New Fundings:
- don't usually write about hardware companies getting funded, but this is a exception. Alien Technology Corp., a developer of radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags, said it has raised $18 million in its latest round of financing.
- Fabless semiconductor firm Discera, Inc., of Campbell, which develops ultra-miniaturized components targeted to the wireless industry, says it raised $12 million in a second round of venture capital funding.
- Fingerprint authentication product maker DigitalPersona, Inc., of Redwood City, says it's closed a $13 million financing led by VantagePoint Venture Partners. The round also includes existing investors Chess Ventures, Fininvest, IDG Ventures and Invesco Private Equity.
- FieldCentrix Inc., provider of wireless and Internet-based field service solutions, has received $8.9 million in venture capital funding. The new Series B funding round was led by previous investor Rustic Canyon Ventures and accompanied by other existing investors including GI Partners, Brentwood Venture Capital, Atrium Capital, Sigma Partners and Piper Jaffray.
- CRF Inc., providing validated electronic patient diaries and wireless data collection solutions in all therapeutic areas, has secured $3.4 million of financing.
Liquidity:
- Web site performance measurement company Keynote Systems, Inc., of San Mateo, says it's bought NetRaker, a privately-held company based in Mountain View which sells online customer experience management software.
- Electronic design automation software maker Cadence Design Systems, Inc., of San Jose, says it's buying Neolinear, Inc., a privately held company based in Pittsburgh, Pa. Neolinear makes software used in designing products for the consumer and communications markets.
- San Jose-based NetIQ Corp. says it's signed an agreement to buy the WebPosition product line and business of FirstPlace Software, Inc., of Orlando, Fla.
Main Dish:
- Lindows is changing their name. and while M$oft is certainly no lamb in this matter, the name "Lindows" is clearly a play on M$oft's trademark. If I was M$oft, I'd be going after them with everything I had in order to protect my trademark, and if I was Lindows I would be licking my wounds after doing something that was pretty dumb to begin with and moving on.
http://www.lindows.com/lindows_michaelsminutes.php
- M$oft released code as open source, definitely a first for them.
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1081279083.html
- the anti-nanotech enviromentalist activist crowd was licking their chops when an obscure study about the effect of buckyballs on fish came out. Let the backlash begin.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_nanobot_archive.html#108119067165072662
- check out Channel 9 on MSDN... it's group blogging in realtime. (I hate the fact that for all the criticism I heap on the Redmond Crew, I also can't help but admire them.)
http://channel9.msdn.com/
- something that is not given a lot of credit to, Google's operating system that manages data across a 100,000 node network. It's a fascinating look at what has to be one of the largest computing grids in existance today.
http://blog.topix.net/archives/000016.html
- DoCoMo is launching a study to look at how mobile phones have changed business and social customs and processes.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1353
- Maybe Real Networks doesn't have anyone to blame but themselves?
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62617,00
- another experiment with online social networking (by the way, this one is alot more scientific than the one I did!).
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4655
- the state of venture capital
http://www.tjacobi.com/archives/the_state_of_venture_capital.html
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