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Incorporated www.rwbaird.com/bay o Sunnyvale-Based SiBeam Lands $36.5 Million in Fourth Round o San Francisco-based Posterous Raises $4.4 Million o San Francisco's eXo Raises $6 Million to Expand U.S. Expansion o New Enterprise Associates Names Ron Bernal as Venture Partner o Global Network Initiative Names Susan Morgan as Executive Director > International Accolades Despite Universal Challenges o Briefly Noted: Morrison & Foerster, Google - DISH Network, Agilent Technologies - Bruker _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Baird Offers a Brighter Future for the Best People --Capital Connection’10 – May 19-20, 2010 --Product Management University San Jose, March 11-12 --PR Agency Searching for Account Director/Supervisor --Consumer Tech PR Agency Searching for AE or SAE --Product Manager – Santa Clara --Smart Energy News - Subscribe Now! --Advertise on Bay Area Tech Wire and Reach More than 6,000 Subscribers Ad Descriptions Below Briefly Noted Section Post Job/Event/Marketplace ad: http://www.bayareatechwire.com _____________________________________________ o Sunnyvale-Based SiBeam Lands $36.5 Million in Fourth Round Sunnyvale, Calif. -- SiBeam, a Sunnyvale-based high-speed wireless communication platforms, said on Tuesday that I thas raised $36.5 million in its fourth round of funding, led by Foundation Capital. Previous investors U.S. Ventures Partners (USVP) and New Enterprise Associates, and new backers Lux Capital, Hatteras Funds. Best Buy and Cisco also contributed. "With these funds, we can grow our business toward profitability in the burgeoning wireless A/V market,” said John LeMoncheck, the president and CEO of SiBeam. Founded in 2004, SiBeam has developed 60 GHz semiconductor technology for the wireless transmission of high-definition (HD) video, audio and data. http://www.sibeam.com http://finance.yahoo.com/news/SiBEAM-Inc-Secures-365-bw-1493615205.html?x=0&.v=1  _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-based Posterous Raises $4.4 Million San Francisco -- Posterous, the San Francisco-based developer of a simple blogging platform that lets publishers upload new content through email, said that it has raised $4.4 million in its first round of funding. Investors included Redpoint Ventures, Trinity Ventures and angels including SV Angel, Founder Collective, Lowercase Capital, Brian Pokorny, Aydin Senkut and XG Ventures. Founded in 2008 as a Y Combinator company, Posterous offers a free web publishing platform, designed for ease of use, that counts 12 million unique monthly visitors and 25 million page views. The company also plans to release a premium version of the platform later this year. http://posterous.com/  http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-raises-44m-from-redpoint-ventures-t  _____________________________________________ o San Francisco's eXo Raises $6 Million to Expand U.S. Expansion San Francisco -- eXo, a French provider of Java middleware for cloud services, with U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, said that it has raised $6 million in its first round of funding. Auriga Partners and XAnge Capital participated in the round, which the company will use to accelerate its U.S. operations, including ramping up marketing and sales. In addition, eXo has created a new board of directors, naming Bob Bickel -- former vice president of strategy at JBoss and general manager of HP Middleware -- as chairman. eXo's platform is designed to make Java web sites and applications faster to build and easier to deploy. The company opened its first U.S. office in October following a partnership with Red Hat. http://exoplatform.com http://blog.exoplatform.org/2010/03/08/exo-accelerates-u-s-operations-with-6-million-in-financing/  _____________________________________________ o New Enterprise Associates Names Ron Bernal as Venture Partner Menlo Park, Calif. -- New Enterprise Associates (NEA), the Maryland-based venture capital firm focused on IT, healthcare and energy technology companies, on Tuesday named Ron Bernal as a venture partner in its Menlo Park office. Bernal, a former entrepreneur-in-residence with NEA, will work with the firm's enterprise infrastructure and services (EIS), electronics and energy technology teams. Bernal was most recently a partner at Sequel Venture Partners, and is currently a director at NEA portfolio companies Boulder Wind Power, Data Robotics, HelioVolt and ProStor. Earlier in his career, he served as the vice president of operations for the Product Technology Groups and the Service Provider Line of Business at Cisco Systems. http://www.nea.com http://www.nea.com/NewsAndEvents/PressReleases/NewsFromNEA2010/ _____________________________________________ o Global Network Initiative Names Susan Morgan as Executive Director London, England -- The Global Network Initiative (GNI), a year-old organization pushing for Internet privacy rights and the prevention of Internet censorship, on Tuesday named former British Telecommunications (BT) executive Susan Morgan as its first executive director. Morgan expects to join GNI in May, following her role at BT as the head of corporate responsibility strategy, policy and business planning. Still in its infancy, London-based GNI, which is partially supported by companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, currently is focused on increasing its membership and advancing its agenda. "Technology has the potential to dramatically increase access to information and protect personal privacy," said Morgan. "However, increasing demands from governments to limit content, restrict freedom of expression and monitor users represent a worrying threat to human rights." http://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org http://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org/newsandevents/ED_release.php _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| International Accolades Despite Universal Challenges Despite back-to-back challenging years for the M&A marketplace and the toughest economic environment since the Great Depression, Baird’s Investment Banking team garnered international recognition in 2009 for its global capabilities, insightful advice and deep industry sector expertise. To read more, click here |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) Becoming what's believed to be the first major law firm to release a multi-functional app for the iPhone, Morrison & Foerster said that it launched MoFo2Go, a free app designed to inform on-the-go professionals about the firm, its attorneys and its global practice groups. Created by Rubenstein Technology, the app is available at Apple's App Store for use on the iPhone and iPod touch. http://www.mofo.com/resources/press-releases/  (Mountain View, Calif.) Mountain View-based Google is testing a TV and web video programming search service with satellite TV provider DISH Network The Wall Street Journal reported. The service operates on set-top boxes that are running elements of Google's Android operating system, and lets users search both broadcast and online video sources, such as YouTube. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704869304575109912574043580.html?mod=googlenews_wsj  (Santa Clara, Calif.) Santa Clara-based Agilent Technologies said on Tuesday that it will sell three businesses of Palo Alto-based scientific instrumentation company Varian, part of the process of obtaining regulatory approval to acquire Varian. The company is selling two mass spectrometry business and one gas chromatography instruments business to Massachusetts-based Bruker. 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