Over the past few weeks, here’s a sampling of news highlights of members of the BizSpark One program, identifying a small number of the best companies in BizSpark, which is now comprised of over 45,000 startups.

Week of October 9-15 and 16-22

• § Calinda Software, focused on productive enterprise collaboration software and creators of SocialFactor365, continues to be a featured and highly-rated application in the Office 365 Marketplace.

• § An interview with Patrick Carter, CEO of Digital Folio, a multi-channel, real-time shopping platform, was featured in TechRockies.com, a local technology site covering news from the Rocky Mountain region.

• § BizSpark One alum Gridsum, provider of online business optimization solutions that help customers measure and analyze website performance, expanded their global coverage and simplified their IT maintenance with the Windows Azure Platform – read more in the case study here.

• § Kobo, a global eBook retailer with 5 million users continues to expand its international footprint, announced partnerships with leading retailers, WHSmith in the UK and FNAC in France.

• § Panopto, provider of presentation capture and management solutions for the education, corporate, government and healthcare markets announced a milestone of securing 400 education institutional licensing agreements bringing its user count to more than 2.7 million students. Panopto Executive Chairman notes its beginnings as a Carnegie Mellon spin-off as a great advantage and source of insight into what educators and students look for in a lecture capture solution.

• § StorSimple, a leading provider of enterprise cloud storage, hosted a joint webinar with Forrester Research focused on the cost benefit of integrated enterprise cloud storage – comparing the capital, operational and staffing cost differences between traditional storage and cloud storage.

• § SundaySky, provider of automated and scalable online video production, announced a partnership with StudioNow, a division of AOL’s Advertising Group. The partnership will extend SundaySky’s sales channel and introduce its video capabilities to new markets such as real estate, financial services, automotive sales and various retail segments.

Over the past week, here’s a sampling of news highlights of members of the BizSpark One program, identifying a small number of the best companies in BizSpark, which is now comprised of over 40,000 startups.

Week of October 2-8, 2011

• § BizSpark One alum, Lijit Networks, provider of advertising services, audience analytics, and reader engagement tools for online publishers was acquired by media and publishing company, Federated Media. Founded in 2006 and based in Boulder, Colorado, Lijit was funded by Boulder Ventures, Foundry Group, High Country Venture and Highway 12 Ventures.

• § ParcelGenie, an instant gift messaging service, was named as one of the 10 winners of PepsiCo10 Europe, a program for the most promising startups in media and technology to partner with PepsiCo. More than 130 firms competed to win £10,000-worth of investment as well as pilot marketing projects with leading PepsiCo brands.

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Over the past week, here’s a sampling of news highlights of members of the BizSpark One program, identifying a small number of the best companies in BizSpark, which is now comprised of over 40,000 startups.

Week of September 25 – October 1, 2011

• · Flite, a leader in cloud-based advertising, launched FliteHub, an online marketplace of ad components powered by third-party services. FliteHub empowers brands to program display ads that deliver the best of the web directly in the ad unit, increasing user engagement, brand recall, and purchase intent.

• · Kobojo, one of the European leaders in the social gaming universe, announced the opening of its new office in Madrid as it continues to expand internationally, particularly to Latin America with this latest announcement.

• · LiquidSpace, the mobile application that helps anyone find a great space to work in real-time, was reviewed in the latest issue of Inc. Magazine.

• · Soundtracker, geosocial internet radio, was highlighted in the Windows Phone Marketplace as a Featured app. Soundtracker will soon be releasing its app for Windows Phone Mango, recently previewed in the Italian blog for Windows Phone.

• · Yammer, focused on enterprise social networking, received $17M in financing, led by Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive through his Social + Capital Partnership fund. Charles River Ventures, Emergence Capital and U.S. Venture Partners also participated in the funding. This brings Yammer’s total financing to-date to $57M.