Mindshare Technologies, the provider of survey technologies and realtime customer feedback solutions, announced today that it has received a $20 million investment from Sorenson Capital, a private equity firm that specializes in buyout and growth equity investments. The PrivateBank and Trust Company also contributed to the investment, which will be used to accelerate product growth [...]
Posted on October 4th, 2011 by admin
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Game development startup Unity Technologies, founded in Copenhagen and currently headquartered in Silicon Valley, has raised a second round of financing – $12 million from Asian firms WestSummit Capital in China and iGlobe Partners in Singapore. Previous investor Sequoia Capital has also participated in the round, and Raymond Yang from WestSummit has joined the company’s [...]
Posted on July 21st, 2011 by admin
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Virtualization software giant VMware this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire Shavlik Technologies, a provider of cloud-based IT management solutions for small and medium businesses. Financial terms of the acquisition, which is expected to be completed later this year, were not disclosed. Shavlik Technologies provides a portfolio of on-premise and SaaS-based management solutions [...]
Posted on May 17th, 2011 by admin
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D2 Technologies, which markets embedded IP communications software platforms, has acquired Webia Technologies through an all-stock transaction. Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with development centers in Taiwan and Shanghai, China, Webia was one of the first software vendors to introduce set-top box media player platforms based on Google’s Android OS. Webia recently unveiled what it claims [...]
Posted on March 2nd, 2011 by admin
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Citrix Systems has made a strategic investment in GlassHouse Technologies, a global data center consulting and managed services firm, expanding the existing relationship between the two companies with Citrix becoming a premier desktop virtualization partner of GlassHouse. The investment also provides Citrix with an observer’s seat on the GlassHouse board of directors. Others terms of [...]
Posted on January 11th, 2011 by admin
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IBM today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BLADE Network Technologies, a privately held data center switching company based in Santa Clara, California. Financial terms were not disclosed. Update: according to Tech Trader Daily, the transaction is rumored to be valued at roughly $400 million, according to one of the publication’s [...]
Posted on September 28th, 2010 by admin
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IBM today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BLADE Network Technologies, a privately held data center switching company based in Santa Clara, California. Financial terms were not disclosed. BLADE, founded in 2006, specializes in software and devices that route data and transactions to and from servers; the company provides blade server [...]
Posted on September 27th, 2010 by admin
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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% [...]
Posted on August 18th, 2010 by admin
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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 [...]
Posted on June 21st, 2010 by admin
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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 [...]
Posted on June 1st, 2010 by admin
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