Lead411's Hottest Southwest Companies List Announced

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 31, 2010

In order to recognize the hottest technology companies in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico, Lead411 (http://www.lead411.com) is proud to announce the release of the 'Hottest Companies in the Southwest" awards.

Background
On a daily basis, the Lead411 research team scours through at least 600 press releases and business articles including venture capital financings, company launches, office openings, new customer press releases, etc. This information has given insight to which are the fastest growing technology companies in U.S. Their "Hot List" awards have been created to recognize this fast growing companies. This particular list originally started with over 900 companies and it has been narrowed down to the top 50

"We are very proud of these awards. We have been tracking fast-moving companies for our customers for the past 10 years," said Tom Blue, CEO of Lead411, "and we felt it was important to recognize these growing brands publicly."

How the List Was Chosen
First, all companies must by in either the Software, Wireless, Hardware, Internet, or Media industry, and be within Southwest. From there, each company must meet one or more of the following requirements;
100% increase in revenues over the past 3 years.
$1M+ in funding in the past 2 years.
2X traffic gains to their website in the past 12 months AND over 1M unique visitors a month.

List of Company Names:
AdvancedMD Software, Inc, AFS Technologies Inc, Arkayne Inc, AtTask, Inc, BidSync, Career Step LLC, CLEARLINK Technologies, Comet Solutions, Inc, Control4, CrimeReports, Cymphonix, eCommLink Inc, EnticeLabs, Inc, FiREapps Inc, Flypaper Studio, Inc, FundingUniverse.com, Fusion-io, Go Daddy Software Inc, GPS Insight, Gridline Communications Holdings Inc, HireVue, Inc, i/o Data Centers, Imagine Learning, iMemories, Infusion Software, InsideSales.com, JackRabbit Systems, Kynetx, LifeLock, Lumension™, Inc, Mindshare Technologies, National Automation Services, NetSteps, New Dawn Technologies, Panthera Interactive LLC, Pinnacle Security, SheKnows LLC, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Solera Networks, StockTwits Inc, SwipeClock, Telesphere Networks Inc, The Allegiance Group, The American Academy, LLC, TopTenREVIEWS.Com, TruTouch Technologies, Inc, Ubidyne, Understand.com LLC, Wildflower International, Winbuyer

List and Details:
The entire list including more details about the award and winners can be found at http://www.lead411.com/southwest-companies.html.

About Lead411
Lead411 provides information, news, and research about U.S. companies and their executives. Founded in 2001, its goal has been to focus on quality corporate data that is valid and useful rather than producing as many company records as possible. In addition, Lead411 tracks company news in order to alert its customers about venture financing, new hires, hiring plans, etc. Customers include Gartner, Administaff and ADP.

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