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o Santa Clara-Based Zenverge Lands $11 Million in New Funding
o San Francisco-Based Extole Raises $5 Million, Makes Key Hires
o AllThningsD Founders to Launch New Venture with NBCUniversal
o Comcast Completes Expansion of Silicon Valley Innovation Center
o Several Bay Area Executives Make HITEC 100 List
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o Briefly Noted: Fortumo, Guidewire Software, Roku, CloudShare
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o Santa Clara-Based Zenverge Lands $11 Million in New Funding
Santa Clara, Calif. -- Zenverge, a Santa Clara-based developer of content networking chips, said on Tuesday it has raised $11 million in a new round of funding, led by an unspecified "key strategic partner." Previous backers DCM, Norwest Venture Partners, Verizon, CID Group and Woodside Fund also took part in the round, which the company will use to bolster its offerings for the home media gateway market. Zenverge's integrated circuits are designed to support a wide variety of pay-TV applications and services, including the streaming of live and recorded content, wireless TV and DVR storage.
http://www.zenverge.com
http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/zenverge-closes-11m-round-financing-140000157.html
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o San Francisco-Based Extole Raises $5 Million, Makes Key Hires
San Francisco -- Extole, the San Francisco-based developer of a social advocacy platform, said on Tuesday it has raised $5 million in a new round of funding from Norwest Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Trident Capital. The company plans to use the proceeds to fuel development as it prepares for a new product launch in early 2014. Extole also announced a pair of hires, naming Mark Cyster as CTO and Chris Duskin as vice president of marketing. Cyster previously was the director of engineering at Jive Software and vice president of engineering at Omniture, while Duskin was the vice president of product at Badgeville.
http://www.extole.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131210005437/en/Extole-Customer-Growth-85-Adds-5M-Funding
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o AllThningsD Founders to Launch New Venture with NBCUniversal
San Francisco -- The founders of popular technology blog AllThingsD have signed a deal to launch a competing news and conference business with NBCUniversal, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher announced their planned departure from parent News Corp. in September. They are expected to bring their current staff to the yet-to-be-named venture, which they will control as majority investors. "The deal provides NBCUniversal… with a bigger entry into technology coverage and potentially gives the startup's stories exposure on CNBC, NBC News and MSNBC," Bloomberg reported.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-09/allthingsd-editors-are-said-to-complete-nbcuniversal-deal.html
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o Comcast Completes Expansion of Silicon Valley Innovation Center
Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Cable giant Comcast said on Tuesday it has completed the expansion of its Silicon Valley Innovation Center in Sunnyvale, where the company and partners work to develop new technology across a spectrum of broadband, entertainment, business services and home automation platforms. The center, which originally opened in 2011 with 60 employees, now will house approximately 250 engineers, product designers and architects. "We have created a really exciting, collaborative and entrepreneurial environment where incredibly talented engineers and designers from around the world are developing game changing products that have the potential to reach millions of people," said Justin Miller, the general manager of Comcast Silicon Valley.
http://comcastcalifornia.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=702
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o Several Bay Area Executives Make HITEC 100 List
Palo Alto, Calif. -- Several Bay Area executives have made the Hispanic IT Executive Council's newly released HITEC 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential and notable Hispanic professionals in the IT Industry. The list includes executives from Palo Alto-based HP, Menlo Park-based Facebook, Los Altos-based Box, San Jose-based Cisco, Redwood Shores-based Oracle, Cupertino-based Apple, San Bruno-based YouTube, Fremont-based Silicon Graphics and Sunnyvale-based NetApp. All were honored recently in Palo Alto. The complete list is available at the link below.
http://www.hitecglobal.org/images/HITEC_Program_final_preview.pdf (PDF)
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(San Francisco) Fortumo, the Estonia-based mobile payments company with U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, said on Tuesday it has launched its service in Indonesia. . With the move, 205 million phone owners using Telkomsel, XL Axiata, Indosat and Axis networks now can charge purchases for digital content to their mobile operator bill.
http://press.fortumo.com/fortumo-launches-in-indonesia-bringing-mobile-payments-to-205-million-phone-owners/
(Foster City, Calif.) Foster City-based Guidewire Software, a developer of software for property and casualty insurers, on Monday named Andy Brown to its board of directors. Brown is CEO of Street Scale IT Group, and previously was a group CTO at UBS; head of strategy, architecture and optimization at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and CTO of infrastructure at Credit Suisse.
http://www.guidewire.com/news-and-events/press-releases/2013/andy-brown-named-to-guidewire-software-board-of-directors/
(Saratoga, Calif.) Saratoga-based Roku, developer of a streaming software platform for delivering video, music and casual games to the TV, has named Stephen Kay as its senior vice president and general counsel. Kay, who will join the company in January, currently serves as managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Hogan Lovells, as well as co-leader of the firm's Technology, Media and Telecoms industry sector team.
http://www.roku.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131209005395/en/Roku-Appoints-Stephen-Kay-General-Counsel
(San Mateo, Calif.) San Mateo-based CloudShare, developer of a web-based platform that lets users create virtual environments in the cloud, on Tuesday named Valerie Fawzi as its CMO. Fawzi most recently served as the vice president of worldwide marketing at EVault.
http://www.cloudshare.com/news-and-events/press-releases/cloudshare-appoints-industry-veteran-valerie-fawzi-as-chief-marketing-officer
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