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<title><![CDATA[Facebook Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering ]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 421,233,615 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $38 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on May 18, 2012, under the symbol &quot;FB.&quot; ]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:30:14 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Avista Buys Top-Co]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Avista Capital Partners (&ldquo;Avista&rdquo;), a leading private equity firm, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Top-Co Inc. (&ldquo;Top-Co&rdquo; or &ldquo;the Company&rdquo;), a privately-held, leading designer and manufacturer of specialized casing cementing products used in the drilling and completion of oil, natural gas and geothermal wells.]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:29:06 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Back Mobile Ad Startup Drawbridge]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Drawbridge Raises $6.5M in Series A Funding from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins to Bridge the Gap Between Desktop and Mobile Advertising]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:26:44 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ZiLift Inks $7M Investment]]></title>
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<![CDATA[ZiLift, an Aberdeen, Scotland-based provider of artificial lift solutions for the oil and gas industry, announced today that it has received a growth capital investment of GBP 4 million (US$7 million) from new and lead investor Energy Technology Ventures — a GE-NRG Energy-ConocoPhillips venture — and existing investors Energy Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Viking Venture, Jebsen Asset Management and Investinor.]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:23:04 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[EMC ACQUIRES XTREMIO]]></title>
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<![CDATA[  EMC Corporation today announced that it has acquired privately held XtremIO. Widely regarded as one of the world&rsquo;s premier Flash storage architecture pioneers, Herzliya, Israel-based XtremIO provides an added dimension as EMC® continues to enhance and broaden its world-leading Flash storage portfolio.]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 15:18:45 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Just-Eat Secures its Largest Funding Round Led by Vitruvian Partners]]></title>
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<![CDATA[London based Just-Eat, the world&rsquo;s largest online takeaway ordering service, today announced the closure of a financing round of $64m (EUR48m) led by funds managed by Vitruvian Partners, a European private equity firm, with Index Ventures, Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures also participating.]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 April 2012 12:34:29 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Watson to Acquire Actavis]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: WPI) and Actavis Group today jointly announced that Watson has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Actavis for approximately 4.25 billion euros ($5.61 billion) upfront. As a result of this acquisition, Watson will become the third largest global generics company with 2012 anticipated pro forma revenue of approximately $8 billion.]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 April 2012 11:55:08 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BranchOut Closes Series C Led by Mayfield]]></title>
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<![CDATA[The continued adoption of BranchOut by global users spurred another round of funding, as BranchOut has closed $25 million in Series C financing led by Mayfield Fund. Previous investors Accel, Norwest Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures also participated in the round. This financing brings BranchOut&rsquo;s total funding to $49 million.]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 April 2012 15:13:44 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Skybox Imaging Secures Series C for Expansion]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Skybox Imaging, an early-stage provider of satellite imagery, video, and big data analytics, today announced that it has raised $70 million in Series C financing led by Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. They join existing investors Khosla Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing the total amount raised to date to $91 million.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 April 2012 12:37:21 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Citrix Acquires Podio]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Collaborative Work Platform Empowers Teams to Move from Simply Talking about Work to Getting It Done. Podio to debut at Citrix Synergy in San Francisco, May 9–11.]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 April 2012 15:22:46 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CloudPassage Lands $14M For Series B ]]></title>
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<![CDATA[CloudPassage™, the leading cloud server security provider, has completed a $14 million series B financing round, bringing the company&rsquo;s total funding to $21M. The round was led by Tenaya Capital, with participation from existing investors Benchmark Capital and Musea Ventures.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 April 2012 15:40:19 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dell Announces Intent to Acquire Wyse Technology]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Dell today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, to significantly extend its desktop virtualization offerings. The addition of Wyse will expand Dell's desktop virtualization capabilities and provide new solutions and services opportunities for the full range of Dell's enterprise offerings.]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 2 April 2012 14:27:49 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ATP Capital Re-Brands as Relay Ventures]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Timed with the rebranding initiative is the commencement of a new $150MM mobile fund, a successor to the BlackBerry Partners Fund which was created in 2008. The new fund will continue to be an independently managed, platform agnostic, early stage venture fund with a singular focus on mobile computing.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 March 2012 16:00:06 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buysight Completes $8 million Series B Financing]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Buysight, a leading retargeting and performance display advertising company, announced today that it has received $8 million in its second round of venture capital funding. Existing investors ONSET Ventures and Rembrandt Venture Partners led the Series B round. The latest round takes Buysight's total funding to date to $18 million.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 March 2012 15:58:27 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ClearStory Gets Funding from Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures]]></title>
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<![CDATA[ClearStory Data, a company creating an intuitive new way for users to      conduct self-driven big data exploration, today announced an investment      from Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and a number      of individual investors. ClearStory Data is making it easy to gather and      explore big, diverse, dispersed data from corporate data sources, Hadoop     and the Web for business users to gain quick insights and discover new business opportunities.]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 March 2012 14:04:01 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Avaya Enters Into Agreement to Acquire RADVISION Ltd., Simplifying Video for the Enterprise and &quot;On the Go&quot; Business Users]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Avaya Inc. today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire RADVISION Ltd. (Nasdaq:RVSN), a leading provider of videoconferencing and telepresence technologies over IP and wireless networks. Through this acquisition, Avaya will provide customers a highly integrated and interoperable suite of cost-effective, easy to use, high-definition video collaboration products, with the ability to plug and play multiple mobile devices including Apple iPad® and Google Android™.]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 March 2012 17:04:15 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire NDS]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced its intent to acquire NDS Group Ltd., a leading provider of video software and content security solutions that enable service providers and media companies to securely deliver and monetize new video entertainment experiences.]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 March 2012 17:03:21 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Yammer Raises $85 Million in Financing Round Led by DFJ Growth]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Yammer, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise social networks, today announced it has received $85 million in its fifth round of funding, bringing its total financing to $142 million. DFJ Growth, part of the core team at leading venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, led the round, with participation by new investorsMeritech Capital Partners; Capricorn Investment Group LLC, the investment arm of Jeff Skoll; Khosla Ventures; and CrunchFund.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 February 2012 17:20:01 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Lightwire]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Lightwire, Inc. Headquartered in Allentown, Penn., with offices in Santa Clara, Calif., Lightwire develops advanced optical interconnect technology for high-speed networking applications. ]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 February 2012 18:12:47 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Videoplaza secures $12M in funding to accelerate global expansion]]></title>
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<![CDATA[Videoplaza, the leading global sell side ad management platform for video, announced today that it has received Series B US$12million in funding from Innovacom and Qualcomm Ventures. ]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 7 February 2012 16:41:27 GMT-07:00</pubDate>
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