NEW YORK, May 27, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Wall Street Reporter continues to introduce investors to innovative technology companies that are resisting the broad economic environment -- and even expanding their businesses.
Investors can now watch or download exclusive video interviews with the CEOs of Keynote Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:KEYN) and Advanced Photonix Inc. (AMEX:API), among other cutting-edge technology companies, at www.WallStreetReporter.com. Recorded at the most recent AeA Micro-Cap Financial Conference in Monterey, Calif., these interviews give investors and other market participants the inside scoop on each company's unique investment proposition, direct from management.
"High-tech businesses and healthcare businesses are probably the ones that are doing the best," explains Chris Hanson, CEO of high-tech trade association AeA. "A lot of companies that are here, their businesses are growing like Topsy. There's a general slowdown, but then you have a lot of innovation going on."
For example, Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN) CEO Umang Gupta tells WSR how demand for his company's network traffic measurement services has roughly doubled since 2003, taking it well beyond the break-even point. Furthermore, thanks to the company's software-as-service model, revenue is both "very solid" and recurring.
Highlights include:
- An overview of Keynote's "unique" global footprint in the network traffic space.
- Rich opportunities to grow the business even within the existing client base as new products and Web 2.0 sensibilities catch on.
Advanced Photonix (AMEX:API) is also looking at "some pretty good growth in the revenue base" as it delivers its terahertz-class optical networking products to clients like NASA, says CEO James Epolito. "We have a very wide customer base as well as being vertically integrated for manufacturing."
Highlights include:
- Just a few industrial, military and medical applications of the company's high-speed technology.
- The prospect of translating positive cash flow into actual earnings in the next year.
Beyond the AeA, another tech company making recent headlines at WSR, Riptide Worldwide Inc. (OTCBB:RTWW), is aggressively rolling up vendors in its own fast-growing space: business practice management. CEO Frank Wilde tells us he's already bought five companies that are "very nice businesses that grow on their own" on the road to turning RTWW into a $100 million operation by the end of this year.
Highlights of the interview:
- More details on how Mr. Wilde plans to use his proven talent for M&A (acquired at big names like IBM and Dell) to continue RTWW's transformation into a $100 million enterprise.
- An overview of the company's existing businesses, with special attention to the long-term recurring revenue streams that are driving it to break-even status on an EBITDA basis.
- Discussion of how acquisitions would further build out the company's technological platform.
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About Keynote Systems Inc.
Keynote Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:KEYN) engages in the development and sale of technology solutions to measure, test, assure, and enhance the quality of service of the Internet and mobile communications.
About Advanced Photonix Inc.
Advanced Photonix, Inc. (AMEX:API) is a leading supplier of opto-electronic solutions and Terahertz sensors and instrumentation to a global OEM customer base targeting the Non-Destructive Testing (including Baggage/Cargo Scanning) and Quality Control markets.
About Riptide Worldwide Inc.
Riptide Worldwide Inc. (OTCBB:RTWW) develops business process automation (BPA) and business process management (BPM) software to integrate, assemble, and optimize available IT assets to drive business process productivity, reliability, and security.