| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Nov. 2, 2012 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o San Mateo-Based Neo Technology Raises $11 Million in Second Round o Sunnyvale-Based Trimble Acquires Assets of Vico Software o San Mateo-Based Adept Cloud Raises $700,000 in First Round o Redwood City-Based Equinix Completes Sale of 16 Data Centers o Android Garners 75% Smartphone Market Share in Third Quarter o Briefly Noted: Frequentz - IBM _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --GSA Schedule, Government Sales & Marketing Support --webMethods Consultants --Just Released! SaaS Entrepreneur: Your Guide to Cloud Apps Success! --Mobile Development, UX/Design and Marketing Conference --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 Mateo-Based Neo Technology Raises $11 Million in Second Round San Mateo, Calif. -- Neo Technology, the San Mateo-based creator of a graph database known as Neo4j, said on Friday it has raised $11 million in its second round of funding, led by Sunstone Capital. Previous investors Fidelity Growth Partners Europe and Conor Venture Partners also took part in the round, which increased the company's total backing to more than $24 million. Neo said it will use the latest funds to fuel product development efforts, as well as meet the needs of its fast-growing customer base. "This additional capital will help us extend the experience to new markets and further fuel the mass adoption of our graph database technology," said CEO Emil Eifrém. http://www.neotechnology.com http://www.neotechnology.com/2012/11/neo-technology-raises-11-million-in-series-b-funding-to-lead-adoption-of-graph-databases/ _____________________________________________ o Sunnyvale-Based Trimble Acquires Assets of Vico Software Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Trimble, a Sunnyvale-based developer of software designed to make field and mobile workers more productive, said on Friday it has acquired assets of Colorado-based Vico Software, a provider of virtual construction software and consulting services. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Trimble said the acquisition will extend its offerings for building construction. The Vico business will become part of Trimble's Engineering and Construction segment. http://www.trimble.com http://www.trimble.com/news/release.aspx?id=110212a _____________________________________________ o San Mateo-Based Adept Cloud Raises $700,000 in First Round San Mateo, Calif. -- Adept Cloud, the San Mateo-based developer of a cloud-managed private collaboration solution, said it has raised $700,000 in its first round of funding, led by The Entrepreneurs' Fund III. Several other private investors also participated in the round, which was announced in conjunction with the release of the pilot version of the company's adeptCloud tool. The cloud-based software is designed to let businesses collaborate on sensitive documents that they can store behind their own corporate firewalls. The software operates on Windows, Mac and Linux desktop systems, and also features native apps for the iPhone, iPad,Android, Kindle Fire and Blackberry. Adept Cloud was founded in 2011 by CEO Frank-Robert Kline and CTO Aaron Nathan. http://www.adeptcloud.com https://adeptcloud.com/about/press _____________________________________________ o Redwood City-Based Equinix Completes Sale of 16 Data Centers Redwood City, Calif. -- Equinix, a Redwood City-based owner and operator of data centers, said it has completed the sale of 16 U.S. data centers to an investment group consisting of 365 Main, Crosslink Capital, Housatonic Partners and Brightwood Capital. The $75 million deal was first announced in early September. With the closing, Equinix now has exited nine markets, including Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Nashville, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Tampa. It will retain a presence in the other seven markets, including San Jose. "By divesting these data centers in non-core markets, we can focus our capital and management attention on our most productive data centers," said Charles Meyers, president of the Americas for Equinix. http://www.equinix.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121101006677/en/Equinix-Completes-Divestiture-16-U.S.-Data-Centers _____________________________________________ o Android Garners 75% Smartphone Market Share in Third Quarter Framingham, Mass. – Google's Android smartphone operating system was loaded on three out of every four smartphones shipped during the third quarter, according to a new report from IDC. Total Android smartphone shipments worldwide totaled 136 million units during the quarter. Apple's iOS was a distant second place to Android, but was the only other mobile operating system to win double-digit market share for the quarter, while BlackBerry's market share continued to sink, falling to just over 4% by the end of the quarter. http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23771812 _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (Los Altos, Calif.) Los Altos-based Frequentz, a developer of real-time traceability and information management software, said it has acquired the assets and resources of IBM's InfoSphere Traceability Server (ITS) software business. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. 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