Microsoft Limited is a regional subsidiary of Microsoft, provides a variety of applications for customers in the enterprise, consumer, government, and education sectors. Its software portfolio includes operating systems, server software, and office productivity products. The company also provides enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications, as well as software development tools. In addition to software, Microsoft sells video game consoles, computer peripherals, and Internet access services.

The company provides software that allows parents to control just what their children see on the unwieldy Internet. The program consists of email and browsing shields, as well as applications for blocking intruders and reporting on Internet usage. Used in more than 125 countries worldwide, ContentWatch caters its security software products to the home, library, education, government, and small to medium business markets. ContentWatch expanded its offerings when it acquired Net Nanny from online media company LookSmart.

Synectics Group, Inc. provides consumer goods makers with trade promotion management software and related consulting services. Customers use the company's software for tasks such as planning, budgeting, payment, scheduling, and account reviewing. Synectics Group also offers professional services including consulting, support, training, maintenance, hosting, and implementation. Synectics Group's roster of clients has included firms such as Just Born, Novamex, and Tyson.

The company offers such services as Web design, Web hosting, and Internet access, and accounting services. Clients have included Charlotte Russe, the San Diego Association of Governments, San Diego State University, and other local businesses. Husband-and-wife team CEO David Morris and CFO Dawne Donohue own and manage the company. Pixeled Business Systems was established in 1997.

Comprehensive Software Systems (CSS) helps trades get made. The company provides broker/dealer and transaction processing software for financial services companies. CSS Q Securities Processing system integrates front-, middle-, and back-office functions for processing money market, equities, options, bonds, institutional fund, and mutual fund transactions. Founded in 1993, CSS's clients have included Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, and Raymond James Financial. The company was acquired by Stephens Investments Holding, LLC in early 2008.

PointAbout, Inc. makes software applications that can be used with mobile devices such as Apple's iPhone and Blackberry, as well as with Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows mobile phone software. Its white-label application serves as blank software platform that its clients use to channel their Web sites on to mobile devices. The applications are downloaded to phones through the iPhone Apps store and similar Web sites; once downloaded, PointAbout's clients can track the location of mobile phone users and customize search results according to location. CEO Scott Suhy and other company executives founded the company in 2008.

Teleran Technologies is the leading provider of software for auditing, analyzing, and managing information use in business intelligence, data warehouse, CRM, and other enterprise applications. Through end-to-end knowledge of the information environment - users, applications and databases - Teleran’s real-time Application Usage Management software improves database-focused application performance and productivity while protecting your organizations critical asset - information.

Networking Technologies and Support, Inc. was founded in 1997 and has about 20 offices in 15 states. Networking Technologies and Support provides a variety of information technology services such as network design, maintenance, systems integration, consulting, procurement, and technical staffing. NTS serves federal, state, and local government clients, as well as commercial customers in such industries as financial services, health care, and consumer goods. Clients have included SunTrust Banks, Philip Morris, and the US Department of Defense.

Canesta has an interesting hand to play. The company develops electronic perception technology software and a chipset that will let people input data into mobile and wireless devices by equating hand movements with virtual keyboard strokes. Using infrared technology, a full-size keyboard can be projected onto any surface. The product captures the time it takes for light to travel from a known source, bounce off an object, and back onto a spot on a sensor array chip. Founded in 1999, Canesta hopes its innovations will generate greater use of cell phones, PDAs, and Internet appliances by rendering today's interface limitations obsolete.

The company operates what has been billed as "the handcrafter's Amazon.com", an online marketplace for crafty, handmade items such as clothing, accessories, stationary, and house wares. The expanding Etsy.com site has grown to a community of more than one million members and 200,000 sellers. About 2.5 million items currently are listed on Etsy. The company's revenues come from the small listing fee and sale commission it charges sellers. Etsy also allows its sellers to buy a spot in the site's main showcase of featured items. The company's office in Brooklyn, New York, called the "Etsy Labs", houses a workspace for craft-making, workshops, and special events.

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