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CYBERPLEX $1.54 (Toronto symbol CX; SI Rating: Speculative) (416-597-8889; www.cyberplex.com; Shares outstanding: 64.8 million; Market cap: $99.7 million) sells a service that matches advertisers with electronic publishers. Cyberplex links advertisers’ campaigns with its 10,000 or so affiliates, which include web-site operators, bloggers and email marketers. Advertisers only pay if Cyberplex’s campaigns prompt users to do something, such as a fill out an online form or register at a web site. At the peak of the dot-com bubble of 2000, Cyberplex’s share price climbed as high as $35, and it had a market cap of almost $1 billion. Most of Cyberplex’s clients are smaller companies, such as Netflix, eHarmony and AcaiBerry Detox. But it also serves a number of larger organizations, including the U.S. army, DirecTV, FTD, Xerox, Sony Canada, IAC, Atlantic Lottery Corporation, Vista Print, Aecon, Ontario Power Generation, Scotia Bank and Royal Bank of Canada. In the three months ended March 31, 2009, Cyberplex’s revenue jumped 307%, to $32.1 million from $7.9…