| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Oct. 25, 2012 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o Palo Alto-Based Udacity Raises $15 Million in Second Round o Telefónica Digital Acquires San Francisco-Based TokBox o Milpitas-Based Magnum Semiconductor Lands $12M Venture Loan o Sunnyvale's LeoNovus Raises $1.7 Million in Private Placement o Report: Silicon Valley Companies Raise $2.6 Billion in Q3 o Tech Giants to Collaborate as Part of Cyber Security Research Alliance o Briefly Noted: Netflix, BranchOut, YapStone International _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --GSA Schedule, Government Sales & Marketing Support --webMethods Consultants --Just Released! 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The company, which now has raised $21.1 million in the past year, offers free online courses in computer science, math, general sciences, programming and entrepreneurship, More than 753,000 students signed up since its launch in January. Udacity said it will use the proceeds to further build out its interactive course architecture, including adding new environments for programming and scaling course and student analytics. http://www.udacity.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121025005485/en/Udacity-Secures-15-Million-Series-Led-Andreessen _____________________________________________ o Telefónica Digital Acquires San Francisco-Based TokBox San Francisco -- Telefónica Digital, a U.K.-based business unit of the large broadband and telecom provider, said it has acquired San Francisco-based TokBox, developer of a video communications platform that allows clients to add video calling to websites and mobile apps. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ian Small will remain the CEO of TokBox and Carlos Domingo, Telefónica Digital's director of product development and innovation, will become chairman. Telefónica said the acquisition, which was led by its Mountain View-based venture investment team, will extend its capabilities beyond voice and messaging to live, web-based video. TokBox launched its OpenTok Video Platform in late 2010 with clients such as American Idol, Ford and Diet Coke. "This is a very exciting opportunity to accelerate the development of the OpenTok platform and rapidly expand its global reach and presence," said Small. http://www.tokbox.com/ http://www.telefonica.com/digitalhub http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121025005391/en/Telef%C3%B3nica-Digital-Acquires-Video-Platform-Leader-TokBox _____________________________________________ o Milpitas-Based Magnum Semiconductor Lands $12M Venture Loan Milpitas, Calif. -- Magnum Semiconductor, a Milpitas-based developer of video, audio and data compression tools for broadcast infrastructure networks, said on Thursday it has landed a $12 million subordinated venture loan from NXT Capital's Venture Finance Group. Magnum, which is backed by August Capital, Investcorp Technology Ventures, Investor Growth Capital, Advanced Equities and The Camelot Group, said it will use the financing to fuel global growth initiatives. The company's integrated semiconductor and software solutions products are used by broadcast system vendors throughout the video content creation and distribution chain, from contribution and production through distribution over cable, satellite and IPTV. http://www.magnumsemi.com http://www.nxtcapital.com/venture-finance _____________________________________________ o Sunnyvale's LeoNovus Raises $1.7 Million in Private Placement Sunnyvale, Calif. -- LeoNovus, the Sunnyvale-based developer of a browser-based Internet platform with a cloud service, said on Thursday it has raised approximately $1.7 million through a private placement. Under the offering, the company sold 11.2 million shares for $0.15 each. LeoNovus, whose shares trade in Canada, said it will use the proceeds for working capital, including the sales and marketing of its Connected TV product and the launch of its "dark core" technology. The company's platform will provide consumer electronic devices such as HDTVs with access to all the features, content and functionality available on the Internet. http://www.leonovus.com http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1058781/leonovus-closes-private-placement-offering _____________________________________________ o Report: Silicon Valley Companies Raise $2.6 Billion in Q3 San Francisco -- Silicon Valley companies raised $2.6 billion in venture capital during the third quarter, down sharply from the nearly $3.4 billion raised the previous quarter, according to the new MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Nationwide, venture capitalists invested $6.5 billion in 890 deals during the quarter, down 11% in terms of dollars and 5% in the number of deals compared with the second quarter. "The third quarter numbers tell a story consistent with investment themes we have been seeing throughout 2012," said Mark Heesen, president of the NVCA. "Information technology investment continues to be very strong, particularly in the Internet arena while life sciences investment remains low, reflecting ongoing concerns regarding regulatory uncertainty, capital intensity and investment time horizons in the space. We also continue to see clean tech investment shifting concentration to smaller, more capital efficient deals." http://www.nvca.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=182&Itemid=616 _____________________________________________ o Tech Giants to Collaborate as Part of Cyber Security Research Alliance Washington, DC -- Some of the nation's largest tech giant plan to collaborate on cyber security issues as part of a new organization, known as the Cyber Security Research Alliance (CSRA). Founding members of the non-profit include AMD, Honeywell, Intel, Lockheed Martin and RSA/EMC. The companies will work together to help bridge the gap between government-funded R&D and commercially available products in cyber security. Plans already are in the works for a joint cyber security research symposium with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) early next year. The goal would be to connect researchers and early adopters from across the private, academic and government sectors. "Putting into practice the exciting cyber security innovations that emerge from research requires active partnerships between government and industry and also among private sector stakeholders," said Chuck Romine, director of NIST's Information Technology Laboratory. "The emergence of CSRA can strengthen both kinds of partnerships." http://www.cybersecurityresearch.org http://www.cybersecurityresearch.org/news_and_events/press_releases/pr_20121023.html _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (Los Gatos, Calif.) Los Gatos-based video subscription service Netflix said on Thursday it has now surpassed 30 million members globally, including 25 million in the U.S. The company hit the 10 million mark in 2009, a decade after it launched its DVD-by-mail service in the U.S. That number jumped to 20 million by the end of 2010 with the widespread adoption of its streaming video service in the U.S. and Canada. https://signup.netflix.com/MediaCenter/Press (San Francisco) San Francisco-based BranchOut, developer of a professional community on Facebook, on Thursday named Ebbe Altberg as its COO. Altberg is the former senior vice president of media engineering at Yahoo. The company also said it has promoted Chris Merritt from vice president to chief marketing and sales officer. http://branchout.com/ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/branchout-hires-ebbe-altberg-former-130000452.html (Walnut Creek, Calif.) Walnut Creek-based YapStone International, a provider of web and mobile payment systems for targeted vertical markets, said on Thursday it plans to create 120 jobs at its new European headquarters in Ireland. New jobs will be in the areas of customer support, research and development, software engineering, finance and accounting. 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