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Congratulations to all the winners. 116 236 red herring Special Edition 2014 CONTENTS 122 228 235 this issue features 8 Publisher’s Note 116 Apple’s China Mobile Deal 235 Acer’s comeback Providing some relief Founder Stan Shih takes control 10 Top 100 Companies: Europe European innovators and entrepreneurs 117 African E-commerce Market 236 Netflix streams ahead to know Mobile Internet builds promise Proves to be the king of streaming industry 12 List of European Winners 118 Volvo’s automated vehicles 238 Meritech blazes a trail The ‘moonshot’ project is in action Gaining command of the landscape 114 Factual Stats: Europe 120 Nextdoor’s Social Platform 240 Amazon’s drone 122 top 100 companies: North America Connecting U.S. neighborhoods Plan or distraction? U.S. companies forging ahead into uncharted territory 228 Education through Khan Academy 241 Snapchat turned down facebook Education for all Tactical or foolish? 124 List of North American Winners 231 Budapest Blossoms with Tech Talent 242 European firms look to Israeli 226 Factual Stats: North America Despite government red tape Model for U.S. Success 232 Taxi App 243 Samsung suffers drop Compete Globally Budget smartphones disrupt market 233 Alibaba IPO 244 VeriSilicon Leaving Hong Kong Stock Exchange sweating What makes a smartphone so smart? 2 RED HERRING | SPECIAL EDITION 2014 www.REDHERRING.com 3 Red Herring Magazine SPECIAL EDITION VOLUME 1 SPRING 2014 Advertise With Us! Generate publicity, increase brand awareness, and attract and engage PUBLISHER / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Alex Vieux future customers SENIOR EDITOR AND U.S. coRRESPONDENT Red Herring is a global media Peter Ward company which unites the world’s best DIRECTOR OF Sales – NORTH AMERICA high-technology innovators, Anam Alpenia venture investors and business decision makers FINANCE Augustin Meloty-Kapella in a variety of forums. REPORTER Catherine Trautwein Our audience PROGRAM MANAGER can be YOUR audience. Jean Ma DESIGN Kelly Mayerick FOR EDITORIAL QUERIES [email protected] Digital edition available online at Red Herring is published by Red Herring, Inc. www.redherring.com 7660 Fay Avenue, Suite H La Jolla, CA 92037 Telephone: (650) 461-9156 To participate or advertise in Red Herring events, contact [email protected] or Call (650) 461-9156 Write To Us! 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In this issue, you will read about all of the above. We put the spotlight on people who are changing the mobile environment, revolutionizing the enterprise world with better security, storage, We put the spotlight cloud, analytics and data, or just embracing social causes with a new approach. We on“ people predicted in 2011 that we were watching a new generation’s rise. In fact, it is a combination of who are changing new ideas and veteran entrepreneurs that are taking charge of this universal cycle. In Europe, the mobile environment, America and Asia successful CEOs are putting revolutionizing the their experience and expertise to work, enabling incredible growth and speed of change. enterprise world with better Over the past five years, global economic security, storage, trends have reshuffled dramatically. South to South trade will overcome OECD commerce cloud, analytics and data, this decade. Even more compelling is the fact that 6.8 billion people subscribe in one way or or just embracing another to the digital age. By 2015 we will have social causes exceeded the magic 1.0 ratio of subscriber per human on this planet. with a new approach. This issue will tell the tale of this transformation, “Bright Cluster Manager’s rapid rebooting across nodes page after page. And countries such as Turkey, has reduced our node provisioning by a factor of ten, South Africa and Brazil are playing a pivotal role, not a secondary role in this silent revolution. and it’s done with a few mouse-clicks.” — Boeing Our journalists have interviewed CEOs on five continents, and have reported on local markets as well as global strategies. To be at the forefront of this exciting evolution is a craft, and not so passé after all. Thank you for sharing it with us. ” Bright Cluster Manager is software that manages clusters in the datacenter: HPC, Hadoop, OpenStack, database and storage clusters; as well as server and workstation farms. Features include deployment, provisioning, cloud bursting, monitoring, automation, visualization, alerting, role-based access control, security, workload management, and much more. Alex Vieux, Customers: 3M, ATK, Boeing, Cambridge University, CD-adapco, Cisco, Dell, Electrolux, HP, ING Bank, Intel, Life Technologies, Lincoln Fi- Editor-in-Chief and Publisher nancial, Merck, NASA, NCSA, PACCAR, Roche, Sandia National Laboratories, Sanofi, Stanford University, TACC, Toyota, and many more. 8 RED HERRING | SPECIAL EDITION 2014 Red Herring Magazine Top 100 Companies: Europe Europe’s Top 100 t has been another year of struggle for Europe. Recovery has been slow or non-existent in some countries and conditions for THE MOST PROMISING AND INNOVATIVE entrepreneurism could barely be tougher. That’s why this year’s IRed Herring 2013 Top 100 Europe winners fully deserve all the TECHNOLOGY STARTUPS IN 2013 plaudits coming their way. In times of recession and austerity, cash can be hard to come by and great ideas can be squandered as funding becomes sparse. But these 100 companies made it anyway. What Europe lacks in funding, it more than makes up for in talent. The whole continent is awash with great minds and universities such as those in Dublin, Paris Delft and many others act as conveyor belts for exciting new entrepreneurs, ready to take the market by storm. As the U.S. frets over the possibility of another tech bubble, those in Europe know that, because of the debt crisis and looming deflation problem, only the best of the best will make it. And the cream of that crop is displayed in the winners this year. But there is hope for the 28 members of the European Union. November forecasts by the European Commission suggest that although GDP across the EU will stagnate this year, it will expand by 1.4% in 2014. There is also expected to be signs of recovery in the 17 countries tied to the Euro. The European Commission estimated a 1.1% increase in GDP in 2014, after a 0.4% dip this year. With a vague hint of hope on the horizon, entrepreneurs in Europe can go into the New Year with even more confidence, that their products, services and technology will be even more successful in a recovering economy. Many of the Top 100 companies work in essential markets where brilliant new innovations cannot fail, such as biosciences. Others concentrate on making business easier, through financial, payment and funding assistance. Yet more attack a new wave of industries such as the internet of things. The Red Herring 2013 Top 100 Europe winners are a standout group of companies, and share not just talent, innovation and huge potential, but also a steely reserve built up from the testing surroundings in which they have prospered.