| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Nov. 7, 2013 ============================================ Sponsored By: Siteworx Keys to a Successful Responsive Website Redesign Click Here o Twitter Prices IPO; Stock Spikes Nearly 73% on NYSE o San Francisco-Based Project Frog Raises $20 Million in Fourth Round o Mountain View-Based HyTrust Acquires HighCloud Security o Report: Menlo Park-Based Facebook Opens New Office Near Boston o NXT's Venture Finance Group Starts Index to Track Venture Debt > Keys to a Successful Responsive Website Redesign: A Guide for Marketers o Briefly Noted: AT&T - UC-Berkeley, Ariosa Diagnostics _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Keys to a Successful Responsive Website Redesign: A Guidebook for Marketers --ModevEast Dec 12-14 - 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 Twitter Prices IPO; Stock Spikes Nearly 73% on NYSE San Francisco -- Shares of Twitter rose nearly 73% on their first day of trading Thursday, hours after the social networking giant raised about $1.8 billion in the most highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) since Facebook. The San Francisco-based company late Wednesday priced 70 million shares at $26 each, giving it a market value of more than $18 billion. The stock, now trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TWTR," opened at $45.10 before closing at $44.90. https://twitter.com/twitter/status/398235511254298624/photo/1 http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/0001193125134313 01/d564001d424b4.htm (IPO filing) _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Project Frog Raises $20 Million in Fourth Round San Francisco -- Project Frog, a San Francisco-based developer of component buildings that utilize technology to overcome inefficiencies of traditional construction, said on Thursday it has raised $20 million in its fourth round of funding, led by CCM. The Cleantech Syndicate also took part. The company has grown rapidly in recent months, delivering seven times the square footage so far this year than in all of 2012, and frowing its headcount by 15% in the past quarter. It also recently relocated its headquarters to a larger space in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood. Project Frog's buildings are designed to assemble on site, and are greener and more technologically advanced then their traditional counterparts. http://www.projectfrog.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131107005448/en/Project-Frog-Recognized-Rapid-Growth-20-Million _____________________________________________ o Mountain View-Based HyTrust Acquires HighCloud Security Mountain View, Calif. -- HyTrust, a developer of cloud security tools for virtual infrastructure, said on Thursday it has acquired Mountain View-based counterpart HighCloud Security, a developer of cloud encryption and key management software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Bill Hackenberger, the co-founder, president and CEO of HighCloud, said the combined company will be able to "give enterprises unprecedented ability to address security, compliance and data privacy requirements for all cloud environments." The news comes two months after HyTrust raised $18.5 million in its third round of funding. http://www.hytrust.com http://www.highcloudsecurity.com http://www.hytrust.com/company/news/press-releases/hytrust-acquires-highcloud-security _____________________________________________ o Report: Menlo Park-Based Facebook Opens New Office Near Boston Menlo Park, Calif. -- The Boston Globe reported on Thursday that Menlo Park-based Facebook is returning to the Boston area by opening an engineering office in Cambridge, Mass. Ryan Mack will lead the new office. "Nine years after Facebook got its start in a Harvard dorm room, the social network is back in Cambridge," the Globe reported. The new office will become the permanent home to a number of Boston-area employees who had previously been working remotely. http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/11/07/facebook-one-that-got-away-returns-cambridge/gaRGBJhHXTwfALbYc8Nq5O/story.html _____________________________________________ o NXT's Venture Finance Group Starts Index to Track Venture Debt San Francisco -- Amid an upswing in non-bank debt for venture-backed companies, NXT Capital's Venture Finance Group announced on Thursday the release of a new index that tracks venture debt. The index, called the NXT Capital Venture Debt Index, focuses exclusively on venture debt financings, and not equity financings. "The market has become increasingly educated about the availability and structural benefits of debt financing," said Jan Haas, group head of NXT Capital Venture Finance. "The Index reveals that debt is an appealing alternative for successful late-stage companies seeking minimally dilutive growth capital." 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