Web 2.0 Summit 2010 Sponsors

Comcast
Comcast is focused on creating innovative products that transform the way Americans experience entertainment, information and communication. The company has changed the way people watch television through on demand and online viewing, is the nation's largest residential ISP delivering broadband speeds of up to 100 Mbps, and is evolving communications as one of the leading phone providers in the country. Comcast invests in Internet innovation through Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Internet businesses and through Comcast Interactive Capital, its venture capital fund. Comcast's content businesses include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and Comcast Sports Group.

Bing
Bing.com is designed to help people overcome search overload and make faster, more informed decisions when searching online. No longer satisfied with the status quo of search, Microsoft designed Bing as a "decision engine" to provide people with intelligent search tools to help them simplify tasks and make more informed decisions, from simple decisions like choosing the fastest route to get home to more complex ones like researching a product purchase or planning a trip.

 

BlackBerry by Research In Motion
Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software, and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM's portfolio of award-winning products, services, and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, software development tools, radio-modems, and software/hardware licensing agreements. For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.

 

Dell
From Salesforce.com to Rackspace, Dell powers the web. Every day, over one billion people around the world are connecting on Dell's cloud solutions. Dell can help Web 2.0 companies of all sizes to build out hyper-scale infrastructure that is open, capable, and affordable. Dell has partnered with many of the world's largest cloud providers to develop new architectures that maximize cloud computing efficiency while driving effective use of capital.

Yahoo!
Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most visited Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (yodel.yahoo.com).

Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the world's leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry. Based in San Antonio, Texas, the company delivers enterprise-level hosting services to businesses of all sizes and kinds. Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies for each customer's specific need and delivers it as a service via the company's commitment to Fanatical Support®. Rackspace hosts more than 108,000 customers in nine data centers across the globe through their portfolio of hosted IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. Currently, 40% of FORTUNE® 100 companies trust Rackspace for their hosting needs. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.

Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners invests in visionary entrepreneurs and provides them the networks, insights and operational guidance required to build high-performance technology and healthcare companies. Founded in 1987, the firm has raised eight funds and completed more than 78 acquisitions and 53 IPOs. With $3 billion under management and a worldwide footprint, the firm is committed to catalyzing the growth of innovative digital media, communications & mobility, enterprise and clean tech companies. Among its successes are Associated Content, the people's media company; VOIP equipment supplier Acme Packet; CommerceOne, the company that pioneered B2B ecommerce; DoubleClick, the leading online advertising solution; Match.com, the most popular online dating site in the world; and SuccessFactors, the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions. Other Canaan investments include Active Networks, Blip.tv, Blurb, Lending Club, ON24, OpenSky, PrimeSense, Tremor Media, TweetPhoto, Watercooler and Zoosk. Canaan has offices in California, Connecticut, India and Israel. For more information visit www.canaan.com.

 

iStockphoto
iStockphoto is the world's original source for user-generated, royalty-free stock images, media and design elements. We have millions of affordable and safe stock photos, illustrations, video footage, audio tracks and Flash media. Whether you're a designer, entrepreneur, advertiser or blogger, we've got every image you can think of to help tell your story. Say anything with iStockphoto.

 

Ixaris
Ixaris develops innovative applications that make sending and receiving money fast, simple and economical. Its Opn (pronounced 'open') platform makes it possible for anyone to create and run payment applications that use global payment networks like Visa, MasterCard and SWIFT. Whether it's collecting money from any bank account around the world or sending money by issuing a Visa or MasterCard, Opn makes it easy. As the first open payment application platform that connects developers with global payment networks, Opn relies on ground-breaking proprietary technology and extensive banking relationships to allow entrepreneurs to develop new payment applications or simply enhance their existing applications with customized payment capabilities.

 

Meebo
Meebo--one of the Web's fastest growing consumer Internet companies--enables more than 180 million users to instantly connect across their favorite social media networks, and discover content across the Web. The Meebo experience provides websites with social functionality, empowers users to control their social experience with fun, simple and engaging tools, and provides an engaging platform for advertisers with a social twist. Meebo was founded in 2005 and is a privately held company. For more information, visit www.meebo.com.

 

Quova
Quova enables businesses to know where a visitor to their website is geographically located. And, when an organization knows where its users are, it can Geo-target advertising and content, prevent fraud, manage distribution of digital content, and localize the experience, all while respecting the privacy of their customers. Quova delivers the most detailed demographic and accurate network characteristic data about an IP address available.

 

TokBox
TokBox - one of the leading multi-way web video communications providers - is transforming how we communicate on the web. TokBox's robust platform makes it possible for developers to build multi-way video chat into their web experience through a rich set of APIs. Today TokBox powers video communication for more than 40 social, education and business applications including Meebo, Ning, AbilTo and ProctorU. TokBox is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit http://www.tokbox.com.

 

Unity Medical
Unity Medical, Inc., an award-winning innovator of healthcare technology seamlessly integrates short-form HD video with Web 2.0 tools to create best-in-class, patient engagement and knowledge-transfer platforms. By connecting patients, their families, and the extended medical community to safe and trusted, medically accurate, video-based, information; Unity Medical enables a patient-centered experience that bends the cost curve, measures behavior and improves outcomes. Unity Medical clients receive private label branding and include Payers, Providers, Medical Device Manufacturers and Healthcare Technology companies looking for new innovations in web-based (SaaS) technology.

Visa
Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, banks and governments in more than 200 countries and territories, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks.

.CO
.CO is the new web address that gives you a truly global, recognizable, and credible option for branding your online presence. It's the online space where possibility meets opportunity; where people can fulfill their dreams and the world's next great enterprises will have a home. 25 years after the introduction of .com, a new era of the Internet is born - an era where the name of your website, business or brand is based on what you really want - not just what's left over. Create your opportunity with a .CO domain. For more information, please visitwww.Opportunity.co and follow us @dotco.

 

Aperture
Aperture is an award-winning, unique media platform that combines household-level data with online consumer behavior to help advertisers accurately identify, reach and measure online target audiences. Aperture modules include Audience Discovery and Targeting, Audience Finder, Audience Reach and Audience ROI. The world's largest advertising agencies and global brands depend on Aperture to connect unique consumer audiences with the compelling content, products and services they desire.

 

Ask.com
Ask.com is the number one online brand for questions and answers and an operating business of IAC (NYSE: IACI). The Ask Network of sites is the 5th largest property in the US for unique searches according to July 2010 comScore data with 88 million domestic unique monthly users. Ask.com also syndicates search and advertising solutions to a network of affiliate partners.

 

Omidyar Network
Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm established by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam in 2004. The firm focuses its investments across two initiatives, Access to Capital and Media, Markets & Transparency. Through its Consumer Internet & Mobile investment area, Omidyar Network invests in consumer-facing online and mobile platforms. Of particular interest are those companies that enable person-to-person connections around shared interests, are community-based and have an eye toward making a positive societal impact. Omidyar Network's for-profit investments include: Digg, Federated Media, Linden Lab, Metaweb, Meetup, Seesmic, Viikii and Wikia. More about Omidyar Network: www.omidyar.com. Twitter: @Omidyar.

 

SendGrid
On average 20% of legitimate email never reaches the inbox. SendGrid is a cloud-based email service that delivers email on behalf of companies to increase deliverability and improve customer communications. Integration is simple, yet robust, through SMTP or our REST API. At SendGrid, we believe that email is the most efficient and effective way for a business to connect with its customers. For this reason, we are dedicated to enhancing customer engagement by ensuring that email reaches the inbox and allowing businesses to do more with email by leveraging our industry-leading email platform.

 

TriNet HR Corporation
TriNet is a trusted partner to small businesses, providing critical HR-related services on an outsourced basis. TriNet's solutions help contain costs, minimize employer-related risks, and relieve administrative burden to keep an entrepreneur's focus on core business functions. From routine employee benefits service and payroll processing to high-level human capital consulting, TriNet's PEO expertise is integrated with every facet of a client's business. TriNet specializes in serving fast-moving companies in fields such as technology and professional services, who recognize that top-quality employees are the most critical competitive asset. For more information, please visit http://www.trinet.com.

Wyse Technology
Wyse Technology is the global leader in Cloud Client Computing. Wyse portfolio includes industry-leading thin, zero and cloud PC client solutions with advanced management, desktop virtualization and cloud software supporting desktops, laptops and next generation mobile devices. Cloud client computing replaces the outdated computing model of the unsecure, unreliable, energy-intensive and expensive PC, all while delivering lower TCO and a superior user experience. Wyse has shipped more than 20 million units and has over 200 million people interacting with their products each day, enabling the leading private, public, hybrid and government cloud implementations worldwide. Wyse partners with Citrix®, IBM®, Microsoft®, VMware® and others.