Top 5 for Technology

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Affectv

This social targeting technology firm helps customers including Dell, o2, Post Office and Universal Pictures to process and leverage user data in smarta and lucrative ways. Affectv has been profitable since day one.

nDreams Ltd

This games developer builds free virtual games for the iPhone, Facebook, web Xbox 360 and PS3. nDreams is one of the top two virtual items publishers in the UK – over 300,000 in-game sales have been made in the past six months.

Isomob Ltd

Isomob is the company behind Flirtfinder, a hot new dating concept focusing on smartphone users and m-commerce. The business may rely on micro payments, but economies of scale have allowed Isomob to become profitable fast in a very competitive space.

Trading4u

Trading4u sells customers’ unwanted items via eBay and Amazon. Through transparent account management, up-front payments and the smart use of historical eBay data, founder Bradley McLoughlin has built the business into a £1.1m-turnover business

myParcelDelivery.com

MyParcelDelivery provides a single destination for managing parcel delivery – and offers savings of up to 84% on the incumbent services. The firm recently linked up with eBay to allow sellers to automatically generate best-price delivery charges.

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Whether through automation, technological innovation, digital skills or the smart use of social media, these firms are the trailblazers of tech. In a fast-moving age of endless technological progress, these guys are at the forefront; the pioneers, the inventors, the paradigms. Despite being the most unscientific of awards, our judges have been empirical in measuring the return on technological investment in these firms. And guess what? It's immense.

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