Rising Tech Company, With New Venture Capital, Moving Headquarters to Austin
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By L.A. Lorek, San Antonio Express-News  Feb. 9--One of San Antonio's youngest technology companies, Click  Forensics, just landed $5 million in venture capital, but the company will  move its headquarters to Austin.
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In just 20 years, the company went from a fledgling startup to a global player in technology.
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Big opportunities await patient investors in nanotech, cleantech, and robotics.
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An acquisition focuses on a market with strong growth potential.
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Global technology and consulting firm Computer Sciences Corp. is relocating its headquarters to Falls Church from El Segundo, Calif., making it one of the largest companies based in the Washington area.
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Investors give funding to storage company specializing in online user-generated media to expand B2B delivery service.
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Ed Walsh, formerly of EMC and Avamar Technologies, is trying to draw more attention to the virtualization start-up.
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(InfoWorld) - A venture capital firm has given a $10 million boost to a Swedish company that could soon be in the competitive crosshairs of Google and Microsoft. Swedish venture company Northzone Ventures will help Xcerion AB emerge from stealth mode to launch its Web-based OS and related marketplace for hosted software later this year, said Xcerion CEO Daniel Arthursson, in an interview with the IDG News Service Monday. The company already has some big-name investors backing it, including one of the original architects of Windows NT and a former Microsoft general manager, Lou Perazzoli, and former Microsoft CFO John Connors. Arthursson said Xcerion, which was formed in 2001, set up an office in Seattle two years ago, and company founders began networking in the area to gain the support of the former Microsoft executives. Xcerion has developed an OS that works from within a browser, which developers can use to build Web-based versions of existing software or new applications quickly and without having to build separate versions for different computer OSes, he said. The company also will host the applications and make them available in an online marketplace. Users can choose to either run ad-supported versions of the applications for free, or pay a small yearly fee -- about $5 or $10 per year -- to run them is ad-free, Arthursson said. The company will manage subscriptions for third-party vendors and give them about 80 percent or 90 percent of the subscription revenue, while keeping a small percentage for its hosting and management services, he said. "If you [look at] the current marketplace, there are probably only about 50 to 300 applications that are the main ones people use today on their desktop computers," he said. "If you can recreate these and use it within our own OS, people won't have to use those applications on the desktop and can stop buying licensed software." Users also can run applications built on Xcerion's XML Internet OS when they are offline, Arthursson said. Any information saved when they are running the application offline will be immediately updated to the online version when they reconnect to the Internet. Xcerion is hoping to do for Web-based business application development what Microsoft did for applications development on the desktop, Arthursson said. "In some sense, we're working in the same direction [as Microsoft]," he said. Google also has promoted itself as a platform on which developers can build Web applications, but so far the company's services have not really caught on with consumers, not business customers. Arthursson said he hopes Xcerion will partner with many of Microsoft's ISV partners so they can offer versions of their software online. He said he expects ads sold for applications offered through Xcerion's marketplace will likely be the No. 1 source of revenue for the company, while subscription services managed for third-party applications will be its second biggest revenue stream. Microsoft, too, has been ramping up its strategy to offer Web-based applications. When Xcerion launches its Internet OS -- which is expected by the end of the third calendar quarter -- it also will launch its own Web-based office productivity suite that will run on the OS. The suite will include a word-processing application, a spreadsheet-application, a presentation application similar to Microsoft PowerPoint and an e-mail and calendar application, Arthursson said. The differentiator between Xcerion's productivity application and Google Apps from the search vendor is the ability for it to run when a user is offline, he said. Microsoft, too, is said to be developing a Web-based version of its Office suite, but has not officially made an announcement about the product.
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Bee Staff Writer. The high-tech ground is shifting underfoot again, amid rumblings of a new Silicon Valley alliance that would let owners of TiVo Inc.
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A company whose virtualization software lets Windows programs run on Mac OS X will soon make the move to the more demanding server market.
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New corporate entity and development center
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Entrepreneurs, coders and more from some of Silicon Valley's brightest startups converge at BarCampBlock in Palo Alto, California.
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One new stock has left quite a footprint.
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Microsoft is building a new data center in San Antonio. But in Silicon Valley, it's taking a more direct expansion route by acquiring two IT facilities that it currently leases from Savvis Inc.
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By Sal Pizarro, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 16--San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed was feeling bullish on Silicon Valley's future at the Wednesday groundbreaking for a new building at Cadence Design Systems' campus in North San Jose.
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Jaxtr is the latest in a new crop of VoIP start-ups that is attracting venture capital.
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Firm follows AOL as second high-tech company to depart recently from Washington region.