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Storage - Thursday, October 2, 2008

HP Pays $360M For SAN's Left Hand Networks

Thumb HP is buying Boulder-based LeftHand Networks for $360M in cash. In better markets, LeftHand may have gone the IPO route but this is a nice deal for the company at this time. Left Hand sells storage virtualization and iSCSI SAN gear. LeftHand software offers storage, backup, and disaster recovery. The software aggregates direct attached storage into a shared SAN. In addition, its SAN/iQ software works with virtual servers, because the product can be packaged with a virtual machine and used as a ... Full Story

Social Networking - Thursday, October 2, 2008

White Label Data Storage's Steek Buys Teen SocNet Amiz.fr

Thumb This deal seems a bit odd. France's data storage firm Steek has about Amiz.fr for an undisclosed amount. The game plan seems to be to push Steek data storage to Amiz.fr users. But couldn't you do that with a partnership? Why marry two startups that ... Full Story

Tech stocks - Thursday, October 2, 2008

Lighten Your Portfolio By Shedding eDiets.com

Thumb Is there comfort to be found in a market that didn't return the gigantic gains from the previous day? The staff at tech:stocker certainly isn't ready to start taking the cash from under the mattress and buy shares in every stock that has taken a bea... Full Story

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Nokia Stays Busy. Buys Oz.com. Invests In Zvents

Wednesday October 1, 2008

Montreal-based mobile messaging firm Oz Communications has been bought by Nokia for an undisclosed amount. Oz has raised $61M from Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Fonds de Solidarite and VantagePoint Venture Partners. In April, Wellington... Full Story

Finding Some Value in ValueClick

Tuesday September 30, 2008

We took the day off yesterday thinking the House was going to pass the bailout and everything would be relatively calm. We were so wrong. Party politics reared its ugly head and instead of passing a bill that would bring some much needed financial s... Full Story

It Takes Two To Tungle. Calendering Firm Raises $5M

Tuesday September 30, 2008

Like many other publishers, your alarm:clock crew is partial to the Mac. One downside is meeting scheduling as our Entourage email client does not schedule well with Outlook users. So something like Tungle sounds nice. Tungle has raised $5M in Serie... Full Story

Wind Turbine Maker Wind Power Raises $37M More After Buying Northern Power.

Tuesday September 30, 2008

I guess we should not be surprised that there is a global shortage for wind turbines. GE says they have a $12M backlog on wind turbine orders. So startups that can deliver would seem to be in a happy place. Barre, VT-based Wind Power Holdings has ra... Full Story

Wireless Tracking Service Skydeck Raises $3M

Monday September 29, 2008

San Mateo's Skydeck has raised $3M in its first round from Saban Capital. It had raised $1M from angels. The company has a simple elevator pitch whereby users can track their cell-phone and landline calls similar to how they track their email. Skyde... Full Story

Globalizing Your Portfolio With Lionbridge

Friday September 26, 2008

While the staff at tech:stocker has mixed political views, one common idea unites us right now: we need a bailout and we needed it yesterday. We actually needed this bailout two weeks ago but our government is certainly not a proactive one, especial... Full Story

Study Buddy SocNet Cramster Raises $3M

Friday September 26, 2008

We know a number of people who have turned to Internet education and find it very natural and appealing. A clear shortcoming is that the tools for online education are still fairly crude. So we buy into the idea of a startup that is investing in a s... Full Story