| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Oct. 29, 2012 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o Riverbed Technology to Acquire Opnet Technologies for $1 Billion o Palo Alto-Based AutoGrid Systems Raises $9 Million in New Funding o Brooks Automation to Acquire Fremont-Based Crossing Automation o South San Francisco-Based Principia Biopharma Lands $12.5 Million o N.Y. Man Charged in Scheme to Defraud Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg o Briefly Noted: Integral Development, Agilent Technologies _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --GSA Schedule, Government Sales & Marketing Support --webMethods Consultants --Just Released! 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Under the agreement, Riverbed will pay $43 a share in cash and stock, extending its network performance management business into the fast-growing application performance management (APM) market. The deal is slated to close by the end of the year, with the combined company expected to generate more than $1 billion in annual revenue. Opnet will become part of Riverbed's Cascade business unit. http://www.opnet.com http://www.riverbed.com http://www.riverbed.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2012/press_102912.php _____________________________________________ o Palo Alto-Based AutoGrid Systems Raises $9 Million in New Funding Palo Alto, Calif. -- AutoGrid Systems, a Palo Alto-based provider of big data analytics and software services to utilities, said on Monday it has raised $9 million in new funding from Foundation Capital, Voyager Capital and Stanford University. The funding closed in two rounds. In addition, the company said it has signed contracts worth more than $5 million with ARPA-E, the advanced projects research agency of the Department of Energy, and the California Energy Commission, and also released its Energy Data Platform (EDP), a software platform for mining data from smart meters and other networked assets connected to the grid. Similar to recommendation engines for e-commerce sites or algorithms for predicting weather, the platform uses petabytes of structured and unstructured data to create forecasts of future consumption by examining ongoing trends, past consumption patterns and relationships between millions of interdependent variables. AutoGrid founder and CEO Amit Narayan previously served as the director of smart grid research in modeling and simulation at Stanford from 2010-2012. http://www.auto-grid.com/ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/autogrid-systems-secures-9-million-110000634.html _____________________________________________ o Brooks Automation to Acquire Fremont-Based Crossing Automation Fremont, Calif. -- Brooks Automation, a Massachusetts-based developer of automation, vacuum and instrumentation products, said on Monday it will pay $63 million in cash to acquire Fremont-based Crossing Automation, a maker of fab and tool automation products used by semiconductor device and equipment companies. The deal is expected to close by the end of this month. Crossing generated $51 million in revenue and $3 million in operating profits for the year ended Sept. 30. "The acquisition will meaningfully expand Brooks' capabilities in atmospheric automation," said Steve Schwartz, the president and CEO of Brooks. http://crossinginc.com/ http://www.brooks.com http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2012/10/29/500612/10010167/en/Brooks-Automation-Announces-Agreement-to-Acquire-Crossing-Automation-Inc.html _____________________________________________ o South San Francisco-Based Principia Biopharma Lands $12.5 Million South San Francisco -- Principia Biopharma, a South San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical firm developing drugs that target inflammatory and autoimmune diseases as well as cancer, said it has raised $12.5 million in a new tranche of funding. Participants included previous backers New Leaf Venture Partners, OrbiMed Advisors, Morgenthaler Ventures, SROne and Mission Bay Capital. The news comes nearly two years after the company completed a $36.3 million round of funding and also received the first $12 million tranche. The company said it will use the latest funding to advance its lead compound toward clinical trials in 2013. Principia also announced the hiring of Jens Oliver Funk as chief scientific officer. Funk most recently served as the senior vice president of R&D and global head of the therapeutic area oncology at Merck Serono. http://www.principiabio.com http://finance.yahoo.com/news/principia-biopharma-secures-12-5m-131800901.html _____________________________________________ o N.Y. Man Charged in Scheme to Defraud Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Menlo Park, Calif. -- A former acquaintance of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg faces federal charges in New York for allegedly masterminding a multi-billion dollar scheme to defraud Zuckerberg out of a 50% stake in the Menlo Park-based social networking giant. The U.S. Attorney in Manhattan has charged Paul Ceglia with falsely claiming to have been promised half the company, then doctoring and fabricating evidence to support the claim. "Ceglia's alleged conduct not only constitutes a massive fraud attempt, but also an attempted corruption of our legal system through the manufacture of false evidence," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. The allegations date back to 2003, when Zuckerberg, then a student at Harvard, allegedly agreed to perform programming work for Ceglia's online business, StreetFax.com. Years later, in 2011, Ceglia filed a federal suit in New York, claiming Zuckerberg had promised him at least a 50% interest in "The Face Book" project that ultimately became Facebook. Ceglia, 39, was arrested Friday by federal agents at his home in Wellsville, N.Y.. He is charged with one count of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud, with each count carrying a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/October12/CegliaPaulCharges.php _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (Sunnyvale, Calif.) Sunnyvale-based Integral Development, developer of an electronic trading network for the foreign exchange markets, on Monday named Douglas Sidnam as its vice president and global head of solutions. Sidnam previously spent two decades at Thomson Reuters, most recently as senior vice president of professional services. He will be based out of Integral's New York office. http://www.integral.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121029005333/en/Integral-Hires-Industry-Veteran-Pace-Accelerating-Growth (Santa Clara, Calif.) Santa Clara-based Agilent Technologies said on Monday it has opened a terahertz measurement lab at the University of Leeds in England. 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