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Growth Gets Them Listed

By KAREN KAPLAN
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Fifteen Southern California companies made the Deloitte & Touche national ranking of the 500 fastest-growing companies for 1999. Pasadena-based Internet service provider EarthLink Network came in third by boosting revenue 158,405% over a five-year period. Other Tech Coast companies in the top 100 were: Miravant Medical Technologies of Santa Barbara (No. 33), which is developing drugs and medical devices that use light to destroy diseased cells; Soligen Technologies of Northridge (69), which developed a technology for producing metal parts directly from computer files; Santa Barbara-based Software.com (72), which makes Internet messaging software; and Advanced Recognition Technologies (99) of Simi Valley, developer of voice and handwriting-recognition technologies.

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Karen Kaplan

Karen Kaplan covers science and medical research for the Los Angeles Times. She has been a member of the science team since 2005, including 13 years as an editor. Her first decade at The Times was spent covering technology in the Business section as both a reporter and editor. She grew up in San Diego and is a graduate of MIT and Columbia University.

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