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Cloudflare, Backed By Qualcomm Ventures, Eyes IPO

socalTECH

San Francisco-based Cloudflare , which provides a service which helps web site and web application developers manage caching and access to their websites, protecting against cyberattacks, distributed denial of service (DDoS)--and which is backed by Qualcomm--is heading towards an IPO. billion.

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Talk of Broadcom Buyout of Symantec Puts Broader IT Focus Into View

Xconomy

The potential acquisition, which was first reported Tuesday by Bloomberg citing anonymous sources, represents Broadcom’s continued (NASDAQ: AVGO ) interest in broadening its business beyond semiconductors.

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How FatCloud Is Bringing NoSQL To The World of Microsoft

socalTECH

It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development. The company was actually born in Los Angeles, out of a company which was a.NET development organization. Every time they did a distributed, web-based project, they realized they were reinventing the wheel.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Both Sides of the Table

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. And I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management company.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 4.0 – Wireless is the next big thing – hurry!

Frank Addante

(Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. It’s not just that we’re connected to the Internet at higher speeds and for longer; we’re actually always tethered to the web. Today we’re online 3.1