Xeround, a start-up based in Bellevue, Washington, closed $16 million in Series B funding for its development of a distributed data grid with virtualization capabilities. The company has R&D operations...
ConSentry Networks named Joe Golden as its new CEO and a member of the board of directors. Prior to joining ConSentry, Golden was a general partner and co-founder of Accel...
Nimbuzz, a start-up based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Nimbuzz, raised $15 million in second round funding for its mobile VoIP and IM for social networks. Nimbuzz offers a social interaction...
Motorola Ventures has made a strategic investment in Apprion, a start-up located in the NASA AMES Research Park at Moffett Field, California. With this investment, Apprion has raised over $23.5...
Codenomicon, which specializes in security and quality testing software, announced the appointment of David Chartier as its new CEO. Chartier brings 20 years of technology industry experience that includes serving...
Skyyhook Wireless released the second generation of its hybrid positioning system, combining signals from Wi-Fi access points, GPS satellites and cell towers. The system is aimed at mass market handsets,...
Agito Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised approximately $13 million in second round funding for its "RoamAnywhere" Mobility Router. Agito's business mobile convergence platform uses RF-based, location-aware technologies...
BridgeWave Communications, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, raised $10 million in Series 4 funding for its gigabit wireless solutions. The funding round was co-led by Intel Capital and...
Miyowa, a start-up based in Paris, raised $8 million in second round venture funding for its work in instant messaging and presence enriched Mobile Web 2.0 technologies. Founded in April...
Microsoft agreed to acquire MobiComp, a Portuguese software company that helped pioneer technologies allowing the backup and restoration of mobile data and mobile posting of social content to Web sites...
Parascale, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, closed an $11.37 million Series A financing round for its cloud storage solutions for rich media content. Parascale has developed a new class...
Nokia agreed to acquire Plazes AG, a start-up developing a location-aware social networking service, for an undisclosed sum. Plazes is a privately-owned company of 13 people with its principal operations...
T-Venture, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom AG. has made a $6 million equity investment in deCarta, a developer of software and services for the Location-Based Services (LBS) industry....
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