Modern Web 2.0 style logo for custom software company

This is what Efficient Business was looking for in their logo design

We need a new logo design for our Custom Software company.

The name of our company is 'Efficient Business'.
Our mission is "to create unique software applications" that can "dramatically enhance the efficiency" of a business.

We want to appear 'approachable and friendly' but still professional. Not too expensive, not too geeky and robotic, not too 'techy' but also we work with businesses so it can't be too 'bubbly'.

Our customers will mainly see the logo on our new website (which needs to be redesigned along with everything else) and also on our business cards and stationery etc. We do not have any signage.

We really like gray backgrounds and shading for websites and lots of white space so the new logo will not work if it only has impact when against really dark backgrounds.

We are looking for a really clean, modern, web 2.0 design in the logo. We are very particular about typeface and colors (please see the uploaded examples).
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