London, - Mplayit (formerly Mpowerplayer), the leading provider of online mobile game discovery and merchandising solutions, announced today a partnership with content submissions and ingestion specialist Metaflow. The deal allows publishers and operators to upload content into the growing Mplayit eco-system with even greater ease.

KZO Innovations Secures Strategic Partnership and Technology Development Agreement with In-Q-Tel to Support the U.S. Intelligence Community 
September 17, 2009
While the issue of counterfeit electronic components is not new, many in the supply chain believe the problem is getting worse as more bogus parts are being passed off as genuine components.  While there are no hard-and-fast figures that show the dollar impact of counterfeit parts in the electronic components industry, many believe more parts are being counterfeited and counterfeiters are getting better at what they do, making it harder to identify fake parts.

Electronic Component conterfeiters are getting smarter
September 17, 2009
While the issue of counterfeit electronic components is not new, many in the supply chain believe the problem is getting worse as more bogus parts are being passed off as genuine components.  While there are no hard-and-fast figures that show the dollar impact of counterfeit parts in the electronic components industry, many believe more parts are being counterfeited and counterfeiters are getting better at what they do, making it harder to identify fake parts.

Southside companies meet with national leaders
August 25, 2009
Two Southside bioenergy companies gave Washington their two cents. The leaders of Piedmont BioProducts LLC, of Gretna, and Red Birch Energy LLC, of Martinsville, attended the Regional Energy Leadership Briefing in Washington on Monday with about 100 other business and nonprofit leaders and state lawmakers.

EPOVA Releases New Product
August 22, 2009
EPOVA announced it has started production and shipped another new product, Skirted Coil Support Blocks, in August.  Utilizing their internal IP, in-house Rapid Prototyping equipment, and exclusive Rapid Prototyping processes, EPOVA has dramatically reduced traditional costs and set-up time associated with the Pressure Gelation and Injection Molding methods.  They are now manufacturing Large Skirted Coil Support Blocks and other fixtures for a world class transformer manufacturer.  They are able to manufacture large and even small quantities of parts cost effectively by virtually eliminating exorbitant tooling and set-up costs.  Traditional tooling charges have always inhibited or prevented the production of unique or lower volume parts and fixtures.  Using internal IP, EPOVA can eliminate typical tooling costs of $25,000 - $45,000 per part based on design.  Their processes also reduce initial set-up and tooling manufacture time.

Mplayit expands internationally through partnership with Cellcom, Israel’s leading cellular operater
August 11, 2009
Washington, DC, August 11, 2009 – Mplayit (formerly Mpowerplayer), the leading provider of online mobile game discovery and merchandising solutions, announced today the launch of the Mplayit Mobile Arcade application for Cellcom, Israel’s premier mobile operator. 

Natural Insight Expands Management Team with SaaS Veteran Steve Brown
August 11, 2009
Sterling, VA, August 11, 2009 – Natural Insight, developer of a fast and flexible solution for managing distributed workforces, today announced the appointment of SaaS veteran Steve Brown as the company's new VP of sales and business development.. 

Mplayit iPhone Arcade brings award-winning App discovery and social merchandising to Facebook
August 5, 2009
Washington, DC, August 5, 2009 – Mplayit (formerly Mpowerplayer), the leading provider of online mobile game discovery and social merchandising solutions, announced today the launch of the Mplayit iPhone Arcade on Facebook.

Microsoft and WorkProducts Partner to Deliver MatterSpace® ELM for eDiscovery
July 20, 2009
Chantilly, VA - WorkProducts and Mircosft, in their quest to bridge the gap between information management and electronic data discovery for IT and Legal, today announced the release of MatterSpace® ELM.  Built on Microsoft technologies and commited to riding the Microsoft Office 2010 Wave, MatterSpace ELM is the first enterprise eDiscovery software product in the market that integrates Restention/Preservation managment, early case assessment, case strategy, and ESI production.  Through this advanced offering, corporate legal and outside counsel can now manage and synchronize information "behind the firewall" and "in the cloud" in order to iteratively make "Try vs. Settle" decisions throughtout each case.

Venture Capitalist Group Leads the Way Where Some Angels Fear to Tread
April 15, 2009, Singal
Entrepreneurs who focus on military, intelligence, law enforcement or homeland security technology solutions can turn to the dark side for investment capital. While reports about “angel investors” have been scarce in these days of global recession, one organization continues to explore and support companies in these high-growth industries. D’ArchAngels comprises a network of relatively high-net-worth individuals with backgrounds in several different national security areas.

Robin Felder Receives Award for Leadership in Laboratory Automation and Robotics
April 8, 2009
Charlottesville, Virginia (April 8, 2009) – Global Cell Solutions announces that Robin A. Felder, Ph.D., the company’s chairman and co-founder, has received the 2009 Engelberger Robotics Award for Leadership, the highest recognition given by the Robotics Industries Association (RIA). Felder is a professor at the University of Virginia and an entrepreneur. The award was presented last month at the association’s 40th International Symposium on Robotics in Barcelona Spain, and is named after Joseph F. Engelberger, a world-renowned pioneer and leader in industrial robotics.

Mpowerplayer Taps Craig Dalton as Vice President of Business Development
March 3, 2009, PRWeb
Ashburn, VA -- Mpowerplayer, the leader in playable discovery and social selling solutions for mobile content, announced today that it has hired Craig Dalton as its vice president of business development. In this position, Dalton will be responsible for establishing strategic relationships with mobile operators and distribution partners looking to increase existing and develop new revenue streams using Mpowerplayer's online trial and merchandising solutions.

Mpowerplayer Defines Social Audience for Mobile Games
February 13, 2009, PRWeb
Ashburn, VA -- Mpowerplayer, the leading provider of mobile content storefronts for Web sites and social networks, today shared insights collected from the recent launch of its Mplayit Mobile Arcade application on the Facebook and MySpace platforms. Launched in December 2008, the application allows consumers to discover and try mobile games directly in their Web browser. 

South49 Solutions Completes Series A Financing, Enabling Continued Growth in New Markets
February 4, 2009, PRNewswire
STERLING, Va. and BETHLEHEM, Pa., -- South49 Solutions, a leading provider of solutions for managing distributed workforces, announced the completion of a $1.2 Million Series A financing round, led by Originate Ventures ofBethlehem, Pennsylvania. Several existing Angel investors also participated in the round and convertible debt holders, such as the Herndon-basedCenter for Innovative Technology's CIT GAP Funds, are being converted to shareholders. Thanks to South49 Solutions' success in optimizing workforce management processes, its clients are growing and improving worker productivity, even in a slumping economy.

Mpowerplayer to Showcase New Surfmo Application from Xpressmo
January 28, 2009, PRWeb
Ashburn, Virginia -- Mpowerplayer, the leading provider of online mobile application trial and merchandising solutions, and Xpressmo, a publishing and platform provider for mobile devices, today announced that Xpressmo will showcase it's new Surfmo consumer portal application utilizing Mpowerplayer's online demo platform. Mpowerplayer's solution will make Surfmo, a comprehensive mashup application that incorporates weather, news, sports, movies and music as a unified experience, available to online consumers seeking to try Surfmo before purchasing.

Software Product Start-ups are Still Getting Funding in This Economy
January 27, 2009, GlobalLogic Verision 1.0
So, just how has the global economic contraction affected technology entrepreneurs and innovators financially? More precisely, what affect has it had on the ability of those same entrepreneurs to get funding? You may find the answer both predictable and surprising at the same time. For this post, we narrowed the analysis to funding by both VC and PE firms of software product companies in the Medical, Telecom (Mobile inclusive), Consumer and Enterprise domains. We defined Consumer as Gaming, eTailing, Media and Entertainment, Travel and Hospitality, Social Media, Education and Training. For Enterprise, we focused mainly on BI, Logistics, Fraud Detection, Lending Management, Payment Processing and Wealth Investment products. The majority of funded product companies are headquartered in the US. We used a number of data sources, both paid and freely available on the Web.

Change Sweeping to the FCC (mpower investor)
January 15, 2009, The Washington Post
Obama's pick, a venture capitalist, could shift commission's focus to internet.  Julius Genachowski, technology adviser to President-elect Barack Obama, is poised to become chairman of the Federal Communications Commission at a time when communications policy lies at the intersection of sweeping changes in the high-tech business landscape.

KZO's Interactive Video Platform Provides UICDS Homeland Security Initiative with Unified Communications and Collaboration Environment 
January 14, 2009, Business Wire
RESTON, Va.- KZO Innovations is supporting the Department of Homeland Security’s Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS) initiative with their recently released version 2.0 SaaS implementation of the KZO Platform.

Mpowerplayer Unveils Mplayit Mobile Arcade For MySpace
December 22, 2008, PRWeb
Ashburn, VA -- Mpowerplayer, the leading provider of online mobile game trial and merchandising solutions, announced today the launch of the Mplayit Mobile Arcade application for MySpace.  

Mpowerplayer Brings Mobile Games to Facebook
December 8, 2008, All Facebook
Facebook app that lets you play and purchase mobile games. Creating a sort of portal for mobile games like Sims Bowling and Guitar Hero, Mpowerplayer has combined the mobile gaming experience with the online environment, inside of a Facebook application.  

KZO Innovations Starts Up With Series A Financing
December 4, 2008, VentureDeal.com
Herndon, Virginia -- Video software company KZO Innovations has raised $1.68 million in its first round of institutional venture capital financing.

RollStream lands $6M B round led by Core Capital
November 18, 2008, Tech Journal South
FAIRFAX, VA - RollStream, a Fairfax-based company selling supply chain management and communication process software, has closed a $6 million B round of funding led by Core Capital Partners with existing investor Grotech Ventures participating.

Charlottesville-Based STR Raises $3.5 Million in First Round
September 15, 2008, Potomac Tech Wire
Charlottesville, Va. -- Soft Tissue Regeneration (STR), a Charlottesville-based medical technology firm that develops synthetic scaffolds that help encourage tissue regeneration, said that it has raised $3.5 million in its first round of funding, led by MentorTech Ventures.

Mpowerplayer Grabs $2.5M for Mobile Games
September 10, 2008, TechJournal South
RESTON, VA - Mpowerplayer, a provider of mobile game trial and merchandising solutions for the wireless industry, has secured $2.5 million in Series A funding.

CIT GAP Funds Company Awarded SBIR Grant
July 22, 2008, CIT
The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced today that Innovative Biologics, Inc. (IBI), a CIT GAP BioLife Fund portfolio company, received a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  

DS3 DataVaulting and Technology Partner, WorkProducts, Win Asigra's "Best Practices in Intelligent Retention Management" Award
July 14, 2008
Chantilly, VA and Reston, VA…July 14, 2008 - DS3 DataVaulting, a customer-oriented solutions provider dedicated to data management excellence, and WorkProducts, architect of the MatterSpace® Evidence Lifecycle Management (ELM) solution for bridging the gap between information management and electronic data discovery, today announced that they were named the winner of Asigra's (www.Asigra.com) annual "Best Practices in Intelligent Retention Management" award. This honor, bestowed at Asigra's annual Innovations Conference held in Toronto, Ontario June 23 through 27 2008, recognized DS3 DataVaulting's unique and innovative integration of the MatterSpace® ELM application with their DS3 DataVaulting service.

Global Cell Solutions Awarded Phase IB for National Science Foundation Grant "Cryopreserved Cells as Reagents." June 24, 2008
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, June 24, 2008 – Global Cell Solutions (GCS) announced it has received a Phase IB grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) to continue its study to cryopreserve mammalian cells on GCS’ GEM™ substrate. 

NaturalInsight Continues Expansion of Industry Leading Capabilities
June 18, 2008, MarketWatch.com
STERLING, Va., Jun 18, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- NaturalInsight, a leading edge provider of Web-based workforce management solutions, today announced expanded capabilities of its workforce management solution. The Web-based solution has added work validation and tracking components which allow companies to better manage large-scale projects in various job locations.

In Vivo Efficacy of B-Cyclodextrin Derivatives against Anthrax Lethal Toxin
June, 2008
 

Center for Innovative Technology invests $100K in WorkProducts
May 20, 2008, Washington Business Journal
Reston-based WorkProducts, which makes software that ensures that electronic legal information is compiled properly, will use the funding to strengthen its intellectual property protection efforts and to continue garnering both partnerships and customers.

CIT GAP Funds Invests in WorkProducts, Inc.
May 20, 2008, redOrbit
The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) today announced that CIT GAP Funds is investing in WorkProducts, Inc., a Reston, Va.- based company with a market-leading evidence lifecycle management (ELM)/litigation compliance product, the MatterSpace(R) appliance. WorkProducts will use this capital to continue its customer and alliance partner execution, as well as to fortify its intellectual property protection.

Global Cell Solutions and Hamilton Company Unveil its Automated 3-D Cell Culture Solution at LabAutomation 2008  January 28, 2008
PALM SPRINGS, CA (USA), January 27, 2008 – Global Cell Solutions (GCS) and Hamilton Company today presented the BioLevitator™ and CellSTAR 3D systems as a major advancement in cell culture within the background of one of the largest laboratory automation conferences worldwide, LabAutomation 2008.

Emergency Alert System Uses Cellphones in Specific Areas
January 7, 2008, Washington Post
A year ago, a fire broke out in one of the five oil refineries in Contra Costa County in Northern California, spewing fumes into the air in Richmond. Local officials wanted to send cellphone message alerts to everyone near the fire. But they could only reach, through a statewide system, the mobile phones of people who had registered their street addresses and phone numbers, and would miss visitors.