| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- April 29, 2014 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o S.F.-Based Doximity Raises $54 Million in Third Round o San Francisco-Based Zinio Acquires Audience Media o San Francisco's Brightpearl Raises $10 Million in New Funding o MovieLaLa Lands New Investment from Salesforce.com Founder o San Francisco-Based Engadget Names New Editors o Briefly Noted: Castlight Health, LitePoint, Nutanix, Yahoo - comScore _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --14 Ideas for Marketing Your Business Online --Investment Adviser Executive --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 S.F.-Based Doximity Raises $54 Million in Third Round San Francisco -- Doximity, the San Francisco-based developer of a professional network for doctors, said on Tuesday it has raised $54 million in its third round of funding, co-led by DFJ and T. Rowe Price Associates. Morgan Stanley Investment Management also participated in the round, which increases the company's total backing to $81 million since its launch in 2011. Doximity currently counts more than one in three U.S. doctors as members, with the company more than tripling its user base since closing its last round of funding in late 2012. "Healthcare is not a niche, it's a sector, and as a sector it's incredibly large," said Henry Ellenbogen, portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price. "It's exciting to see Doximity bringing the best of social media to this significant market." http://www.doximity.com http://www.enhancedonlinenews.com/portal/site/eon/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20140429005319&newsLang=en&permalinkExtra= _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Zinio Acquires Audience Media San Francisco -- Zinio, the San Francisco-based developer of a mobile magazine app, said on Tuesday it has acquired Spain-based Audience Media, a developer of mobile tools designed to transform print publications into mobile apps optimized for smartphones and tablets. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Zinio said the acquisition will bolster its offerings in magazine content for mobile devices, as well as expand its footprint into the digital publishing services space. The company said it plans to become the industry's first magazine content aggregator to make white label branded apps for consumers. "Mobile is the future of digital publishing, and this acquisition reinforces our ability to work with more magazine publishers to deliver premium content to an expanded audience of users," said Joan Solà, the executive vice president and chief of global markets at Zinio. http://www.zinio.com http://audiencemedia.com/ http://design.zinio.com/?p=5598 _____________________________________________ o San Francisco's Brightpearl Raises $10 Million in New Funding San Francisco -- Brightpearl, developer of a cloud-based multi-channel retail management system with dual headquarters in San Francisco and the U.K., said on Tuesday it has landed $10 million in a new round of funding. New investor MMC Ventures led the round, which also included participation from Quayle Munro and previous backers Eden Ventures and Notion Capital. The company will use the proceeds to bolster its core platform, as well as expand sales activities. Brightpearl's software and services are designed to help multi-channel retailers combine orders, inventory, customer data, accounting and reporting into a single retail management system http://www.brightpearl.com http://www.brightpearl.com/about-brightpearl/press/2014/04/29/brightpearl-raises-10-million-to-accelerate-expansion-and-platform-development _____________________________________________ o MovieLaLa Lands New Investment from Salesforce.com Founder San Francisco -- MovieLaLa, the San Francisco-based developer of a social network and movie marketing platform for upcoming movies, said on Tuesday it has landed a new angel investment from Marc Benioff, the founder, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com. The company now has raised $750,000 since its inception in 2012. MovieLaLa said it is hoping to rebuild the traditional movie marketing model by providing better target audience data and analytics to studios. "I believe there’re a lot of opportunities in CRM [customer relationship management] tools that studios can benefit from," said Benioff. Benioff joins previous investors such as Allen DeBevoise, the chairman, CEO and co-founder of Machinima; Jim Moloshok, past president of digital initiatives for Home Box Office and co-founder and president of Warner Bros. Online; founding Flixster investor Larry Braitman; producer Angie Wang; Adam Nash, former executive in residence at Greylock Partners; and Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a legal and business consulting firm for clients in the digital media, entertainment and advertising industries. https://movielala.com/ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140429005271/en/Salesforce.com-CEO-Marc-Benioff-Invests-MovieLaLa#.U1-qr4FdXng _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Engadget Names New Editors San Francisco -- Engadget, the San Francisco-based technology blog of AOL, on Tuesday announced the promotions of two long-time staffers, naming Michael Gorman as editor in chief and Christopher Trout as executive editor. Gorman succeeds Marc Perton, who is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. While he will work closely with the editorial staff, Trout will focus on the publication's bigger picture. http://www.engadget.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140429006854/en/Engadget-Names-Executive-Editor-Editor-Chief#.U1_8BIFdXng _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Castlight Health, a developer of enterprise healthcare cloud tools, on Tuesday named Ed Park to its board of directors. Park is the current executive vice president and COO of athenahealth, and has served as an advisor to Castlight's board. http://www.castlighthealth.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140429005612/en/Castlight-Health-Appoints-athenahealth-COO-Ed-Park#.U1-pwIFdXng (Sunnyvale, Calif.) Sunnyvale-based LitePoint, a developer of wireless test products, on Tuesday named Dana McCarty as its senior vice president of worldwide sales. McCarty most recently served as the global vice president of sales at Broadcom. http://www.litepoint.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140429005056/en/Dana-McCarty-Lead-LitePoint-Global-Sales#.U1-8B4FdXng (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based Nutanix, a developer of datacenter infrastructure tools, has named Duston Williams as its new CFO. Williams most recently served as the CFO at Gigamon, leading that company through its IPO, and previously served as the CFO of Sandforce. http://www.nutanix.com/2014/04/28/nutanix-appoints-duston-williams-as-chief-financial-officer/ (Sunnyvale, Calif.) Sunnyvale-based Yahoo said it has partnered with Virginia-based comScore in a bid to simplify and improve digital advertising measurement on the company's properties. Yahoo said it will begin offering comScore's vCE audience validation metric to advertisers beginning later this summer. 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