Israeli company LabPixies continue to dominate widget space since it was founded in March 2006. The company stayed small, making it more streamlined and focused in developing widgets. The company has remained low profile since then. Yet, even if the company has been on a low profile, it won several good projects, most notably, the official crossword widget of the New York Times.

LabPixies is in competition with several widget developers such as Rockyou, Slide, Clearspring, Goowy, Widgetbox, and Gigya among others. These other widget developers have a number of fund sources while LabPixies managed to raise a total of $1 million from various investors all over Israel.

The widgets created by LabPixies are viewed by 41 million people every month. This translates to about 750 million widget views every month. Initially, LabPixies only created widgets for iGoogle. But more recently, they started developing widgets for Live.com and Netvibes among others.

Although LabPixies only has ten employees, it continues to fulfill its potentials, creating widgets for a number of big name clients. Among their most popular widgets are the NY Times crossword puzzle, Defender, Space Invaders, and a Babylon language translation tool. On top of this, they are also offering interactive widgets made for advertising.

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