5 IPOs Tech Needs Now

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Tech investors have been sorting through some seriously stale inventory lately.

The market, outside the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) aisle, is lined with shelves of picked-over dregs. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), EMC (NASDAQ: EMC) Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), IBM (NASDAQ: IBM)... How's a stock buyer expected to get excited about a bunch of moldy names that have outlived their expiration dates?

What happened to the fruit of Silicon Valley's lush fields of innovation? Where are those garage-conceived varietals, carefully nurtured by venture capitalist, hand-picked by investment bankers and trucked by special delivery to Wall Street?

Here are five private tech companies that investors would love to sink their teeth into.
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