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Framehawk Selected as Finalist for 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award - Framehawk, Inc., an innovative start-up providing fast, secure mobile access to enterprise applications, today announced it has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's Top… Full

How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers - WHEN the e-mail came out of the blue last summer, offering a shot as a programmer at a San Francisco start-up, Jade Dominguez, 26, was living off credit card debt in a rental… Full

OGL Partners With Operation Homefront To Support Wounded Warriors And Their Families - MOGL, the leading restaurant loyalty program, today announced that it has partnered with Operation Homefront - California, a field office of the national nonprofit organization… Full

edo Interactive partners with publicly traded payment processor - Nashville founded card-linked offers provider edo Interactive has joined up with publicly traded Global Payments to launch a new pilot program it was announced today. The program… Full

PowerInbox Makes Games Work Inside Email, Launches Contest for Developers - PowerInbox today launched the Games in Email contest for game developers who integrate their software, which allows games to work inside email. Full

RQx Pharmaceuticals and Genentech Enter Drug Discovery Collaboration to Develop Novel Drug Compounds - RQx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a drug discovery collaboration with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY), for… Full

VMware to Acquire Virsto - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virsto® Software, a… Full

Is Jon Carder from Mars? The Contrarian Views of Mogl’s Founding CEO - The Mogl headquarters in San Diego is designed around two long tables with dozens of workstations, where staffers manage different aspects of the company’s business—a… Full

Fundly Launches Promotion For Thon Fundraisers - Fundly, a platform that powers national and global social fundraising campaigns for organizations like Teach for America, Habitat for Humanity and Children's Miracle Network,… Full

Mirna Therapeutics Presents Preclinical Data on Lead Product Candidate MRX34 at Keystone Conference - Mirna Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering microRNA (miRNA) replacement therapies for cancer, announced that new preclinical data from its lead product candidate… Full

Bunchball Gamification Bounces into Salesforce - Salesforce is one of the biggest cloud computing service providers on the Web, offering everything from customer relationship management (CRM) to help desk software for businesses… Full

SalesPortal’s New Leadership Reflects Enterprise Strategy - SalesPortal the first partnership marketing network for enterprises using contact centers as a strategic customer engagement channel, today announced executive team changes to… Full

Storage Magazine Names Virsto Software-Defined Storage 'Product of the Year' Finalist - Virsto for vSphere Storage Hypervisor Recognized for Improving Performance and Reducing Storage Capacity Consumption Full

Bunchball — not just fun and games - It was Wii, the gaming console, that made Rajat Paharia into one of those people who waits in line at 4 a.m. after Thanksgiving Day. Full

MOGL Goes on a Mission to Fight Hunger - MOGL, a locally based restaurant loyalty service, recently announced that the company donated 200,000 meals through their Meal for a Meal Program to Feeding America. Full

Galera Therapeutics Inks $11M - Galera Therapeutics Inc., a developer of drugs targeting oxygen metabolic pathways in cancer, fibrosis and other human diseases, has raised $11 million Series A funding. Full

Bunchball Shows Off The ‘Rock Stars’ Of Gamification - Bunchball rolled out what it called the “rock stars” of gamification on Tuesday at an event in San Francisco. Gamification is a service that Bunchball offers to clients… Full

AirPR opens its startup/PR match-up service to VC and angel portfolios, lets them skip a 1,300-long queue. - PR is a contentious issue in the tech media. Whether that’s really justified or not, there’s no denying that just like any other industry, there are good PR reps and… Full

SalesPortal Wins 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Global Award - SalesPortal has won Red Herring's 2012 Top 100 Global Award, a prestigious recognition honoring the year’s most audacious and far-reaching private technology companies and… Full

With New Antibiotic in Hand, RQx Pharmaceuticals Looks for Partner - The genesis of San Diego’s RQx Pharmaceuticals began in 2010, with a chance encounter by two strangers at Zumbar Coffee & Tea in Sorrento Valley. Full

Virsto Leads Software Defined Storage Market With Accelerating Corporate, Customer, Partner and Product Momentum - Virsto Software, an innovative provider of VM-centric storage hypervisor software, today announced continued momentum, increased customer and partner traction and record revenues… Full

Interactive Email Platform Providers PowerInbox And ActivePath Join Forces, Raise $10 Million Series A For New, Combined Company - PowerInbox, an email platform company which offers interactive email apps for consumers and marketers, has raised a $10 million Series A round jointly led by Atlas Venture, Longworth… Full

Bunchball’s CEO: Enterprise Gamification Grows - What would you do if you had to explain the value proposition of your industry every time you went to work? Full

MOGL Wins ‘Best Food App’ of 2012 by Food & Beverage Magazine - MOGL, the engaging and seamless restaurant loyalty platform that eliminates the need for coupons, punch cards, mobile payments and QR codes, today announced that that it was named… Full

AirXpanders Announces Preliminary Results From Two Clinical Studies That Show Breast Reconstruction Patients Completed Tissue Expansion With AeroForm(TM) Patient-Controlled Tissue Expander in 17 Days on Average - AirXpanders Inc., a company developing novel technology for women who require tissue expansion for breast reconstruction following a mastectomy, today announced that preliminary… Full

Mirna Therapeutics receives $34.5M financing - Biopharmaceutical company Mirna Therapeutics Inc. has completed a $34.5 million Series C round of financing. Full

Zuberance Named an AlwaysOn Global 250 Company - Zuberance, the leading social media marketing company powering millions of authentic Social Recommendations for brands on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and elsewhere across the… Full

Virsto Named Finalist of 2012 Storage Virtualization & Cloud Awards - Virsto Software, an innovative provider of VM-centric storage hypervisor software, today announced that its Virsto for vSphere product has been named a finalist for the 2012 Storage… Full

NumberFire Gets Scientific About Fantasy Football Picks - Football season is upon us and that means many of you are making your fantasy football picks. While ESPN, Yahoo and others provide data and statistics on players to help you make… Full

Getaround Raises $13.9M Series A Led By Menlo Ventures, Launches Getaway For Managed Car Rentals - Peer-to-peer car sharing service — and former TechCrunch Disrupt winner — Getaround just raised $13.9 million in new funding to expand into new markets and improve… Full

Framehawk Mobilizes Enterprise Apps With Less Pain - You can mobilize enterprise apps without sacrificing security or end user experience, Framehawk says. Check out how the technology works in this video interview. Full

Next Valley View: Cloud, Baseball IT, And More - Tune in May 23 for the next episode of our live Web TV series, including chats with execs from Framehawk and Cloudability, plus Bill Schlough, CIO of the 2010 World Series Champion… Full

Why Gamification Can’t Be Stopped - From recycling, to personal health, to corporate culture, gamification is seeping into all aspects of everyday life. The practice of applying game mechanics to non-game contexts… Full

Fundly Puts Social Media to Work for Your Cause - Debates have been raging for months now about the contributions that social media is making to disaster response. The American Red Cross even teamed up last week with Dell to… Full

Sport & Health Activating Word of Mouth, Powered by Zuberance - Sport & Health, Washington D.C.’s largest family of health clubs with 24 locations in Virginia, Maryland, and D.C., is turning its enthusiastic members into a Word of… Full

Aldea Pharmaceuticals, Inc, based in Palo Alto, CA, raises $1.3M - Aldea Pharmaceuticals, Inc reported today in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission it had raised $1.3M in new funding. Companies file this special form with… Full

Zuberance Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnMedia Top 100 Winner - Zuberance recognized for creating new opportunities in marketing, branding, advertising, and publishing. Zuberance, the leading enterprise social media company focused on Brand… Full

Zuberance Turning Enthusiastic Webroot Customers into Powerful Word of Mouth Marketing Force - Zuberance, the leading brand advocacy company, is turning highly-satisfied customers of Webroot, a leader in delivering Internet security as a service, into a powerful Word of… Full

EDO Interactive Taps New VP of Brands and Marketing Development - Interactive marketing services company EDO Interactive has hired Sears Holding Corp. and PepsiCo veteran Jeffrey Fagel as its new VP of brands and marketing development, effective… Full

Venture Capital Deals - Uber, a San Francisco-based personal transportation company that lets users order cars via mobile phones, has raised $32 million in Series B funding. Menlo Ventures, Goldman Sachs… Full

Framehawk Raises $11 Million in Series B Funding - Framehawk, Inc., today announced it has closed $11 million in Series B financing from Matrix Partners and existing investors. This new round of financing will help the stealth-mode… Full

Framehawk Inc. Raises $11 million - In its second round of venture funding, Framehawk Inc. raised $11 million. The San Francisco company, started in 2008, makes business software for mobile devices. Full

Matrix Partners Leads $11m Round for Framehawk - Enterprise mobility software start-up Framehawk has closed $11m in Series B financing from venture firm Matrix Partners and existing investors. Full

Meet San Diego’s Newest Restaurant Mogul - A local entrepreneur nabs $2.4 million for a new online restaurant loyalty venture Full

PowerInbox Runs Facebook, Twitter & Groupon Inside Email - PowerInbox lets email users run applications inside Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail or Outlook. The startup, which launches Tuesday, is also announcing that it raised $1.1 million… Full

EDO Interactive Announces $20 Million Investment Co-Led by Baird Venture Partners and VantagePoint Capital Partners - Funding to accelerate market deployment of hyper-targeted digital deals and incentives (Prewards®) by financial institutions and digital publishers. Full

Zuberance, the Leading Social Marketing Company Focused on Brand Advocates, Named Top 50 Startup at TiECon 2011 - Zuberance, the leading social marketing company that drives millions of brand and product recommendations on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and elsewhere across the social web,… Full

Sales Portal Rings in the New Year with Major New Client on Their Platform - Sales Portal, a first of its kind Lead Generation auction platform where Marketers can buy and sell live phone call transfers from Lead Sellers over to Lead Buyers, is pleased… Full

Edo Interactive Culls $8.5M for Payment Cards with Digital Rewards - Edo Interactive — a Nashville, Tenn.-based digital marketing company that provides payment cards with direct marketing opportunities — announced today that it has… Full

Bunchball Gamifies Tweets With Its New Nitro Connector for Twitter - Bunchball's Gamification Engine Adds a Built-In Link to Twitter; Now Companies Can Motivate Users to Post Tweets That Support Brands and Campaigns. Full