| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Oct. 22, 2012 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o San Francisco-Based Gigwalk Lands $6 Million, Names New CEO o Sunnyvale-Based Mellanox Technologies Launches Federal Unit o Millbrae-Based Stem Names Salim Khan as New CEO o San Ramon-Based Intelli-Touch Apps Raises Second Round o San Francisco-Based Say Media Relaunches ReadWrite Blog o Briefly Noted: Moelis & Company, Coherus BioSciences _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --webMethods Consultants --Just Released! SaaS Entrepreneur: Your Guide to Cloud Apps Success! --Mobile Development, UX/Design and Marketing Conference --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 Gigwalk Lands $6 Million, Names New CEO San Francisco -- Gigwalk, the San Francisco-based developer of a mobile work marketplace connecting businesses with smartphone-enabled field workers, said on Monday it has raised $6 million in its first round of funding. New investor August Capital joined previous backers Greylock, Harrison Metal, SoftTech VC, Founder Collective and AdMob founder Omar Hamoui in the round, which the company will use to enhance its marketplace and mobile technology. In addition, the company has named Bob Bahramipour, its former vice president of business development, as CEO. Co-founder Matt Crampton will expand his role to CTO and head of product. Gigwalk's app is designed to help businesses significantly reduce their time and cost to find, filter and hire temporary workers in multiple locations. The company recently launched one of its largest "Gigs," expanding a relationship with Microsoft's Bing that will place over 100,000 photo-capture Gigs in 3,500 cities across the country. http://www.gigwalk.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121022005542/en/Gigwalk-Announces-6-Million-Funding-Expands-Relationship _____________________________________________ o Sunnyvale-Based Mellanox Technologies Launches Federal Unit Sunnyvale, Calif. – Mellanox Technologies, a Sunnyvale-based supplier of connectivity products for data center servers and storage systems, said on Monday it has launched a new federal unit aimed at boosting its business with the federal government. The unit, known as Mellanox Federal Systems, will be based in Vienna, Va. and led by CEO Dale D'Alessio, previously the co-founder and managing member of YottaStor. Mellanox currently serves government clients such as the Department of Energy, NASA, the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force, U.S. Postal Service and FBI, as well as federal systems integrators such as Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. "Mellanox has supported the government's IT server and storage interconnect needs for more than 10 years," said Eyal Waldman, the company's chairman, president and CEO," who called the unit's formation "a natural evolution." http://www.mellanox.com http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=press_release_item&rec_id=884 _____________________________________________ o Millbrae-Based Stem Names Salim Khan as New CEO Millbrae, Calif. -- Stem, a Millbrae-based provider of energy optimization services that combine big data, predictive analytics and energy storage to reduce electricity costs for businesses, on Monday named Salim Khan as its CEO. He succeeds company founder Brian Thompson, who will become executive vice president. Khan most recently served as the president and COO of smart grid communications company Trilliant, and previously was senior vice president and general manager of ABB's Network Management business in the Americas. Stem is funded by investors Angeleno Group and Greener Capital. http://www.stem.com http://www.stem.com/?post_type=press-release&p=1483 _____________________________________________ o San Ramon-Based Intelli-Touch Apps Raises Second Round San Ramon, Calif. -- Intelli-Touch Apps (ITA), a San Ramon-based app developer, said on Monday it has raised an unspecified amount in its second round of funding. Identities of the investors were not disclosed. The company said it will use the proceeds to release its productivity smartphone app in November, with versions for business and personal use. The app is designed to automate and simplify business and personal communications. http://www.intelli-touch.com http://finance.yahoo.com/news/intelli-touch-apps-completes-round-134200298.html _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Say Media Relaunches ReadWrite Blog San Francisco -- Say Media, a San Francisco-based digital publishing company, on Monday relaunched technology property ReadWriteWeb as ReadWrite naming former Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons as editor-in-chief. Say acquired the blog for an undisclosed sum last December. It had more than 275,000 regular RSS and email subscribers at the time of the sale. Lyons, who penned the "The Fake Steve Jobs" blog, has written for Wired and the New York Times Magazine, and appeared on networks such as CNBC, CNN, BBC and Bloomberg. RedWrite now features new logo, layout and aesthetic. http://www.saymedia.com/readwrite http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121022006269/en/Media-Introduces-ReadWrite-Names-Dan-Lyons-Editor-in-Chief _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (Palo Alto, Calif.) Independent investment Moelis & Company on Monday named Paul Inouye as a managing director providing advice to clients in the tech sector, specializing in the Internet/digital media space. Inouye, who will be working from the firm's new offices in Palo Alto, most recently worked with tech clients at Perella Weinberg Partners, and previously was managing director and head of Lehman Brothers Internet Banking Group. http://www.moelis.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121022006259/en/Moelis-Company-Announces-Appointment-Paul-Inouye-Managing (Redwood City, Calif.) Redwood City-based biopharmaceutical firm Coherus BioSciences on Monday named George Montgomery as its CFO. Montgomery most recently was a managing director at Sagent Advisors, and previously was a managing director at Montgomery & Co., where he led the firm's healthcare effort and helped open its San Francisco office. http://www.coherus.com/press-releases/ggm-cfo/ =================================================== 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 > webMethods Consultants Software AG USA Now Hiring: Senior and Principal Level Consultants HUB City Locations: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Toronto: Travel 75-100%. Software AG is the world's leading independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software featuring the webMethods product suite that provides an integrated platform for SOA, ESB & Integration, BPM and BAM. Our Global Consulting Services Department is seeking consultants for all of our practice groups to architect, develop, and deliver technical solutions to solve our clients’ most pressing business process challenges. Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, 5+ years’ industry experience, exposure to a software development methodology, experience with webMethods, experience with three or more of the following areas: Java, C++, Object Oriented Programming, XML, RDBMS (any Oracle, Informix, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase). Send resumes to: fran.gerrard@softwareag.com ____________________________________________ > Just Released! SaaS Entrepreneur: Your Guide to Cloud Apps Success! "SaaS Entrepreneur: The Definitive Guide to Succeeding in Your Cloud Application Business." 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