Web 2.0 Summit 2009 Sponsors

SAP
SAP is the world's leading provider of business software(*), offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With more than 82,000 customers in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol "SAP." The SAP® BusinessObjects&trade portfolio transforms the way the world works by connecting people, information and businesses. With open, heterogeneous solutions in the areas of business intelligence; information management; governance, risk and compliance; and enterprise performance management, the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio enables organizations to close the gap between business strategy and execution.

Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks offers a complete portfolio of solutions that enable a high performance network infrastructure and deliver fast, reliable and secure access to services and applications over a single network. Today, many of the largest and most demanding Web 2.0 content and application providers depend on Juniper Networks for their networking infrastructure, data center and security solutions. For additional information, visit www.juniper.net

 

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.

Ovi by Nokia
Nokia is the world's leading maker of mobile devices, and is today connecting people in new and different ways - fusing advanced mobile technology with personalized services to help people to stay close to what matters to them. With Ovi, Nokia offers services in the areas of maps, messaging, music, games, and media. These services are increasingly inter-connected, and are brought together with common platform elements. Through this, Nokia can - together with carriers, developers and Internet partners - offer users across the world and in all segments a wealth of connected, user-friendly, and highly relevant content and applications.

Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. The gigantic advances of the digital age have been made possible by silicon...and the vast majority of that silicon has come from the people of Intel. While known as the leading microprocessor company, we consider ourselves a move-society-forward-by-quantum-leaps company. Right now our engineers are passionately working around the world developing technologies and tools that will continue to shape the future as we know it. For additional information about Intel visit www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.

 

MySpace.com
MySpace is a technology company connecting people through personal expression, content, and culture. MySpace empowers its global community to experience the Internet through a social lens by integrating personal profiles, photos, videos, mobile, messaging, games, and the world's largest music community. MySpace is a division of News Corporation.

 

Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minn., Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.

Yahoo! Inc.
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com.

mental images
mental images®, founded in 1986 and a wholly-owned subsidiary of NVIDIA Corporation since 2007, is the recognized international leader in providing rendering and 3D modeling technology to the entertainment, computer-aided design, scientific visualization, architecture, and other industries that require sophisticated images. At the Web 2.0 Summit, mental images relaunches RealityServer®, the first server-based, scalable infrastructure software platform for creating and deploying 3D web applications and application services that require interactive and collaborative remote creation, editing, managing and visualization of 3D digital content of essentially unlimited complexity. Learn more at www.realityserver.com.

Answers.com
Answers.com provides one-stop answers about anything, combining the world's finest licensed reference sources and user-generated answers to community-driven questions. Anyone can ask, answer, edit or collaborate on answers in thousands of categories. Our goal is to bring you the best answers on the web, quickly and conveniently.

 

Atigeo
Atigeo is a data intelligence technology innovator that makes every experience more personal. The company's products (xPatterns™, lifepass™ and AdEvolve™) increase sales by providing unprecedented relevance through personal, portable and private consumer controlled profiles and real-time contextual and semantic relevance-based recommendations. xPatterns is able to represent data in unique ways, with emphasis on semantic understanding, lifepass facilitates privacy and persistence of data across a consumer's experiences allowing for better decision-making, smarter choices and more relevant connections; and AdEvolve provides customized ads based on a consumers lifepass profile. Atigeo's SaaS-based offering is commercially available and easily integrated while empowering businesses through a robust, patent-pending suite of solutions. To learn more about Atigeo contact us at 425-454-5433 or sales@atigeo.com.

Unity Media Group
UMG is a premier communications leader that specializes in "effective knowledge transfer" technologies that engage and empower users through a personalized, cost-saving information ecosystem. Unity Media envisions a "new normal" that eliminates the constraint of time, practice, and location in the sharing of custom, experiential, image-rich content in a socially networked, one-to-one or one-to-many setting. Unlike other providers our communication solutions are comprised of original HD video content, patent-pending technology and partnerships with industry leading experts. Unity Media, in constant search for SUE. Superior User Engagement.

Omidyar Network
Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. Established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, the organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic, social, and political change. To date, Omidyar Network has committed more than $290 million to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple investment areas, including microfinance, property rights, government transparency, and social media. To learn more about Omidyar Network, please visit www.omidyar.com.

Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners invests in visionary entrepreneurs and provides them the networks, insights and operational guidance required to build high-performance technology companies. With $3 billion under management and a worldwide footprint, the firm is committed to catalyzing the growth of innovative companies in the digital media, communications & mobility and enterprise industries. Among its successes are DoubleClick, the leading online advertising solution, Match.com, the most popular online dating site in the world, CommerceOne, the company that pioneered B2B ecommerce; SuccessFactors, the global leader in on-demand performance management solutions; and WebLoyalty, a leading provider of online marketing and rewards services. Other Canaan technology investments include Active Networks, Associated Content, Blurb, eBillMe, Lending Club, Motionbox, N-trig, Peer39, Prime Sense, Tremor Media, Watercooler and Zoosk. For more information visit www.canaan.com.

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 fastest growing phone providers in the country. Comcast invests in Internet innovation through Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Internet businesses, including Comcast.net, Fancast.com, Fandango, DailyCandy, thePlatform, Plaxo 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 which operates ten regional sports networks.