Andy George, The Active Network’s vice president of technology. “It does represent a shift in spending priorities in that we are spending a far larger percentage on development than we have in the past,” Alberga says, but it doesn’t mean the company has stopped making acquisitions. The company operates primarily in North America, with a small business in Europe (less than $10 million in annual sales), as well as offices in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. “Everything we build now is built with internationalization and globalization in mind,” Alberga says.
The private company also provided a few numbers that give an indication of the scale of The Active Network’s operations:
—45 million: The number of transactions done last year on Active Network systems.
—7 million: The number of unique visitors each month to the company’s consumer websites, which include Active.com, eteamz.com, LaxPower.com, and others.
—75,000: The number of customers using Active Network’s Web-based services.
—$245 million: Annual revenue in 2009. (The year the company became profitable.)
—$173 million: Annual revenue in 2008.
—44 states: The number of states for which the Active Network’s ActiveOutdoors division processes hunting and fishing licenses and/or campground reservations.
Pages: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
View all posts by Bruce V. Bigelow