Thursday September 9, 2010

Private Investment Firm Buys Phoenix Technologies For $139 Million

Marlin Equity Partners, a Los Angeles-based private investment firm with over $1 billion of capital under management, has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of core systems software company Phoenix Technologies common stock for $3.85 per share in cash, or approximately $139 million in total consideration.
The purchase price represents a premium of approximately 27% over [...]

Semantic Web Startup Inform Technologies Lands $4 Million, New CMO

Inform Technologies, a New York-based developer and provider of semantic web solutions, this morning announced it has secured $4 million in a Series A funding round led by previous backers Spark Capital, The Stephens Group, and The Oklahoma Publishing Company.
In addition, the startup has announced that Tony Dunaif, former SVP at Internet Broadcasting, has joined [...]

Awareness Technologies Raises $6.5 Million For Threat Management Software

Enterprise threat management startup Awareness Technologies has raised $6.5 million from Brad Miller, the former CEO and Chairman of Perimeter eSecurity, and First New England Capital. Awareness develops InterGuard, a SaaS-based threat management platform that helps enterprises cover data loss prevention, web filtering, employee monitoring and laptop recovery.
InterGuard allows businesses to limit access to [...]

Jack Henry & Associates Pays $300 Million In Cash For iPay Technologies

Jack Henry & Associates, a provider of integrated technology solutions and data processing services for financial institutions, this morning announced that it is acquiring Kentucky-based iPay Technologies, a portfolio company of Spectrum Equity Investors, Bain Capital Ventures and management.
Jack Henry will purchase all of the equity of iPay for a purchase price of $300 [...]

Dr. Lecia Barker: Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Women & IT shares her insights into unconscious bias, attracting diversity into computing, maximizing educational environments and technologies

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Dr. Lecia Barker: Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Women & IT, Leading Educator, and Top Thought Leader. Lecia shares her insights into unconscious bias, attracting diversity into computing, maximizing educational environments [...]

JumpBox Helps Non-Techies Navigate Open Source Technologies

JumpBox is an under-the-radar server software management company that helps IT departments deploy open source technologies. JumpBox essentially makes collaborative technologies easier to use by making them easier to install on servers.
Today, JumpBox is launching a new way to run open source server applications, allowing IT administrators to treat server applications collectively as a utility [...]

Dr. Lecia Barker: Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Women & IT shares her insights into unconscious bias, attracting diversity into computing, maximizing educational environments and technologies

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Dr. Lecia Barker: Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Women & IT, Leading Educator, and Top Thought Leader. Lecia shares her insights into unconscious bias, attracting diversity into computing, maximizing educational environments [...]

Dr. Lecia Barker: Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Women & IT shares her insights into unconscious bias, attracting diversity into computing, maximizing educational environments and technologies

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Dr. Lecia Barker: Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Women & IT, Leading Educator, and Top Thought Leader. Lecia shares her insights into unconscious bias, attracting diversity into computing, maximizing educational environments [...]

Infosys Technologies and Elan Pharmaceuticals apply co-creation model to transform discovery research

Infosys Technologies
Limited said that it will design and implement the Research Informatics System
(RISe) at Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a leading biotechnology company, to
accelerate discovery research using a path-breaking co-creation engagement
model that leverages Infosys’ existing intellectual property in this field.

"We are confident that
partnering and collaborating with Infosys will create a comprehensive
informatics platform for our discovery research [...]