| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- March 21, 2014 ============================================ Sponsored By: Fairfax County Economic Development Authority http://www.fairfaxcountyeda.org/bay-area-tech-wire o San Jose-Based A10 Networks Raises $187.5 Million in IPO o San Francisco-Based Vicarious Raises $40M from High-Profile Investors o Obama Meets with Top Tech Execs to Discuss NSA, Privacy Concerns o San Francisco-Based Leap Motion Cuts 10% of Staff o Survey: Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Now Shop Through Mobile Devices > Create Your Own Hiring Opportunity - 5 Behaviors Decision-Makers Can't Ignore o Briefly Noted: Lending Club, Microsoft - Seagate Technology _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Startup Marketing Conference SF, March 27: Last Chance to Register --Create Your Own Hiring Opportunity - 5 Behaviors Decision-Makers Find Irresistible --14 Ideas for Marketing Your Business Online --Enterprise Connect – March 17-20, 2014 --Corporate Food-Service - Catering to Cafe Management --Investment Adviser Executive --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 Jose-Based A10 Networks Raises $187.5 Million in IPO San Jose, Calif. -- Shares of San Jose-based A10 Networks rose 8% in their first day of trading Friday, hours after the developer of technology designed to help clients accelerate, optimize and secure their applications raised $187.5 million in its initial public offering (IPO). A10 priced 12.5 million shares at $15 each, the top of its expected range, with 9 million shares sold directly by the company and 3.5 million from shareholders. The company's stock, now trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "ATEN," closed Friday at $16.21. http://www.a10networks.com http://www.a10networks.com/news/pr.php?id=1821268 http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1580808/000119312514109104/d631034d424b4.htm _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Vicarious Raises $40M from High-Profile Investors San Francisco -- Vicarious, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company building software designed to think and learn like humans, has raised $40 million in a new round of funding from several high-profile investors, The Wall Street Journal reported. Formation 8 led the round, which included participants such as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, SpaceX and Telsa Motors CEO Elon Musk and actor Ashton Kutcher. Vicarious was founded in 2010 by Scott Phoenix, a former entrepreneur in residence at Founders Fund and CEO of Frogmetrics, and Dileep George, the former CTO of Numenta. The company said its initial technology is a visual perception system that interprets the contents of photographs and videos in a manner similar to humans. http://www.vicarious.com http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/21/zuckerberg-musk-invest-in-artificial-intelligence-company-vicarious/ _____________________________________________ o Obama Meets with Top Tech Execs to Discuss NSA, Privacy Concerns Washington, DC -- President Obama on Friday was scheduled to meet with leaders of some of the nation's largest tech companies -- including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg -- to discuss their privacy concerns regarding the National Security Agency (NSA), Politico reported. Executives from Google and Yahoo, among many others, also received invitations, a White House official told the publications. The meeting comes eight days after Zuckerberg criticized the federal government in a Facebook post. "To keep the internet strong, we need to keep it secure," wrote Zuckerberg. "This is why I've been so confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the US government. When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government. The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst. I've called President Obama to express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future." http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/barach-obama-tech-ceos-nsa-104881.html?hp=l1 _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Leap Motion Cuts 10% of Staff San Francisco -- Leap Motion, a San Francisco-based developer of motion-control hardware and software, has cut 10% of its marketing and support staff -- approximately 12 employees -- TechCrunch reported. The company said that its product, design and engineering teams won't be affected by the moves, which come following weaker-than-expected holiday sales of its controllers that let users interact with their computers through gestures. Leap Motion is currently working on a second version of its software that addresses some early consumer complaints, and plans to eventually move into new areas outside of personal computers. https://www.leapmotion.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/leap-motion-lays-off-10-of-its-workforce-after-missing-on-first-year-sales-estimates/?ncid=rss _____________________________________________ o Survey: Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Now Shop Through Mobile Devices San Francisco -- Nearly half of American adults now say they shop from a mobile device, according to a new survey by San Francisco-based Ebates.com. Approximately 1 in 10 say they shop from a mobile device daily, while one third shop weekly (30%). About 35% say they shop from their devices while at work. Clothing is the most popular mobile shopping item for both men and women. Nearly 6 out of 10 shop on their mobile devices because they find it more convenient, while 52% say it saves time and 49% say it avoids waiting in line. Complete survey results are available at the link below. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140320005384/en/Ebates.com-2014-Mobile-Shopping-Survey-Americans-Shop#.UytD36hdXng _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Lending Club, creator of an online platform for investing in and obtaining personal loans, said it has launched a new platform for small business loans. The company initially will offer loans of $15,000-$100,000, carrying fixed interest rates starting at 5.9% with terms of 1-5 years. https://www.lendingclub.com/business https://www.lendingclub.com/public/lending-club-press-2014-03-20.action (Cupertino, Calif.) Microsoft announced that Stephen Luczo, the chairman and CEO of Cupertino-based Seagate Technology, has resigned from its board of directors to devote more time to leading his own company. Luczo joined Microsoft's board in 2012, and served as a member of the company's CEO search committee last summer to find a successor to Steve Ballmer. Microsoft's board now consists of 10 members. http://www.seagate.com/ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-announces-stephen-j-luczo-200500850.html =================================================== 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 > Startup Marketing Conference SF, March 27: Last Chance to Register Are you looking for low-cost and high impact strategies to drive revenue for your organization? Hope you can join us March 27th of the Startup Marketing Conference in San Francisco. 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