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.

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.

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 your partner in helping you expand to Europe and Germany through a location in Berlin, we believe Berlin is good for business. We provide investors on-site support, help Berlin-based companies tap foreign markets, and make the city a strong brand. We are engaged in local, European and international networks. Berlin Partner maintains a close partnership with the Brandenburg Economic Development Board (ZAB). Working together for your success, we help with applying for subsidies, finding the right location, contacts in government agencies, banks, associations, scientific communities, and companies throughout the capital region of Berlin - Brandenburg.

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
As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. Our focus is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through technology products and services, form the individual consumer to the largest enterprise. More information can be found at www.hp.com

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

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.

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.