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Bestsellers From Flipkart 09/01/2010 |
| | Flipkart’s Sachin and Binny Bansal created a premier service by focussing on ‘predictable efficiency’. But in online retail, to adapt is to survive |
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The Making Of Flipkart Story 08/20/2010 |
| | Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal share their approaches to building an e-commerce company. |
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Meet The Fastest Growing Company Ever 08/12/2010 |
| | Andrew Mason figured out how to inject hysteria into the process of bargain hunting on the Web. The result is an overnight success story called Groupon. |
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RGB Tunes Up Mobile TV With RipCode Buy 06/23/2010 |
| | Build or buy? That's been a question RGB Networks Inc. has been asking itself as it weighed how to add key mobile IP video capabilities to a cross-platform video box that has big "TV Everywhere" aspirations. |
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YuMe Named Top 50 Startup at TiECon 2010 05/14/2010 |
| | REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- YuMe, the leading video advertising technology company, today announced that it has been chosen as a winner of the TiE50 Award. TiE50 Winners represent the most enterprising companies worldwide in five sectors that are driving today's economy: Internet, Software, Wireless, Cleantech, and BioSciences. |
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Harmonic Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Omneon 05/06/2010 |
| | SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - May 6, 2010) - Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) and Omneon, Inc., a leading provider of video production and playout solutions for many of the world's premier media companies, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement pursuant to which Harmonic would acquire Omneon for an enterprise value of approximately $274 million in cash and Harmonic stock. |
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Most innovative company at RSA Conference 2010 03/02/2010 |
| | Altor Networks, with its product Altor VF 3.0, has been announced as the winner of RSA's Innovation Sandbox “Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2010” contest.
According to the post on the Conference's official blog, Altor was chosen as the most innovative company among the ten finalists that competed for the title. |
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GetJar In Entrepreneur Magazine 01/25/2010 |
| | While Apple's App Store dominates headlines and airwaves, independent GetJar has quietly emerged as the mobile application portal of choice for millions worldwide -- thanks to an open-door policy that welcomes both software developers and customers regardless of wireless device, operating system or network operator. |
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RAMP Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnMedia Top 100 Winner 01/19/2010 |
| | Recognized for creating new opportunities in marketing, branding, advertising, and publishing.
Woburn, MA, January 19, 2010 – RAMP, the industry’s leading Content Optimization company today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia Top 100 winners. Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players... |
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The Wisdom Of AdMob’s Founder Omar Hamoui 11/09/2009 |
| | By Scott Austin
Google Inc.’s announcement that it will buy AdMob Inc. for $750 million brought a media spotlight on Accel Partners, an investor in both AdMob and Playfish Inc., which said today it will sell to Electronic Arts Inc. for at least $275 million. Several blogs, including this one, hailed Accel Partners for its impressive and quick investment returns at a time when deals like these are hard to come by. |
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Microsoft Signs Deal To Boost AdSense Rival >MSFT 11/02/2009 |
| | Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said Monday it has signed a deal to expand the reach of a contextual online advertising service designed to compete with rival technology offered by Google Inc. (GOOG).
Under the terms of the deal, Microsoft and closely held online advertising exchange OpenX Technologies Inc. have agreed to refer publishers to each other, while OpenX will promote Microsoft's Content Ads products, which can place advertising on Web sites with related and appropriate content.
Microsoft is ... |
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Playfish hits real revenue stream 11/02/2009 |
| | A New York company is marketing the "Virtusphere" designed to facilitate a virtual reality experience unmatched by any other. |
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Tellabs acquires WiChorus to revolutionize the mobile Internet 10/22/2009 |
| | Naperville, Ill. — Users want mobile Internet services anywhere, anytime. Sales of smartphones are growing more than 30% a year, and netbooks are taking root. As a result, Tellabs’ mobile customers expect mobile data traffic to grow 30% to 50% a year for the foreseeable future. Such high growth demands scalable, next-generation network architectures to deliver 3G and 4G services... |
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EveryZing Licenses Universal Search & Publishing Platform to FOX News and FOX Business Network 10/12/2009 |
| | Woburn, MA. – October 12th, 2009 – EveryZing, the leader in universal search and publishing solutions, announced that FOX News Channel and FOX Business Network have selected EveryZing’s solution suite for FOXNews.com and FOXBusiness.com. EveryZing will enable all current and archived videos, podcasts, articles and images published by each site to be automatically indexed and made available for online search and discovery, both by users on the websites and across major Web search engines. EveryZing provides site search and SEO... |
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Causata Launches Customer Interaction Platform With $4.5M From Accel Partners 10/05/2009 |
| | Accel Partners has poured $4.5 million into Causata, a San Francisco-based software startup that provides tools companies can use to optimize customer experience and business results.
The Series A round actually closed back in April this year, but the name of the investor has only now been made public through a regulatory filing, reports peHUB. Judging by messages posted this morning on the company’s Twitter account, the software startup has only now gone public with its website and offering. |
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Gameforge CEO to Keynote at 2009 GDC Europe 06/30/2009 |
| | GDC organizer Think Services (also parent of Gamasutra) announced that Klaas Kersting, CEO of German browser game pioneer Gameforge, will keynote the business track at the 2009 Game Developers Conference Europe. |
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Kosmix, Mochi Media, Etsy, Cloudera and Admob: Businessweek’s 2009 Top 50 Tech Startups 06/24/2009 |
| | BusinessWeek and market researcher YouNoodle have teamed up to identify 50 tech startups flying under the radar. Our list includes fledgling tech companies—most started in 2005 and later—from the U.S., China, India, Israel, and Russia that are attracting some early buzz and are poised to grow beyond their regional or niche-market origins. |
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Tumri Raises $15M Financing, Adds Time Warner as Strategic Investor 06/22/2009 |
| | Online ad firm Tumri has secured $15 million in financing from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Investments and others as it seeks to complete its transition from a contextual-ad supplier to a business focused on display. The investment includes over $10 million in equity from Time Warner and previous backers Accel Partners, Shasta Ventures and Tenaya Capital, plus $5 million in a debt commitment from Silicon Valley Bank. The company will use the proceeds for a global rollout, as well as building up its sales and marketing team. With this financing, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company has raised a total of $31.5 million in investments. |
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The Great Wall of Facebook: 06/22/2009 |
| | Larry Page should have been in a good mood. It was the fall of 2007, and Google's cofounder was in the middle of a five-day tour of his company's European operations in Zurich, London, Oxford, and Dublin. The trip had been fun, a chance to get a ground-floor look at Google's ever-expanding empire. But this week had been particularly exciting, for reasons that had nothing to do with Europe; Google was planning a major investment in Facebook, the hottest new company in Silicon Valley. |
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MetraTech Corp Wins Best Overall at 2009 World BSS Awards 06/17/2009 |
| | WALTHAM, Mass. and LONDON, -- MetraTech Corp., the innovative charging, billing, settlement and customer care product provider,has won the Best Overall prize at the prestigious World BSS Awards. The award was presented to two companies, MetraTech and Oracle Corporation, at a ceremony during IIR's BSS Summit 2009 in Amsterdam from June 8-11, 2009. |
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Facebook Dethrones MySpace in US 06/16/2009 |
| | Facebook Inc., after eclipsing MySpace in global users last year, now leads its social-networking rival in the U.S. as well, according to research firm ComScore Inc.
The Palo Alto, Calif., company had 70.28 million U.S. users last month, topping MySpace's 70.26 million, ComScore said. Facebook's users almost doubled from a year earlier, while MySpace lost 5%. |
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MetraTech Wins Best Overall at 2009 World BSS Awards 06/16/2009 |
| | WALTHAM, MA and LONDON--(Marketwire - June 16, 2009) - MetraTech Corp., the innovative charging, billing, settlement and customer care product provider has won the Best Overall prize at the prestigious World BSS Awards. The award was presented to two companies, MetraTech and Oracle Corporation, at a ceremony during IIR's BSS Summit 2009 in Amsterdam from June 8-11, 2009. |
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OpenX CEO Interview in Wired Magazine 06/15/2009 |
| | The internet has wrecked the conventional model of advertising-driven content, but parts of that model can be revised, OpenX CEO Tim Cadogan said Monday. And he’s here to help. |
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Altor Networks Wins Reader Trust Award for Virtual Network Security 05/19/2009 |
| | Redwood City, CA – May 19, 2009 – Altor Networks announced today that Network Products Guide, industry’s leading publication on information technologies and solutions has named Altor VF virtual firewall a winner of the 2009 Best Products and Services Award. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of the end-users of technology worldwide. As part of the tech-industry’s leading global awards program, this year’s Best Products and Services were nominated from all over the world. |
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StumbleUpon Goes Independent; Backed by Founders and New Investors 04/13/2009 |
| | April 13, 2009 - StumbleUpon, the best way to discover new content on the Internet, today announced that after nearly 2 years as a subsidiary of eBay Inc., it has returned to the ranks of an investor-backed startup. StumbleUpon is now backed by the original company founders, Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith, as well as a number of well-known investors including Ram Shriram of Sherpalo Ventures, Accel Partners, and August Capital. Camp takes on the role of CEO of StumbleUpon. |
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GetJar, World’s Leading Independent App Store, Surpasses 400 Million Downloads 03/27/2009 |
| | GetJar, the world’s leading independent mobile app store, today announced that it topped 400m mobile app downloads, and in the last month saw a 200% increase in downloads from the same month a year earlier. The company also released survey results taken from over 15,000 of its early adopters and influential users, revealing global changes in consumer behavior. |
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Transera Secures $17 Million in New Round of Funding 03/12/2009 |
| | SUNNYVALE, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Transera Communications, a pioneer in on-demand virtual contact center software, today announced that it has raised $17 million in funding from Accel Partners, Apax Partners, Lighthouse Capital Partners, and Storm Ventures. The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s rapid growth and fuel investments in customer acquisition, go-to market partnerships, service infrastructure, and product development. |
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Jasper Design Automation Raises $7 Million in Series D Funding 02/18/2009 |
| | MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Jasper Design Automation, leading EDA provider of design, verification, and reuse solutions leveraging formal technologies, today announced it has raised $7 million in Series D financing. The investment round was led by new investor, ZenShin Capital of Menlo Park. Joining the financing were existing investors: Accel Partners, Cambrian Ventures, Foundation Capital, InnovationsKapital, and Northzone Ventures. The funds will provide working capital to support Jasper’s self-sufficient operations and continued market and product expansion. |
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ConSentry Networks Wins Security Product of the Year at NetEvents Awards 02/18/2009 |
| | MILPITAS, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - ConSentry Networks, the leader in intelligent control, announced today that its LANShield platform has won the “Security Product of the Year” award at the NetEvents “Technology Leader” European Awards 2009. The ConSentry LANShield platform includes the LANShield Switch and LANShield Controller. |
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ConSentry Closes New Funding, Attracts Top Switching Talent for Next Phase of Growth 01/14/2009 |
| | MILPITAS, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Addressing the growing enterprise need for intelligent control of users and applications, ConSentry Networks today announced an additional $9.4 million in venture funding and a new management team. Accel Partners led the round and was joined by existing investors DAG Ventures, Invesco Private Capital, Northgate Capital, Translink Capital, and Vedanta Capital. ConSentry will use the funds to grow and support the channel for its LANShield™ intelligent control platforms and to expand its global marketing outreach. ConSentry also has added three new senior executives to its ranks: Rod Kay, executive vice president of marketing and sales; Robert Hon, executive vice president of engineering; and Derek Granath, vice president of marketing. |
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StreamBase Systems raises $6.24 million in Series D funding round 01/13/2009 |
| | StreamBase Systems Inc., a US-based provider of event processing software, has raised around $6.24 million in Series D round of funding from Battery Ventures, Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners, LLC, and In-Q-Tel, Inc. |
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Canaan Partners and Accel India invest in Chakpak 12/23/2008 |
| | New Delhi, INDIA, December 23, 2008: Indian ventures in Online Entertainment Communities have got a major boost today with Canaan Partners – a global early stage venture investor in innovative technology companies - announcing an investment in Chakpak (www.chakpak.com), a next-generation online entertainment community from India. |
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IBM announces plans to acquire virtualization company Transitive 11/18/2008 |
| | ARMONK, NY--(Marketwire - November 18, 2008) - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it plans to acquire Transitive Corporation, a privately held technology company headquartered in Los Gatos, California, with a research and development team in Manchester, United Kingdom. Financial terms were not disclosed. |
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Belden to buy wireless LAN vendor Trapeze 11/18/2008 |
| | Belden has announced it will buy wireless LAN vendor Trapeze Networks for $133 million in cash.
The purchase adds a complete controller-based WLAN product line to Belden's existing copper and fiber-optic cabling, cable management, and connectivity products. It's apparently an attempt to position Belden as a supplier of "unified wired and wireless solutions," according... |
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AdMob Closes $15.7 Million in Funding for Operations in Growth Markets 11/04/2008 |
| | AdMob is a rare start-up these days: it is hiring instead of laying off employees and it is cash-flow positive. The mobile advertising network, which places ads on Web sites people view on their phones, announced Wednesday that it had raised $15.7 million in its third round of financing from Accel and Sequoia Capital. |
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WiChorus Raises $18 Million in Series C Funding 11/03/2008 |
| | WiChorus, Inc., a developer of solutions for WiMAX and 4G wireless core networks, has raised $18 million in Series C funding from its existing investors Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund, and Redpoint Ventures. All the parties are based in the US. |
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Playfish Completes $17 Million Financing and Continues Success as Social Games Leader 10/28/2008 |
| | London – October 28, 2008 – Playfish, a developer and publisher of games for social networks, announced today that it has completed a new round of funding led by Accel Partners and Index Ventures. The $17 million Series B investment will be used to continue Playfish’s mission to become the leading company in social games, a sector which promises to play an increasingly important role in the future of the gaming industry. |
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Kickfire Raises $20 Million in Series B Financing 07/30/2008 |
| | High-Performance MySQL Appliance Positioned for Rapid Adoption in Fast Growing Open Source Database Market
SANTA CLARA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- Jul 30, 2008 -- Kickfire™, Inc. today announced that it has closed Series B financing. Pinnacle Ventures led the round and Series A investors Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, and The Mayfield Fund reinvested. The capital will be used to... |
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TRUSTe Raises $10 Million Financing from Accel Partners 07/17/2008 |
| | TRUSTe, an independent organization that certifies and monitors web site privacy and email policies, has secured $10 million investment in first round financing from Accel Partners, a venture capital firm.
The proceeds would be to create state-of-the-art monitoring systems to stay ahead of technology advances with new tools, products, and best practices that facilitate trust between... |
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TRUSTe Responds to Consumer Privacy Threats with Major Expansion 07/15/2008 |
| | In response to increasing threats to consumer privacy, TRUSTe, the recognized authority on privacy best practices on the Internet today, announced the completion of its first round of financing from Accel Partners, a leading Silicon Valley venture firm. The investment will enable TRUSTe to create state-of-the-art monitoring systems to stay ahead of technology advances with new tools, products and best practices that facilitate trust between businesses and consumers. |
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ForeScout Completes $8M in Funding 07/01/2008 |
| | ForeScout Technologies, the leading provider of regulatory compliance solutions and clientless network access control (NAC) for Fortune 500 enterprises and government organizations, today announced it has completed an internal $8M fundraising round with all existing venture partners participating including Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and Pitango Ventures. The company experienced a breakout year in 2007 with 80 percent growth, setting the stage for this further investment to fuel sustained compliance and NAC leadership. |
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blinkx Partners With ON Networks to Distribute Original Programming 06/25/2008 |
| | blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with ON Networks(www.onnetworks.com), a digital media company delivering original, on-demand TV shows. ON Networks’ high-definition video content is now more easily accessible than ever before at www.blinkx.com. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will leverage its AdHoc platform to place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenue with ON Networks. |
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Amobee Launches Advertising on Vodafone Italia's Live! Portal 06/24/2008 |
| | Amobee Media Systems today announced it will be providing ad server capabilities and dynamic ad selection for Vodafone Italia's live! portal. Amobee, a world leader in advertising solutions for mobile, focuses on ad-enabling the first and the most frequently viewed screens on the mobile handset, like those used for messaging and on the carrier portal. |
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YuMe and Google to Serve InVideo Overlay Ads 02/20/2008 |
| | YuMe and Google to Serve InVideo Overlay Ads; AdSense for Video Beta Further Expands YuMe's Suite of Ad Products Supported and Optimized By Its Adaptive Campaign Engine (ACE) |
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Yahoo! Acquires Maven Networks, Inc. 02/12/2008 |
| | Will Expand Yahoo!'s Video Capabilities; Important Step in
Enhancing Yahoo!'s Solutions for Publishers and Advertisers - Making Video Easier to Buy |
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Mu Security and NSP Complete Service Provider TCO and ROI Study 11/15/2007 |
| | The study, conducted during the past nine months, features four case studies of leading global providers using the Mu-4000 appliance to uncover the often hidden metrics of revenue loss due to customer churn, network robustness issues and downtime. |
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Investing with Impact; A bold Venture 11/11/2007 |
| | Business
Investing with impact ; A bold venture: The bottom line for these capitalists isn't the traditional bottom line. Yes, they want to earn money for investors, but they also select businesses that are creating jobs in disadvantaged communities. |
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Facebook Grows Up 08/20/2007 |
| | At 19, Mark Zuckerberg came up with a new way for college kids to connect--and started an online revolution. Now 23, he's trying to build out his business without losing its cool. |
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Is BitTorrent the next big IPO? 03/28/2007 |
| | The file sharing service, known for making it easy to illegally download videos, has made nice with Hollywood. Now is it wooing Wall Street? |
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MetroPCS Files For Billion-Dollar Plus IPO 01/04/2007 |
| | MetroPCS Communications Inc. filed to raise up to $1.125 billion in an initial public offering, helping the IPO market kick off the year with a major deal from the telecom sector. |
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Omneon Video Networks Files For $115M IPO 12/29/2006 |
| | Omneon Video Networks filed an S-1 registration statement seeking to raise $115M in an initial public offering. Accel Partners is a lead investor in the company and has worked closely with Omneon since leading its Series A financing in 1998. |
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Lockheed Martin Agrees to Acquire Savi Technology 05/05/2006 |
| | Lockheed Martin Corporation [NYSE:LMT] today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Savi Technology, Inc.(Savi), a provider of active radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. |
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Red Hat Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire JBoss 04/10/2006 |
| | Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire JBoss, the global leader in open source middleware. |
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CA Acquires Wily Technology 01/05/2006 |
| | CA today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wily Technology, a leading provider of enterprise application management solutions, for $375 million in an all-cash transaction. |
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Earthlink to Acquire New Edge Networks 12/13/2005 |
| | EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK), the nation’s next generation Internet service provider, today announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire New Edge Networks, an Accel portfolio company, valued at $152 million. Accel Partners led the Series A financing in June of 1999. |
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RealNetworks Shares Soar on Microsoft Settlement 10/11/2005 |
| | Shares of RealNetworks Inc. soared 33% in midday trades as Microsoft Corp. agreed to pay the company $761 million in a pact that settles an antitrust lawsuit brought by RealNetworks in late 2003. |
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Glam Media Launches Glam.com 09/19/2005 |
| | Glam.com Blends Fashion, Beauty and Celebrity Style with E-Commerce, Creating a New Shopping Experience on the Web
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InfoWorld's 2005 Innovators 08/01/2005 |
| | Greg Raleigh (Airgo Networks) and Alasdair Rawsthorne (Transitive) are 2 Accel entrepreneurs named on the list. |
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Juniper Networks to Acquire Peribit Networks for $337m 04/25/2005 |
| | The combination of Juniper Networks' best-in-class secure and assured networking solutions and Peribit's WAN optimization technology delivers a powerful solution with increased WAN capacity, faster application performance, prioritized application delivery, and system-wide visibility of network and application performance.
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