Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Bay Area Tech Wire -- Oct. 15

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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Oct. 15, 2014
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San Francisco-Based Thismoment Raises $17.6 Million in Fourth Round
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Sunnyvale-Based Viewics Lands $8 Million in New Funding
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Shareholders Approve AVG's Acquisition of Location Labs
o Intel Opens Special Hands-On Tech Displays at 50 Best Buy Stores
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U.S. Tech Sector Grows in First Half, but Slower Than Overall Private Sector
o Briefly Noted: shopkick, Duetto, Rovi

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o San Francisco-Based Thismoment Raises $17.6 Million in Fourth Round

San Francisco -- Thismoment, the San Francisco-based developer of a digital storytelling platform for marketers, said on Wednesday it has raised $17.6 million in its fourth round of funding, co-led by Sierra Ventures, Trident Capital and UMC. The company will use the proceeds to further develop its Thismoment Content Cloud, which is used by companies such as Coca-Cola, AB InBev, Salesforce.com and Sephora to power user-generated content marketing. The technology automates the process of monitoring, moderating and clearing rights to user-generated content across multiple platforms and media types, and also allows that content to be mixed with professionally created content.
http://www.thismoment.com
http://blog.thismoment.com/thismoment-announces-series-d-funding/ 
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thismoment-secures-176m-in-funding-to-push-the-boundaries-of-user-generated-content-marketing-279254782.html 
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o Sunnyvale-Based Viewics Lands $8 Million in New Funding

Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Viewics, the Sunnyvale-based developer of a healthcare analytics and data platform, said on Wednesday it has landed an additional $8 million in funding. Canvas Venture Fund led the round, which the company said it will use for continued growth and product innovation. "We plan to continue investing in our technology and people," said founder and CEO Dhiren Bhatia. Viewics offers a web-based data aggregation platform designed to help healthcare organizations better execute on their clinical and operational strategies. The company counts more than 100 hospitals and labs as clients. Rebecca Lynn, a general partner at Canvas, and Ash Patel of Morado Venture Partners will join the company's board of directors.
http://www.viewics.com
http://viewics.com/press-releases/viewics-raises-8-million-to-fuel-growth-and-innovation/
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o Shareholders Approve AVG's Acquisition of Location Labs

San Francisco -- AVG Technologies, the Dutch Internet security firm with North American headquarters in San Francisco, said that shareholders have approved its acquisition of Emeryville-based Location Labs, a developer of mobile security technology. The deal, first announced in September, was expected to close on Wednesday. Location Labs CEO, Tasso Roumeliotis, will continue to lead the business. Under the agreement, AVG will pay $140 million upon closing, plus up to $80 million more over the next two years. AVG said the acquisition will expand its business in the mobile security market. Location Labs offers a platform for mobile operators, pre-installed service on Android smartphones and mobile subscription services. including family, safety and personal device management.
http://www.avg.com 
http://www.locationlabs.com 
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/avg-shareholders-approve-acquisition-of-location-labs-279184321.html 
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o Intel Opens Special Hands-On Tech Displays at 50 Best Buy Stores

Santa Clara, Calif. -- Intel, the Santa Clara-based chipmaker, said on Wednesday it has opened specially themed areas, dubbed "The Intel Experience," at 50 Best Buy retail stores nationwide. The hands-on areas are designed to give customers the opportunity to try technologies such as 3-D printing, augmented reality gaming and digital DJ remixing. "We wanted to give our customers a new way to experience Intel technology," said CJ Bruno, the corporate vice president and general manager of Intel Americas. "It's an innovative way for Best Buy's customers to see, touch and engage with our latest products and experiences." Locally, Best Buy stores in San Carlos, Mountain View and San Francisco will feature the area.
http://www.bestbuy.com/theintelexperience 
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2014/10/15/the-intel-experience-opens-exclusively-in-50-best-buy-stores 
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o U.S. Tech Sector Grows in First Half, but Slower Than Overall Private Sector

Washington, DC -- The U.S. technology sector now employs 6.3 million workers, after adding 119,000 net jobs during the first half of 2014, according to new figures from the TechAmerica Foundation. The organization said that each of the five industries it examined -- technology manufacturing, telecom, software publishing, IT services and R&D, testing and engineering services -- recorded job growth during the period. Still, tech sector employment did not grow as fast as in the overall private sector market. "While the tech sector has generally outperformed other industry sectors over the past few years, we must recognize the challenges that come with transitions to new business models and the accompanying need to develop a tech workforce with the right mix of skills and experience," said Todd Thibodeaux, the president and CEO of CompTIA.
http://www.techamericafoundation.org/ 
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-tech-industry-adds-nearly-119000-jobs-in-first-half-of-2014-techamerica-foundation-analysis-reveals-279272572.html 
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o Briefly Noted:

(Redwood City, Calif.) On the heels of its recent acquisition by South Korea-based SK planet, Redwood City-based shopkick, developer of a real-world shopping app, said on Wednesday that its technology has driven more than $1 billion in revenue for its partner retailers since its launch in 2010, more than half of which occurred in the past 12 months. The company said its shopBeacon devices, designed to let offline retailers engage with shoppers, are now deployed at approximately 3,000 stores, including more than 100 locations of American Eagle Outfitters.
http://www.shopkick.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/shopkick-surpasses-1-billion-generated-for-partners-279269882.html 

(San Francisco) San Francisco-based Duetto, a developer of hotel profit optimization software, said on Wednesday it has opened its European headquarters in London. The company also has named Alex Barros, the former director of sales for Southern Europe and Latin America at SiteMindeas, as its vice president of sales for EMEA.
http://www.duettoresearch.com/ 
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/duetto-launches-european-headquarters-in-london-and-appoints-alex-barros-vp-of-sales-emea-279250782.html 

(Santa Clara, Calif.) Santa Clara-based Rovi, a developer of program search and navigation technology, on Wednesday named Bob Ivins as its senior vice president of business development. Ivins, who will be based in Pennsylvania, most recently was the chief data officer at Mindshare.
http://www.rovicorp.com/company/press-releases/2014/10/15/rovi-names-bob-ivins-senior-vice-president--business-development.html 

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