Sector Close-Up on Tech Stocks, Tech IPO Winner SolarWinds, Inc. (NYSE: SWI) and OpenTable Inc (NasdaqGM: OPEN)

Sector Close-Up on Tech Stocks, Tech IPO Winner SolarWinds, Inc. (NYSE: SWI) and OpenTable Inc (NasdaqGM: OPEN)


POINT ROBERTS, Wash, May 21, 2009 - Investorideas.com and www.TechSectorStocks.com, a Technology Stocks Investor Portal within Investorideas.com, feature a sector close- up on Technology stocks recent IPO’s SolarWinds, Inc. (NYSE: SWI) and OpenTable Inc (NasdaqGM: OPEN).

This week SolarWinds, Inc. (NYSE: SWI) announced the initial public offering of 12,116,279 shares of its common stock at $12.50 per share, with shares trading on the New York Stock Exchange on May 20, 2009 . SolarWinds offered 9,000,000 shares of common stock and selling stockholders are offering the remaining 3,116,279 shares in the offering. The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,817,441 shares from the selling stockholders to cover over-allotments, if any. The stock moved up on its first day of trading, closing Wednesday at $13.75 a share.

On Tuesday OpenTable Inc (NasdaqGM: OPEN), increased the price of its IPO to $16-$18 a share, from f $12-$14 a share, showing more strength and optimism in the tech sector.

SolarWinds, Inc. (NYSE: SWI) shares opened up in Thursday’s trading and the market is watching the opening of OpenTable Inc (NasdaqGM: OPEN) closely.
Tech Company Snapshots-

SolarWinds .(NYSE: SWI) provides network management software to more than 80,000 customers worldwide – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses. Focused on the real-world needs of network professionals, SolarWinds products are downloadable, easy to use and maintain, and provide the power, scale, and flexibility needed to manage today's complex network environments. SolarWinds' growing online community, thwack, offers users problem-solving and technology-sharing for all of SolarWinds' products.

OpenTable (NasdaqGM: OPEN) is the leading supplier of reservation, table management and guest management software for restaurants. In addition, the company operates www.opentable.com, the world’s most popular website for making restaurant reservations online.
With more than 10,000 customers throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain and Japan, the OpenTable hardware and software system replaces pen-and-paper at the host stand. It automates the process of taking reservations and managing tables, while allowing restaurants to build robust diner databases for superior guest recognition and targeted e-mail marketing.

Featured Technology Showcase Company
Techsectorstocks.com feature the company profile for USA Video Interactive Corporation (OTCBB: USVO) (CDNX: US.V) (Berlin: USF.BE) (Frankfurt: USF.F), a company that designs and markets technology for delivery of digital media. The Company's products add anti-piracy solutions to existing distribution channels and extend distribution into interactive channels with Video-on-Demand.

USA Video Interactive's current focus is on MediaEscort™ and SmartMarks, to help the film and television industry fight piracy, providing a robust means for producers and distributors to invisibly mark their content with the proof authorities need to catch the crooks who steal films, television shows, and video content.

About MediaEscort(TM):
MediaEscort(TM) is an industry first, IP-centric, real-time online watermarking product, with its own administrative infrastructure fully integrated into customer's video servers. It will automatically and seamlessly embed SmartMarks -- imperceptible forensic information in every frame of video content -- during Internet delivery, providing the proof courts need to protect intellectual property rights, indicting and convicting the individuals who steal the original material. Using MediaEscort, copyright holders are able to protect their content without restricting the fair uses of legitimate customers. MediaEscort's SmartMarks work across all distribution and presentation channels and technologies. It seamlessly provides an entire system for piracy protection without frustrating consumers, who will continue to have the freedom to enjoy content in their own way. In addition, MediaEscort has the ability to support all major codecs in the industry, while preserving the SmartMark and the process is fully compatible with DRM.

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