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Conduit

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Conduit® provides a free SaaS marketing platform that is used by more than 200,000 web publishers of all sizes to conduit their site.

The Conduit platform enables publishers to create powerful conduits to their users in order to increase website traffic, improve brand awareness, and generate new revenue streams. Leading brands such as Fox News, Major League Baseball, Travelocity, Time Warner Cable, Universal Music and hundreds of thousands of smaller communities and businesses are distributing their content and applications using the Conduit platform. To date, community toolbars, desktop alerts, and components powered by Conduit have been installed by more than 60 million users and deployed in more than 80 languages and 120 countries.

In 2009, the company introduced the Conduit Open initiative that includes new product modules such as the Conduit Marketplace and the 2go content syndication tool created in order to provide direct and indirect distribution opportunities in the Conduit network of more than 200,000 web publishers and 60 million users.

Milestones

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  Conduit — Conduit announced support for Safari, making it the first company to provide a platform for publishers to build and deploy a free, fully-compatible, branded toolbar for Apple’s browser on Mac (6/09)
  Posted 10/1/09 at 2:40pm
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  Conduit — Conduit launches “Open” initiative and releases the Conduit Marketplace and “2go” technologies. (6/09)
  Posted 10/1/09 at 2:40pm
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  Conduit — Conduit wins United States technology patent for its SaaS technology. (3/09)
  Posted 10/1/09 at 2:40pm
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  Conduit — Conduit earns TRUSTe Trusted Download Certification and gets included on the only industry recognized safe-software whitelist. (9/08)
  Posted 10/1/09 at 2:40pm
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  Conduit received $8M in Series B funding. (1/1/08)
  Posted 1/21/08 at 12:28am
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  Conduit — Launched tools for easy integration of any web widget/gadget into its core technology. The company also announced powerful new APIs as well as integration capabilities for any client software as plug-in. In late 2007 the company announced the ability to (2007)
  Posted 10/1/09 at 2:40pm
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  Conduit received $1.8M in Series A funding. (7/1/06)
  Posted 7/17/07 at 10:13pm
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  Conduit added Reena Jadhav as Chief Marketing Officer.
  Posted 7/17/07 at 9:25pm
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  Conduit added Joel York as VP Marketing (Iterim).
  Posted 7/31/08 at 9:29am
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  Conduit added Ronen Shilo as Founder & CEO.
  Posted 7/17/07 at 9:25pm
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  Conduit added Adam Boyden as President.
  Posted 10/24/08 at 9:40am
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  Conduit added Dror Erez as Founder, CTO.
  Posted 8/25/09 at 10:34am
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  Conduit added Gaby Bilczyk as Founder and SVP of Research and Development.
  Posted 8/25/09 at 10:34am
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  Conduit added Roy Gen as CFO.
  Posted 8/25/09 at 10:34am
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  Conduit added Eitan Lev as VP of Business Intelligence.
  Posted 8/25/09 at 10:34am
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  Conduit added Yochai Levi as VP of Online Marketing.
  Posted 8/25/09 at 10:34am

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Conduit Platform

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Website	conduit.com
Stage	Live
Launch Date	July 1, 2005
Tags	toolbar-creator

The Conduit Platform provides an intuitive environment in which web publishers can create custom community toolbars, desktop alerts, and personalized components for distribution, in any language, free of charge. The flexible solution offers rich APIs, and enables easy integration with any software or social media technology. The platform includes modules for sharing content and applications, including the Conduit Marketplace and the 2go syndication tool. The platform also provides a complete set of tools necessary to manage the entire marketing lifecycle, such as promotional tools and advanced analytics. Conduit earned the TRUSTe safe download certification after an exhaustive review of its platform.

Branded community toolbars can be deployed on all major browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari, on Windows, MAC and Linux.

Above: Conduit Platform Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 9/13/09

Above: Conduit Platform Screenshot -- #2
Uploaded: 9/13/09

Above: Conduit Platform Screenshot -- #3
Uploaded: 9/13/09

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4. Conduit Community Toolbars Are Now TRUSTe Certified (conduit.com) [edit]
5. Conduit Wins United States Technology Patent for Innovative Website Syndication Platform (conduit.com) [edit]
6. conduit.com [edit]
7. Conduit Browser Toolbars Share Content with Millions (PCmag.com) (blogs.pcmag.com) [edit]