| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Sept. 13, 2013 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o San Francisco-Based Twitter Confidentially Files for IPO o Report: Santa Clara-Based Intel Acquires Spain's Indisys o Mountain View-Based Nebula Names Gordon Stitt as CEO o Gap is Highest-Ranked Local Company in New InformationWeek 500 o Sunnyvale-Based FiscalNote Raises $1.2 Million, Plans Move to DC o Briefly Noted: RingCentral, Siteworx, Salesforce.com, Coupa Software _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Chief Information Officer/IT Director - City of Mountain View --IDF13 San Francisco --The Debate on Public and Private Data Now Available Online --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 San Francisco-Based Twitter Confidentially Files for IPO San Francisco -- In what's certain to be one of the largest initial public offerings of all time, San Francisco-based social networking giant Twitter tweeted on Thursday that it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public. "We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO," the company wrote, adding, "This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale." The company has yet to disclose any details of the offering, which is certain to be the most hyped since Facebook went public in May 2012. https://twitter.com/twitter/status/378261932148416512 (Twitter's tweet) _____________________________________________ o Report: Santa Clara-Based Intel Acquires Spain's Indisys Santa Clara, Calif. -- Intel, the Santa Clara-based chipmaking giant, has acquired Spain-based Indisys, a developer of natural language recognition technology, TechCrunch reported. The purchase price reportedly is more than $26 million. Intel told the publication that a majority of Indisys' employees already have joined the company. TechCrunch said that CEO Pilar Manchon is now working at Intel's research and development department in Santa Clara. http://www.intel.com http://www.indisys.es/en/#es http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/13/intel-has-acquired-natural-language-processing-startup-indisys-price-north-of-26m/ _____________________________________________ o Mountain View-Based Nebula Names Gordon Stitt as CEO Mountain View, Calif. -- Nebula, a Mountain View-based developer of technology that lets clients deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures, on Friday named Gordon Stitt as its new CEO. He succeeds founder Chris Kemp, who will continue as chief strategy officer and board member. Stitt is the co-founder and former CEO of Extreme Networks, and earlier co-founded Network Peripherals, where he served as vice president of marketing. "I couldn't ask for a better partner to help me build Nebula into a company of consequence," said Kemp. Nebula is primarily backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Comcast Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. http://www.nebula.com https://www.nebula.com/blog/2013/09/13/nebula-recruits-gordon-stitt-ceo/ _____________________________________________ o Gap is Highest-Ranked Local Company in New InformationWeek 500 San Francisco -- Clothing retailer Gap is the highest ranked Bay Area company on the newly released 2013 InformationWeek 500, an annual ranking of the country's most "innovative" users of business technology. San Francisco-based Gap ranked No. 3, below only University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and ConocoPhillips. Other locals among the top 100 include San Francisco-based Esurance (No. 28), Santa Clara-based Intel (No. 40), San Francisco-based Dignity Health (No. 49) and Redwood City-based Electronic Arts (No. 94). The InformationWeek 500 is open to companies with revenue of at least $250 million, who are then ranked based on their responses to a rigorous questionnaire about their business technology strategies. The complete list is at the links below. http://www.informationweek.com/iw500/2013/top250 (Ranking of top 250) http://www.informationweek.com/iw500/2013/viewList (Alphabetical listing of all 500) _____________________________________________ o Sunnyvale-Based FiscalNote Raises $1.2 Million, Plans Move to DC Sunnyvale, Calif. -- FiscalNote, the Sunnyvale-based developer of a platform designed to quickly make sense of unstructured state and local government legislation, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding and plans to relocate from to the Washington, DC area, according to published reports. Investors included New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and First Round Capital, according to TechCrunch. The Washington Business Journal said the company plans to complete its move to the area within the next two weeks. FiscalNote was founded in March by Tim Hwang, former president of the 750,000 member National Youth Association. The company's technology uses machine learning and natural language processing to instantly analyze state and local government data, including bills, regulations, court cases and speeches. http://www.fiscalnote.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/11/fiscalnote-seed-funding/ http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/techflash/2013/09/fiscalnote-moves-to-dc-raises-12m.html _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Mateo, Calif.) San Mateo-based RingCentral, a developer of cloud business communications systems, has named David Lee as its vice president of product management. Lee most recently served as the vice president of product management at Box, and previously held product management and product design positions at Yahoo and WebEx. http://www.ringcentral.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130912005134/en/Cloud-SaaS-Industry-Veteran-David-T.-Lee (San Francisco) Digital agency Siteworx said on Friday that it has relocated its San Francisco office to a new location in the city's Financial District. The Virginia-based firm said that the 5,000-square-foot facility at 121 Spear Street will support more than 30 employees. http://www.siteworx.com/news/2013/press-releases/digital-experience-agency-in-san-francisco (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Salesforce.com, developer of the popular customer relationship management platform, has named John Roos and Robin Washington to its board of directors. Roos is the former U.S. ambassador to Japan, and Washington is the CFO of Gilead Sciences. http://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/2013/09/130912.jsp (San Mateo, Calif.) San Mateo-based Coupa Software, a developer of cloud-based spend optimization tools for finance, has named JP Krishnamoorthy as its vice president of engineering. Krishnamoorthy previously served as the vice president of development for revenue management products at Oracle's Communications Global Business Unit. He began his tenure at Oracle through its acquisition of Portal Software. http://www.coupa.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130912006684/en/Coupa-Hires-ex-Oracle-Software-Executive-JP-Krishnamoorthy =================================================== 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 > Chief Information Officer/IT Director - City of Mountain View The newly created CIO position will join a leadership team committed to innovation, creativity, and transforming local government through leading ideas and practices. As the Department Director, the CIO will oversee a staff of 14 employees in planning, maintaining, and managing the City's information systems and communications networks. Bachelor’s degree is required; MBA or MCS is highly desired. 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Moderated by NYU Professor Arthur Miller, the panelists included: Joseph Alhadeff, Chief Privacy Strategist/VP Global Public Policy, Oracle; Ian Ballon, Greenberg Traurig, Executive Director Stanford Law's Center for E-Commerce; Johannes Ernst, Cloudstore; Thomas Feledy, Lieutenant, SF Police Department; Françoise Gilbert, Founder/Managing Director of the IT Law Group; Ann Geyer, Managing Director of Tunitas Group; Matthew Miller, Managing Director, Walden Venture Capital; and Mark Weinstein of Sgrouples.com. The video is available at www.ConcordDebate.com ____________________________________________ > Mobile Commerce World Mobile Commerce World is for retail and enterprise executives charged with developing their company’s mobile commerce strategy. 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