Permabit, a leading company in the development and delivery of Data Optimized Storage, has announced the next evolution of Albiero, the only embedded high performance OEM data optimization software. This update will be providing mainstream access to data optimization technology as well as expand the Primary Data Deduplication and Compression to standard Linux platforms. Albiero ...

CertiVox,a startup developing information security infrastructure-as-a- Service (IaaS), has raised $1.5 million in its Series A funding, backed by Pentech Ventures and Octopus Investments. Based in London, CertiVox provides on-demand encryption key generation, management and content distribution for the cloud. The technology offered by this web 2.0 cloud security company enables enterprises secure email and transferred ...

Tabula Inc., a privately held fabless semiconductor company and developer of the ABAX family of 3D Programmable Logic Devices (3PLDs), has announced that it’s raised the biggest amount in the decade by any chip company (as the company claims!). The company has raised a whopping $108 million in series D funding from the Crosslink Capital ...

Skype Technologies, the giant provider of internet based international calling has appointed former McAfee Inc. finance chief Jonathan Chadwick as its chief financial officer. The appointment was made public by Skype on its website as a part of its team. Prior to him, Adrian Dillon was Skype’s CFO whose appointment was announced in March 2010. ...

Cloud industry big shots and big network owners, including Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon and Yahoo, have formed and joined a standard setting Open Networking Foundation with the aim to promote Software-Defined Networking (SDN) that makes networks programmable like computers. Additionally, they have also invited 17 other companies to join the foundation, which include ...

Total Immersion, a provider of commercial augmented reality platform has raised a funding round of $5.5 Million by a group led by Intel Capital, including its existing investors Partech, iSource and Elaia Partners. This has made the total funding amount to over $11 million, which will be used for further development of the D’Fusion platform, expanding ...

Juniper Networks has announced its participation in the Eclipse Foundation, forwarding its steps in open cloud development. The Eclipse Foundation is a leading open source community, having millions of users working towards an open development platform and complementary products & services. By joining this community, Juniper has extended its open software development arm and hence capabilities ...

McAfee, which was acquired by Intel last year, has announced  the latest acquisition, Sentrigo, a privately owned database security company for an undisclosed amount. Sentrigo is leading provider of database security and compliance, assessment, monitoring and intrusion prevention solutions and will enhance McAfee’s database security portfolio. The company has recently got a funding of $9.5 ...

Computer software security company AVG Technologies has got a funding round of $235 Million as a part of new credit agreement with J.P Morgan and Morgan Stanley. With this agreement, the company has got the five-year term lean in its first-ever capital markets transaction.The financing will be used by AVG to realize strategic growth opportunities ...

A German blog, Androidnews has recently posted the screenshots of mockup pages of Amazon Android App Store that show the Amazon undercutting the Android App Market by offering apps at reduced prices. As reported by the blogger, he typed http://www.amazon.com/apps for some fun and surprisingly that led him to the microsite, which now directs to ...