| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Sept. 19, 2012 ============================================ Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit – Oct. 18, 2012 http://mamsummit.com/baltimore2012/ o San Francisco-Based Twitch Lands $15 Million in New Funding o Fremont-Based Space-Time Insight Raises $14M in Second Round o Samsung Electronics to Move R&D Center to Mountain View o Sunnyvale-Based Trimble Acquires Logicway o Mountain View-Based Synopsys Nears Completion of SpringSoft Deal o Intel China Chairman Sean Maloney to Retire in January o Diio Relocates Headquarters from Los Gatos to Washington, DC > Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit – Oct. 18, 2012 o Briefly Noted: Upmo, InMobi, Silicon Valley Bank - Aviir, Infoblox _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Free Live DMW Webinar On Hack Attacks and Cloud Security with Akamai --Distilled Intelligence 2.0 - October 11-12, 2012 --Just Released! SaaS Entrepreneur: Your Guide to Cloud Apps Success! --Mobile Development, UX/Design and Marketing Conference --The Smarter Banking Choice for Growing Technology Companies --3rd Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit - Sept. 27, 2012 - Wash., DC --Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit – Oct. 18, 2012 --BA: Turn Sunshine into Savings -- Go Solar With Your Home or Office --Drive Sales - Advertise with Tech Wire - Special Summer Rates --Marketing Events Coordinator --Senior Manager, eCommerce – Redwood City, CA --Account Manager --Sr. Financial Analyst --Advertise on Bay Area Tech Wire and Reach More than 6,000 Subscribers Ad Descriptions Below Briefly Noted Section Post Job/Event/Marketplace ad: http://www.bayareatechwire.com _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Twitch Lands $15 Million in New Funding San Francisco -- Twitch, the San Francisco-based developer of a video platform and community for gamers, said on Wednesday it has raised $15 million in a new round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Associates also participated in the round, which the company -- formerly known as TwitchTV -- will use, in part, to expand its engineering department. "Our current team has put us at the forefront of the live video game streaming movement, and we can now invest aggressively to support our growing community with new ways to stream, watch and chat," said CEO Emmett Shear. http://twitch.tv http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120919005066/en/Twitch-Raises-15-Million-Series-Investment-Led _____________________________________________ o Fremont-Based Space-Time Insight Raises $14M in Second Round Fremont, Calif. -- Space-Time Insight, a Fremont-based developer of geospatial and visual analytics software for energy companies, said on Wednesday it has raised $14 million in its second round of funding. New investors EnerTech Capital, Novus Energy Partners and ClearSky Power & Technology Fund joined previous backers Opus Capital Ventures and Start Up Farms International (SUFI) in the round, which the company will use to bolster its current situational intelligence offerings and expand its sales and marketing activities. Space-Time Insight's tools are designed to transform vast quantities of disparate information into intuitive visual displays that businesses can use to make informed decisions. Martin Aares, founding partner at Novus, James Huff, managing director at ClearSky, and Tucker Twitmyer, managing director at EnerTech, will join the company's board of directors. http://www.spacetimeinsight.com http://www.spacetimeinsight.com/pdf/Press_release_series_B.pdf (PDF) _____________________________________________ o Samsung Electronics to Move R&D Center to Mountain View Mountain View, Calif. -- Samsung Information Systems America (SISA), a San Jose-based research and development arm of Samsung Electronics, said on Wednesday it plans to relocate to a new 8.5 acre campus in Mountain View. Construction is expected to start in the second half of 2013 on the company’s two new six-story office buildings, totaling approximately 385,000 square feet, as well two 5-6 story parking structures, with occupancy expected in 2014. "Our new R&D Center will provide an outstanding environment to support our plans for strategic growth and attracting the very best employees," said Jay Chang, the president of SISA. "Our company will benefit from the dynamic location, the culture and the diversity of talent here in the region." Samsung Electronics, which generated $143.1 billion in sales last year, has had a presence in Silicon Valley for more than two decades. http://www.samsung.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120919005456/en/Samsung-Electronics-Announces-Silicon-Valley-Center _____________________________________________ o Sunnyvale-Based Trimble Acquires Logicway Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Trimble, a Sunnyvale-based provider of software to transportation and logistics companies, said on Wednesday it has acquired Netherlands-based Logicway, a maker of software used to automate payroll and expenses for the transportation and logistics (T&L) industry. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. "Logicway's software currently integrates with Trimble's T&L solutions. It is an ideal fit to expand our back-office capabilities," said Michel Van Maercke, the general manager of Trimble's T&L group for EMEA. "In addition, Logicway's open platform allows for collaboration with other vendors in the T&L space." Logicway and its staff of 15 will become part of Trimble's Mobile Solutions segment. http://www.logicway.nl http://www.trimble.com http://www.trimble.com/news/release.aspx?id=091912c _____________________________________________ o Mountain View-Based Synopsys Nears Completion of SpringSoft Deal Mountain View, Calif. -- Synopsys, a Mountain View-based provider of software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, said on Wednesday it has taken a major step toward completing its $406 million acquisition of Taiwan-based SpringSoft, and now expects to take a controlling interest in the company on Oct. 1. Synopsys said it has obtained regulatory approval in Taiwan to complete the deal, and also has been tendered 51% of SpringSoft's outstanding shares. The company first announced plans to acquire the maker of specialized IC design software in August. The tender offer is now set to expire on Sept. 24. http://www.springsoft.com/ http://www.synopsys.com http://news.synopsys.com/index.php?s=43&item=1066 _____________________________________________ o Intel China Chairman Sean Maloney to Retire in January Santa Clara, Calif. -- Intel, the Santa Clara-based chip-making giant, said on Wednesday that Sean Maloney plans to retire in January as executive vice president and chairman of Intel China. Maloney joined Intel in 1982 and has held a number of senior management positions with the company during his career, most recently as the first chairman of Intel China. Previously, he served as co-general manager of the Intel Architecture Group and chief sales and marketing officer. "In the '90s he identified the impact Asia would have as a technology market as well as an innovation hub for the industry, and last year he unveiled Intel's efforts to re-invent computing with Ultrabook devices," said Paul Otellini, the president and CEO of Intel. "He leaves a major mark on Intel and the industry." In Feb. 2010, Maloney suffered a stroke in early 2010 and took a medical leave of absence. http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2012/09/19/intel-executive-vice-president-sean-maloney-to-retire _____________________________________________ o Diio Relocates Headquarters from Los Gatos to Washington, DC Washington, DC -- Diio, a developer of web-based business intelligence tools and technology for the transportation and travel industries, said it has relocated from Los Gatos to new headquarters in Reston, Va., just outside Washington, DC. The company said the new facility will help it better support its growing customer base. The new location features executive offices, a webserver stack, meeting spaces and open plan workspaces designed to promote staff collaboration. Diio's business intelligence tools are used by more than 370 airlines, airports, aircraft manufacturers, aviation advisors, travel professionals and destination marketers. http://www.diio.net https://www.diio.net/about/diio-news/diio-expands-moves-to-new-reston-va-headquarters/ _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit – Oct. 18, 2012 Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - Intelligence & Insights on the Future of Communications. This one-day conference, organized by Potomac Tech Wire and Capitol Communicator, will bring together 300+ executives from the marketing, advertising, technology and communications sectors to discuss major issues facing the industry. The themes will focus on emerging technologies and trends in marketing communications. Topics will include: metrics, mobile, social media, multi-platform campaigns, online video campaigns, experiential advertising, B2B, PR, and much more. 7:45 am – 6:00 pm. Oct. 18, 2012. Register at: http://mamsummit.com/baltimore2012/ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (Mountain View, Calif.) Mountain View-based Upmo, a developer of web-based software designed to help employees find opportunities inside their current organizations, has named Eli Gild as its CTO. Gild is the former president and CTO of KlickNation, recently acquired by Electronic Arts (EA), and previously held roles with LexisNexis, Amazon.com and McGraw-Hill. http://www.upmo.com http://blog.upmo.com/2012/09/10/eli-gild-joins-upmo-as-new-cto-and-head-of-product/ (San Francisco) San Francisco-based InMobi, developer of an independent mobile advertising network, on Wednesday named Mike Abbott, a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), to its board of directors. Abbott previously served as the vice president of engineering at Twitter, and also has led the software development team at Palm and was a general manager at Microsoft. http://www.inmobi.com http://finance.yahoo.com/news/inmobi-further-strengthens-leadership-team-130000384.html (Santa Clara, Calif.) Santa Clara-based Silicon Valley Bank said on Wednesday it has provided $8 million in financing to Irvine-based biotechnology firm Aviir, a developer of lab tests designed to help prevent cardiovascular disease. The financing includes $5 million in growth debt capital and a $3 million line of credit on receivables. http://www.svb.com http://www.aviir.com/ http://www.svb.com/newslist.aspx (Santa Clara, Calif.) Santa Clara-based Infoblox, a developer of automated network control technology, said on Wednesday it has promoted Chris Andrews to executive vice president of worldwide field operations. Andrews joined the company in 2006, most recently serving as its senior vice president of worldwide sales. He succeeds Mark Smith, who will remain with the company through October. http://www.infoblox.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120919005774/en/Infoblox-Appoints-Chris-Andrews-Executive-Vice-President =================================================== Job/Event/Marketplace Listings: =================================================== To Post in Job/Event/Marketplace: http://www.bayareatechwire.com 6000 Readers: 5 day ad: $120--10 day ad: $175--20 day ad: $300 > Free Live DMW Webinar On Hack Attacks and Cloud Security with Akamai Online media and entertainment companies have become a key target with the rise of the hacktivist movement. Seeking to make political statements, hacktivists focus in on high-traffic or high-profile media sites, bent on embarrassing them by making their Web sites unavailable - or worse. Ensnared in this growing trend media, sites are often caught off guard in their ability to defend themselves against such attacks. Don't let that happen to you! 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The race is on for tablet market supremacy as providers at all levels move at light speed to gain the upper edge. The only thing moving faster than the tablet industry is the demand markets are putting on the devices themselves. The post PC era is upon us and the tablet form factor is accelerating the shift faster than most would have predicted. Keeping up is critical. Getting left behind is a death sentence. Come hear from newly anointed pioneers and leave as one of them yourself. www.modevtablet.com ____________________________________________ > The Smarter Banking Choice for Growing Technology Companies. Bridge Bank’s Technology Banking Division serves venture-backed and non venture-backed companies from inception to IPO. 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