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New Media Infrastructure Company Ankeena Networks Raises $16 Million
Ankeena Networks , a Santa Clara, CA-based provider of new media infrastructure solutions, has raised approximately $16 million in new VC funding, according to a regulatory filing (via peHUB ). No word about who backed the company with this third round of financing, but Ankeena Networks was listed by one of its main business partners , Juniper Networks as one of their investments when they announced their $50 million fund recently, so that’s one name at least. Ankeena had previously raised $15.2 million from Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund and
TechCrunch - Friday, March 19, 2010
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8 Ways to Better Understand the Internet of Things
We've also written about ThingD, which is creating a registry of things, as well as REZZ.IT, which is building a business based on the idea that "things have a network and their own audience." 'Communication Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT' It is "a platform-agnostic system which can connect almost any networked object to the The world's second Internet of Things Conference is scheduled to take place at the end of November in Tokyo. The deadline for papers was just extended to June 1 - which gave us an idea.
ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Today in Most Innovative Companies
Daily news of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including Cisco, Spotify, Microsoft, and HP. Cisco : It seems every tech-company CEO has raced to the blogosphere to respond to the FCC's National Broadband Plan. Cisco chair John Chambers isn't far behind Google 's Eric Schmidt (who recently compared the initiative to the 1960s space race ) and others in voicing strong support for the plan. "If If the U.S. military ranked 17th in the world, you can bet that as a nation we would make strengthening our armed forces a national priority," Chambers said in a blog
Fast Company - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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  • Cisco: By 2013 Video Will Be 90 Percent Of All Consumer IP Traffic And 64 Percent of Mobile
    By 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte , according to a new forecast of IP traffic issued by Cisco today. Cisco forecasts that 90 percent of consumer IP traffic (which makes up the majority of total IP traffic) will be video in 2013. Cisco also predicts that mobile data traffic will also be overtaken by video, reaching 64 percent of total mobile IP traffic by 2013. What is a zettabyte? It is a trillion gigabytes, dummy. (I
    TechCrunch - Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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  • How Cisco Created Their Own Talent Incubator
    thoughtful team leader can use straitened circumstances to help strong performers gain access to stretch assignments or cross-functional roles that boost their skills and expand their professional network of colleagues and clients — opportunities that normally would not be available to them. Cisco Systems is leveraging the recession to solve two of its most pressing problems — engaging top talent and satisfying the company's need for strategic innovation. While there's been a lot of discussion about how the recession may be over , to many organizations and their employees, the view ahead is still one tough slog.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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  • The Shopping Spree Continues; Cisco Buys ScanSafe For $183 Million
    Cisco has added another company to its coffers with the acquisition of ScanSafe for $183 million. few weeks ago, Cisco announced a $2.9 billion acquisition of mobile networking infrastructure provider Starent Networks , which followed the $3 billion acquisition of video video-conferencing company Tandberg in late September. A ScanSafe provides software-as- a-service (SaaS) Web security solutions for large and small businesses.
    TechCrunch - Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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  • It’s Official: Cisco Buys Pure Digital (Flip Video) For $590 Million
    Earlier this month we reported that Cisco Systems had acquired Pure Digital Technologies, the makers of the popular Flip Video cameras. Today, Cisco officially announced the deal, which was for $590 million in stock. (We Pure Digital will become part of Cisco’s consumer business group, which includes Linksys home routers and set-top boxes from its acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta. We had the price at “north of $500 million). Cisco is calling the Flip cameras a new form of “visual networking,” whatever that means.
    TechCrunch - Thursday, March 19, 2009
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  • Pure Digital (Flip Video) In Acquisition Discussions; Cisco May Be Buying (Updated)
    One interested buyer is rumored to be Cisco. One potential buyer, says a source, is Cisco, which has been more active recently in acquisitions. Ned Hooper , Cisco’s chief M&A guy, is said to be actively looking to buy or invest in consumer startups that offer high-bandwith-using services. Update : We’re getting another source that says this “is San Francisco based Pure Digital Technologies , the seven year old company behind the Flip Video line of video cameras, is considering a sale of the company, multiple sources have confirmed. Flip cameras
    TechCrunch - Friday, March 6, 2009
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  • Skype For SIP Interoperability With Cisco Gear Confirmed
    GigaOm last night already predicted an announcement was forthcoming, but now it's official: Skype has announced that the beta version of Skype for SIP has been certified as interoperable with Cisco's Unified Communications 500 Series for Small Business . This This will enable SMBs who manage their networking and communications needs with the Cisco solution to communicate more efficiently by directing their outbound calls to mobiles and landlines over Skype's VoIP service. The The integrated solution will also allow employees to receive inbound calls from Skype users (now over 480 million strong according to the release).
    TechCrunch - Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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  • Cisco - Enterprise 2.0
    Stories, Part One: Cisco Goes All Out on Enterprise 2.0 points us to: Mike Gotta - Cisco: Learning Internally Before Delivering Externally and Money's Cisco's display of strength [Martin] De Beer a year ago set up an internal wiki called I-Zone that has so far generated 400 business ideas. "Better His team measures which notions draw the most activity and cherry-picks a handful to unveil at Cisco's quarterly leadership-development program. I don't know how I missed this, but thanks to Bill Ives for covering it on the FastForward blog - More Web 2.0 Better still,"
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 4, 2007
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  • Cisco's Curious Week
    Last week was a curious one for Cisco Systems. As described in Seeing What's Next , Cisco's history traces back to disruptive innovation. At the core of Cisco's disruptive march over the past two decades is the Internet Protocol. Cisco started by using IP to disrupt the transmission of basic data, then went to mission-critical data, then began to focus on voice and The company's public move to break into the server market and a splashy consumer electronics acquisition seem like deviations from the company's historical strategy of thoughtfully managing its disruptive growth.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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  • Top Ten Digital M&A Deals For 2010
    Google could rebrand and supercharge the box with lots of cool new search features, interactivity, gaming, PVR functionality, a tier of Google-branded channels featuring popular YouTube content, plus add several tiers of channels from major studios, broadcast networks and cable networks. Cisco acquires LinkedIn Editor’s note : As the capital markets heat up and the economy continues to rebound, the deal flow is starting to open up again. We’ve already given you our top ten IPO candidates for 2010 .
    TechCrunch - Sunday, January 3, 2010
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  • Cisco Shells Out $44.5 Million For Set-Top Box Unit Of Chinese Cable Company DVN
    Cisco is at it again. This is peanuts compared to Cisco’s latest acquisitions including the recent acquisition of ScanSafe for $183 million. few weeks ago, Cisco announced a $2.9 billion acquisition of mobile networking infrastructure provider Starent Networks , which followed the $3 billion acquisition of video video-conferencing company Tandberg in late September. The company is acquiring the set-top box business of one of China’s largest cable companies, DVN, for $44.5 million.
    TechCrunch - Monday, November 2, 2009
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