Top 15 technology start-ups

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Qifang, which takes its name from the poem, `Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend', is a Web service that operates under the simple principle: Everyone should be able to get an education, no matter their financial means.

Using P2P lending, the Shanghai company helps poor students find funding for higher education. Qifang has launched an online, person-to-person lending service that gives students the means to find friends, employers, or philanthropists willing to help fund their educational goals.

The service also addresses regional income disparity by facilitating borrowing from other regions.

The company was founded in 2007 by Calvin Chin, an American-born Chinese, who graduated from Yale University.

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Slide Inc is an online personal media network. It enables users to create photos and videos in www.slide.com as well as view them on Web or desktop. The company's widgets include slideshows, guestbook’s, SkinFlix, and FunPix. It also operates as an application provider on Facebook.

The company was founded in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Recently, Slide Inc launched FunSpace Channels, which will enable Facebook users to discover and share the hottest TV, music and celebrity video content. The company also announced its New York operations with the opening of new ad sales-focused office in West Village.

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SpinVox is the creator and global leader in an entirely new category of communications which it has called Voice-to-Screen.

The company provides products to capture spoken messages, convert them into text, and deliver the message to a destination. It offers voicemail products to get the message; Memo products to send message to the email inbox; Blast products, which enable its users to tell group the news by speaking a text or email; and Text products to speak without having to thumb a message and respond to incoming texts by speaking reply.

It serves network operators and corporate markets. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Marlow, the United Kingdom.

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Tideway provides data center search software that continuously consumes and transforms IT data into intelligence, including identifying application software components and inter-relationships and mapping them to physical and virtual infrastructure.

The company provides a shared platform for technologists to visualise and report on the data they need to make informed decisions. Tideway Foundation software continuously maps application relationships to physical and virtual infrastructure, including the dependencies between them.

This single, automated view of application topology enables enterprises to cut costs, reduce risk and better manage change.

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Ubiquisys Ltd is a mobile communications company which designs and develops communications devices for mobile operators and consumers.

The company provides ZoneGate femtocell system, a small plug-and-play device that plugs into home or office broadband connection and provides 3G coverage in the home and office, as well as supports various mobile services. The company also offers convergence solutions to the wireless-wireline convergence technology market.

Ubiquisys Ltd was founded in 2004 and is based in Swindon, United Kingdom. In September 2008 the company announced that Softbank would be the world's first operator to offer commercial 3G femtocell services using the ZoneGate. Ubiquisys is funded by Accel Partners, Advent Venture Partners, Atlas Venture, Google and T-Mobile Venture Fund.