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Energy Savings Now

Raritan, Teladata, Federspiel Controls, and Power Assure sponsor an afternoon summit on improving the energy efficiency of data center operations. Topics, according to the event summary, will include: “How easy it is to put efficient systems in place The timeline for actualizing savings ‘Green’ opportunities that will position you as an industry leader Affordability through … Continue reading “Energy Savings Now”

Intel To Buy Infineon’s Wireless Division

Hot on the heels of a controversial purchase of McAfee two weeks ago, Intel in Santa Clara said today that it has agreed to buy the wireless services business of Neubiberg, Germany-based Infineon for $1.4 billion. The Infineon division, a rival of San Diego’s Qualcomm, makes 2G and 3G cellular chips and “complements Intel’s existing … Continue reading “Intel To Buy Infineon’s Wireless Division”

A Bidding War for 3Par, a Trademark War over Mafia Wars, a Barrage of New Y Combinator Startups, & More Bay Area BizTech and Life Sciences News

Tiny startups emerging into the public eye last week vied for attention with acquisitive giants like Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, and Google. —An as-yet-unresolved bidding war between Dell and Hewlett-Packard drove the proposed acquisition price for Fremont, CA-based storage virtualization company 3Par up to $30 per share. Dell’s original $18-per-share bid on August 16 was eclipsed by … Continue reading “A Bidding War for 3Par, a Trademark War over Mafia Wars, a Barrage of New Y Combinator Startups, & More Bay Area BizTech and Life Sciences News”

Aptus Endosystems Lands $15,000,000 Series A Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7d168434-aac5-41bf-9e54-3e0990712c3f&Preview=1 Date 8/30/2010 Company Name Aptus Endosystems Mailing Address 777 N. Pastoria Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94085-2918 Company Description Aptus Endosystems is a privately held, well-funded, emerging medical device company that is engaged in the development of next generation minimally invasive endograft devices, delivery systems and fixation technology for the treatment of Abdominal … Continue reading “Aptus Endosystems Lands $15,000,000 Series A Funding”

MyBuys Garners $2,498,571 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2135bcf2-a01a-4d56-a460-63f82fa400eb&Preview=1 Date 8/30/2010 Company Name MyBuys Mailing Address One Lagoon Drive Redwood City, CA 94065 Company Description Provides web-based enterprise software applications. Website http://www.mybuys.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,498,571 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Shares of capital stock are being issued in connection with the acquisition of another corporation pursuant … Continue reading “MyBuys Garners $2,498,571 New Funding”

Cloud Cruiser Obtains Series A Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fdf3342f-170d-43da-af62-77bd385140c1&Preview=1 Date 8/30/2010 Company Name Cloud Cruiser Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Cloud Cruiser is a cloud computing software company focused on eliminating the growing pain experienced with public and private cloud computing. Website http://www.cloudcruiser.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “Cloud Cruiser Obtains Series A Funding Round”

ARYx Therapeutics Secures $2,012,500 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c70d8cac-cad7-498a-a8cc-bb98549da549&Preview=1 Date 8/30/2010 Company Name ARYx Therapeutics Mailing Address 6300 Dumbarton Circle Fremont, CA 94555 Company Description ARYx Therapeutics is a privately-held, product-driven pharmaceutical company with leading expertise and significant intellectual property in the area of retrometabolic drug design. Website http://www.aryx.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $2,012,500 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “ARYx Therapeutics Secures $2,012,500 New Funding Round”

PageBites Receives $10,260,693 Series A Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=810da5e2-9cf5-4689-8f79-e9515283bc02&Preview=1 Date 8/30/2010 Company Name PageBites Mailing Address 555 Bryant St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description The company is a stealth mode Internet company. Website http://www.pagebites.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $10,260,693 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A Terms Venture Investor … Continue reading “PageBites Receives $10,260,693 Series A Funding”

Google Acquires SocialDeck for Undisclosed Sum

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=67ce7a8c-0c9d-4684-b4f2-550ed2fc3083&Preview=1 Date 8/30/2010 Company Name SocialDeck Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description SocialDeck was founded in 2008 with the vision of enabling anywhere, anytime, anyone gaming. The company has launched several titles for the iPhone, Facebook, and BlackBerry using its social gaming platform technology, which enables simultaneous game play … Continue reading “Google Acquires SocialDeck for Undisclosed Sum”

Citrix Systems Acquires VMLogix for Undisclosed Sum

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4e2643bd-a840-45c5-ba5e-b72cff3f1670&Preview=1 Date 8/30/2010 Company Name VMLogix Mailing Address 2350 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description VMLogix provides groundbreaking software solutions that help simplify the software lifecycle by harnessing the power of virtualization technology. With its LabManager product suite, VMLogix revolutionizes the way software development teams around the globe manage … Continue reading “Citrix Systems Acquires VMLogix for Undisclosed Sum”

Oodle Receives $1,500,003 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=61d1fede-58b4-437e-9d87-0be089fea414&Preview=1 Date 8/30/2010 Company Name Oodle Mailing Address 60 E 3rd Ave San Mateo, CA 94401 Company Description Oodle is the UK’s leading shopping engine for classifieds. Oodle offers classifieds listings across every major category: motors, properties to rent and buy, jobs, personals, tickets, pets, services and merchandise. Website http://www.oodle.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Oodle Receives $1,500,003 New Financing Round”

Forte Design Systems Garners $2,696,489 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=746cae09-e36f-4900-9fa3-ea0cb4a24ff1&Preview=1 Date 8/28/2010 Company Name Forte Design Systems Mailing Address 100 Century Center Court San Jose, CA 95112 Company Description Forte Design Systems is a leading provider of software products that enable design at a higher-level of abstraction. Forte’s innovative behavioral synthesis technology allows ESL design teams creating complex electronic systems from … Continue reading “Forte Design Systems Garners $2,696,489 New Financing Round”

Why Is This Man Smiling? SCVNGR Integrates with Facebook Places, Rolls Out Rewards Partnerships

Now we know why Seth Priebatsch was so happy about Facebook Places last week. His company, Cambridge, MA-based SCVNGR, said today it has integrated its game layer and activities platform with Facebook Places, meaning people can now post their SCVNGR check-ins and “challenges” to Facebook and share them with friends. It’s not a big surprise, … Continue reading “Why Is This Man Smiling? SCVNGR Integrates with Facebook Places, Rolls Out Rewards Partnerships”

ImmunoGen and Genentech “Empowered Antibody” Cancer Drug Fails to Garner Accelerated Approval from FDA

[Updated, 8/27/10 at 5:00pm] The FDA has refused to review an application for accelerated approval of the breast cancer drug T-DM1, developed by Genentech, the South San Francisco unit of Swiss drug giant Roche, with technology from ImmunoGen (NASDAQ: [[ticker:IMGN]]), a Waltham, MA-based maker of cancer-fighting therapies, the companies announced today. [Editors Note: This sentence … Continue reading “ImmunoGen and Genentech “Empowered Antibody” Cancer Drug Fails to Garner Accelerated Approval from FDA”

HP, Dell in 3Par Bidding War

It’s almost like watching the bids on eBay. Dell (NASDAQ: [[ticker:DELL]]) in Round Rock, TX, and Palo Alto, CA-based Hewlett Packard (NYSE: [[ticker:HPQ]]) continue to issue dueling takeover offers for Fremont, CA-based 3Par (NYSE: [[ticker:PAR]]), whose storage virtualization technology is a hot commodity. Dell originally offered $18 per share or $1.15 billion in mid-August, and … Continue reading “HP, Dell in 3Par Bidding War”

HP Buys Stratavia

Palo Alto, CA-based Hewlett-Packard said today that it has acquired Stratavia, a Denver, CO, company that automates the deployment and maintenance of databases. Terms of the purchase were not revealed. The nine-year-old startup had raised $9.5 million in venture backing from Adams Street Partners, Asset Management Co. and Vista Ventures, according to a report in … Continue reading “HP Buys Stratavia”

Fotopedia Heritage Shows the Web Isn’t Dead—It’s Just Met the App World

The reports of the Web’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Wired has been getting a lot of attention this month for its “The Web Is Dead” cover piece. But, as many observers have pointed out, the article’s central chart, which purports to illustrate the Web’s wane, is fundamentally misleading. Web traffic may make up a … Continue reading “Fotopedia Heritage Shows the Web Isn’t Dead—It’s Just Met the App World”

Presto, Tibetan Bowls, & Dr. Seuss: How Michel Kripalani Got His Entrepreneurial Karma Back

Some tales of technology innovation have an ethereal quality to them, and such is the case with Oceanhouse Media—or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that such is the case with Michel Kripalani, the startup software developer’s founder and president. Encinitas, CA-based Oceanhouse was founded in January, 2009, and its first product was … Continue reading “Presto, Tibetan Bowls, & Dr. Seuss: How Michel Kripalani Got His Entrepreneurial Karma Back”

Don’t Confuse Getting to Market with Building a Company: Charles River Ventures’ Izhar Armony Busts Some Micro-VC Myths

“Micro VC” and “super angel” funds are all the rage these days. These terms refer to the emerging segment of venture capital and angel capital in which a growing number of investors are putting small amounts of seed money into very early-stage startups—mainly in Internet software. How are traditional venture firms reacting to this movement? … Continue reading “Don’t Confuse Getting to Market with Building a Company: Charles River Ventures’ Izhar Armony Busts Some Micro-VC Myths”

Soft Machines Receives $13,041,918 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=06527170-ac82-46d0-8239-621fbf49d880&Preview=1 Date 8/27/2010 Company Name Soft Machines Mailing Address 3211 Scott Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description The company is developing multithreaded CPU technologies. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $13,041,918 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A Terms Venture Investor Undisclosed

Omnitrol Networks Obtains $1,439,257 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d85aba2d-a421-4e3e-98d5-d44a443b8ff7&Preview=1 Date 8/27/2010 Company Name Omnitrol Networks Mailing Address 3945 Freedom Cir. Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description Omnitrol Networks pioneered the industry’s first production deployments in distributed automated real-time smart agent networks for the aerospace manufacturing, supply chain and logistics industries. Our customers have realized significant savings and improved operations efficiencies … Continue reading “Omnitrol Networks Obtains $1,439,257 New Financing Round”

The Wars over Mafia Wars: Dissecting Digital Chocolate’s Case Against Zynga

If we all lived inside a digital game, Digital Chocolate might be sending a guy over to Zynga right about now to break a few kneecaps. Fortunately, we live in a world of law and order, so Digital Chocolate has merely filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Zynga. At issue: the rights to the name … Continue reading “The Wars over Mafia Wars: Dissecting Digital Chocolate’s Case Against Zynga”

Cypress Bio Acquires Technologies in Separate Deals with Marina Biotech, Alexza Pharmaceutical

San Diego’s Cypress Bioscience (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CYPB]]), which is trying to keep an unsolicited buyout at bay while executing a dramatic change in its business strategy, says it has acquired rights to two novel therapies. Earlier this month, Cypress rejected a $160-million buyout offer made in July by the New York-based Ramius Value and Opportunity Advisors—and … Continue reading “Cypress Bio Acquires Technologies in Separate Deals with Marina Biotech, Alexza Pharmaceutical”

Lessons in Energy from an MIT Sloan School Grad

A little less than two years ago I made the decision to enroll at MIT Sloan for an MBA. Shortly after getting to the campus, I made the decision to look at careers in the energy sector. Despite being armed with a technical degree and spending some time in the energy sector prior to enrolling … Continue reading “Lessons in Energy from an MIT Sloan School Grad”

Cisco to Acquire ExtendMedia, Strengthen Position in Internet Video Delivery

ExtendMedia, a video software company based in Newton, MA, is being acquired by Cisco Systems, the San Jose, CA-based networking giant. The news was announced in a press release this morning. Financial terms of the deal were not given, but the acquisition is expected to be complete by early 2011. It’s an important move for … Continue reading “Cisco to Acquire ExtendMedia, Strengthen Position in Internet Video Delivery”

Bunge Joins Solazyme Round

South San Francisco-based Solazyme, which is developing a technology to use fast-dividing algae to produce biofuels, collected a $52 million Series D round of venture financing in early August. Today the company announced that Bunge Limited (NYSE: [[ticker:BG]]), one of Brazil’s largest processors of sugarcane, has joined the Series D round, alongside previously announced backers … Continue reading “Bunge Joins Solazyme Round”

AdGrok’s Grandiose Proposition: Replacing the “Craptacular” Google AdWords Interface

This is the sixth in a series of profiles of companies emerging this summer from Mountain View, CA-based startup incubator Y Combinator. AdGrok is at an interesting point in its evolution as a startup. Right now, the company is probably better known for a series of controversial blog posts by its CEO, Antonio Garcia-Martinez, than … Continue reading “AdGrok’s Grandiose Proposition: Replacing the “Craptacular” Google AdWords Interface”

Herding Lionesses: Michigan Women’s Foundation Gathering Power Women, Forming Angel Fund to Invest in Female Entrepreneurs

[Updated and corrected, Aug. 26—see below] Just a few years ago, the Michigan Women’s Foundation was truly your mother’s philanthropic foundation—putting on fund-raising dinners, tapping corporate sponsors like the Big Three automakers, and then giving away small chunks of money to a wide array of charitable groups—totaling some $3.5 million to 420 entities to be … Continue reading “Herding Lionesses: Michigan Women’s Foundation Gathering Power Women, Forming Angel Fund to Invest in Female Entrepreneurs”

Promising Skin Cancer Drug Could Be First Big Win for Plexxikon’s Structure-Based Drug Discovery Approach

There’s a biotech startup called Plexxikon in Berkeley, CA, where executives and investors are probably mirroring this week’s sunscreen-worthy Bay Area weather with some sunny faces of their own. That’s thanks to encouraging news about Plexxikon’s lead drug candidate, which goes by the prosaic label PLX-4032, and its ability to reverse tumor growth in patients … Continue reading “Promising Skin Cancer Drug Could Be First Big Win for Plexxikon’s Structure-Based Drug Discovery Approach”

Tradescape Obtains $332,527 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e0624e5b-6053-42ad-a76d-7395bc4b6530&Preview=1 Date 8/26/2010 Company Name Tradescape Mailing Address 520 S. El Camino Real San Mateo, CA 94402 Company Description Tradescape is developing infrastructure technology to enable efficient digital marketplaces. Website http://www.Tradescape.biz Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $332,527 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A … Continue reading “Tradescape Obtains $332,527 New Financing”

Google Acquires Angstro for Undisclosed Sum

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7cabe8f2-f380-4dd8-99a4-9356530775d5&Preview=1 Date 8/26/2010 Company Name Angstro Mailing Address 169 University Ave., second floor Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description The company creates a variety of online social networking technologies. Website http://www.angstro.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Can Microsoft Outflank Apple, Facebook, and Google? A Strategy Update

I left Seattle just over a month ago, and people keep asking if I miss anything about it. Yes, I say. But it’s not the amazing coffee, the great food, the nice people, or the beautiful scenery. I miss Microsoft. I’m only half-kidding. I don’t miss hearing about Steve Ballmer’s iPhone and every turn of … Continue reading “Can Microsoft Outflank Apple, Facebook, and Google? A Strategy Update”

Zimride Gases Up with $1.2M

San Francisco-based Zimride, a three-year-old social ride sharing startup that participated in Facebook’s fbFund incubator program, said this week that it has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from Floodgate Fund, K9 Ventures, and a group of angel investors, including Keith Rabois and Teddy Downey. Zimride serves specific corporate and university campuses such as CIGNA, … Continue reading “Zimride Gases Up with $1.2M”

The Definitive Y Combinator Demo Day Debrief

“Mint.com for small businesses.” “Foursquare for sports games.” “Facebook without Facebook.” Comparing your idea to some existing and fabulously successful service, then saying why it will be even better, seems to be one of the modern formulas for pitching a startup—and it was on prominent display yesterday at Y Combinator‘s Demo Day, the culminating event … Continue reading “The Definitive Y Combinator Demo Day Debrief”

Atlantis Computing Receives $10,000,000 Series C Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=aa8db98c-92dd-4c7f-b4a2-003936f3d981&Preview=1 Date 8/25/2010 Company Name Atlantis Computing Mailing Address 2570 W. El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description Atlantis Computing is transforming enterprise desktop computing by solving the challenges of desktop virtualization: storage costs and user acceptance. Atlantis ILIO complements existing VDI solutions by reducing VDI storage costs and complexity, … Continue reading “Atlantis Computing Receives $10,000,000 Series C Round”

Flowtown Secures $750,000 New Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4a6e3206-b8d8-49ac-808d-a7a0edeb98ab&Preview=1 Date 8/25/2010 Company Name Flowtown Mailing Address 2601 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94110 Company Description Flowtown is a social media marketing platform that helps businesses transform email contacts into engaged customers. Our easy-to-use, powerful business tool uses openly shared information from the most popular social networks. We help over 15,000 … Continue reading “Flowtown Secures $750,000 New Funding”

Foodspotting Lands $750,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5b30ceea-e418-4c02-8bd6-e849de08ff5f&Preview=1 Date 8/25/2010 Company Name Foodspotting Mailing Address 3108 16th St. San Francisco, CA 94101 Company Description Foodspotters earn recognition for sharing foods they love enabling foodseekers to find whatever they’re craving and see what’s good wherever they go. Website http://www.foodspotting.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $750,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Foodspotting Lands $750,000 New Funding Round”

Lumenergi Obtains $12,700,000 Series B Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5ebe0c30-37a0-43c5-a890-e98847d158b6&Preview=1 Date 8/25/2010 Company Name Lumenergi Mailing Address 8371 Central Ave Newark, CA 94560 Company Description Lumenergi, formally Luminoptics, is bringing to the lighting and controls market the first, cost-effective, high-ROI dimming lighting ballast technology expected to spur the growth of energy-efficient, demand-responsive buildings. Through the company’s new dimming electronic ballasts (DEB), … Continue reading “Lumenergi Obtains $12,700,000 Series B Financing”

DriverSide Garners $2,000,427 New Financing

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cec77ad1-d53a-4ca0-974b-f2c79642fae1&Preview=1 Date 8/25/2010 Company Name DriverSide Mailing Address 832 Sansome Street 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 Company Description DriverSide is a vast resource for all drivers. We want to make buying, selling, and owning vehicles easier and more rewarding. We feel like owning a car can be complicated and we are … Continue reading “DriverSide Garners $2,000,427 New Financing”

Yahoo Search Now Fully Powered By Bing

Just over a year after announcing plans to team up on search engine and advertising efforts, Yahoo (NASDAQ: [[ticker:YHOO]]) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: [[ticker:MSFT]]) have completed a sizable leg of the search transition—Yahoo search results are now powered by Microsoft’s Bing in the U.S. and Canada, the companies said today. The ten-year agreement that puts Redmond, … Continue reading “Yahoo Search Now Fully Powered By Bing”

$15M Rains on Nimbula

Menlo Park, CA-based Nimbula, a two-month-old cloud computing startup founded by the developers of Amazon’s EC2 cloud infrastructure, has raised $15 million in Series B financing, according to an announcement yesterday. The round was led by new investor Accel Partners with participation from existing investor Sequoia Capital. Nimbula, which says it focuses on “blending EC2-like … Continue reading “$15M Rains on Nimbula”

Five Prime Therapeutics, Gliding Like a Submarine, Quietly Takes Aim At Cancer

Five Prime Therapeutics is one of those companies built on the old school biotech business model. Take a cutting-edge scientific concept, mix in top scientists and big name venture backers, and see what you get 10 years later. Now it’s been eight years, and the company is moving toward the point in clinical trials where … Continue reading “Five Prime Therapeutics, Gliding Like a Submarine, Quietly Takes Aim At Cancer”

Free Widgets from ViralHeat Let Web Publishers Track Social Media Buzz

No, “ViralHeat” is not the fever you get from a rhinovirus infection. It’s a San Jose, CA-based startup launched last year that’s disrupting the social media monitoring business by showing corporations what people are saying about them on Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, YouTube, and the Web at prices far below those charged by most competitors. … Continue reading “Free Widgets from ViralHeat Let Web Publishers Track Social Media Buzz”

SpaceCurve Obtains $1,100,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c3cf0e45-2a7e-4522-81d7-20d5446420f9&Preview=1 Date 8/24/2010 Company Name SpaceCurve Mailing Address 260 Sheridan Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description SpaceCurve is a fundamentally new kind of massively parallel analytical database technology. Effortlessly index geospatial polygon data in real-time using Internet-scale compute clusters. Efficiently analyze social and semantic graphs on massively parallel systems. Fuse complex … Continue reading “SpaceCurve Obtains $1,100,000 New Financing Round”

VSS Monitoring Obtains $20,000,000 Series A Funding

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b8390514-f5f6-4163-82cf-eaa8d6077c45&Preview=1 Date 8/24/2010 Company Name VSS Monitoring Mailing Address 38 Adrian Court Burlingame, CA 94010 Company Description VSS Monitoring is the world leader in traffic capture, allowing IT professionals to see into the farthest reaches of even the largest networks, preventing problems from reaching end users, and dramatically reducing the time to … Continue reading “VSS Monitoring Obtains $20,000,000 Series A Funding”

Rapportive’s “Social CRM” Gmail Plugin Makes E-mail Social Again

This is the fifth in a series of profiles of companies emerging this summer from Mountain View, CA-based startup incubator Y Combinator. When Google launched Gmail five years ago, a lot of people were freaked out by the keyword-based text ads that appeared alongside e-mail messages. The idea that Google’s algorithms were “reading” your e-mail … Continue reading “Rapportive’s “Social CRM” Gmail Plugin Makes E-mail Social Again”

HP Makes Rival Bid for 3Par

Dell, which made an $18-per-share tender offer for Fremont, CA-based storage virtualization company 3Par (NASDAQ: [[ticker:PAR]]) last week, now has a competitor. Palo  Alto, CA-based Hewlett-Packard announced today that it will offer $24 per share or roughly $1.6 billion, which is about $450 million more than Dell’s offer. HP executive vice president David Donatelli told the … Continue reading “HP Makes Rival Bid for 3Par”