| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- July 16, 2014 ============================================ Mid Atlantic Marketing Summit - Sept. 19, 2014 www.mamsummit.com o Visa Opens San Francisco Payments Technology Center o Perion Network Completes Acquisition of S.F.-Based Grow Mobile o SanDisk's $1.1 Billion Acquisition of Fusion-io Clears Antitrust Review o NASA Delivers New Air Traffic Spacing Software to FAA o Report: Samsung to Acquire SmartThings for Around $200 Million o Briefly Noted: Open Source Storage, 8x8, Keynote _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit Baltimore - Sept. 19, 2014 --Human Services Agency IT Director - City and County of San Francisco --5th Annual Billington Cybersecurity Conference - Sept. 16, 2014 Use Code "Techwire" --EnMasse Design - Bay Area Product Design Studio --Don't Miss Summer Rates On All Bay Area Tech Wire Advertising --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 Visa Opens San Francisco Payments Technology Center San Francisco -- Credit card giant Visa on Wednesday officially opened a new 112,000-square-foot payments technology center in San Francisco The facility, located at One Market Street, will give the company a dedicated space to develop new commerce applications in conjunction with clients, partners and the Bay Area tech community. The centerpiece of the facility will be an area that allows clients and partners to work with subject-matter experts to explore new payment products in areas such as mobile, security and cloud-based technologies. Charlie Scharf, the CEO of Visa, said the idea is to "extend the security and simplicity of Visa payments to billions of connected devices and new consumer applications." http://pressreleases.visa.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=215693&p=irol-newsarticlePR&ID=1948099&highlight= _____________________________________________ o Perion Network Completes Acquisition of S.F.-Based Grow Mobile San Francisco -- Perion Network, the Israel-based developer of a software monetization platform for online publishers and app developers, said on Wednesday it has completed its acquisition of San Francisco-based Grow Mobile, developer of a mobile advertising management platform. Financial terms of the deal, first announced in June, were not disclosed. Perion said the acquisition extends its offerings in mobile advertising, enabling app developers to buy, track, optimize and scale advertising campaigns from a single dashboard. Grow Mobile will become part of Perion Lightspeed, which the company recently created to address the advertising needs of mobile app developers. Two-year-old Grow Mobile is backed by Signia Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. http://www.growmobile.com http://www.perion.com http://www.perion.com/press-releases/ _____________________________________________ o SanDisk's $1.1 Billion Acquisition of Fusion-io Clears Antitrust Review Milpitas, Calif. -- A month after first announcing the $1.1 billion deal, SanDisk, the Milpitas-based developer of flash storage products, said on Wednesday it has cleared a hurdle in its bid to acquire Utah-based Fusion-io, the developer of an application acceleration platform with federal offices in Herndon. SanDisk announced that the waiting period for U.S. antitrust review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act expired Tuesday night, and that it won't need to make any pre-merger notifications in Germany. The company said it will be able to proceed with the deal once at least half of Fusion-io's shares are validly tendered for $11.25 each. The deal is still expected to close during the third quarter. http://www.sandisk.com http://www.fusionio.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140716005485/en/SanDisk-Announces-Expiration-HSR-Waiting-Period-Proposed#.U8ahkZRdXng _____________________________________________ o NASA Delivers New Air Traffic Spacing Software to FAA Washington, DC -- A new NASA-developed computer software tool designed to aid air traffic controllers has been officially turned over to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the agency announced. The Terminal Sequencing and Spacing (TSS) technology is designed to help air traffic controllers better manage the spacing between aircraft as they fly more efficient approaches into airports. NASA said the technology is another step is the development of a Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen, a multi-agency and industry initiative to modernize and upgrade the nation's air traffic control system. The FAA is working to implement the tool in the next five years, targeting an initial operating capability around 2018. http://www.nasa.gov/aero/nasa-delivers-traffic-spacing-tool-tss/ _____________________________________________ o Report: Samsung to Acquire SmartThings for Around $200 Million Washington, DC -- Looking to counter Google's recent acquisition of Nest Labs, consumer technology giant Samsung is close to a deal to acquire SmartThings, a Washington, DC-based startup developing an open platform for the "Internet of things," TechCrunch reported. The company reportedly would pay around $200 million, according to unnamed sources. SmartThings is building a platform that will allow users to install connected devices and control them through a single mobile app. People can buy a starter kit and various add-ons through the company's website. The news comes approximately eight months after SmartThings raised $12.5 million in its first round of funding, from Greylock Partners and Highland Capital Partners. The company has raised $15.5 million since its inception. http://www.smartthings.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/15/samsung-to-scoop-up-smartthings-for-around-200-million/ _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based Open Source Storage, a developer of enterprise data storage tools, on Wednesday named Mark Iwanowski as its chairman. Iwanowski is the former senior vice president of global IT and CIO at Oracle. http://www.opensourcestorage.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140716005436/en/Oracle-Executive-Mark-Iwanowski-Named-Open-Source#.U8bY0ZRdXng (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based 8x8, a developer of cloud-based unified communications, contact center and collaboration tools, on Wednesday named Ragh Sarathy to the newly created role of vice president of finance. Sarathy most recently served as the vice president and senior equity analyst of enterprise software at Dougherty & Co. http://investors.8x8.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=860104 (San Mateo, Calif.) San Mateo-based Keynote, a provider of mobile and web performance management and analytics services, on Wednesday announced the hiring of three key executives. 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