| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Sept. 24, 2013 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o San Francisco-Based Practice Fusion Raises $70 Million in Fourth Round o Santa Clara-Based Applied Materials to Merge with Tokyo Electron o Super Micro to Expand San Jose HQ; Acquire Mercury News Campus o San Francisco-Based UniversityNow Lands $19 Million in Third Round o AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo to Automate Process of Premium Ad Buying o Briefly Noted: A10 Networks, InterMune, Echelon _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Search Services Without a Fee --Service Co-ordinator/Customer Service Representative --TelcoVision Conference - Las Vegas --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 Practice Fusion Raises $70 Million in Fourth Round San Francisco -- Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based developer of electronic medical record technology, said on Tuesday it has raised $70 million in its fourth round of funding, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). OrbiMed Advisors, Deerfield Management and Industry Ventures also participated, along with previous backers including Artis Ventures. The company, which now has raised $134 million since its inception in 2005, plans to use the latest funds to expand its offerings to patients and bolster research and development. Practice Fusion currently manages more than 4 million patient visits a month through its network, up 75% from a year ago. More than 100,000 medical professionals use its core electronic medical records platform each month. Beth Seidenberg, a general partner at KPCB, has joined the company's board of directors. http://www.practicefusion.com http://www.practicefusion.com/pages/pr/pf-announces-series-d-funding.html _____________________________________________ o Santa Clara-Based Applied Materials to Merge with Tokyo Electron Santa Clara, Calif. -- Applied Materials, the Santa Clara-based maker of equipment and software used to manufacture semiconductors, flat panel display and solar cells, said on Tuesday it will merge with Japanese counterpart Tokyo Electron in an all-stock deal valued at $29 billion. The combined company will have a new name, which hasn't yet been divulged, dual headquarters in Santa Clara and Tokyo and a shared leadership team. Tetsuro Higashi, currently the chairman, president and CEO of Tokyo Electron, will serve as chairman, while Gary Dickerson, the president and CEO of Applied Materials, will serve as CEO. "We are creating a global innovator in precision materials engineering and patterning," said Dickerson. Applied Materials shareholders will own approximately 68% of the new company, with Tokyo Electron shareholders holding the other 32%. The deal is expected to in mid-late 2014. http://www.appliedmaterials.com http://www.tel.com http://www.appliedmaterials.com/newsroom/news/applied-materials-and-tokyo-electron-combine-creating-new-global-innovator-serve-semic _____________________________________________ o Super Micro to Expand San Jose HQ; Acquire Mercury News Campus San Jose, Calif. -- Super Micro Computer, a developer of high-performance server and storage technology, said on Tuesday that it has signed a deal to acquire a 36-acre campus in San Jose that's currently home to the San Jose Mercury News and Bay Area News Group. The property, which includes 324,000 square feet of building space, is within a mile of the company's current headquarters, giving it ample room to expand. "This new addition to our campus provides us space for immediate R&D and operations expansion," said Charles Liang, the president and CEO of Supermicro. The deal is expected to close at the end of October. http://www.supermicro.com http://www.supermicro.com/newsroom/pressreleases/2013/press130924 _SMCI_Expansion.cfm _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based UniversityNow Lands $19 Million in Third Round San Francisco -- UniversityNow, a San Francisco-based operator of two online universities, said on Tuesday it has raised $19 million in its third round of funding, co-led by Bertelsmann and First Analysis. Previous backers University Ventures, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Kapor Capital and Bronze Investments also participated in the round, which increases the company's total funding to $42 million. Founded in 2010, UniversityNow operates Patten University and New Charter University, online universities targeting working adults. Founder and CEO Gene Wade said he created the company "in response to the increasing number of students being shut out of college due to the exorbitant cost of tuition and the inflexibility of the traditional delivery models." http://www.unow.com http://unow.com/series-c/ _____________________________________________ o AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo to Automate Process of Premium Ad Buying Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Hoping to steer more advertising dollars online, partners AOL, Microsoft and Sunnyvale-based Yahoo on Tuesday announced plans to automate the sale of premium digital ads. The three companies, who have partnered together to sell display ads for the past two years, said they will adopt a common set of API specifications over the next few months, aimed at removing friction from the ad-buying process. Until now, more than half of the companies' ads have been sold through manual processes. "This is digital's next salvo in the efficiency war, bringing more premium inventory online," said Seth Demsey, the senior vice president of global advertising products and strategy at AOL Networks. "We see this approach as being both 'advertiser friendly' and 'publisher friendly' -- something that will address the challenges and inefficiencies that make it hard to scale big brand buys on the Internet," said Rik van der Kooi, the corporate vice president of Microsoft Advertising. http://corp.aol.com/2013/09/24/aol-microsoft-yahoo-agree-to-streamline-access-to-premium-ad-i/ _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based A10 Networks, a developer of technology designed to help clients accelerate, optimize and secure their applications, on Tuesday named Jason Matlof as its vice president of worldwide marketing. Matlof most recently was the vice president of marketing at Big Switch Networks. A10 also recently announced the hiring of Ray Smets as its vice president of worldwide sales. http://www.a10networks.com/news/2013/20130924-A10_Networks_Appoints_Jason_Matlof_as_VP_of_Worldwide_Marketing.php (Brisbane, Calif.) Brisbane-based InterMune, a biotechnology firm developing therapies in pulmonology and orphan fibrotic diseases, on Tuesday named Andrew Powell as its executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Powell most recently was the executive vice president, general counsel and secretary at Cornerstone Therapeutics. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=100067&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1857383&highlight= (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based Echelon, developer of a control networking platform for the Internet of things, on Tuesday named Wendy Toth to the newly created position of CMO. 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