| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- July 18, 2014 ============================================ 5th Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit -$150 off with code "TechWire" www.billingtoncybersecurity.com/2014summit o Shares of Emeryville-Based TubeMogul Rise 50% Following IPO o S.F.-Based Singular Raises $5 Million from General Catalyst Partners o San Francisco's Globant Prices IPO, Shares Surge on NYSE o Andreessen Horowitz Ranked Move Active VC Firm in Silicon Valley o Fremont-Based WaferGen Bio-systems Names New Chairman o IT and Engineering Employment Show Steady Growth in June > 5th Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit -Use discount code "TechWire" o Briefly Noted: ForgeRock, LDK Solar _____________________________________________ > 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 Shares of Emeryville-Based TubeMogul Rise 50% Following IPO Emeryville, Calif. -- Shares of Emeryville-based TubeMogul were up 50% by midday Monday after the developer of a video buying platform for advertisers raised $43.8 million in its initial public offering (IPO). The company late Thursday priced 6.25 million shares at $7 each, the low end of its expected range. The stock is now listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TUBE." TubeMogul's self-serve platform lets customers plan, buy, measure and optimize their digital video advertising spend. http://www.tubemogul.com http://www.tubemogul.com/press-3/ _____________________________________________ o S.F.-Based Singular Raises $5 Million from General Catalyst Partners San Francisco -- Singular, the San Francisco-based developer of a mobile marketing platform, said it has raised $5 million in a new round of seed funding, and also launched its new platform. The company said it will use the funding, from General Catalyst Partners, to accelerate product development, hiring and innovation activities. Neil Sequeira, managing director of General Catalyst Partners, will join Singular's board of directors. The new platform is designed to let marketers unify, analyze and optimize their mobile marketing operations through a single dashboard. "The current landscape for mobile marketers is very distributed and fragmented, involving lots of manual processes," said co-founder and CEO Gadi Elishavov. "We tie everything together to save marketers time and improve efficiencies, while providing the kind of insights that they never had access to before." http://www.singular.net http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/07/prweb12021692.htm _____________________________________________ o San Francisco's Globant Prices IPO, Shares Surge on NYSE San Francisco -- Shares of Globant rose nearly 20% by midday Friday on their first day of trading, hours after the South American technology services provider, with U.S. offices in San Francisco, priced its initial public offering (IPO). Through the offering the company is selling 4.35 million shares and selling stockholders another 1.5 million shares for $10 each. Shares are now trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "GLOB." Globant currently has more than 3,300 employees working for clients such as Google, Linkedin, JWT, EA and Coca Cola. http://www.globant.com/ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/globant-announces-pricing-initial-public-120100863.html _____________________________________________ o Andreessen Horowitz Ranked Move Active VC Firm in Silicon Valley Menlo Park, Calif. -- Andreessen Horowitz, the Menlo Park-based venture capital firm, was the most active VC firm in Silicon Valley during the first half of 2014, according to new research by CB Insights. The firm narrowly beat out New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Google Ventures, with 500 Startups and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers rounding out the top five. All told, U.S. venture capital firms invested $23.9 billion across 1,854 deals during the first six months of the year. The complete rankings are available at the link below. https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/active-venture-capital-firms-h1-2014-silicon-valley-york-massachusetts _____________________________________________ o Fremont-Based WaferGen Bio-systems Names New Chairman Fremont, Calif. -- WaferGen Bio-systems, a Fremont-based developer of genomic tools for clinical testing and research, on Friday named Ivan Trifunovich, the company's president and CEO, to the additional role of chairman. He succeeds Alnoor Shivji, who has resigned to focus full time on a new startup venture. Shivji had served as chairman since 2002. Joel Kanter, a director of the company since 2007, now will serve as lead independent director. WaferGen is the maker of a genetic analysis platform for profiling and validating molecular biomarkers. http://www.wafergen.com http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wafergen-bio-systems-announces-appointment-of-ivan-trifunovich-as-chairman-of-the-board-joel-kanter-to-serve-as-lead-independent-director-267647241.html _____________________________________________ o IT and Engineering Employment Show Steady Growth in June Alexandria, Va. -- Information technology employment in the U.S. continued to show steady growth in June, according to new figures from the TechServe Alliance, a national trade association for the IT and engineering staffing industry. The number of IT jobs increased 0.3% from the prior month to just over 4.66 million, with the U.S. economy adding 144,200 IT workers over the past year. Engineering jobs also grew, increasing by 0.3% sequentially to just over 2.5 million. "Growth in June IT employment remains strong; posting a growth rate virtually identical to the prior two months," said Mark Roberts, CEO of the TechServe Alliance. "On the engineering side, we continued to see an accelerating rate of growth with some of the best jobs numbers in recent memory." http://www.techservealliance.org/pressroom/documents/IndexReleaseJuly2014-MBR.pdf (PDF) _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 5th Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit - Sept. 16, 2014 (Use Code "TechWire" for $150 discount) Hear from top cybersecurity officials, companies and investors at this must-attend annual event now in its fifth year. The current director of the NSA, the Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity at DHS and the Cybersecurity Coordinator at the White House will keynote at the conference and takes questions. Also on the agenda are senior cybersecurity officials at the FBI, DoD, DARPA, NIST, Goldman Sachs, AT&T, as well as a leading venture capitalist from Kleiner Perkins and government contractors. To register go to www.billingtoncybersecurity.com/2014summit For a $150 discount to the event, use discount code "TECHWIRE" |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) San Francisco-based ForgeRock, a developer of identity relationship management tools, has named Eve Maler as its vice president of innovation and emerging technology. Maler most recently served as principal analyst at Forrester Research, and previously held roles with Sun Microsystems and PayPal. She also founded and chairs the User-Managed Access (UMA) working group. http://forgerock.com/news-articles/identity-relationship-management-visionary-and-thought-leader-eve-maler-joins-forgerock/ (Sunnyvale, Calif.) LDK Solar, a Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) products with U.S. headquarters in Sunnyvale, said on Friday that Bing Xiang and Hongjiang Yao have resigned from its board of directors. The company's board now has nine members. http://www.ldksolar.com/med_press_list.php?news_id=530 =================================================== 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 > Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit Baltimore - Sept. 19, 2014 Leading marketers, technologists and agency professionals from throughout the region come together at this annual event to discuss major marketing, social, digital and advertising trends, along with dozens of case studies, presentations and keynotes. Now in its third year and co-produced by Potomac Tech Wire, this summit is becoming a "must attend" event for the region's marketing community. For more information: www.mamsummit.com ____________________________________________ > Human Services Agency IT Director - City and County of San Francisco Seeking dynamic leader to manage $22.5 million division budget and staff of 75. An exciting civil service career opportunity to match system management expertise to improve client’s quality of life and customer experience through technology. Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of increasingly responsible experience with at least 3 years of management experience is required. Salary range up to $174,382 plus outstanding benefits and retirement. Detailed brochure available at www.ralphandersen.com Confidential inquires welcomed to Robert Burg at (916) 630-4900. Apply online at http://www.jobaps.com/SF/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1=PBT&R2=0942&R3=063112 ____________________________________________ > 5th Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit - Sept. 16, 2014 (Use Code "TechWire" for discount) Hear from top cybersecurity officials, companies and investors at this must-attend annual event now in its fifth year. The current director of the NSA, the Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity at DHS and the Cybersecurity Coordinator at the White House will keynote at the conference and takes questions. Also on the agenda are senior cybersecurity officials at the FBI, DoD, DARPA, NIST, Goldman Sachs, AT&T, as well as a leading venture capitalist from Kleiner Perkins and government contractors. To register go to www.billingtoncybersecurity.com/2014summit For a $150 discount to the event, use discount code "TECHWIRE" ____________________________________________ > EnMasse Design - Bay Area Product Design Studio Founded in 2002, EnMasse Design is a design studio specializing in industrial design, mechanical engineering, product development and user interface design. We have experience in designing a range of products from small hand held devices to large systems. We're located in Mountain View. Industrial design / innovation / mechanical engineering / user interface design / human factors and ergonomics / injection molding / snap fits / sheetmetal / castings / machined components / formed plastics / class A surfaces / Solidworks / mechanisms / GD&T / system engineering / Dfx / analyses / electrical engineering/Medical / biotech / consumer / telecom / industrial. Send inquires to Jeff Gamelsky, Principal; jeff@enmassedesign.com; www.enmassedesign.com Phone:(650)303-1782 ____________________________________________ > Free Cloud & Network Security Forum & EXPO - Santa Clara - June 25 June 25, 2014 MC2IT is hosting a free Cloud & Network Security Forum & EXPO at the Santa Clara Convention Center. EXPO begins at 5:00pm with networking and free appetizers, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A. Speakers on the panel include the Founder and CTO of Palo Alto Networks, the Chief Information Security Officer at FireEye, the Chief Privacy Officer at McAfee and the Cloud Platform Product Manager at Google. The event is hosted by Mission College Center for Innovation and Technology (“MC2IT”), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization of Mission College improving the quality of STEM education. 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