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    Monday, September 17, 2007
    Interview with Rahm Shastry, CEO of Nascentric

    Austin, Texas-based Nascentric (www.nascentric.com) announced a new venture round last week with Intel Capital. To get more insight into the company, we spoke with Rahm Shastry, the firm's CEO, on the company and its latest funding.


    For those who aren't familiar with NasCentric and the electronic
    design industry, can you describe what your products are used for?


    Rahm Shastry: Integrated circuits (IC or chip) design is a very complex, laborious and expensive process (More info...)


    posted on Monday, September 17, 2007(Full story)


    Convio Signs National Association of Realtors
    Convio, a developer of on-demand software that helps nonprofit organizations to raise funds, influence public policy and utilize the Internet, announced Monday that it has expanded its relationship with The National Association of REALTORS, the country's largest professional trade association. Toward that end, Convio said it has introduced an integrated set of online fund-raising and compliance applications that will help mobilize, solicit, track and report on outreach to members and stakeholder (More info...)

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    RipCode Signs MySpace
    Dallas, Texas-based Ripcode, a firm that develops video transcoding appliances, said today that the popular social networking Web site MySpace has concluded a successful trial of RipCode's V4 video-transcoding application. RipCode said that MySpace is the largest video Internet site to use its appliance-based solution for video transcoding. RipCode's video transcoding appliance is used to convert between different video formats for publishing on MySpaceTV and other Internet video sites. RipCode (More info...)

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    TMW Systems Acquires ISDC
    TMW Systems Inc., a developer of enterprise management software for the North American transportation industry, reported Monday that it has acquired Integrated Support Decision Corp., an independent producer of optimization-based, decision-support software for the trucking industry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ISDC software's software is used by trucking carriers to minimize fuel and out-of-route costs. Integrated Support Decision Corp. is headquartered in Richardson, Texas. TMW System (More info...)

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    Idearc Buys Switchboard.com
    Idearc Inc., operator of Superpages.com and publisher of the Verizon Yellow Pages, announced Monday that it has agreed to acquire Switchboard.com and other online directory assets from InfoSpace Inc. for $225 million. Idearc explained that the acquisition should result in an increase in quality organic traffic that it will monetize through its existing infrastructure, advertiser base and product demand. Idearc said it will finance the trasaction with cash and borrowings from its existing revolvi (More info...)

    posted on Monday, September 17, 2007(Full story)


    Silicon Laboratories Reveals Executive Changes
    Silicon Laboratories Inc., a manufacturer of analog-intensive, mixed-signal integrated circuits, reported Monday that it has made two changes to its management staff. The Austin, Texas-based company said it has hired Carlos Garcia as general manager of its access product business, which includes voice and modem products. Silicon Labs also said it has promoted Mark Thompson to the role of general manager for its broadcast audio business, which includes the FM tuner and transmitter product lines. (More info...)

    posted on Monday, September 17, 2007(Full story)


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