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 Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Nimsoft Acquired by CA Redwood City-based Nimsoft, a developer of availability monitoring software for IT managers, has been acquired by CA, CA said Wednesday afternoon. The deal is worth $350M in cash. According to CA, the acquisition will extend its ability to meet needs of emerging enterprises and MSPs. Nimsoft becomes part of CA's Cloud Products and Solutions Business Line. CA also said it hopes to hire the majority of Nimsoft's 120 employees. Nimsoft was backed by Goldman Sachs, JMI Equity and North (More info...) posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010(Full story) Eureka Genomics Gets $3.7M Hercules, California-based Eureka Genomics, a firm focused on using advanced bioinformatics analysis of genetic sequencing data to develop drugs, said Wednesday that it has raised $3.7M in a round of funding from private individuals and angel investors. Names of those investors were not released. The firm said the funding will go towards its research aimed at identifying novel microorganisms associated with specific cancers and other important diseases. posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 (More)(Full story) Aggregate Knowledge Names Sales VP San Mateo-based Aggregate Knowledge, a developer of advertising personalization and display ad optimization technology, said Wednesday that it has named Perry Nusbaum as its new Senior Vice President of National Sales. Nusbaum was most recently at Specific Media, where he was Senior Vice President of Agency Relations. Nusbaum also previously served at 24/7 Real Media and United Online. Aggregate Knowledge is venture backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, First Round Cap (More info...) posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010(Full story) Apprion Gets $8M Mountain View-based Apprion, a developer of wireless application networking products for the process industry, announced today that it has closed on $8M of Series C funding. The round came from PEI Funds, Allegis Capital, Motorola Ventures, CTTV Investments LLC, and Anvil Investment Associates LP. Apprion develops wireless products which connect industrial facilities and factories, including applications in the oil/gas, chemical, pulp/paper and power/utilities market. posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 (More)(Full story) Google Launches App Marketplace Mountain View-based Google said last night that it has launched its own, application marketplace, which it calls the Google Apps Marketplace. Google said the marketplace features applications which integrate with Google Apps. The new marketplace launched with applications from Intuit, Appirio, Manymoon, Atlassian, and others, all of which connect into the Google Apps suite of products. posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010(Full story) RainStor Collects $7.5M San Francisco-based RainStor, a developer of software for archiving data, announced today that it has raised $7.5M in a Series B funding. The funding came from Storm Ventures, Informatica, as well as existing investors Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and The Dow Chemical Company. Storm Ventures' Tim Danford joins the company's board along with the funding. RainSTor said the new funding will go towards expansion into new markets, grow its partner ba (More info...) posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 (More)(Full story) Varian Sells Off Product Lines Palo Alto-based Varian said last night that it has inked a deal with Bruker Corporation and Agilent Technologies, where Bruker will acquire certain product lines of Varian. The firms said the move comes as an agreement by Agilent to divest those product lines, in connection with regulatory approval for Agilent's pending acquisition of Varian. The product lines involved include Varian's coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)instruments business, laboratory gas chromatography (Lab GC) in (More info...) posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010(Full story) Facet Biotech Acquired By Abbott Redwood City-based Facet Biotech, a developer of treatments for multiple sclerosis, has been acquired by Abbott, in a deal worth $450M. According to Abbott, it will pay $27 per share in cash for Facet, for a purchase price of approximately $722M less Facet's cash and marketable securities worth $272M. Facet has a drug targeted at treating multiple sclerosis in Phase II traisl, and a number of other oncology compounds in early and mid stage development. Facet Biotech was advised by Centerv (More info...) posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010(Full story) Trimble Adds VMware's Peek To Board Sunnyvale-based Trimble, a maker of GPS-enabled equipment for surveying, construction, agriculture, and other industries, said Tuesday that it has added Mark S. Peek to its board. Peek is Chief Financial Officer at VMware, and also previously served as Chief Accounting Officer and SVP at Amazon.com. Peek also has served at Deloitte. posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010(Full story) |
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