International Card Establishment, Inc. provides merchant payment processing services and gift and loyalty card products to the small to medium enterprise segment of the merchant marketplace in the United States. Its payment processing services enable merchants to process traditional card-present, or swipe transactions, as well as card-not-present transactions. The company establishes merchant accounts for businesses that enable those businesses to accept credit cards, debit cards, and other forms of electronic payments from their customers; supplies the necessary card readers and other point-of-sale transaction systems; facilitates processing for the accounts; and provides e-commerce solutions. It also markets a proprietary Smart Card-based system that enables merchants to offer private label gift and loyalty cards. The company is based in Camarillo, California.

Serif software company has product offerings that include applications for desktop publishing, digital imaging, drawing and graphics, 3D effects, and web publishing. Serif was founded in the UK in 1987 to provide a lower cost alternative to the expensive desktop publishing programs available at the time. The company was acquired by the US-based Allegro New Media, but senior management bought them out in 2001, returning Serif to UK ownership. The company still has offices in the UK and US. Clients include 3M UK, British Telecom, GE Energy UK, Siemens, and Amtrak.

Altova® is the creator of XMLSpy® and other leading XML, database, and UML tools. Founded in 1992, Altova is headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts and Vienna, Austria. A key player in the software tools industry and the leader in XML development tools, Altova is the choice of over 3 million clients worldwide, including 91 percent of the Fortune 500. An innovative, customer-focused company, Altova offers a product line that fulfills a broad spectrum of business needs for development teams in the world’s largest organizations to growing one-person shops. An active member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Object Management Group (OMG), XBRL International, and Health Level 7 (HL7), Altova is committed to delivering standards-based, platform-independent solutions that are powerful, affordable, and easy–to-use.

BPO Management Services (formerly netGuru) isn't coy about what it does. The company offers business process outsourcing (BPO) engineering services such as custom application development, systems integration, network design, and support, training, and data migration. The company's clients have included Agilent, Ericsson, McGraw-Hill, and Tetra Tech. In September 2008 the company announced plans to merge with Healthaxis; the combined entity would retain the BPO Management Services name. Chairman and CEO Patrick Dolan and president James Cortens own 34% and 23% of company shares respectively.

WSG Systems tracks all the bits and pieces and nickels and dimes accounted for during complex projects. The company's Empire software suite includes tools for project planning and estimating, time and expense entry, resource and schedule management, project financial tracking, global project accounting with multiple currencies, billing, reporting, and remote access. WSG Systems was founded in 1984 as a consulting group that helped move companies to Windows-based systems from the then-prevalent MS-DOS platforms. Since then clients have included Varian Medical Systems, Prudential Financial, and MetLife.

Founded in 1999, ShopLocal is owned by newspaper publisher Gannett. ShopLocal knows that most purchases actually take place closer to home. ShopLocal operates ShopLocal.com, a comparison shopping site that allows users to search for offers from local retailers in addition to online shopping sites. ShopLocal also provides software and services used by retailers to create electronic circulars and catalogs for their Web sites to promote their products and product sales.

The Associated Press is the backbone of the world's information system serving thousands of daily newspaper, radio, television and online customers with coverage in all media and news in all formats. It is the largest and oldest news organization in the world, serving as a source of news, photos, graphics, audio and video.AP's mission is to be the essential global news network, providing distinctive news services of the highest quality, reliability and objectivity with reports that are accurate, balanced and informed. AP operates as a not-for-profit cooperative with more than 4,000 employees working in more than 240 worldwide bureaus. AP is owned by its 1,500 U.S. daily newspaper members. They elect a board of directors that directs the cooperative.

Court Square Data Group provides information technology services to businesses in the northeastern US and southeastern Canada. Typical services include IT consulting and needs assessment, IT design and optimization, data transition and archiving, project management, and technical staffing. It also specializes in disaster recovery planning, merger and acquisition consulting, and systems integration. Court Square has sales partnerships with Cisco, Citrix, and EMC among other IT product vendors. Customers come from fields including financial services, health care, manufacturing, and consumer goods. The company is owned by CEO Keith Parent.

WebMediaBrands Inc. provides news, original information, career Web sites, and events for information technology (IT), business, media, and creative professionals worldwide. The company operates three online networks, including internet.com, which provides news, original information resources, and community to enterprise IT and business professionals, and developers; Mediabistro.com, a career and community site that includes job postings, educational courses, events, forums, original content, and a premium subscription service, as well as online training courses and seminars for media and creative professionals; and Graphics.com, which provides creative professionals with news, resources, online courses, and community information. WebMediaBrands Inc. also operates MediabistroEvents.com, which produces offline conferences and trade shows focusing on IT and business-specific topics; and JustTechJobs.com, a jobsite that brings together IT professionals and employers offering the ability to post jobs, search resumes, and manage that information with a set of online tools. The company was formerly known as Jupitermedia Corporation and changed its name to WebMediaBrands Inc. in February 2009. WebMediaBrands Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Founded in 2001 with significant venture backing from Norwest and Sutter Hill, AmberPoint is a fast-growing company with a vision for market requirements and significant customer traction. AmberPoint prominent executives and experienced developers bring impressive records of success from such leading software companies as Sun, Forte, IBM, webMethods, Oracle, Ingres and Sybase.AmberPoint team has a great deal of experience at pioneering new technologies for distributed systems, databases, development tools and management frameworks. AmberPoint now applying that experience to deliver solutions that ensure the health and well-being of composite applications.

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