| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Nov. 14, 2013 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o San Francisco-Based creativeLive Lands $21.5 Million in Second Round o Palo Alto-Based Kidaptive Raises $10.1 Million in Second Round o Lockheed Martin to Close Four Buildings on Sunnyvale Campus o CrowdSource Acquires San Francisco-Based Servio o San Francisco-Based Acupera Lands $2 Million in Bridge Funding o Briefly Noted: Federal Communications Commission - Mobile Speed Test, MovieLaLa, Maxim Integrated Products _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Corporate Food-Service - Catering to Cafe Management --Keys to a Successful Responsive Website Redesign: A Guidebook for Marketers --ModevEast Dec 12-13 - 100+ Speakers - Mobile Conference --Investment Adviser Executive --Digital Entertainment World: Register Now and Save $200 --Free Whitepaper: TechRadar for Digital Customer Experience Technologies --Search Services Without a Fee --TelcoVision Conference - Las Vegas --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 creativeLive Lands $21.5 Million in Second Round San Francisco -- creativeLive, the San Francisco-based developer of a live education platform, said on Thursday it has raised $21.5 million in its second round of funding, led by The Social+Capital Partnership. Previous backer Greylock Partners also participated after leading the company's $7.5 million round last October. Ted Maidenberg, a general partner at The Social+Capital Partnership, will join James Slavet, a partner at Greylock, on the company's board of directors. Founded in 2010, creativeLive offers a social video platform designed to connect students with subject-matter experts in a live, dynamic online classroom. "No one is offering online education that is live, social and, best of all, free," said CEO Mika Salmi. http://www.creativelive.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131114005484/en/creativeLIVE-Raises-21.5-Million-Series-Funding-Led _____________________________________________ o Palo Alto-Based Kidaptive Raises $10.1 Million in Second Round Palo Alto, Calif. -- Kidaptive, a Palo Alto-based education technology startup focused on early learning, said on Thursday it has raised $10.1 million in its second round of funding, led by Formation 8. Menlo Ventures and the Stanford-StartX Fund also participated, as did previous backers including the NewSchools Venture Fund and Prana Studios. The company said it will use the funding to fuel the growth of its curriculum-based learning platform for the early education market. Kidaptive plans to develop 25 animated appisodes for its "Leo’s Pad: Preschool Kids Learning Series for iPad." The interactive animated stories are embedded with assessments spanning seven learning categories related to cognitive, social, emotional and physical development. "Kids are increasingly spending more minutes on screen time each day, but parents don't yet have a great readout on what they're learning from these activities or even what's capturing their imagination," said P.J. Gunsagar, the co-founder and CEO of Kidaptive. "We can do so much more with tablet time for our kids than use it as a digital babysitter." http://kidaptive.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131114006079/en/Kidaptive-Closes-10.1-Million-Series-Funding-Led _____________________________________________ o Lockheed Martin to Close Four Buildings on Sunnyvale Campus Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Defense technology giant Lockheed Martin said on Thursday it plans to close four buildings on its Sunnyvale campus by mid-2015, part of a larger plan to cut 4,000 jobs in response to continued declines in federal spending. "In the face of government budget cuts and an increasingly complex global security landscape, these actions are necessary for the future of our business," said Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin's president and CEO. The Maryland-based company also plans to shutter its operations in Newtown, Pa.; Akron, Ohio; Goodyear, Ariz.; and Horizon City, Texas, as well as cut about 2,000 jobs at its Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS), Mission System and Training (MST) and Space Systems businesses. Some of the employees will transfer to other Lockheed facilities. Since 2008, the company has reduced its workforce from 146,000 employees to 116,000. http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2013/november/1114hq-facility-consolidation.html _____________________________________________ o CrowdSource Acquires San Francisco-Based Servio San Francisco -- CrowdSource, an Illinois-based provider of managed crowdsourcing technology, said on Thursday it will acquire San Francisco-based counterpart Servio. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company said the acquisition will strengthen its client portfolio, expand its workforce and augment its current service offerings. It also will allow CrowdSource to expand its business with large online retailers. Servio's client include retailers such as Overstock, Staples and Toys"R"Us, as well as online publishers like Orbitz and CBS/CNET. "While we both provide offerings around ecommerce content, Servio created a scalable solution to help retailers add additional product attributes, making their products more discoverable to search engines," said CrowdSource co-founder and CEO Stephanie Leffler. The acquisition is expected to close before the end of the month. CrowdSource said it will retain the Servio team and maintain an office in San Francisco. http://www.serv.io/ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/crowdsource-announces-acquisition-of-servio-231896061.html http://www.crowdsource.com/blog/2013/11/crowdsource-acquires-servio-and-why-were-so-excited-about-it/ _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Acupera Lands $2 Million in Bridge Funding San Francisco -- Acupera, a San Francisco-based developer of workflow management technology for healthcare organizations, said on Thursday it has landed $2 million in bridge financing from The Whittemore Collection. The company will use the funds to further develop its technology. Acupera previously had raised $4 million in its first round of funding to initially develop its patient care management platform. The two-year-old company's core platform is designed to mine electronic medical records to elevate the most important data relevant to improving overall population health. http://www.acupera.com http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/acupera-achieves-6-million-in-funding-to-expand-development-of-patient-care-management-platform-231889031.html _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (Washington, DC) The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Thursday it has released its new Speed Test app for Android smartphones, designed to inform users of their mobile broadband speeds. The app is free at the Google Play store. The FCC said it will use information collected anonymously from the app to next year release interactive maps and other tools detailing mobile broadband network performance around the country. An iPhone version will be available early next year. http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-unveils-mobile-broadband-speed-test-app-empower-consumers (San Francisco) San Francisco-based MovieLaLa, developer of a social network and movie marketing platform for upcoming movies, said on Thursday it has landed an unspecified amount of seed funding. Investors included Jim Moloshok, a former entertainment executive at HBO, Yahoo and Warner Bros; Larry Braitman, an online advertising veteran and founding investor in Flixster; and Adam Nash, the COO of Wealthfront and former executive in residence at Greylock Partners. http://movielala.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131114006258/en/MovieLaLa-Receives-Seed-Funding-Investor-Veterans-Jim (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based Maxim Integrated Products, a developer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, said it plans to raise $500 million through the sale of senior notes, due in 2018. 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