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Continuous Computing Corporation Tops Deloitte & Touche San Diego Technology Fast 50 Ranking of Fastest-Growing Technology Companies, With 28,372 Percent Growth Over Five Years.


Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2003

Continuous Computing This article about a company does not make it clear whether the subject meets the Wikipedia criteria for .  Corporation tops the list of the fastest growing technology companies in the San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay.  area as recognized by Deloitte & Touche LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , one of the nation's leading professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products.  firms, at an awards event held September September: see month.  17 at the Hyatt Hyatt is an international brand of hotels within the Global Hyatt Corporation that operates numerous properties.

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Continuous Computing Corporation, a San Diego-based provider of high-availability, application-ready platform solutions that enable telecom equipment manufacturers to rapidly develop and deploy voice-over-packet, intelligent network, OAM&P, and wireless infrastructure applications, was the top-ranked Fast 50 company with a five-year revenue growth rate of 28,372 percent.

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n. pl. ad·ver·si·ties
1. A state of hardship or affliction; misfortune.

2. A calamitous event.
 is much more challenging, and that's exactly what the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 winners have done," said Helen Adams Helen Adams (born May 30, 1978 in Cwmbran, South Wales) rose to fame in the UK when she was chosen to be a contestant on the second series of the reality television show Big Brother, in 2001. , partner, Technology, Media, & Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications.  (TMT TMT 1 Tarsometatarsal 2 Thermomechanical treatment 3 Treatment, see there ) Group, Deloitte & Touche, San Diego. "We applaud these companies for their tremendous accomplishments during economically challenging times, and for being one of the elite Fast 50 companies in the San Diego area."

Winners are selected based on the percentage of growth in revenues from 1998 to 2002. To be considered, Fast 50 entrants must have met the following criteria: Have revenues of at least $50,000 in 1998 and at least $1,000,000 in 2002. Be public or private companies, headquartered in the San Diego area. Subsidiaries and divisions are not eligible, unless they have some public ownership and are separately traded. Be a "technology company" defined as owning proprietary technology that contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues operating revenue

Revenue from any regular source. Revenue from sales is adjusted for discounts and returns when calculating operating revenue. Compare other revenue.
 (using other companies' technology in a unique way does not qualify); and/or and/or  
conj.
Used to indicate that either or both of the items connected by it are involved.

Usage Note: And/or is widely used in legal and business writing.
 devoting a significant proportion of revenues to research and development of technology.

The 2003 San Diego Technology Fast 50 company ranking is as follows:

                                            5 Yr. %
Rank  Company Name                City      Growth   Ticker   Exchange
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
    Continuous Computing
  1  Corporation                  San Diego  28372%  Private      N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
  2 SEQUENOM, Inc.                San Diego   8699%  SQNM      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
  3 MUSICMATCH, Inc.              San Diego   2706%  Private      N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
  4 Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. San Diego   2499%  Private      N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
  5 ComGlobal Systems, Inc.       San Diego   2410%  Private      N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
    Protein Polymer Technologies,
  6  Inc.                         San Diego   2389%  PPTI         OTC
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
  7 Diversa Corporation           San Diego   2250%  DVSA      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
  8 Digirad Corporation           San Diego   2062%  Private      N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
  9 WIDCOMM, Inc.                 San Diego   1976%  Private      N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 10 Invitrogen Corporation        Carlsbad    1965%  IVGN      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 11 MAXIM Pharmaceuticals         San Diego   1090%  MAXM      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
    CardioDynamics International
 12  Corporation                  San Diego   1021%  CDIC      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 13 Websense, Inc.                San Diego    781%  WBSN      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 14 ProfitLine, Inc.              San Diego    660%  Private      N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
    Discovery Partners
 15  International                San Diego    565%  DPII      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
    Information Systems
 16  Laboratories, Inc.           San Diego    532%  Private      N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
    Ligand Pharmaceuticals
 17  Incorporated                 San Diego    447%  LGND      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 18 Novatel Wireless, Inc.        San Diego    437%  NVTL      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
    IDEC Pharmaceuticals
 19  Corporation                  San Diego    365%  IDPH      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 20 The Titan Corporation         San Diego    359%  TTN         NYSE
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 21 ImageWare Systems, Inc.       San Diego    331%  IW          AMEX
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 22 SmartDraw.com                 San Diego    314%  Private      N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
    American Technology
 23  Corporation                  San Diego    313%  ATCO      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 24 SourcingLink.net              San Diego    311%  SNET         N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 25 4-D Neuroimaging              San Diego    275%  FDNX         OTC
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 26 Wireless Facilities, Inc.     San Diego    260%  WFII      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
    Koam Engineering Systems,
 27  Inc.                         San Diego    235%  Private      N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 28 SureBeam Corporation          San Diego    230%  SUREE     NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
    Terra-Kleen Response Group,
 29  Inc.                         San Diego    220%  Private      N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 30 JNI Corporation               San Diego    215%  JNIC      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 31 ResMed Corporation            Poway        207%  RMD         NYSE
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
    Applied Molecular Evolution,
 32  Inc.                         San Diego    206%  AMEV      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 33 ViaSat, Inc.                  Carlsbad     205%  VSAT      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 34 Biosite Incorporated          San Diego    184%  BSTE      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 35 Lightspan, Inc.               San Diego    158%  LSPN      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 36 Predicate Logic, Inc.         San Diego    139%  Private      N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 37 Nanogen, Inc.                 San Diego    125%  NGEN      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 38 e.Digital Corporation         San Diego    124%  EDIG         OTC
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 39 SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc.  Oceanside    119%  SRLS      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 40 Overland Storage, Inc.        San Diego    117%  OVRL      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 41 Cardiff Software, Inc.        Vista      104.7%  Private      N/A
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 42 ISIS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.    Carlsbad   104.6%  ISIS      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 43 Captiva Software Corporation  San Diego  104.5%  CPTV      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 44 Mitek Systems, Inc.           Poway        101%  MITK      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
    Applied Micro Circuits
 45  Corporation                  San Diego     99%  AMCC      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 46 Innovative Medical Services   El Cajon    91.4%  PURE      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 47 Epimmune Inc.                 San Diego   91.2%  EPMN      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 48 DJ Orthopedics, Inc.          Vista         76%  DJO         NYSE
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 49 Vista Medical Technologies    Carlsbad      69%  VMTI      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------
 50 Gen-Probe Incorporated        San Diego     62%  GPRO      NASDAQ
--------------------------------- --------- -------  -------  --------


A special category called "Rising Stars" recognizes three additional fast-growing adj. 1. tending to spread quickly; - used mostly of plants.

Adj. 1. fast-growing - tending to spread quickly; "an aggressive tumor"
strong-growing, aggressive
 technology companies based on revenue growth over three years (2000-2002). This year's rising star is Active Motif, based in Carlsbad Carlsbad, cities, United States
Carlsbad (kärlz`băd).

1 City (1990 pop. 63,126), San Diego co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; settled in the 1880s, inc. 1952.
, with a growth rate of 897%.

The Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 program is sponsored by Cooley Coo·ley , Denton Arthur Born 1920.

American surgeon and educator who in 1969 performed the first artificial heart transplant on a human.
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The bank was founded in Detroit in 1849 as the Detroit Savings Fund Institute, by Elon Farnsworth.
, Fleishman Hillard, Focus Creative, KPBS KPBS may refer to two public broadcasting stations in San Diego, California:
  • KPBS (TV) channel 15, PBS affiliate for San Diego.
  • KPBS-FM 89.5 MHz, NPR affiliate for San Diego.
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 & Company, The T Sector, and in association with AeA, and BIOCOM.

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