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Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Blinkx -- don't miss it
THE young head of a high-flying Cambridge
technology spin-out company has spoken exclusively
to Business about its success, and its future.

Cambridge University-educated Suranga
Chandratillake is the chief executive of Blinkx, which
was launched five years ago as an offshoot of
Autonomy.

Five years on, the company has grown from a staff
complement of four to 120, a third of whom are
based on the Cambridge Science Park. Its annual
turnover is £20m – and it is worth £350m.

The business idea that has triggered such
phenomenal growth is a search engine, called Blinkx,
which trawls the internet for video content...