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11/7/2008 Telerik.com Now Running on Sitefinity

We are excited to announce that Telerik’ corporate website www.telerik.com was completely revamped and rebuilt on Telerik’s content management system Sitefinity, The website delivers superior web experience in terms of speed, content and visual appeal, all facilitated by the use of Sitefinity.

The website has been redesigned according to usability best practices. It follows Web 2.0 guiding principles, and ultimately it provides a highly intuitive and visually appealing web environment. A major goal of the renovation was to make it as easy as possible for visitors to find the information they are looking for and facilitate the use of the abundance of support resources. It’s been an amazing experience for the Telerik team to work on a site of such a scale and Sitefinity as a product has been significantly improved thanks to some of the lessons we learned in the process. Telerik will continue developing advanced functionality for personalization, which will additionally facilitate the communication and collaboration between the company and its customers.

Telerik team also plans to make series of blog posts, discuss the implementation, and prepare a case study on the whole project, so stay tuned!

Check our new website for yourself!

10/10/2008 Sitefinity CMS v3.5 is Now Released

We are delighted to announce that Sitefinity CMS v3.5 was released on Thursday, October 9, and is now available for immediate download from your client.net account. The core of the new release is optimizations aiming at enhancing the overall performance of the product. Some of the highlights are:

•    Optimizations in the caching capabilities:
-    CacheDependency was implemented for CMS pages – updating a CMS page or Generic Content Item will remove from the cache only the affected page, but will not invalidate the entire cache.
•    A new CachingManager is implemented which supports providers model. Along with using the built-in Sitefinity caching providers, you can create a custom one.
•    Enhancements in permissions:
-    Hierarchical applications permissions can now be defined for multiple membership providers with the new 3.5 version
-    Page permissions can now be defined for multiple membership providers at the same time
•    Persistence modes “DomainName” and “DomainExtension” were implemented for localization purposes – now a certain domain name or extension can be mapped to specific language version of the website.
•    CmsSiteMapProvider performance optimizations.
•    All RadControls in the Administrative panel and in the user controls from the toolbox were updated to use the newest RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 version.
•    All ContentView-based controls are partially Ajaxified for a better performance.
•    The Images and Documents module now supports CMYK color scheme images.

Read more about Sitefinity CMS v3.5

10/3/2008 Visit Telerik at Microsoft PDC and ASP.NET Connections Events

Telerik is a proud Gold Sponsor of the upcoming Microsoft PDC 2008 conference, which will take place in the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, October 27-30, 2008, as well as a Platinum Sponsor of the fall edition of Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, which will be held in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 10-13, 2008.

If you visit us at PDC or ASP.NET Connections, you’ll get a closer look at the newest version of Sitefinity CMS – 3.5 and you’ll also have a chance to win $1000 in cash or five Telerik Premium Collection licenses by playing the “Guess the UI game”! So mark your calendars and come to Telerik’s booth where you can experience Augmented Reality, Gesture UI, and other innovative applications made with Telerik controls.

Learn more about Microsoft PDC 2008 and visit Telerik at booth # 401
Learn more about Microsoft ASP.NET Connections and visit Telerik at booth # 113

If you need more detailed information about the conferences, or want to schedule a meeting with a Telerik representative during any of the events, please drop us an email at events@telerik.com.

9/3/2008 Summit Partners Invests in Telerik

Sofia, Bulgaria; Newton, MA; and Boston, MA – September 3, 2008 -- Telerik, a leading vendor of software tools and components which allow developers to rapidly build cutting-edge web and desktop applications, today announced that it has received an investment from Summit Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm that has raised more than $11 billion since inception. The investment will be used to fund both organic growth and acquisitions.

Founded in 2002, Telerik offers a dynamic portfolio of products which can be used to build powerful web and desktop applications that are run using the latest Microsoft technologies, such as ASP.NET, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, and Silverlight. Building on the company’s expertise in interface development and Microsoft frameworks, Telerik’s software helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity—quickly and inexpensively.

Telerik also provides Sitefinity, a rapidly growing web content management system that substantially reduces the amount of time required to produce and manage websites, portals, and intranets.

More than 20,000 organizations in more than 70 countries -- including Fortune 500 companies such as Vodafone, Citigroup, Kodak, and Nike, as well as renowned educational, governmental and not-for-profit institutions including NASA, The World Bank, and Harvard University -- rely on Telerik’s products.

Telerik has won numerous technical and business awards. The company was named to the Red Herring 100 list for Europe in 2008, and was recognized as the Best Employer in Bulgaria for small to medium sized companies by Hewitt Associates.

Vassil Terziev, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Telerik, said, “Telerik has been 100 percent employee-owned and profitable throughout our rapid growth. The decision to raise outside capital was an important and strategic move for Telerik, and we believe that Summit will assist us in achieving even greater results.” Svetozar Georgiev, Telerik's Co-founder and Co-CEO, added, “With Summit’s strategic guidance and global network of contacts, we are now uniquely positioned to expand Telerik’s product offering and achieve continued optimal growth -- allowing us to become the sole source of a software developer’s needs.”

Tom Jennings, a Managing Director with Summit Partners, said, “We have been impressed by Telerik’s track record and exceptional management team, as well as the company’s unwavering focus on delivering technologically innovative and reliable products to developers." “Summit has a twenty-year track record of investing in software companies, and Telerik shares many attributes that have helped other companies become market leaders. We look forward to working with the management team to help Telerik achieve even greater success.”

About Telerik
Telerik provides the leading suite of software tools for developers building applications using Microsoft technologies. The company’s development tools and components are used by software developers from most of the Fortune 2000 companies, many of the world’s leading educational and non-profit organizations and thousands of consultants. Telerik also provides Sitefinity, a rapidly growing web content management system that substantially reduces the amount of time required to produce and manage websites, portals, and intranets.

Telerik’s global customer base relies on its award-winning products to build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Telerik is headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria and its US division is based in Newton, Massachusetts

About Summit Partners
Summit Partners (www.summitpartners.com) provides private equity and venture capital for growth companies. Founded in 1984, Summit has raised more than $11 billion in capital and has provided equity, recapitalization, and management buyout financing to more than 300 growing companies across a range of industries. These companies have completed nearly 125 public offerings and more than 110 have been acquired through strategic mergers and sales. Summit Partners has offices in Boston, Palo Alto, and London.

Summit Partners works with outstanding management teams that have self-financed their companies to profitability and market leadership. Summit’s notable software investments include AvePoint, Hyperion Software, McAfee, OPNET Technologies, Postini, RightNow Technologies, SafeBoot, and Sybari Software.

The business of Summit Partners in the UK is regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Summit Partners Limited is registered in England and Wales. The registered number is 4141197, and the registered office is located at 20–22 Bedford Row in London, WC1R 4JS, UK. In the US, Summit Partners operates as an SEC-registered investment advisor. This document is intended solely to provide information regarding Summit Partners’ potential financing capabilities for prospective portfolio companies.

6/20/2008 Telerik Named Best Employer in Central and Eastern Europe

Bulgaria, Sofia, June 5, 2008 – Telerik is proud to announce that it has been recognized with the 3rd place in the “Best Employers in Central Eastern Europe” study (small and medium scale company category). The research was conveyed by Hewitt Associates, the world’s foremost provider of human resources outsourcing and consulting services.

The study involved 120,000 employees from 591 companies in 12 Central Eastern European countries who shared their opinions about their workplaces. The rankings for Best Employer are based on the employees’ objective evaluation of their companies. Among the criteria evaluated are: career growth, work environment, remuneration and benefits, business strategies, knowledge about employee opinions, effectiveness of internal communication, etc.

“Telerik is a result of its employees’ efforts and ideas, and I can’t be happier to see these yield a remarkable outcome”, said Svetozar Georgiev, Telerik CEO. “Being number 1 employer in Bulgaria is fantastic, but being number 3 in CE Europe is absolutely unbelievable”.

The study is one of the largest employee researches conducted in Central and Eastern Europe. Hewitt measures the effectiveness of an organization in providing a workplace that engages the intellectual and emotional commitment of its employees. An article on the study results was published by The Wall Street Journal (Europe).

About Telerik
Telerik is a leading vendor of development tools and components for Microsoft .Net. Developers from most of the Fortune 2000 companies, many of the world’s leading educational and non-profit organizations and thousands of consultants rely on Telerik products to build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. For more information, visit http://www.telerik.com.

About Hewitt Associates
With more than 60 years of experience, Hewitt Associates is the world’s foremost provider of human resources outsourcing and consulting services. The company consults with more than 2,400 organizations and administers human resources, health care, payroll and retirement programs on behalf of more than 350 companies to millions of employees and retirees worldwide. Located in 35 countries, Hewitt employs approximately 22,000 associates. For more information, please visit http://www.hewitt.com.

5/30/2008 Sitefinity CMS v3.2 SP2 Released

We are excited to announce that Sitefinity CMS v3.2 SP2 was released on Friday, May 30, and is now available for immediate download from your client.net account. A lot of known issues have been fixed and a number of enhancements implemented. Some of the highlights are:

•    New Base Designer for ContentView Based Controls has been implemented to provide the ability to control the appearance of controls inside of ContentView based controls, such as NewsList, BlogPosts, and EventsView.
•    Download functionality has been added to the File Manager
•    Blogs module has been significantly enhanced by adding social bookmarks; new Calendar public control   which links to blog posts; SEO friendly support and MetaBlog API were also implemented.
•    The Newsletter module also obtained certain improvements such as: public control for newsletter subscription and unsubscribe link were implemented. Now users can send external HTML files as newsletters and insert the sender’s name in the newsletter body.
•    Lots of improvements have been implemented in Search indexing, Images and Documents module, Generic Content module, etc.

Read more about SP2

5/22/2008 Sitefinity CMS Named "Best ofTech•Ed 2008 Developer Awards Finalist" by Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazines

Newton, MA, May 22, 2008 – Telerik today announced that its Sitefinity CMS was named as a finalist of the “Best of Tech•Ed 2008 Developer Awards” in the Developer Tools category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine®.

The Best of Tech•Ed 2008 Awards recognize companies who offer innovative products in the industry. The judges reviewed over 65 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 13 finalists to be interviewed at the Tech•Ed 2008 Developers Conference in Orlando, Fla. Winners will be announced on June 5 at an evening reception for all of the finalists and at www.WindowsITPro.com/awards on June 6.

“Choosing from such a wide variety of outstanding entries is a challenge every year, and the quality of this year’s entries was particularly high,” said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. “The products selected as finalists clearly provide innovative solutions and strategic importance to the market, are competitively advantageous, and provide exceptional value to customers.”

About Telerik
Telerik is a leading vendor of developer tools and components for .NET. Building on our expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Created with passion, Telerik products help thousands of developers every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications under budget and on time.

About Penton Media
Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.

5/20/2008 Sitefinity and DiscountASP.NET Partner to Provide a Free Website for .NET User Groups

May 20, 2008. Newton, MA - Telerik, the publisher of the Sitefinity CMS and a leading vendor of UI components for .NET, and DiscountASP.NET, a Microsoft gold certified shared hosting provider, announced today the two companies have partnered to extend a unique offer to the INETA User Group (UG) community.

User groups will receive a free Sitefinity Standard edition license (worth $899) and free Windows hosting (worth $240/year). By leveraging the special, custom-built DNUG website template, integrated into Sitefinity, UG members are empowered to organize events, share files and photos, participate in forums and polls, write blogs or news, publish presentations, create job or sponsor listings, etc.

“Telerik has a long standing relationship with the .NET UG community, and the feedback and support we receive from UG members is extremely valuable to us,” said Nadia Terzieva, VP of Business Development at Telerik. “We are happy that we have the opportunity to give back to UG members, by making it easy for them to have a brand new website up and running in a matter of hours, with the help of the specially developed DNUG template and INETA manual.”

The offer will help UGs enhance collaboration between its members and facilitate the management of their daily activities.

“DiscountASP.NET does what we can to promote .NET technology and we are more than happy to provide .NET hosting for .NET user groups,” said Takeshi Eto, VP of Marketing at DiscountASP.NET. “We look forward to hosting a thriving .NET user group community.”

.NET user group members can sign up for this exclusive offer for a free Sitefinity license and ASP.NET hosting at http://www.sitefinity.com/product/features/free-offer.aspx.

About Telerik
Telerik is a leading vendor of developer tools and components for .NET. Building on its expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Created with passion, Telerik products help thousands of developers every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications under budget and on time. For more information on Telerik, visit http://www.telerik.com. For information on Sitefinity, visit http://www.sitefinity.com.

About DiscountASP.NET
DiscountASP.NET is an innovative leader in Microsoft Windows-based shared hosting, focused on providing the best value in ASP.NET and SQL database hosting. A Microsoft Gold Certified partner, DiscountASP.NET was one of the first hosts to launch Windows 2008 hosting, and .NET 3.5 hosting supporting LINQ and ASP.NET AJAX hosting. Through strong word-of-mouth and their commitment to ASP.NET and SQL technology, DiscountASP.NET has become the choice for affordable enterprise-class ASP.NET web hosting. For more information, visit http://www.discountasp.net.

4/15/2008 Telerik wins Red Herring 100 Europe, 2008 Award

April 16, 2008. NEWTON, MA, – Telerik, a leading vendor of UI components for .NET, won the Red Herring 100 Europe for 2008. The award recognizes the top 100 private technology companies headquartered in Europe, the Middle East and Africa region each year.

This prestigious award honors Telerik for its entrepreneurial approach and dedication to innovations. Hundreds of companies have been evaluated by the editors of Red Herring based on financial performance, quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development.

“This award reflects our commitment to deliver outstanding products and to constantly strive to outperform our own accomplishments, “said Svetozar Georgiev, CEO of Telerik. “We are also very proud to be recognized by the editors of Red Herring, whose talent for spotting innovative technology startups is indisputable, as they have awarded companies like Google, YouTube and Salesforce.com in the past.”

“The exceptional accomplishments of European technology companies and entrepreneurs are a testament to the rapid advancements being made in building the European innovation ecosystem,” said Joel Dreyfuss, Red Herring Editor-in-Chief.

At the end of 2007, Telerik was acknowledged with 3rd place in Deloitte’s “Rising Star” Technology Fast 50 program for the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Central Europe.
For more information on the Red Herring 100 Europe, 2008 event, scheduled for April 14-16, at the Westin Dragonara Resort, visit http://www.herringevents.com/europe08/index.html

About Telerik
Telerik is a leading vendor of development tools and components for Microsoft .NET. Developers from most of the Fortune 2000 companies, many of the world’s leading educational and non-profit organizations, and thousands of consultants rely on Telerik products to build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity.
For more information on Telerik, visit http://www.telerik.com

About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy.
For more information about Red Herring, visit http://www.redherring.com

4/10/2008 Sitefinity Challenge Part II Lucky Winners Announced

The second round of the Sitefinity Challenge has officially come to an end and we are thrilled to announce the fortunate winners of 3 Microsoft Zune MP3 Players and 15 Sitefinity Standard edition licenses.

Part 2 of the competition continued till March 31st. All contestants who sent their responses after the 31st of January took part in a raffle organized this week. The lucky winners were drawn out of 450 participants!

Thank you for participating & congratulations to the winners!
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