Ritter Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced positive results from its Phase 2 study of RP-G28, the first-in-class treatment of lactose intolerance. Treatment with RP-G28 was shown to improve digestive symptoms associated with lactose intolerance, including abdominal pain. Importantly, the reduction of breath hydrogen production after a lactose load was measured, providing evidence of a clinically meaningful biological effect. This study marks a major milestone in lactose intolerance research, as it represents the first adequate and well-controlled Phase 2 study for a prescription drug candidate for patients with lactose intolerance.

The acquisition of Overstat's unique technology - including visual heatmaps and insightful form analytics - will extend Tealeaf's industry-leading Customer Experience Management offerings and power new products and services that will address a range of emerging customer experience needs for companies doing business online and on mobile devices.

Netpulse Inc. has acquired Virtual Active, a media company that produces exercise-focused, virtual reality products. As part of the acquisition, the entire Virtual Active team will join Netpulse. With the acquisition, Netpulse expands its platform, which provides consumers worldwide with engaging content and data on their fitness experience. Netpulse has partnerships with seven commercial fitness equipment manufacturers to provide this data on their equipment. In addition, the Netpulse platform is available to consumers outside health clubs via mobile devices and home fitness products.

WellnessFX wants its users to have access not only to diagnostics, but to nutritional research, genetic data, integrated therapies, as well as charts and graphs that allow them to track lab results, genetic proclivities, etc. - data that will help paint a more accurate, comprehensive picture of your current health.

Ritter Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Ritter) announced the last patient has completed treatment in its Phase 2 study for RP-G28, a first-in-class treatment for symptoms associated with lactose intolerance. This multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group study evaluated the effectiveness, safety and tolerability of RP-G28 in subjects with symptoms associated with lactose intolerance.

Read about Marketfish's early beginnings as featured in Forbes.

SmartZip Analytics, Inc. announced the launch of its second generation SmartTargeting platform, a highly targeted listings acquisition system for real estate professionals that identifies and engages homeowners most likely to sell their home in the next 6-12 months. SmartTargeting combines SmartZip's extensive set of home and homeowner information with its expertise in predictive analytics and high-response direct marketing to connect agents with sellers and nurture them until they turn into a client. On average, SmartTargeting successfully predicted over 40% of the listings in any given territory, effectively doubling the density of opportunity for the real estate agent.

Sociable Labs provides a range of tools for its e-commerce sites to integrate social features on their websites, going beyond simple Facebook "Likes." Users can share what they purchased with friends either on the website or back to Facebook.

NBCUniversal's USA Network has partnered with Yap.tv, a maker of a social TV guide app for mobile devices, to launch a USA-branded app for its shows and fans as it and other channels continue to expand the use of social media to reach and engage viewers.

Lithium Technologies, the leader in Social Customer Solutions, announced a significant addition to its corporate leadership with the appointment of Ed Van Siclen as Senior Vice President of Business Development & Global Alliances. Van Siclen will drive the ongoing expansion of Lithium's worldwide partner network, identifying, managing and maximizing the company's alliances and growth opportunities.

Rixty is taking online game gift cards to the next level by making them personalized, branded, and reloadable.

GET IT Mobile, an innovative mobile marketing provider that offers the easiest way to get and share mobile content, announced today the availability of GET IT Free, a free version of the company's powerful mobile marketing technology. In addition, GET IT is sponsoring an Ad Dollar Giveaway to reward app developers who are using GET IT Free. Each month until the end of the year, one randomly selected winner will be awarded $1,000 in online advertising towards the promotion of the winner's app.

Lithium has named enterprise software veteran, Rob Tarkoff, as its new Chief Executive Officer, after an intensive search over the last four months. Rob brings deep experience in digital, social, and enterprise markets.

Featured by Businessweek as one of the top 25 CEOs of Tomorrow, Rob comes to Lithium from Adobe where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Enterprise Solutions.

HubSpot to acquire oneforty, Inc. to leverage social media in transforming marketing, turning the oneforty social media application directory into the HubSpot App Marketplace, and integrating oneforty's SocialBase into the HubSpot product suite.

yap.TV, the first social TV guide for the iOS environment, today launched a major update to its best-of-breed app. Version 3.0 pushes the performance envelope of all Apple iOS devices, including the iPad 2, to deliver an immersive HD, social TV experience. The combination of a rich-media, visual TV guide, and interactive social features transforms the TV watching experience in a way that is unrivaled on the second screen.

The first question people new to email marketing ask is: "Where can I buy email addresses?" Some even go so far as to ignore advice not to buy email addresses, purchase a list and, of course, get screwed. And when someone who's been around for a while tells them they can't buy email addresses-or at least not from a reputable company, anyway-they get incredulous. What's worse, the lists generally have few or no so-called selects, or address-holder attributes from which to choose to target specific recipients.

Then they learn: The only legitimate way to prospect using email is to rent permission from list owners who must send offers to their subscribers on advertisers' behalves-an incredibly clumsy proposition.

Enter Seattle-based Marketfish.

SocialBase is presented in a way that may well appeal to those who need to maintain corporate social media presences across multiple channels and want to make sure that it's as simple as possible to achieve. Fine-tuned for teams of social media marketers and community managers, SocialBase is aimed squarely at the enterprise market and offers a free 30-day trial.

The new CloudCommand Hotspot Edition provides options for those in need of easily deployed customer-facing wireless. Whether the goal is to provide free Wi-Fi with a splash of advertising, or different tiers of pay-as-you-go service, CloudCommand has you covered. Single or multiple sites are managed through Hotspot Edition's web interface, and management or front-desk staff can manipulate settings for customer classes or individuals. Who might use PowerCloud's latest? Think medical clinic waiting rooms, hotels, resorts and other settings where wireless done right might be passed on because of budget and IT skill constraints.

When deployed, the service is complete with an e-commerce back-end that makes customer billing easy. Whether charging by the megabit or by the hour, the complexity frequently associated with billing for services is eliminated. If customers pay for Wi-Fi, PowerCloud handles the transaction and writes the subscribing Hotspot Edition business a check periodically. You can't argue with simple, especially when its effective.

SmartZip Analytics, Inc. announced today that it has partnered with Dominion Enterprises to power the newly launched Home Values feature on Homes.com, one of the nation's leading real estate websites. The Home Values feature on Homes.com uses SmartZip's proprietary automated valuation models to provide home buyers, home owners, investors, and professionals with instant access to accurate assessments of market values on over 75 million homes across the United States. In addition to SmartZip's Home Values, Homes.com also integrates SmartZip's HomeScore on every property.

One of the more intriguing offshoots of the social media phenomena is consumer co-creation: People who would normally expect to buy goods instead sacrificing their time and talent to support them, even make new products for the company. Talking its own game, Lithium just announced DeveloperNation, in which its customers can access all of Lithium's social tools to build versions they want for themselves.

Omnitrol Networks, a pioneer in global track and trace solutions, announced today that it has partnered with TRiDENT RFID to supply an RFID based solution to Firstlight Foods to automatically capture complete pedigree and track venison processing in real-time. TRiDENT RFID is a leader in integrating RFID technology in the fresh produce sector, overcoming well known barriers associated with using UHF RFID technology to track high water content products like meat and produce. The solution will enable Firstlight Foods to automatically track venison and beef production and to accurately generate electronic meat pedigree records enabling field-to-fork traceability.

Netpulse, Inc., the location-based, interactive, digital media platform for fitness centers and active lifestyle consumers, today announced that it has expanded its team with powerhouse additions Mark Mastrov on the Board of Directors, Kurt Weinsheimer as VP of Business Development, and Joe Hawkins as VP of Operations. Chairman of New Evolution Ventures, Mark Mastrov is the founder of 24 Hour Fitness. Launched in 1983, he built the fitness empire to 420 clubs in 6 countries. Mastrov sold the company for $1.68 billion -- the largest sum in industry history -- and went on to build some of the world's best known international fitness brands, whose combined operations exceed 1,000 locations worldwide.

As more businesses, both enterprise, large and small, look to incorporate social media into their marketing and PR efforts, these companies are also looking to spend money on expertise, services and tools for these strategies. And Oneforty has now become a destination for business users. Social media consultants have already built out 700+ guides on the site to help businesses tackle all things social media, including Twitter and Facebook.

Yap.TV's second screen solution receives first ever "Double Fly" rating from both John Biggs and Erick Schonfeld. The review was fantastic and both Eric and John gave yap.TV a unanimous "fly" rating, which they stated was the first "double-fly" of the series. They honed in on the core issue to be solved in the social tv space, which is, what to do with a community of users once they show up. To quote Erick from the video, "The problem with a lot of these check-in apps, is that, what do you do after you check-in? You (yap.TV) are well on your way to solving that problem, you are giving people a 'reason' to check-in, which is great."

Javelin Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm, today announced the closing of Javelin Venture Partners II, a $105 million fund dedicated to investing in information technology start-ups. The fund will focus its investments in the areas of digital media, Internet commerce and services, advertising platforms, cloud computing, mobile and healthcare IT.

PowerCloud Systems, Inc., the company that created CloudCommand, announces feedback from IT professionals highlighting how this technology is revolutionizing the way VARs profitably deploy and manage wireless networks in the SMB market.

"The feedback we're receiving from the channel is positively off the scale," said Jeff Abramowitz, president and CEO of PowerCloud Systems. "The channel is evolving toward a managed service model, and CloudCommand-enabled Wi-Fi solutions deliver VARs and their customers compelling benefits. Not only can they quickly install a business-grade network that exceeds their clients' expectations, but they can simultaneously enjoy additional revenue through faster deployment and managed services."

Omnitrol Networks announced today it has been selected by BT, one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services, for the deployment of RFID-based retail inventory solutions. The new RFID solutions will track actual inventory movements and item-level velocity by stock keeping unit (SKU), and deliver proactive, real-time replenishment alerts and visibility for retail store managers. This real-time visibility will enable near-perfect tracking accuracy and forecasted inventory levels, which will help retailers to significantly increase employee productivity.

Yap.TV's social TV app for iOS devices featured by CNN as one of 5 products to know about before CES kicks off.

Atheros Communications, Inc., a global leader in innovative technologies for wireless and wired communications, announced it has added cloud management capabilities to its WLAN solutions for small, medium and large enterprise networks. Through collaboration with PowerCloud Systems, Atheros is offering CloudCommand™ technology in its XSPAN® software development kit, which enables wireless access points and routers to be deployed and managed from the cloud with a web browser. This will accelerate the adoption of cloud-managed network devices and expand the opportunities for networking vendors to serve new markets.

Netpulse and Virtual Active announced today that the companies have formed a partnership that will bring Virtual Active's innovative virtual reality running, cycling and hiking media experience to Netpulse's interactive media platform for active lifestyle consumers and fitness centers.

The Netpulse platform provides exercisers with a customized media experience that offers multiple channels of on-demand programs and music videos, fitness and entertainment applications, personalized workout data, and access to social media.

Virtual Active's breathtaking media allows exercisers to experience running, cycling and hiking in some of the most amazing landscapes using real video shot from a first person perspective on location across the world. Virtual Active videos, which will be available through Netpulse in 2011, include such diverse destinations as the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas Strip, the Italian Alps, and the Matterhorn in Switzerland.

Nexenta Systems, creators of the world's most widely-deployed OpenStorage solution, announced today that the third quarter of 2010 marked further acceleration of its explosive growth, including 59 percent quarter on quarter growth, the achievement of their 2,000th customer deployment, and a strategic investment from a major customer and a related venture fund.

Ritter Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a grant by the United States government program, the Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project (QTDP). The QTDP grant supports the development of Ritter Pharmaceuticals' flagship product, RP-G28, as a treatment for the symptoms of lactose intolerance. There were over 6,500 applicants seeking $1 Billion in grant funding. Ritter Pharmaceuticals received the maximum awarded amount per project.

PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated), a premier center for commercial innovation, and PowerCloud™ Systems, Inc. today announced the spin-out of PowerCloud Systems, which has been incubated at PARC since early 2008 and is initially focusing on offering cloud-managed networking solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Walden Venture Capital and Javelin Venture Partners are joining PARC as investors in the company. PowerCloud Systems builds on intellectual property developed at PARC and invents and engineers cloud-based technology for OEM vendors that makes business networking devices dramatically easier to deploy, secure, and manage -– all at an unprecedented low cost.

Omnitrol Networks announced today that it has closed a round of financing with Javelin Venture Partners and several existing investors. A select group of new strategic individual investors also participated in the round, including Puneet Arora, the former CTO of TIBCO Software. The financing round brings Omnitrol's total investment since inception to approximately $15 million. The company has also been previously backed by Westlake International Group and individual founders. The capital will be used to expand sales and marketing, and help accelerate key initiatives in response to sustained industry growth.

Lithium Technologies, the leading provider of Social Customer Solutions, announced that it has been positioned by Forrester Research, Inc. as a leader in the "The Forrester Wave™: Community Platforms, Q4 2010" report. The Wave results show that Lithium Technologies is ranked number one for their current offering, the Social Customer Suite, and number one in strategy. Additionally, Lithium received the top ranked scores in the areas of features, services, leadership, and clients.

Queplix announced today the Queplix Virtual Data Manager™ (QVDM), which substantially automates application and data integration, and provides ongoing data harmonization for higher business value. Queplix integration enables a consistent view of customer, product and financial data so that vital information remains accurate across software systems. As a result, customers achieve far greater agility, cost savings and rapid return on their investment – up to 75 percent or more – than with legacy solutions, middleware, ETL, EII EAI tools and very expensive data management solutions.

Real-time event-driven architecture pioneer appointment will strengthen company's expertise to achieve greater success in the real-time business intelligence market

Yap.TV is a new startup launching today with an application for the iPad that wants to be the platform for this kind of conversation – a central place where you can chat with your friends about current television content. You can grab the application here.

Sense Networks, Inc. announced today that it has named David J. Petersen as the company's new CEO and a member of the company's board of directors. The addition of Petersen, formerly a senior vice president with Nielsen Mobile of The Nielsen Company, will significantly enhance the company's progress in building high-quality information products from large-scale mobile location information sources.

Ritter Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that the United States FDA has approved the company's Investigational New Drug (IND) application for RP-G28, a novel therapeutic product for the treatment of lactose intolerance. RP-G28 has the potential to become the first FDA-approved drug treatment for lactose intolerance.

Start-up Netpulse is developing new technologies to motivate people to get in shape, first by enabling access of their favorite media on any piece of workout equipment and secondly by helping people better monitor their health with new analytics software. SmartPlanet visits New York Sports Club and NetPulse's San Francisco offices to get a closer look at the new fitness gear.

Lithium Technologies, the leading provider of Social CRM solutions to power the customer network, today announced the acquisition of Scout Labs, a rapidly growing social media monitoring company, widely recognized for the elegance and power of its analytical tools.

OneForty founder and CEO Laura Fitton was named one of Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology 2010. Christening her a Tech Evangelist, Fast Company cites Fitton's authoring of Twitter for Dummies and founding of OneForty, the app store for Twitter.

Nexenta Systems, the leader in Open Storage solutions, today announced the appointment of Rick Hayes as the vice president of technical operations. In his new capacity, Hayes will manage the company's technical infrastructure including support, IT and professional services. "I've been involved in the storage industry for a long time, and I've never seen a company with the velocity of adoption that Nexenta has already achieved," said Rick Hayes. "With that growth comes a focus on building a foundation to continue to rapidly scale the company while always improving customer and partner support."

Scout Labs unveils updated dashboard, adding several new capabilities, including collaboration, workflow assignment, more data sources, enhanced sentiment analysis, and better graphing solutions.