| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Aug. 26, 2014 ============================================ Sponsored By: Lease SoMa. Live Mosso. MossoSF.com o Amazon.com to Acquire San Francisco-Based Twitch for $970 Million o Mountain View-Based Appcelerator Lands $22 Million in Fourth Round o Yahoo Completes Acquisition of San Francisco-Based Flurry o Tribune Media Names John Batter as CEO of Emeryville's Gracenote o Bay Area Companies Make Showing in HispanicBusiness.com 100 > Lease SoMa. Live Mosso. o Briefly Noted: Splice Machine, Gigamon, Norse, Exabeam _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Interop New York - Attend NY's Biggest IT Event - Sept. 29-Oct. 3 --Lease SoMa. Live Mosso. --Senior Analyst - Consumer Services US --Intel's IDF14 San Francisco. 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In July, more than 55 million unique visitors viewed more than 15 billion minutes of content on the site. "Broadcasting and watching gameplay is a global phenomenon and Twitch has built a platform that brings together tens of millions of people who watch billions of minutes of games each month," said Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. "We look forward to learning from them and helping them move even faster to build new services for the gaming community." Twitch has raised about $35 million from investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Alsop Louie Partners, WestSummit Capital, Take-Two Interactive Software, Thrive Capital and Draper Associates. Google had seemed primed to acquire the company for about $1 billion late last month. http://www.twitch.tv http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1960768&highlight= _____________________________________________ o Mountain View-Based Appcelerator Lands $22 Million in Fourth Round Mountain View, Calif. -- Appcelerator, the Mountain View-based developer of an enterprise mobile engagement platform, said it has raised $22 million in its fourth round of funding, led by new investor Rembrandt Venture Partners. Union Grove Venture Partners and previous backers Storm Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital, Relay Ventures and EDB Investments also participated in the round. The company plans to use the funding to increase growth and accelerate adoption of its platform, which clients use to build, analyze and connect suites of mobile apps. Appcelerator said it has added more than 125 new customers in the past year, including Avis, Comerica Bank, Family Dollar and Sprint. http://www.appcelerator.com http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/appcelerator-closes-22-million-financing-round-accelerate-adoption-mobile-engagement-1940973.htm _____________________________________________ o Yahoo Completes Acquisition of San Francisco-Based Flurry Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Aiming to strengthen its mobile products, Sunnyvale-based Yahoo said on Tuesday it has completed its acquisition of San Francisco-based Flurry, developer of an analytics platform designed give users a better understanding of mobile consumer behavior. Financial terms of the deal, first announced last month were not disclosed, though TechCrunch at the time tabbed the purchase price at more than $300 million. Flurry will remain in its current offices. Approximately 170,000 developers currently use the company's Analytics product. "Yahoo will provide Flurry with the resources to accelerate the delivery of platforms that help app developers, publishers and advertisers succeed in mobile," Yahoo said in a statement. "Flurry will work with Yahoo to create more seamless, smarter mobile experiences." http://www.flurry.com/ https://info.yahoo.com/press-center/article/yahoo-completes-acquisition-flurry-160500441.html _____________________________________________ o Tribune Media Names John Batter as CEO of Emeryville's Gracenote Emeryville, Calif. -- Parent Tribune Media has named John Batter as the new CEO of Emeryville-based Gracenote, which maintains a database featuring descriptions of more than 180 million music tracks and TV listings for 50 countries. Batter, who also will serve as an executive vice president with Tribune Media, most recently was the CEO of M-GO, and previously was the president of production at DreamWorks Animation. "As we look to develop and grow our metadata business, we decided to bring in a CEO with strong operational experience to lead this effort globally," said Peter Liguori, the president and CEO of Tribune Media, which acquired Gracenote in February. http://www.gracenote.com https://www.gracenote.com/press/8/25/2014/ _____________________________________________ o Bay Area Companies Make Showing in HispanicBusiness.com 100 Santa Barbara, Calif. -- A pair of Bay Area companies finished in the top half of HispanicBusiness.com's newly released 2014 Fastest Growing 100 list, ranking Hispanic-owned businesses based on their five-year revenue growth. San Rafael-based ITSource Technology ranked No. 29 (191.30%) and Oakland-based Lloyd A. Wise Cos. No. 44 (128.46%). The complete list is available at the link below. http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/research/100fastestgrowing/list_2014.asp _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Lease SoMa. Live Mosso. Between Mid-Market and Tech Gulch, Mosso is a vibrant apartment community in San Francisco’s new heart of innovation. Mosso is LEED certified, smoke free, and pet friendly, featuring its own lobby lounge, storage units and dog/bike wash. With Mosso’s uniquely urban amenities and inspired modern architecture, residents can live life to their individual beat. Pre-lease your apt at 5th and Folsom in the heart of SoMa today! 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