EARLY STAGE TECHNOLOGY
INVESTING
CamSemi
ships 10 millionth chip for next generation power supplies
CamSemi has today announced the shipment of its 10 millionth C2470 RDFC controller chip, confirming that the company’s breakthrough approach for low cost, more energy-efficient power supplies is now being rapidly adopted by major manufacturers.
20 October 2008
ZBD builds service
presence in Baltic States
Studies of the business potential for in-store electronic labelling solutions have led to a three-nation Scandinavian partnership agreement covering Denmark, Norway and Sweden between the UK’s ZBD and local retail solutions provider Delfi Technologies A/S. Scandinavian retailers will now get access to ZBD’s leading-edge display technology and integration tools combined with Delfi’s full-service local installation, customisation and support.
16 October 2008
ZBD gets Italian job
One of Italy’s largest retailers, grocery store operator SISA, has chosen electronic display specialist ZBD to provide in-store point of purchase labelling at its largest outlet near Milan. On successful evaluation of the pathway project to overhaul SISA’s fresh fruit and vegetable
labelling in accordance with Italian regulations, ZBD and its Italian partner are planning an extensive roll-out of the system across SISA’s north western region.
16 October 2008
Goodrich selects
TeraView technology for use in airborne chemical agent detection in
Defense and Homeland Security applications
TeraView, the pioneer and leader in terahertz solutions and technology for the pharmaceutical and defense industries, has been chosen by Goodrich to supply its proprietary continuous wave (cw) terahertz technology platform for Goodrich’s chemical agent detection system. Additionally, TeraView and Goodrich have entered into an agreement for TeraView to provide cw photomixers for the US security market place.
15 October 2008
ShoZu provides
easy mobile photo uploads for Adobe® Photoshop®.com members
ShoZu Inc. announced today that Adobe® Photoshop®.com members can use its mobile social media service to quickly and easily upload photos from more than 350 different handsets to Photoshop.com accounts. ShoZu’s service allows Adobe Photoshop.com users to take advantage of support for additional handsets that include Apple® iPhone™, Apple® iPod touch, Motorola RAZR2, a range of phones including Nokia 5310 and Nokia 6301, and BlackBerry® Pearl™.
24 September 2008
NXP
Semiconductor adopts Azuro's clock tree synthesis for multi-mode timing
closure
Azuro, Inc. the provider of advanced clock implementation tools for nanometer chip design, today announced that NXP Semiconductor has adopted Azuro's PowerCentric clock-tree synthesis (CTS) and optimization solution. NXP's MultiMarket Semiconductor business unit adopted PowerCentric after demonstrating a significant reduction in clock power while improving the clock timing.
4 September 2008
ShoZu wins gold
at Future Mobile Awards 2008, earning kudos for mobile social media
gateway
ShoZu Inc. announced today that it has been honored as the Gold award winner in the Mobile Web 2.0 category of Juniper Research’s Future Mobile Awards 2008 for its mobile social media gateway, which enables users to connect to and interact with more than 50 Web 2.0 sites from a single interface on the mobile phone. The award recognizes ShoZu for its “outstanding contribution to the future of the Mobile Web 2.0 market.”
19 August 2008
ShoZu
announces new iPhone application that simplifies photo uploads: send pics
to 50 sites with a tap of your finger
ShoZu Inc. today announced a new application that makes it possible to transfer iPhone and iPod touch photos to any combination of 50 social media sites with a tap of your finger. Available exclusively from the new Apple App Store at launch on July 11, the new iPhone edition of ShoZu’s award-winning application also provides a variety of additional services that make it easy to stay connected with your favorite online communities, blogs and social networks on the go.
10 July 2008
TeraView is
granted its 50th patent for pioneering work in the terahertz technology
and its applications
TeraView, the global leader in terahertz technology for the pharmaceutical and analytical industries, announces the award of its 50th patent. Recent patents cover areas such as terahertz imaging of pharmaceutical tablets and high performance terahertz sources. Along with an expanding customer base, these grants further underpin TeraView’s leadership in both the development of terahertz products and their implementation to solve specific business issues for our customers.
30 June 2008
ZBD unveils
smart electronic labelling system (SELS)
Is this the end for the paper label as electronic labelling comes of age?
10 June 2008
TSMC's Reference
Flow 9.0 includes Azuro's clock tree synthesis
Azuro, Inc. the provider of advanced clock implementation tools for nanometer chip design, today announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Reference Flow 9.0 includes Azuro's PowerCentric(TM) clock tree synthesis (CTS) solution. PowerCentric lowers clock power, reduces clock area, and improves clock timing.
4 June 2008
ShoZu
selected by TIM for Social Media Services
Subscribers can easily
post images & text to social media sites; agreement includes handset
pre-installation, ad revenue sharing.
22 May 2008
CamSemi
signs second 'clean technology' investor in C round extension
Denmark’s BankInvest
Group invests $8 million in Cambridge-based company to help bring more
energy-efficient power management ICs to market.
19 May 2008
Another world first -
TeraView wins contracts to support partners with innovative explosive
detection system
TeraView, the pioneer and leader in terahertz solutions and technology for the pharmaceutical and defense industries, announces a number of contracts to supply terahertz systems to partners for evaluation in the detection of explosives at different ‘stand-off’ distances. This laboratory system will be used to evaluate future applications in suicide bomber identification and screening at airports and other installations.
6 May 2008
Better
production and control of drug release is achieved by using terahertz
imaging to map tablet coating thickness and density
TeraView Ltd is the pioneer and leader in terahertz solutions and technology for the pharmaceutical and life science industry.
A recent study published by the US Food and Drug Administration noted that the speed and ease of terahertz imaging could make it a viable replacement for wet dissolution testing. This FDA investigation has been further corroborated by a new study by the Universities of Dusseldorf and Otago.
7 April 2008
Varian,
Inc. acquires Oxford Diffraction, Ltd.
Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS: VARI) announced today that it has acquired Oxford Diffraction, Ltd., a privately owned company based in Abingdon, U.K. Oxford Diffraction is a leader in x-ray crystallography, an analytical technique used by scientists in pharmaceutical research and other research laboratories to determine the structure of both small molecules and large molecules such as proteins.
7 April 2008
ZBD boosts senior team
with new CFO appointment
ZBD Displays Ltd, creator and supplier of EPOP wireless 'e-paper' solutions to the retail industry, has announced the appointment of Carl Plucknett as chief financial officer and as a main board director. In his new role Mr Plucknett will drive strategy and implementation as ZBD repositions its financial systems to accommodate volume production in Asia and a global supply chain servicing retailers in leading consumer markets.
2 April 2008
ShoZu brings social
media services to BlackBerry smartphones
Connects Users to Over 30 Online Social Communities from a Single Interface.
ShoZu Inc., announced today that it is now providing mobile social media services for the BlackBerry® Pearl™ and the BlackBerry® Curve™ Series smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIM; TSX: RIMM). Owners of these smartphones will soon be able to use ShoZu’s service to quickly and easily transfer photos and videos from their BlackBerry smartphones to more than 30 social media sites including Facebook®, YouTube, Flickr™, Picasa™ and Google Blogger, as well as receive automatic content feeds to their smartphones from select sites.
1 April 2008
Better
prediction and control of drug release is achieved by using terahertz
imaging to map tablet coating thickness AND density
The benefits of terahertz through accelerated product development, de-risked
and rapid scale up into manufacture and maintenance of in-spec products is
further endorsed by a recent study conducted by the University of Otago.
31 March 2008
Tesco
orders ZBD EPOP displays for new milestone store
Tesco has ordered 2,500 electronic point of purchase displays (EPOPs) from ZBD for its latest milestone store. Continuing a relationship that has already seen ZBD’s displays trialled in two Tesco stores in Central and Southern England, the new orders will be deployed in the dry groceries area.
11 March 2008
ZBD names
McEachran VP of operations
John McEachran has been appointed to the new position of Vice-President of Operations at ZBD, the creators and suppliers of EPOP wireless 'e-paper' solutions to the retail industry.
4 March 2008
New
terahertz spectrometer from TeraView - filling the 'gap' in the
spectroscopy tool kit
TeraView, the global pioneer and leader in terahertz solutions for pharmaceutical, chemical and research industries, has developed a new terahertz spectrometer. Complementing TeraView’s existing range of unique imaging solutions, the Spectra 3000 is the world’s first commercial terahertz spectrometer capable of performing both transmission and attenuated total reflection (ATR) measurements.
3 March 2008
Azuro's
PowerCentric demonstrates over 20% power reduction for Ikanos
Communications
Azuro, Inc. the provider of advanced clock implementation tools for nanometer chip design, today announced that Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN), a leading developer and provider of Fiber Fast™ broadband solutions, has augmented their existing low power design methodology with Azuro’s PowerCentric™ clock tree synthesis (CTS) and optimization solution. Ikanos adopted PowerCentric after an extensive evaluation. PowerCentric reduced the clock power by greater than 20 percent.
27 February 2008
Argenta
Discovery announces the initiation of a Phase II
clinical trial with ADC4022 - A potential new therapy for chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and severe asthma
Argenta
Discovery Ltd, the respiratory drug discovery and development company,
announces that it has initiated a Phase II clinical trial with
25 February 2008
ShoZu &
Ubiquisys announce strategic partnership bringing Femotocell technology to
mobile social media
Mobile Broadband Benefits Will Accelerate Use of Mobile Social Networking.
12 February 2008
CamSemi
named as finalist for top electronics industry award
CamSemi has been named this week as one of only three European companies – and the only one focused on energy-saving, clean technology – to make it onto a list of finalists for EDN’s 18th Annual Innovation Awards, one of the world’s top electronics industry prizes. The company’s first products have been short-listed in the power IC category in a series of awards designed to honour the people, products and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry over the last year.
11 February 2008
Azuro
celebrates third consecutive year of record growth
Azuro, Inc., a leading provider of advanced clock implementation tools for nanometer chip design, today announced that it has completed its third consecutive year of record growth. Increases in revenue resulted from worldwide customer expansion in Europe, Japan, and India and several major multi-year renewals in North America. Production tapeouts using the company's flagship PowerCentric™ clock implementation solution nearly tripled.
30 January 2008
Atheros
delivers advanced Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR silicon using Azuro's PowerCentric
PowerCentric generates superior quality clock trees and reduces post-CTS design flow iterations for Atheros.
28 January 2008
ShoZu
raises $12 Million in Series C funding; round led by new investor SEB
Venture Capital, London
Mobile social media company now attracting over 100,000 new
users monthly.
28 January 2008
Another
world first - TeraView demonstrates capability for on-line tablet
inspection
TeraView uses its years of experience working with the pharmaceutical industry and its proprietary terahertz platform to demonstrate real time measurements of tablet coating thickness and other critical quality attributes of solid dosage forms.
25 January 2008
Argenta
Discovery announces collaboration with Antisoma
Argenta Discovery Ltd., the pharmaceutical R & D group, has announced that it has entered into a fee-for-service collaboration with Antisoma plc. Under the terms of the agreement, scientists from the two organisations will work together to develop improved molecules for Antisoma’s programme of telomere targeting agents (TTAs). Antisoma will utilise Argenta’s expertise in medicinal chemistry, computer-aided drug design, molecular biology, biochemistry, assay development and in vitro screening, during the course of the collaboration.
7 January 2008
CamSemi
opens sales and application design centre in Taiwan
CamSemi has announced today the opening of a sales office and application design centre in Taiwan that will be instrumental in growing the company’s customer base and sales within the Asia region.
28 November 2007
Argenta
Discovery and Dr Reddy's progress pre-clinical anti-inflammatory candidate
to treat chronic respiratory disease
Argenta Discovery Limited, the respiratory drug discovery and development company, and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (NYSE: RDY), today announce a major milestone in their development programme targeting a novel disease-modifying approach to treat the underlying cause of certain chronic respiratory diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and severe asthma.
26 November 2007
STARC
adopts Azuro's clock tree synthesis solution for ultra low power
methodology
PowerCentric Reduces Dynamic Power by 20% in the Latest STARCAD-CEL Reference Flow for Major Japanese Semiconductor Companies.
9 November 2007
