Tuesday, September 19, 2006Broadcom CFO Retires On Option WoesIrvine-based Broadcom is reporting that William J. Ruehle, the company's Senior Vice President and CFO, has decided to retire, effective immediately. Broadcom said this afternoon that Bruce E. Kiddoo will serve as the firm's Acting Chief Financial Officer on an interim basis. Broadcom said that Ruehle decided to accelerate his retirement due to Broadcom's previously announce review of its equity awards. Ruehle has been CFO since June of 1997.
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Interview with Jonathan Weisz, CEO of OnTechLast week, we were at VentureNet, a venture capital conference which presented local technology firms to an audience of venture capitalists. Among the companies we spoke to was OnTech (www.ontech.com), a San Diego-based firm that develops self-heating containers. OnTech was showing its self-heating coffee drinks and technology. We spoke with Jonathan Weisz, President and CEO of the firm, to get an idea of what the company's all about.
Ben Kuo: What are OnTech's products?
Jonathan Weisz: On (More info...)
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Amp'd Releases Subscriber NumbersAmong widespread speculation on the actual adoption rate of much hyped MVNOs, Amp'd Mobile yesterday released its subscriber numbers, saying that it is "rapidly approaching" 50,000 subscribers to its youth-focused mobile cell phone service. The company said that it added 15,000 of those customers last month, and hopes to have 150,000 subscribers by the end of the year. Amp'd also said that it averages more than $100 a month per user for the service. Amp'd is a venture funded MVNO which is target (More info...)
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Jambo Sells Voice Conferencing BusinessLos Angeles-based Jambo, which is developing lead generation services for connecting Internet users with local businesses, said that it has sold BlackPhone, its voice conferencing business. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. The BlackPhone business was sold to Colorado-based Copper Conferencing. Jambo has partnerships with InfoSpace and Interchange's Local.com to provide phone listings for local businesses.
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Kotura Teams With EnablenceMonterey Park-based Kotura, a provider of silicon photonics components, said that it has entered into a strategic joint development agreement with Enablence Technologies. Enablence is a provider of Fiber-to-the-Home components. The two said they are in a development agreement for the design and manufacture of silicon photonics devices for FTTH applications. Kotura is backed by ARCH Venture Partners, ComVentures, GF Private Equity Group, and Viterbi Group.
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Siafu, emBoot Integrate SoftwarePoway-based Siafu, a provider of iSCSI IP-based storage area network appliances, said today that it has partnered with emBoot, to provide iSCSI boot technology for its products. The new capability means that Windows 2003 servers can boot from the network using Siafu's IP SAN appliance as their primary storage. Siafu is targeting small and mid-sized businesses looking for network based storage based on the iSCSI storage networking protocol.
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