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 Tuesday, August 28, 2012 tenXer Hits Goal, Raises $3M San Francisco-based tenXer, an online service which helps people track their progress towards personal goals, has raised $3M in a Series B funding, the company said Tuesday. The round was led by True Ventures, and also included Radar Partners, Khosla Ventures, and angels. The firm said that Puneet Agrawal of True Ventures has joined the company as part of the funding. tenXer develops a personal productivity focused service, to help users track their goa (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 (More)(Full story) LifeLock, Backed By Bay Area Investors, Files For IPO LifeLock, a provider of identity theft protection services which is backed by a number of Bay Area investors, has filed for a $175M IPO. The company--which is venture backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Goldman Sachs & Co., Symantec, and Industry Ventures--said it is looking to list on the New York Stock Exchange as LOCK. The IPO is being underwritten by Goldman, Sachs & Co.; BofA Merrill Lynch; Deutsche Bank Securit (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2012(Full story) Sand Hill Angels Back NoWait NoWait, a developer of an Apple iOS tool which helps restaurants manage their waiting lists, has raised $2M in a Series A round, the firm said today. The round included local angel investment group Sand Hill Angels, and was led by Birchmere Ventures and other angels. NoWait's apps let (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 (More)(Full story) Sauce Labs Cooks Up $3M Round San Francisco-based Sauce Labs, which develops web application testing software, said today that it has raised $3M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Triage Ventures, and also included Salesforce.com. Sauce Labs develops cloud-based software to help developers test their web sites and apps against different browsers; the firm also said it has begun of (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 (More)(Full story) Mailgun Acquired By Rackspace San Francisco-based Mailgun, the developer of a cloud-based, email services API, has been acquired by cloud hosting firm Rackspace Hosting. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been announced. Mailgun was a Y Combinator startup, and provides application programming interfaces (APIs) used by developers to manage sending and receiving email from their applications and websites. Ev Kontsevoy is the CEO (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2012(Full story) Xilinx Buys PetaLogix San Jose-based programmable logic provider Xilinx said this morning that it has acquired PetaLogix, a developer of embedded Linux software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Xilinx said the buy would help strengthen its capabilities. PetaLogix develops embedded Linux products specifically for Xilinx FPGAs. The PetaLinux Embedded Linux SDK provides all of the tools needed to build, develop, test and deploy embedded Linux based (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2012(Full story) Yahoo Hires CMO Yahoo said last night that it has hired Kathy Savitt as its new Chief Marketing Officer last night, as new CEO Marissa Mayer continues to build out her team. Savitt was most recently founder and CEO of Lockerz, an online service which rewarded teenagers for interacting with brands and watching videos. She also is a veteran of the consumer industry, having been EVP and Chief Marketing Officer of American Eagle Outfitters, in addition to heading up marketi (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2012(Full story)
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