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 Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Cellmania Acquired By RIM Mountain View-based Cellmania, a developer of mobile store software, has been acquired by RIM, the maker of the Blackberry. Financial details of the buy have not been disclosed. According to Cellmania, its team will join RIM's organization and continue to brings its application storefront development expertise to RIM.Cellmania was founded in 1999, and was backed by BroadVision, Pino Venture Partners, Office Depot and ZAP Ventures. The firm's CEO is Dr. Ronjon Nag, and the firm was (More info...) posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010(Full story) ServerEngines Buy Completes The acquisition of Sunnyvale-based ServerEngines has completed, according to acquiring firm Emulex. ServerEngines is a maker of 10Gb/s Ethernet ASICs used for LAN-on-motherboard applications. The deal was worth $78M in cash, plus eight million shares of Emulex stock, or approximately $149.6M. 165 of ServerEngines employees are joining Emulex as part of the acquisition. ServerEngines was founed in 2004. Emulex is based in Costa Mesa, California. posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010(Full story) JovianDATA Acquired By MarketShare Partners San Jose-based JovianDATA, a developer of data analytics and business intelligence technology, has been acquired by MarketShare, a developer of software used to optimize advertising, marketing, and promotions spending by companies. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed by the companies. posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010(Full story) Lumenergi Raises $12.7M Newark-based Lumenergi, a developer of networking energy efficient lighting systems, said Wednesday that it has raised $12.7M in a Series B round of funding. The funding was led by Braemer Energy Ventures, and also included Townsend VC LLC, Low Carbon Accelerator Ltd. and Noventi Ventures. As part of the funding, Braemer's Dennis Costello joins the company's board. Lumenergi said the funding will help it expand into large-scale commercial and industrial buildings, as well as for sales, ma (More info...) posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 (More)(Full story) Google Rolls Out Free Phone Calls On Gmail Mountain View-based Google said Wednesday that it has rolled out a new feature which will allow users to call anyone in the U.S. and Canada, for free, directly from Gmail. According to Google, starting today, users can dial contacts from Gmail, or dial using a keypad. The new feature requires the installation of Google's voice and video plug-in, and also will show a user's Google Voice phone number as an outbound caller ID. The firm said calls will be free for at least the rest of the yea (More info...) posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010(Full story) Atlantis Computing Lands $10M Mountain View-based Atlantis Computing, a developer of appliances used for managing virtual desktop (VDI) I/O and storage, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Partech International, El Dorado Ventures and Cisco Systems Inc. According to the firm, the new funding will go towards sales growth, marketing, and international expansion. Atlantis develops an appliance which offloades Windows I/O intensive operations from VDI storage, which it says (More info...) posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 (More)(Full story) DriverSide Parks $2M San Francisco-based DriverSide, which operates an online car information and advice site for consumers, has raised $2M in a third funding round, according to a regulatory filing. According to the filing, the funding is part of an ongoing, $3M fundraising effort by the firm. Source of the new funding and details have not yet been announced by the firm, which is headed by Jed Dunning. The firm has previously raised funding from Allegis Capital and Catamount Ventures. The funding brings the (More info...) posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 (More)(Full story) Yahoo Sale Of HotJobs Completes The sale of Yahoo's online job and recruiting site, HotJobs, is now complete, according to Monster Worldwide Tuesday. According to Monster, it has completed its acquisition of Yahoo! HotJobs in a deal which was worth $225M in cash, and it has also inked a three year, commercial traffic agreement where Monster will become Yahoo's exclusive provider of career and job content on Yahoo's homepages in the US and Canada. Monster said the acquisition futher strengthens is position as mark (More info...) posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010(Full story) |
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