Web 2.0 Expo SF Sponsors

Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Microsoft provides an integrated platform and suite of online services that enables a seamless experience for developers, consumers, and businesses across platforms, applications, and devices. From Silverlight to ASP.NET, Windows Server to SharePoint, Live Services to Internet Explorer, Microsoft is the only company with the full complement of technologies and solutions that can foster the next wave of innovation on the Web. Get ahead of your competition and grow your business on the Web by delivering new user experiences and capabilities that your customers demand.

.CO
.CO is the new domain extension that gives you a truly global, recognizable, and credible web address for branding your online presence. This Summer, 25 years after the introduction of .com, a new era of the Internet will be 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. .CO is the online space where possibility meets opportunity; where people can fulfill their dreams and the world's next generation of great enterprises will have a home. Create Your Opportunity at Booth 714 or www.cointernet.co

Adobe Systems, Inc.
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For 25 years, the company's award-winning software and technologies have redefined business, entertainment and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and felt by anyone who creates, views and interacts with information. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies.

Ericsson
At Ericsson we are using innovation to empower people, business and society. We assist innovators - application and software developers - to find inspiration and turn ideas into reality. Ericsson Labs provides the tools and resources in beta state and offers opportunities for exploring new technologies. Once you have an application, our eStore developer program opens up a billion-user market space for distribution, regardless of platform or device.

Germany Trade & Invest
Germany Trade & Invest is the foreign trade and inward investment promotion agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. The organization advises and supports foreign companies seeking to expand into the German market, and assists companies established in Germany looking to enter foreign markets. Visit us online at www.gtai.com. All inquiries relating to Germany as a business location are treated confidentially. All investment services and related publications are free of charge.

IBM
IBM, an industry leader in providing Web 2.0 solutions for business, is helping companies of all sizes across the globe enable better business results through the participatory nature of Web 2.0 technologies and culture. IBM's extensive software, services, and hardware offerings leverage deep industry knowledge to deliver solutions that allow organizations to create more effective relationships across customers, suppliers, partners, and employees, increase the agility of their workforce, reuse existing technology investments, and drive cost savings across a given company.

Berlin Partner
As a quickly growing hub for global information technology innovation and strategy, Berlin means business for web companies looking to expand to Europe and Germany. Our goal as the business development agency for the Berlin region is to provide strategic support to companies and investors considering Berlin as a business location. We help companies apply for grants and subsidies, find the right location and personnel, and connect with government agencies, scientific communities, and other local companies. Berlin and the surrounding region of Brandenburg also offer a host of financial incentives to investors, including reimbursement grants of up to 50 percent of a company's investment in the capital region.

blueKiwi
blueKiwi is the Global Conversation Company. Founded in 2006, our mission is to teach companies to engage the collective voices of the Web, in conversation, in order to deliver better products and services. Our flagship product the blueKiwi Social Business Platform enables marketers and community managers to easily build, monitor and manage external communities and bring the best conversations internally for ideation, development and delivery. Our customers and partners include leading global brands such as, Alcatel-Lucent, BNP Paribas, Cap Gemini, Dassault Systemes, Microsoft, Nokia and Rainmaker. So join us and turn fruitful conversations into real business actions at www.bluekiwi.net

EffectiveUI
EffectiveUI is an award-winning, user-centered design and development agency that specializes in the creation and implementation of user-friendly Web, mobile and desktop applications. From strategy and conception, to development and execution, EffectiveUI's tailored applications merge innovative technologies with user-experience strategy to help today's most respected brands deepen customer engagement through more compelling and meaningful interactions that deliver competitive advantages and produce measurable results. EffectiveUI has developed groundbreaking applications for organizations including eBay, GE Health, NBC Universal, Viacom, InVisM and Discovery Channel and has earned the distinction of being named an Adobe Gold Partner and a member of Microsoft's Global Agency Partners.

HP
Hewlett-Packard will be showcasing their Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio designed to deliver a new magnitude of cost and resources savings for businesses involved in Web 2.0 and cloud computing, with typically thousands or tens of thousands of servers. The HP ExSO portfolio, which includes a new lightweight, super-efficient, modular systems architecture and spans data center solutions, services and support, helps scale-out customers reduce costs, improve facility efficiency and dramatically accelerate time to market on a massive scale. HP will also be showcasing web services solutions for Memcached and Hadoop with partners Gear6 and Cloudera. Stop by the HP booth for a demo of these key web service technologies and learn more about HP's comprehensive web services solutions.

Neustar, Inc.
Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR; online at www.neustar.biz) solves complex communications challenges and provides market-leading, innovative solutions and directory services that enable trusted communication across networks, applications, and enterprises around the world. Neustar's Internet Infrastructure Services support companies that rely on the Internet for critical processes and applications. The company's Webmetrics web performance monitoring and load testing services (online at www.webmetrics.com) ensure online performance, competitive advantage, and a positive end-user experience. Its UltraDNS services (online at www.ultradns.com) resolve over eight billion DNS queries a day and power the resolution of over 20 million global Internet domains.

OpenSRS
OpenSRS is the wholesale Internet services division of Tucows, one of the world's largest ICANN Accredited Domain Registrars. Through a reseller network of over 9,000 web hosts, Internet service providers and entrepreneurs, we provide the platform that enables the provisioning and management of domain names, SSL certificates and email for millions of people around the world. OpenSRS is Reseller Friendly. We make it easy for our partners to realize previously un-tapped sources of revenue through the sale of Internet services which provide a natural complement or premium add-on to existing online products or services.

OpenText
Open Text, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), combines the expertise and solutions to help customers embrace Enterprise 2.0 within the context of their ECM strategies. With Open Text's solutions, customers can transform their organizations with powerful social computing tools-blogs, wikis, forums, tagging, moderation, communities, and real-time collaboration-delivered behind the firewall as a natural extension of current ECM initiatives or to Web 2.0-enable public Web sites, intranets, and extranets. Open Text offers customers two decades of ECM expertise supporting 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries. For more information, visit www.opentext.com

PayPal
PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online. The service allows members to send money without sharing financial information, with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or promotional financing. With more than 70 million active accounts in 190 markets and 19 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global ecommerce. PayPal is an eBay company and is made up of three leading online payment services: the PayPal global payments platform, the Payflow Gateway and Bill Me Later. More information about the company can be found at https://www.paypal.com

Pearltrees
Pearltrees is a leading-edge intelligent content curator and discovery platform on the web. Combining the best in curation, organization and discovery, Pearltrees' user-friendly platform allows you to organize and customize your online interests. You can use Pearltrees to quickly save and access online content you find every day, discover new content from others who are interested in similar topics and ideas, and drive people to your world of interests. By organizing your online world with Pearltrees, you can contribute to the first human-powered organization of the Web. Enter our world www.pearltrees.com and @pearltrees on Twitter.

The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 20,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 18.5 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Northstar Managed Hosting™ and data center colocation, all backed by 24x7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com.

SOASTA
SOASTA's mission is to ensure that today's websites and applications are highly reliable and scalable. The company's product, SOASTA CloudTest®, delivers performance intelligence by capturing data about all the elements that impact a website and immediately turning it into actionable information. Leveraging a unique, real-time analytic engine built exclusively for testing web and mobile applications, SOASTA CloudTest enables quality assurance and development teams to test and monitor their websites under both typical and extreme traffic conditions, at an affordable price. SOASTA CloudTest is available on-demand or as an appliance. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information about SOASTA, please visit www.soasta.com.

Fonts.com by Monotype Imaging
Typography has often been a thorn in the side of Web designers who have traditionally been confined to a limited number of system fonts or forced to embed type within graphics. New technologies promise to bring Web designers the same level of typographic choice and freedom that print designers enjoy. Discover more about the emerging world of Web typography and how it will impact you.

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.CO
.CO is the new domain extension that gives you a truly global, recognizable, and credible web address for branding your online presence. This Summer, 25 years after the introduction of .com, a new era of the Internet will be 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. .CO is the online space where possibility meets opportunity; where people can fulfill their dreams and the world's next generation of great enterprises will have a home. Create Your Opportunity at Booth 515 or www.opportunity.co.

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iStockphoto
iStockphoto offers easy, affordable inspiration with millions of vetted, royalty-free photos, illustrations, video, audio and Flash® files. Using the most advanced search in the business, customers download a file every second from a collection of more than six million files for business, marketing and personal projects. iStockphoto started in 2000, pioneering the micropayment photography business model, and has become one of the most successful and profitable user-generated content sites in the world. iStockphoto pays out more than $1.6 million weekly in artist royalties. iStockphoto is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Getty Images.

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Joyent
Joyent has been building the software to deliver Infrastructure as a Service since 2004, long before it was ever called Cloud Computing. With thousands of customers world-wide from rapidly growing startups to Fortune 500 companies, Joyent's high-performance software has been proven to be extremely stable, flexible and secure. Today, Joyent is the only true on-demand Cloud Computing solution providing enterprise customers the convenience, efficiency and scalability of cloud computing with the reliability, security and performance of fully managed, dedicated data centers. Our virtual data center solutions enable customers to deploy and scale computing resources in minutes with a pay-per-use model buying only the necessary capacity desired.

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