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 Monday, February 8, 2010 Flixster Issues $12.5M In Stock San Francisco-based Flixster, which allows users to rate and review movies, has issued $12.5M in common stock, most likely as part of the purchase price of Rotten Tomatoes, a site that the firm bought in January. According to a recent regulatory filing by the firm, the common stock issuance came on December 31st, shortly before the firm said it purchased Rotten Tomatoes, a film review site. Flixster said it would buy Rotten Tomatoes on January 4th from IGN Entertainment. posted on Monday, February 8, 2010(Full story) Ausra Acquired By AREVA Mountain View-based Ausra, a developer of tuility scale, concentrated thermal solar power systems, has been acquired by French firm AREVA, AREVA announced Monday. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Ausra was venture backed by Generation Investment Management, KERN Energy Partners Management, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, and Starfish Ventures, and raised over $126M in funding. posted on Monday, February 8, 2010(Full story) Oracle Buys AmberPoint Redwood Shores-based Oracle said Monday that it has acquired AmberPoint, a developer of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) management software. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Oakland-based AmberPoint was backed by SAP, Crosslink Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, Motorola Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. posted on Monday, February 8, 2010(Full story) AMEE Gets $5.5M More AMEE, a developer of software for computing greenhouse gas emissions, said today that it has raised $5.5M in a Series B financing. The round was led by Amadeus Capital Partners, and also included prior investors O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Union Square Ventures. AMEE has its U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, and international headquarters in London. As part of the funding, Pat Burtis of Amadeus Capital Partners joins the company's board of directors (More info...) posted on Monday, February 8, 2010 (More)(Full story) Google Debuts Super Bowl Ad Mountain View-based Google debuted a Super Bowl ad Sunday evening, called Parisian Love. The firm said the ad was part of a series of short, online videos about the firm's products and users, and that that just "decided to share it with a wider audience." posted on Monday, February 8, 2010(Full story) |
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