IDC Health Insights announced the results of the Q1 Leading Indicators in Life Science IT Spending Survey, which polled more than 100 leading life science companies on which life sciences hardware, software and IT services vendors they plan to spend money…
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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Renesas Purchases Fast Logic Portfolio License
April 3, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Renesas has purchased a Fast Logic Portfolio license from The TPL Group, says intellectual property management services Alliacense. Renesas Electronics Corporation, headquarted in Japan, is a supplier of microcontrollers, and a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions including microcontrollers, SoC…
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Bizo Secures $10 Million Series B Funding
April 3, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Bizo has closed a $10 million Series B equity financing expansion round led by Crosslink Capital’s newest partner, David Silverman. Existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Venrock also participated in the round. With this round of funding, Crosslink Capital’s…
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PureWave Raises $5M In Series C Funding
April 3, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] PureWave Networks, a provider of 4G wireless base stations, has secured $5 million in Series C funding from existing and new investors. PureWave will use the proceeds from the investment round to continue development and commercialization of its…
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Cisco To Invest $546M In Various Brazilian Initiatives
April 3, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Cisco will invest over $546.6 million ($1 billion reais) during the next four years in Brazil. Initiatives the company will be spending the funds on include opening a Cisco center of innovation in Rio de Janeiro, and will…
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Asia-Pacific Fixed Broadband Revenue To Reach $92.2 Billion In 2017
April 2, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] The worldwide fixed broadband market continues to grow, despite a surge in mobile broadband adoption, says ABI Research. The number of fixed broadband subscribers reached 586.7 million in 1Q 2012, generating service revenue of $47.7 billion. Fixed broadband…
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Ashton Kutcher Is Steve Jobs In Indie Movie
April 2, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Ashton Kutcher is Steve Jobs in a new movie being directed by Joshua Michael Stern of Swing Vote fame, reports Jeff Sneider in Variety. The movie, Jobs, based on a script by Matt Whiteley, is being financed and produced…
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DARPA Seeks Integration Of Microsystems Components On Chips
April 2, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] DARPA’s Diverse Accessible Heterogeneous Integration (DAHI) program is launching the DAHI Foundry Technology effort to advance novel methods for combining a variety of devices and materials onto a single silicon chip. This effort also seeks to enable complex signal-processing…
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Space Information Laboratories Awarded DARPA Contract
April 2, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Space Information Laboratories (SIL) has been awarded a DARPA ALASA (Airborne Launch Assist Space Access) enabling technology award for GPS Metric Track, Autonomous Flight Termination System (AFTS) and Space Based Range to reduce range launch cost. SIL was awarded…
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Comtech Mobile Datacom Gets Sustainment Support Contract
April 2, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Comtech Telecommunications’ Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom, has been awarded a three-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (“IDIQ”) contract to provide sustainment support for the U.S. Army’s Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below – Blue Force Tracking (“BFT-1″) program, a…
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