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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Jan. 15, 2016
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Job of the Day: Chief Technology Officer - City of Cupertino, CA
o Redwood City-Based Equinix Completes $3.8 Billion Deal for TelecityGroup
o Silicon Valley VC Investment Plummets to Lowest Level Since 2013
o San Francisco-Based SparkPost to Deliver Email for Pinterest
o Hitachi Opens New Santa Clara Research Facility
o San Jose's Zinwave Names Scott Willis as New CEO
o Briefly Noted: Mozilla, Rocket Fuel
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o Redwood City-Based Equinix Completes $3.8 Billion Deal for TelecityGroup
Redwood City, Calif. -- Doubling its capacity in Europe, Redwood City-based Equinix, an owner and operator of data centers, said on Friday it has completed its $3.8 billion acquisition of U.K. counterpart TelecityGroup. The cash and stock deal was first announced last spring. The move adds more than 40 data centers -- located in Bulgaria, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Sweden and Turkey -- to the company's footprint, while expanding its interconnection platform in key European markets. It also adds more than 1,000 net new customers. Telecity's chairman, John Hughes, will join the Equinix board of directors. Equinix now has made three acquisitions in the past year, including professional services company Nimbo last January and Japan's Bit-isle in November.
http://www.equinix.com
http://www.equinix.com/newsroom/press-releases/pr/123436/equinix-expands-data-center-leadership-position-with-close-of-telecity-acquisition/
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o Silicon Valley VC Investment Plummets to Lowest Level Since 2013
New York -- Venture capitalists invested $4.26 billion in Silicon Valley companies during the fourth quarter, the lowest quarterly amount since 2013, according to the newest MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). By comparison, investment in the Valley was more than $8 billion in each of the prior two quarters. The amount also came in just 264 deals -- the lowest figure since the first quarter of 2012 -- and included several mega-rounds. Chief among them were a $429.8 million round for Palo Alto-based Palantir Technologies, a $158 million round for San Francisco-based Appdynamics and $100 million-plus rounds for Redwood City-based Impossible Foods and Mountain View-based Udacity. Nationwide, venture capitalists invested $11.3 billion into 962 deals for the quarter, down 32% in dollars and 16% in deals compared with the third quarter. "While a handful of unicorns and late-stage funding rounds by nontraditional investors continue to grab the headlines, more than half of all deals in 2015 went to seed and early stage companies, with more than 1,400 companies raising venture capital for the first time," said Bobby Franklin, president and CEO of the NVCA. All of the U.S. regional and state VC data is available though the top link below.
http://nvca.org/research/venture-investment/
http://nvca.org/pressreleases/58-8-billion-in-venture-capital-invested-across-u-s-in-2015-according-to-the-moneytree-report-2/
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o San Francisco-Based SparkPost to Deliver Email for Pinterest
San Francisco -- SparkPost, the San Francisco-based developer of a cloud email service, said it has been tabbed as the new email delivery service of social networking giant Pinterest. Through the deal, San Francisco-based Pinterest has consolidated the sending of both engagement and transactional emails onto SparkPost's Elite platform. "We use A/B testing and SparkPost's streaming webhooks email metrics data to dynamically adjust our content and how we send emails based on live feedback," said Cole Rottweiler, an engineer at Pinterest who led the evaluation. The deal is a major win for SparkPost, which already counts LinkedIn, Twitter, Groupon, Marketo, Zillow and Comcast among its clients. "Pinterest shares our vision for reducing the volumes of unwanted and unnecessary email in the world and making each email more relevant to the recipient," said SparkPost CEO Phillip Merrick.
https://www.sparkpost.com
https://www.sparkpost.com/press/sparkpost-provides-email-delivery-service-pinterest
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o Hitachi Opens New Santa Clara Research Facility
Santa Clara, Calif. -- Japanese consumer electronics giant Hitachi said it has opened its new Santa Clara research facility, known as the Global Center for Social Innovation - North America (CSI-North America). The company will use the facility to collaborate with partners. "Hitachi America's R&D has contributed strongly to Hitachi's overall U.S. business over the years, including areas such as eco-friendly automotive technologies as well as advanced IT platforms with Big Data analytics, among others," said George Saikalis, the senior vice president of Hitachi America and general manager of its R&D division. It marks Hitchi's first R&D center outside of Japan to offer the company's collaborative creation process to business partners.
http://www.hitachi-america.us
http://www.hitachi-america.us/about/press/details/01132016.html
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o San Jose's Zinwave Names Scott Willis as New CEO
San Jose, Calif. -- Zinwave, a U.K-based developer of a unified connectivity platform for in-building wireless and IP coverage, with North American offices in San Jose, has named Scott Willis as its new CEO. He succeeds Ian Sugarbroad, who has moved to the role of vice chairman during a transition period, and eventually will take an advisory role. Willis previously served as executive vice president and chief sales and marketing executive at Goodman Networks, and earlier was an executive vice president and general manager at Ericsson. He also has held senior positions at Nokia, BellSouth, Sprint and KeyBridge. Zinwave, a subsidiary of McWane Inc., makes distributed antenna systems to enable wireless coverage in buildings.
http://www.zinwave.com/
http://www.mcwane.com/communications/press-releases/scott-willis-new-zinwave-ceo-ian-sugarbroad-to-retire-december-9-2015-2016/
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> Chief Technology Officer - City of Cupertino, California
The City of Cupertino, California is conducting a national search to recruit its first Chief Technology Officer. Recently reorganized to include Communications, IT, and GIS, the Information Services Department will be led by this department head position. The next Chief Technology Officer will lead a dedicated staff in a well-resourced community in the heart of Silicon Valley, with strong access to innovative technologies. The ideal candidate will be a change agent who is an excellent communicator that leads with a coaching/mentoring style. A Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field is required, as is 5 years of directly related experience, including 3 years of supervisory level experience. Annual salary range is $148,908 - $181,908 plus an excellent benefit package including CalPERS retirement and excellent work schedule. Interested candidates should submit their cover letter, resume, and salary history via email to apply@ralphandersen.com. Apply by Friday, January 22, 2016. Confidential inquiries welcomed to Greg Nelson at (916) 630-4900 ext. 137. Brochure available at http://www.ralphandersen.com/jobs/chief-technology-officer-cupertino/
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o Briefly Noted:
(Mountain View, Calif.) Mountain View-based Mozilla, the software community best known for its Firefox web browser, has named Katharina Borchert as its chief innovation officer. Borchert most recently served as the CEO of Spiegel Online, and previously was the editor-in-chief and CEO of WAZ Media Group.
https://blog.mozilla.org/press/bios/katharina-borchert/
(Redwood City, Calif.) Rocket Fuel, the Redwood City-based developer of a programmatic marketing platform, has named Eric Duerr as its chief marketing officer (CMO). Duerr most recently served as the CEO of digital marketing agency Emphatic, and previously was the co-founder and partner of Extreme Arts & Sciences.
http://investor.rocketfuel.com/releases.cfm
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> Term Faculty Position in Cybersecurity Governance - Kogod - D.C.
The Department of Information Technology and the Kogod Cybersecurity Governance Center (KCGC) invite applications for a term faculty position in cybersecurity governance and cyber risk management. Position is open immediately and will remain open until it is filled. The mission of the KCGC is to promote responsible governance in the preparation for, prevention and detection of, and response to cybersecurity breaches. Qualifications. The requirements for this position are a Ph.D. or a Masters degree with equivalent work experience in Cybersecurity Governance and Enterprise Cyber Risk Management. A track record of teaching excellence is preferred. Professional publication experience and evidence of research in scholarly journals are a plus. Experience in administering cybersecurity governance programs is also desirable. Responsibilities. Split between 1) developing and teaching cybersecurity and information technology courses and 2) research, writing and educational services for the Kogod Cybersecurity Governance Center. Service participation in department, KCGC, school, and university activities are also required. For more information and to apply, go to: http://apply.interfolio.com/33488
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> Chief Technology Officer - City of Cupertino, California
The City of Cupertino, California is conducting a national search to recruit its first Chief Technology Officer. Recently reorganized to include Communications, IT, and GIS, the Information Services Department will be led by this department head position. The next Chief Technology Officer will lead a dedicated staff in a well-resourced community in the heart of Silicon Valley, with strong access to innovative technologies. The ideal candidate will be a change agent who is an excellent communicator that leads with a coaching/mentoring style. A Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field is required, as is 5 years of directly related experience, including 3 years of supervisory level experience. Annual salary range is $148,908 - $181,908 plus an excellent benefit package including CalPERS retirement and excellent work schedule. Interested candidates should submit their cover letter, resume, and salary history via email to apply@ralphandersen.com. Apply by Friday, January 22, 2016. Confidential inquiries welcomed to Greg Nelson at (916) 630-4900 ext. 137. Brochure available at http://www.ralphandersen.com/jobs/chief-technology-officer-cupertino/
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