Start-ups

Verso Technologies agreed to acquire privately held sentitO Networks, a supplier of voice gateways, for approximately 7.7 million restricted shares of Verso common stock, 2.2 million of which are subject...

Baynote, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, secured $10.75 million in Series B funding for its content guidance software for the business web. Offered as a suite of Web 2.0...

LSI Logic completed its merger with Agere Systems. The newly merged company will be known as LSI Corporation and will continue to trade under the stock symbol LSI on the...

3Com Corporation closed its acquisition of Huawei Technologies' 49% stake in H3C for $882 million and 3Com now owns 100% of the China-based company. To fund the transaction and related...

Microsoft is backing ZenZui, an independent company that is developing a "Zooming User Interface" to make it easier for people to engage, consume and interact with mobile Web content. ZenZui's...

Cisco Systems agreed to acquire SpansLogic, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, for an undisclosed sum. SpansLogic, which was founded in 2004 and has 14 employees, is developing packet...

Motorola Ventures has made an equity investment in GoTV Networks, a made-for-mobile television provider. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. GoTV Networks is the first made-for-mobile television network and...

Reef Point Systems, a start-up based in Burlington, Mass., closed $25 million in its Series 2 round of funding led by new investor One Equity Partners LLC (OEP), the private...

Cisco Systems announced plans to acquire WebEx, a leading provider on online meetings and collaboration services, for $3.2 billion in cash. The acquisition will mark Cisco entrance into the market...

Cisco Systems agreed to acquire NeoPath Networks, a start-up offering high performance and highly scalable file storage management solutions, for an undisclosed sum. NeoPath developed a "SMART" virtualization technology that...

Motorola Ventures has made an equity investment in AMIMON, Inc., a start-up developing silicon for wireless transmission of high-definition (HD) video. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. AMIMON's wireless...

Meraki Networks is sponsoring and supporting a network that it calls the "The First Mile in Unwiring the World" in San Francisco. In the San Francisco network, Meraki will set...

iSkoot, a start-up based in Cambridge, Mass., secured $7 million in Series B financing for its software for mobile Skype calling. In recent months, iSkoot has entered into a co-marketing...