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TopCoder Community Surpasses 200,000 Worldwide, With More Than 33,000 Rated Software Developers

Posted on: Thursday, 21 May 2009, 08:41 CDT

World's Most Productive Platform for Competitive Software Development and Programming Competitions Celebrates Continuing Growth

GLASTONBURY, Conn., May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder(R), Inc., the leader in online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software development, today announced a major milestone as the TopCoder global community of registered members has officially surpassed the 200,000 mark. At the same time, the number of rated TopCoder developers has topped 33,000 and continues to grow. In less than 8 years since the organization's inception, TopCoder has awarded more than $19 Million in prize money to thousands of the best collegiate and professional programmers from more than 200 countries around the globe. TopCoder membership is free and brings with it eligibility to compete in high profile tournaments and software development projects, access to round tables and educational forums as well as access to some of the world's leading employers of software developers. For full membership benefit details and registration visit http://www.topcoder.com .

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"We are extremely pleased by the continuing, steady growth of the TopCoder member base and our ability to present challenge and reward through our competitive platform," said Rob Hughes, President and COO of TopCoder, Inc. "In particular, we are excited at the increased participation by countries other than the U.S. - it is a great indication not only of TopCoder's positive reach, but also the ongoing globalization of both the workplace and the economy."

Along with reaching the 200,000 registered and more than 33,000 rated member milestones, other TopCoder statistical notes include:

*Over $19 Million in total member payments to date;

*More than $2.5 Million in digital run payments

*Over $1.8 Million in major tournament prize money;

*More than $1 Million in SRM/algorithm contest prize money;

*Over 190,000 SRM challenges have been submitted across all rated events;

*More than 1 million algorithmic code submissions have been made across all rated events;

*In excess of 600,000 forum messages have been posted;

*TopCoder averages 2 million page views per week and over 35,000 unique weekly visitors;

*During 2008, 44,273 members logged into the Algorithm Competition Arena for an average of over 16 hours each;

*Almost every country in the world is represented by TopCoder members;

*TopCoder membership is 52% collegiate and 48% professional;

*International membership is up almost 10 percent in 2009 over last two years (U.S. 28% vs. International 72%);

*TopCoder sponsors and clients to date have included AOL, Facebook, NSA, Sun Microsystems, IEEE-USA, Eli Lilly, Yahoo!, Google, SNIA-XAM, BT, Microsoft, ING and Intel Corporation.

Through its high profile tournaments and unique competition arena, TopCoder recognizes and promotes the abilities of the best programmers around the world, and, with the TopCoder software factory platform, harnesses the talent of these developers to design, develop and deploy software using its revolutionary competitive development methodology.

About TopCoder, Inc.

TopCoder is the world's largest competitive software development community with more than 200,000 developers representing over 200 countries. TopCoder hosts the largest and most comprehensive developer ratings and performance metrics available. The TopCoder community builds software for a wide-ranging client base through a competitive, rigorous, standards based methodology. This methodology results in a highly consistent set of software components allowing a software-as-parts approach to application development. TopCoder makes this large library of software components built through competition available to all of our clients. Utilizing a world-wide member base and this library, TopCoder seeks to lower the cost of software development while increasing both the speed at which applications can be developed and the quality of the ultimate application. For more information about sponsoring TopCoder events, recruiting TopCoder members and utilizing TopCoder's software services, visit http://www.topcoder.com/ .

TopCoder is a registered trademark of TopCoder, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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