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New Media Infrastructure Company Ankeena Networks Raises $16 Million
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. million from Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund and Trinity Ventures, so this brings its total to a healthy $31.2 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 ).
TechCrunch
- Friday, March 19, 2010
Most Innovative Companies - Health Care
Cisco Systems
Cisco has been positioning itself as a leader in the telemedicine space by partnering with insurance giant UnitedHealth Group to install mobile virtual clinics in under-served areas in the U.S. Unlike other telemedicine companies, American Well partners with insurers, including Blue Cross and UnitedHealth Group, to pair patients with physicians via Web consults. Sponsored by
Fast Company
- Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Sonos Confirms $25 Million Investment From Index Ventures
And Index Ventures Partner Mike Volpi , a former CIsco executive, has joined their board of directors.
As recently as 2007 he ran an $11 billion routing and access products busines for Cisco. Flip sold to Cisco . Sonos, it seems, is Sonos has now confirmed the Index Ventures investment we reported two days ago. The company has taken an additional $25 million in capital from Index, raising the total raised by the company to $65 million .
TechCrunch
- Friday, March 12, 2010
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Are Cisco's Committees a Better Way to Innovate?
An article in the Wall Street Journal last week about a radical organizational experiment at Cisco Systems kicked off a fierce debate on this topic. The article described how Cisco has moved from a traditional top-down hierarchical structure to a more amorphous structure build around close to 60 different committees.
The more amorphous structure allows Cisco to bring together leaders from across its business to tackle Most observers agree that large companies aren't optimally organized to innovate . What's less clear is a better alternative to current organizational
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, August 12, 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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Salesforce.com and Cisco Partner to Provide Cloud-Based Customer Services
Salesforce.com and Cisco announced a partnership today that brings together Salesforce.com's online customer service software with Cisco's strengths in IP Telephony. The offering integrates Salesforce.com Service Cloud 2 to Cisco's Unified Contact Center, providing an extension for Salesforce.com offerings. The partnership further demonstrates Salesforce.com efforts to partner with third parties The service, called "Customer Interaction Cloud," is designed to provide a complete, cloud-based customer service offering for small to medium sized businesses.
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ReadWriteWeb
- Monday, October 5, 2009
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The Top 100 Networked Venture Capitalists
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Do venture investors with the biggest and best networks end up producing the best returns? An academic paper from a few years ago by Yael Hochberg, Alexander Ljungqvist, and Yang Lu titled “Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance” (embedded at the bottom of this post) suggests that is the case.
TechCrunch
- Saturday, June 27, 2009
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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
In this guest post, Kelly Porter , an M&A expert at Woodside Capital Partners , proposes ten digital media deals he’d like to see. None of the companies mentioned in this editorial are clients of Woodside Capital Partners.
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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Source: Jajah In Middle Of Bidding War That Could Drive Price Up To $400 Million
Details are scarce at the moment, but Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Telefónica Europe (O2) are said to be looking to buy the venture capital-backed company for a price ranging from $200M to $400M. Jajah went on to raise $28 million in VC funding from investors like Sequoia Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, Deutsche Telekom and Intel.
It’s odd to see O2 mentioned as one There appears to be a good old bidding war going on for another VoIP startup, Jajah , following yesterday’s news about the acquisition of Gizmo5 by Google, a source in Silicon Valley with knowledge of the talks informs us.
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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Microsoft Invests Millions In Innovative Teaching Practices Research
Microsoft today announced that its Partners in Learning program is sponsoring the Innovative Teaching and Learning (ITL) Research project, which is led by non-profit R&D organization SRI International .
The ACT21S research was developed through a collaboration between Cisco, Intel and Microsoft.
Tags: Company & Product Profiles Innovative Teaching The global research program intends to “broadly investigate” the effects that information and communications technology has in transforming teaching and learning at the school and education system level.
TechCrunch
- Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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Cisco Leads $27 Million Round For Aravo
Aravo, a SAAS supplier chain management tool just raised a whopping $27 million in Series D funding led by Cisco, with other investors participating. In addition, Cisco’s web meeting and collaboration platform, WebEx, will be integrated with Aravo’s Supplier Information Management (SIM) to facilitate real-time collaboration between buyers and suppliers.
Investors that participated in the latest round include This latest investment brings Aravo’s total funding to $50 million. Aravo says the new funding will be used to develop new products and to expand sales, marketing,
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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Verizon Turns Up The Heat On Its Fiber Network
The trial was conducted with partners Juniper Networks, NEC Corporation of America, and Finisar. This is quite a jump from the memories I have of a 2400 baud modem, and telephone lines that were not very clean. The announcement came as Cisco was preparing a major announcement for Tuesday, believed to be its entry in the 100G race. The good thing is that we now have some competition, with Google and Cisco pushing, and Verizon responding. The news is good. No doubt prompted by the stimulus money to be had, but also by the news from Google. (I
Lockergnome Blog Network
- Monday, March 8, 2010
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