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    Wednesday, May 9, 2012
    mSpot Acquired By Samsung
    Palo Alto-based mSpot, a developer of digital media and content for the mobile phone market, has been acquired by Samsung, Samsung announced Wednesday afternoon. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. Samsung said the deal includes the full scope of technology, assets and human resources under mSpot. mSpot's investors included Trinity Ventures. mSpot's lead product was mSpot Music, a music service aime (More info...)

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    Flint Mobile Gains $3M For Mobile Payments
    San Francisco-based Flint Mobile, a developer of a mobile payments app targeted at small businesses, has raised $3M in a Series A round, the firm said today. The firm, which is led by co-founder and CEO Greg Goldfarb, said the funding came from Storm Ventures and True Ventures. The company said the funding will go towards product development, hiring, and customer acquisition. Flint Mobile's mobile payment app scans a customer's credit card information (More info...)

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    Leap Motion Captures $12.75M
    San Francisco-based Leap Motion, which develops motion control software, said today that it has raised $12.75M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Highland Capital Partners, and also included Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, and angel investors Brian McClendon, Bill Warner and Max Woon. The company, whic his led by Michael Buckwald, said it has now raised $14.55M in funding. The company said it is out to "revolutionize personal comp (More info...)

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    IPWireless Acquired By General Dynamics
    San Bruno-based IPWireless, a developer of 3G and 4G LTE wireless broadband network equipment aimed at the military and first responder market, has been acquired by General Dynamics. Financial terms of the cash deal were not disclosed. IPWireless was venture backed by Spark Capital and Sprint Nextel. IPWireless had around 90 employees.

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    EdeniQ Gets $30M More
    Visalia-based EdenIQ, which develops biomaterials aimed at the renewable fuels market, said today that it has raised $30M in an additional capital funding. The funding included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Cyrus Capital, The Westly Group, Angeleno Group, I2BF Global Ventures and Element Partners as well as a new investor, Flint Hills Resources Renewables, which is a subsidiary of Koch Industries and a major ethanol producer (More info...)

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    SonicWall Goes To Dell
    San Jose-based SonicWall, the developer of network security, remote access, email security, and backup and recovery tools, is now officially part of computer maker Dell, Dell announced this morning. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed by the companies. Dell said it would buy SonicWALL in March. SonicWall was most recently owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.

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