| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- March 20, 2012 ============================================ Sponsored by: SkySQL & MariaDB Solutions Day for the MySQL Database http://www.skysql.com/mysql-solutions-day o Menlo Park-Based Averail Lands $6 Million in First Round of Funding o EMC Acquires San Francisco-Based Pivotal Labs o San Francisco's PlayJam Lands New Investment from London Venture Partners o AlawaysOn Names Winners of 2012 OnDemand 100 o Study: U.S. Broadband Adoption Improves Only Slightly from '09 > SkySQL & MariaDB Solutions Day for the MySQL Database - April 13th o Briefly Noted: Funcitizen.com, Sitrick And Company, Watchwith _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Executive Briefing - Product Portfolio Briefing --SkySQL & MariaDB Solutions Day for the MySQL Database - April 13th --Marketing Events Coordinator --Senior Manager, eCommerce – Redwood City, CA --Account Manager --Sr. Financial Analyst --Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - April 20, 2012 --How to Navigate the Challenges of the New Workforces --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 Menlo Park-Based Averail Lands $6 Million in First Round of Funding Menlo Park, Calif. -- Averail, a Menlo Park-based startup developing a mobile content management system to help employees access and share enterprise documents on mobile devices, said on Tuesday it has raised $6 million in its first round of funding, co-led by Foundation Capital and Storm Ventures. Founded last year by mobile industry veterans John Drewry and Rahul Sharma, Averail said it will use the funding to bolster product development and expand its organization. "Smartphones and tablets are increasingly sweeping into businesses and fueling the consumerization of IT," said Drewry. "Yet access remains limited, and many employees still struggle with daily tasks that require collaboration across an organization." The company expects to release its first product after mid-year. Averail has named Paul Holland, general partner at Foundation Capital, and Tae Hea Nahm, managing director at Storm Ventures, to its board of directors. http://www.averail.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120320005315/en/Averail-Secures-6-Million-Targets-Enterprise-Mobile _____________________________________________ o EMC Acquires San Francisco-Based Pivotal Labs San Francisco -- EMC, the Massachusetts-based developer of information infrastructure technology, said on Tuesday it has acquired San Francisco-based Pivotal Labs, a provider of agile software development services and tools. Financial terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed. EMC said the acquisition will add to its offerings for customers building "big data" analytic applications. Pivotal's agile project management tool, known as Pivotal Tracker, is currently used by more than 240,000 developers. "Last year we began work with Pivotal Labs on advanced development for EMC Greenplum Chorus, which ultimately opened data science teams up to an entirely new way to collaborate through socially enabled tools and techniques," said Bill Cook, the president and general manager of Greenplum, a division of EMC. "The transformative power of what we, together, could achieve for customers became quickly and abundantly clear." Pivotal's customers include Twitter, Best Buy, Groupon, Salesforce.com and EMI. http://pivotallabs.com/ http://www.emc.com http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120320-02.htm _____________________________________________ o San Francisco's PlayJam Lands New Investment from London Venture Partners San Francisco -- PlayJam, the U.K.-based developer of a smart TV games platform with U.S. offices in San Francisco, said on Tuesday it has landed a new investment from London Venture Partners (LVP). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. LVP, which focuses on the games sector, includes David Gardner, the former head of Electronic Arts Europe and CEO of Atari; David Lau-Kee; former Electronic Arts vice president and founder and CEO of Criterion Software; Paul Heydon, managing director of Avista Partners; and Phil Harrison, former president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios. The company in October raised $5 million in its first round of funding from Adobe, GameStop and Endeavour Ventures. PlayJam also has named Tony Bartel, the president of GameStop, to its board, and Chris Lee, the co-founder and former commercial director of FreeStyleGames and Media Molecule, to its advisory board. http://www.playjam.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120320006246/en/Leading-Games-Industry-Figures-Join-PlayJam _____________________________________________ o AlawaysOn Names Winners of 2012 OnDemand 100 San Francisco -- AlwaysOn, a San Francisco-based producer of conferences for venture investors and entrepreneurs, has named the winners of its 2012 "OnDemand 100" list of the fastest-growing private companies in the cloud computing and software-as-a-service space. Winners, including more than 60 companies from the Bay Area, will be honored at a conference next month in Cupertino. The complete list is available at the link below. http://aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2012-OnDemand-100-Top-Private-Companies _____________________________________________ o Study: U.S. Broadband Adoption Improves Only Slightly from '09 Washington, DC -- On the two-year anniversary of the delivery of the National Broadband Plan, home broadband adoption in the U.S. remains approximately the same as it was in 2009, despite a dramatic rise in smartphone use, according to a new study released by TechNet. Specifically, 65% of Americans had broadband at home in 2009, according to a Federal Communications Commission survey. In the fall of 2011, the National Telecommunications & Information Administration report pegged home broadband adoption at 68%. "First class broadband is absolutely fundamental to America's economic growth," said Rey Ramsey, the president and CEO of TechNet. "And while on the whole the National Broadband Plan has created a framework for improving America's broadband environment, more work needs to be done." TechNet, a bipartisan policy and political network of technology CEOs, said the government's efforts so far have suffered from "insufficient coordination and a lack of clear strategy for assessing outcomes." http://www.technet.org/new-technet-study-on-two-year-anniversary-of-national-broadband-plan-u-s-adoption-rates-level-off/ _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| SkySQL & MariaDB Solutions Day for the MySQL Database - April 13th, Santa Clara Receive FREE, hands-on training and consulting on MySQL database solutions from the experts at SkySQL, MariaDB, Calpont, Continuent, ScaleDB, Severalnines, Sphinx, and Webyog, among others. As well, join industry visionaries, including Monty Widenius and David Axmark, the original authors of the MySQL database, as they share their insights on current and future trends pertaining to the world's most popular database. A complimentary luncheon will be served, and a free Biergarten will follow the final keynote. Register now at http://www.skysql.com/mysql-solutions-day |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based 100% Pure, a developer of fruit pigmented cosmetics and healthy skincare products, said it has launched a beta version of Funcitizen.com, a social network focused on creating platonic friendships and finding activities to do together. Developers of the free site said they are aiming to do for friends what Match.com does for singles. Dating between members is strictly prohibited. http://funcitizen.com (San Francisco) Sitrick And Company, a provider of public relations services specializing in corporate, financial, transactional and crisis communications, said on Tuesday it has hired Wendy Tanaka, formerly a technology editor and reporter at Forbes. Tanaka, who will work in the firm's San Francisco office, most recently served as technology news editor of Cisco Systems' news site The Network, and earlier was managing editor of tech magazine Red Herring. http://www.sitrick.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120320006268/en/Forbes-Technology-Editor-Joins-Sitrick-Company%E2%80%99s-Bay (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Related Content Database (RCDb), developer of a platform that allows content owners and app developers to create time-based related content events around film, television programming and advertising, said on Tuesday it has changed its name to Watchwith. The company also has unveiled a new logo, new website and opened its beta developer program for the Watchwith platform. http://www.watchwith.com/ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120320005633/en/Related-Content-Database-Company-Watchwith-Announces-Watchwith =================================================== 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 > Executive Briefing -- Product Portfolio Management It's a fact! As your product portfolio grows, the market impact of your organization can quickly become diluted because traditional product management practices focus on improving the performance of each product. Executives and Senior Managers are invited to attend an Executive Briefing to learn how a Product Portfolio Management model improves your market value by uncovering and solving bigger problems beyond the limits of individual products. Business practices for evaluating markets, analyzing competitors, formulating strategies, developing requirements and executing product plans take aim at a completely different target - the performance of your company in key markets - and offers greater strategic value to your organization. Attend in 13 cities in April, May and June. $199 per person. http://www.proficientz.com/portfolio-mgmt-executive-briefing.html ____________________________________________ > SkySQL & MariaDB Solutions Day for the MySQL Database - April 13th, Santa Clara Receive FREE, hands-on training and consulting on MySQL database solutions from the experts at SkySQL, MariaDB, Calpont, Continuent, ScaleDB, Severalnines, Sphinx, and Webyog, among others. As well, join industry visionaries, including Monty Widenius and David Axmark, the original authors of the MySQL database, as they share their insights on current and future trends pertaining to the world's most popular database. A complimentary luncheon will be served, and a free Biergarten will follow the final keynote. Register now at http://www.skysql.com/mysql-solutions-day ____________________________________________ > Marketing Events Coordinator Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP, a mid-size law firm is currently seeking a Marketing Events Coordinator with 3+ years of marketing events experience in a corporate environment to provide administrative support to the Marketing Department. This position reports directly to the Marketing Manager to plan, coordinate and manage all aspects of client seminars and receptions, sponsorship events, Firm events and retreats, and other special events. Candidate must have a Bachelor's degree and the ability to communicate clearly and effectively in one-on-one and small group settings with business partners and outside vendors. Additionally, candidate must be a self-starter, detail oriented, have the ability to organize and prioritize a number of tasks and complete them under time constraints. Strong computer, backend web development, HTML and graphics skills are required. Experience with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign is preferred. Salary: DOE. Please include your salary requirement. Submit your resume and cover letter to the following link (or copy and paste the link to your web browser) https://home.eease.com/recruit/?id=1185751 ____________________________________________ > Senior Manager, eCommerce -- Redwood City, CA The Sr. Manager of eCommerce will provide leadership on key eCommerce initiatives within Shutterfly.com to continuously improve our customer shopping experience. Reporting to the Sr Director of eCommerce, this seasoned eCommerce professional will use site analytics to drive informed business recommendations, develop site tests aimed at optimizing business goals and serve as the business lead for selected eCommerce projects. This role is focused on driving a compelling and frictionless eCommerce experience for our customers. It is perfect for someone who is interested in using his/her business acumen, eCommerce expertise, and analytic skills to drive exceptional short- and long-term business results. Apply online at: http://www.shutterfly.com/about/positions.jsp?jvi=oW3aWfwP ____________________________________________ > Account Manager Come join PaperG, just named one of the Forbes' 100 Most Promising Companies in America, as we reinvent modern advertising. A PaperG Account Manager works as a key member of the Accounts team, where they will support PaperG's media company partners and help them thrive using PaperG's technology. Qualifications: College degree. A friendly and engaging personality - a must!. Excellent computer and Internet knowledge. High energy level. Resourceful, well organized, highly dependable, efficient and detail oriented. Knowledge of online advertising industry a strong plus. Send your resume to careers@paperg.com In your email or cover letter, let us know why PaperG interests you. ____________________________________________ > Sr. Financial Analyst Veracyte is a molecular diagnostics company that is pioneering the emerging field of molecular cytology. Our Finance team seeks an individual who will report to the CFO, with the ability to develop and maintain long-range financial models for the company's strategic plan, produce product revenue projections and forecasts and prepare financial analyses. They will also be able to analyze trends, manage components of the operating plan process, participate in the valuation of potential business development opportunities, and collaborate with R&D, Commercial and Operations functions. The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, challenging and highly diverse team environment is critical. To be a successful candidate you will have at least 4 years of finance/accounting experience, with a proven track record of incorporating applications of accounting principles, financial reporting, and cash management, and be an expert in Excel. It's important that you have experience in life sciences and knowledge/experience with Microsoft GP is a plus, as is an MBA. We would like you to share our commitment to teamwork and collaboration and be excited by the challenges of applying your expertise to an important, emerging area in diagnostics. To apply, please send your resume to jobs@veracyte.com For additional information, see our website www.veracyte.com ____________________________________________ > Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - April 20, 2012 This year's Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit will include over 12 panel discussion, various research presentations, networking opportunities and keynotes. The event is a co-production between Potomac Tech Wire and the Capitol Communicator, two of the leading newsletters covering the technology, marketing and communications industries in the area. Panel topics include: Analytics and Metrics: Major Marketing Trends; CMO Roundtable: Current State of Marketing; Mobile Marketing: Beyond The Hype and much more. The event will be held from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm on April 20 at the state-of-the-art Gannett Headquarters in McLean, Va. 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