Bay Area Tech Wire -- Feb. 29

============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Feb. 29, 2012 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o Mountain View-Based Eye-Fi Raises $20M, Forges Japanese Partnership o San Mateo-Based SugarSync Lands $15 Million in Fourth Round o WSJ: Palo Alto-Based HP to Cut 275 Jobs in webOS Group o Redwood City's Amplidata Raises $8 Million in Third Round of Funding o Palo Alto-Based Tello Raises $2.7 Million, Launches Feedback Service o Briefly Noted: RSA Conference - Awards, BannedAppMarket.com, Future US _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --How to Understand the Digital Differences to Succeed in Business --Clean Energy & Smart Grid Directory - Special Limited-Time Discount Offer --Enterprise Sales Manager --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 Mountain View-Based Eye-Fi Raises $20M, Forges Japanese Partnership Mountain View, Calif. -- Eye-Fi, a Mountain View-based maker of wireless memory cards, said on Wednesday it has raised $20 million in its fourth round of funding, led by Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo. Previous backers Shasta Ventures, Opus Capital and TransLink Capital also participated. The investment by NTT Docomo is part of a larger partnership with the company, which in April will launch Eye-Fi card activation through mobile phones. The deal means that NTT Docomo's 59 million mobile subscribers will be able to share high-quality images between their digital cameras, mobile devices, online photo sites and digital photo frame, without the need for a computer. Eye-Fi said it also has expanded its executive team, adding former Skype and eBay executive Michele Don Durbin as its vice president of marketing. http://www.eye.fi  http://www.eye.fi/press-releases/eye-fi-raises-20-million-series-d-round-led-by-ntt-docomo  _____________________________________________ o San Mateo-Based SugarSync Lands $15 Million in Fourth Round San Mateo, Calif. -- SugarSync, the San Mateo-based developer of a free service that syncs files across a user's computers and devices, said on Wednesday it has raised $15 million in its fourth round of funding, which the company will use to grow its team and expand its datacenter footprint. New investor Coral Group led the round, which also included participation from previous backers Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Sigma Partners, Hatteras Venture Partners and Hercules. The company now has raised $50 million since its inception. SugarSync's service is expected to be introduced to over 100 million new customers this year through partnerships with companies such as Samsung, Lenovo, Fujitsu, SanDisk, France Telecom-Orange, Korea Telecom and SoftBank Mobile. http://www.sugarsync.com  http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/sugarsync-completes-15-million-series-d-to-expand-its-global-cloud-1625836.htm  _____________________________________________ o WSJ: Palo Alto-Based HP to Cut 275 Jobs in webOS Group Palo Alto, Calif. -- HP, the Palo Alto-based technology giant, plans to cut 275 jobs in its webOS mobile software group, The Wall Street Journal reported. The news comes seven months after former CEO Leo Apotheker said the company would stop selling webOS hardware. Then, in December, current CEO Meg Whitman announced plans to make the software open source. "As webOS continues the transition from making mobile devices to open-source software, it no longer needs many of the engineering and other related positions that it required before," said HP in a statement, published by The Journal. The company reportedly will attempt to find new positions for many of the displaced workers. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204520204577251904049264334.html  _____________________________________________ o Redwood City's Amplidata Raises $8 Million in Third Round of Funding Redwood City, Calif. -- Amplidata, a Belgium-based developer of object storage technology with U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, said on Wednesday it has raised $8 million in its third round of funding. Big Bang Ventures, Endeavour Vision, Intel Capital and Swisscom participated in the round, which the company will use to grow its sales and support organization in the U.S., Europe and Asia. "This investment will allow us to accelerate our business in worldwide big data accounts," said CEO Wim De Wispelaere. Amplidata is the developer of AmpliStor, an optimized object storage tool for "big data" applications. http://www.amplidata.com/  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/29/idUS121469+29-Feb-2012+BW20120229  _____________________________________________ o Palo Alto-Based Tello Raises $2.7 Million, Launches Feedback Service Palo Alto, Calif. -- Tello, a Palo Alto-based developer of mobile apps that let customers provide instant feedback to businesses through their mobile devices, said on Wednesday it has raised $2.7 million in its first round of funding, co-led by True Ventures and Bullpen Capital. With the financing, the company also has officially released its Tello for Business feedback service. Customers can use iPhone, iPad and Android apps, or text messaging, to leave feedback for businesses, which can then instantly respond to resolve any issues. A basic version of the service is free to businesses with up to three locations, with a feature-rich premium version selling for $99 a month per location. http://www.tello.com  http://www.tello.com/images/web/tello_pr_02292012.pdf (PDF) _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) RSA Conference, an information security conference and exposition taking place in San Francisco, has named the winners of its 15th annual awards program. The awards acknowledge the outstanding contributions of individuals in the fields of cryptography, public policy and information security. A complete list of winners is available at the link below. http://www.rsaconference.com/events/2012/usa/about/rsa-conference-awards.htm  (Oxnard, Calif.) Oxnard-based BannedAppMarket.com said on Wednesday it has launched a new site offering access to mobile apps that have been challenged, removed or not accepted by Apple's App Store and the Android Market. The site, BannedAppMarket.com, said it maintains a database of what it calls the "most desirable banned apps" removed for reasons such as customer complaints about content, nudity, gaming and provocative content. http://www.bannedappmarket.com/  (San Francisco) Future US, a San Francisco-based publisher of gaming and technology media properties, has named William O'Neal as the editor-in-chief of TechRadar.com in the U.S. O'Neal, most recently the editor-in-chief of @GAMER Magazine, will manage the U.S.-based editorial team when the site launches in April. 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