| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Aug. 6, 2013 ============================================ Special Summer Advertising Rates Now Until Aug. 31, 2013 http://www.bayareatechwire.com/PremAd.html o Belmont-Based Defnese.net Emerges from Stealth with $9.5M in Funding o San Francisco-Based Zynga to Shutter OMGPOP Social Games Site o Fifth Street to Open Venture Lending Practice in Palo Alto o San Francisco-Based Bislr Names Peter Stern as Chief Revenue Officer o Washington Post Shares Rise Following Sale to Amazon's Bezos o Briefly Noted: E2open, PokitDok, DocuSign _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --The Debate on Public and Private Data Now Available Online --Airport CIO/ITT Director --Mobile Commerce World --Patent Applications Drafted --Research Leader – Collaboration and Communications --Director of Business Development --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 Belmont-Based Defnese.net Emerges from Stealth with $9.5M in Funding Belmont, Calif. -- Defense.net, a Belmont-based startup focused on defending customers against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, on Tuesday emerged from stealth mode after raising $9.5 million in funding. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. Defense.net was founded in December by Barrett Lyon, and the company has since been building a DDoS defense network designed to combat large-scale attacks. "The modern Internet is different from what we were defending 10 years ago," said Lyon. "It's not just websites. It's critical financial transactions. It's video, it's mobile applications, it's APIs that integrate systems among institutions. We had to design defenses to protect all those systems from DDoS attacks." The company, which hasn't yet unveiled its first products, said its technology will both protect against modern DDoS attacks and preserve the performance of applications. Defense.net was incubated in the Menlo Park office of Bessemer Venture Partners, with partner David Cowan, the co-founder of VeriSign, joining the company's board. http://www.defense.net http://www.defense.net/index.php/company/press-releases/cybersecurity-pioneer-barrett-lyon-unveils-defense-net-to-combat-the-newest-ddos-attacks-on-large-enterprise-critical-infrastructure/ _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Zynga to Shutter OMGPOP Social Games Site San Francisco -- Zynga, the financially struggling publisher of social games such as Words With Friends and FarmVille, said it plans to shutter its OMGPOP social games site "to make way for new and exciting gaming opportunities." The company acquired New York-based OMGPOP, maker of the popular mobile game Draw Something, for $210 million last spring. The site will close on Sept. 30, though Zynga said that visitors will be able to continue playing games such as Draw Something, Draw Something 2 and Draw My Thing. "We regret that this decision will affect some of our players, but we invite you to visit Zynga.com and try some of our other games," wrote Zynga on its website. http://www.omgpop.com/ http://www.zyngaplayersupport.com/article/all/Announcement-OMGPOPcom-Closure-en_US-1375113624757 _____________________________________________ o Fifth Street to Open Venture Lending Practice in Palo Alto Palo Alto, Calif. -- Fifth Street Management, a Connecticut-based alternative asset manager, said on Tuesday it will expand into venture lending through a new Silicon Valley unit called Fifth Street Technology Partners. The new group, based in Palo Alto, will be led by Michael David, former co-head and managing director of ORIX Venture Finance. It will make structured and secured debt investments ranging from $5-$50 million in later stage technology companies. "As later stage companies exit the venture capital phase, they become natural candidates for financing in conjunction with sponsor-led buyouts," said David. Fifth Street Technology Partners also will have an office in Texas. http://www.fifthstreetfinance.com/ http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2013/08/06/564767/10043423/en/Fifth-Street-Management-LLC-Launches-Venture-Lending-Business.html _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Bislr Names Peter Stern as Chief Revenue Officer San Francisco -- Bislr, the San Francisco-based developer of a platform designed to let marketers create and manage cross-platform marketing campaigns, has named Peter Stern as its chief revenue officer. Stern previously served as the vice president of enterprise corporate sales at Salesforce.com and the regional manager of North America at Oracle. The news comes on the heels of Bislr's recent appointment of Marcia Kadanoff as CMO. http://www.bislr.com/ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130806005697/en/Peter-A.-Stern-Veteran-Salesforce-Oracle-Joins _____________________________________________ o Washington Post Shares Rise Following Sale to Amazon's Bezos Washington, DC -- Shares of The Washington Post jumped more than 4% on Tuesday, a day after the surprise announcement that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos will pay $250 million to acquire The Washington Post's flagship newspaper and affiliate publications. Bezos, who plans to keep his full-time job as the CEO of Amazon, said he expects to implement a number of changes at The Post, which like most newspapers has suffered in recent years from a dwindling subscriber base and downturn in ad revenue. "The Internet is transforming almost every element of the news business: shortening news cycles, eroding long-reliable revenue sources, and enabling new kinds of competition, some of which bear little or no news-gathering costs," wrote Bezos in an open letter to Post employees. "There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment." Bezos, who is estimated to be worth $25 billion and has never owned a newspaper, made the deal following secretive negotiations with the Graham family, which has controlled the newspaper for 80 years. Amazon will have no role in the acquisition, which also includes the Express newspaper, The Gazette Newspapers, Southern Maryland Newspapers, Fairfax County Times, El Tiempo Latino and Greater Washington Publishing. Slate magazine, TheRoot.com and Foreign Policy are not part of the deal and will remain with The Washington Post Company, as will the WaPo Labs and SocialCode businesses. The Washington Post Company, which also owns Kaplan, Post–Newsweek Stations and Cable ONE, plans to change its name. http://www.washpostco.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=62487&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1844731&highlight= http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jeff-bezos-on-post-purchase/2013/08/05/e5b293de-fe0d-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html?hpid=z2 (Open letter from Bezos) _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (Foster City, Calif.) Foster-City-based E2open, a developer of software designed to let clients procure, sell and distribute products more efficiently across global trading networks, has named Michael Lindner as its vice president and general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Lindner previously held executive roles with HP, Stratus Technologies, Serena Software and ServiceNow. http://www.e2open.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130805006320/en/E2open-Appoints-Michael-Lindner-Vice-President-General (San Mateo, Calif.) San Mateo-based PokitDok, a developer of cloud-based software designed to connect consumers and healthcare providers, on Tuesday named Jason Thibeault as its senior vice president of marketing and Ryan Tarzy as its senior vice president of business development. Thibeault most recently served as the senior director of marketing strategy at Limelight Networks, while Tarzy was a managing partner at Health2X. https://pokitdok.com/ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130806005311/en/PokitDok-Announces-Executive-Team-Members (San Francisco) San Francisco-based DocuSign, the developer of electronic signature technology, on Tuesday named Enrique Salem to its board of directors. Salem is the former president and CEO of Symantec. 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The Research Leader will deliver intelligence and analysis to our clients and gives end-users insight into the strengths and weaknesses of competing vendors and their offerings; Proactively track and analyze the collaboration and communications marketplace; Attend industry trade shows, analyst conference, webinars and vendor briefings; Present research findings in both live and online events. To apply for this position send your resume to: hr@currentanalysis.com or fax at: 703.421.3077 ____________________________________________ > Director of Business Development Join a growing commercial software company! Be a leader in helping organizations adopt innovative business management software, both in the cloud and self-hosted! 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