Start-ups

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now offering a package of resources for start-ups, including AWS credits, training, developer support, a special start-up community forum and special offers from third parties....

GreenWave Reality, a start-up based in Irvine, California, raised $19 million in Series B funding to accelerate the rollout of its Home2Cloud platform through its global partners and scale up...

Mavenir Systems filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The number of shares to be offered and...

SAP Ventures, the independent venture capital firm affiliated with SAP AG, has raised more than US$650 million for a new direct investment fund, SAP Ventures Fund II.  The company has...

IBM agreed to acquire The Now Factory, a privately held provider of analytics software for communications service providers, for an undisclosed sum. The Now Factory, which is based in Dublin,...

Violin Memory raised $162 million in an initial public offering (IPO) of 18 million shares priced at $9 on Friday. Trading of VMEM on the NYSE closed at $7.02, down...

RANOVUS, a start-up based in Ottawa, Ontario, announced $11 million in venture funding for its multi-terabit interconnect solutions for data center and communications networks. RANOVUS’ platform is enabled by the...

F5 Networks agreed to acquire Versafe, a start-up specializing in web anti-fraud, anti-phishing, and anti-malware solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. Versafe, which is based in Tel Aviv Israel, offers...

AT&T and SAP AG (announced an expanded partnership focused on mobile application development, mobile security and management for businesses.  The comprehensive suite of mobile solutions from SAP is now expected...

AT&T has opened its second innovation center in Plano, Texas. The new AT&T Foundry, which is located on a floor above the first facility will help hardware developers by providing...

Splunk, which provides software for real-time operational intelligence, agreed to acquire BugSense, a start-up providing an analytics solution for machine data generated by mobile devices. Financial terms were not disclosed....

Gordon Stitt, the founder and former CEO of Extreme Networks, will be joining Nebula, a start-up focused on the enterprise cloud space, as CEO effective September 23rd. Nebula is developing...

Datapipe, a global provider of managed services and infrastructure for outsourced IT and cloud computing, has acquired Newvem, a start-up specializing in cloud usage analytics and operations optimization. Datapipe said...