Amazon intends to offer 5,000 job opportunities at its distribution centers in the U.S. in line with its long-term business expansion strategies, The Washington Post reported Monday. Cecilia... Read more
Bostonia Partners has collaborated with Pennsylvania’s Treasury Department to complete a secondary market sale of more than $35.5 million in consumer energy loans. The company provided inves... Read more
Chipmaker Intel plans to invest $10 billion to build a new manufacturing facility and upgrade an existing factory in Israel during the next 10 years, Reuters reported Tuesday. Tova Cohen wri... Read more
Microsoft Corp. has qualified for a $20 million tax break from the Iowa Economic Development Authority Board for its planned $700 million data center in West Des Moines, the Des Moines Regis... Read more
Emerald Biofuels LLC, Fulcrum Brighton Biofuels LLC and Natures BioReserve LLC will draft proposals for new energy refineries under contracts totaling $16 million as the Defense Department s... Read more
Intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel and six other organizations have invested a new $20 million round of funding in Pelican Imaging Corp., which develops array camera techno... Read more
Accenture plans to invest more than $400 million in cloud computing as it looks to shift its public, private and hybrid offerings to the cloud, according to an Economic Times article. The co... Read more
The U.K.’s coalition government will set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in its aerospace sector in a bid to jump-start growth in the sector. Reuters reports that Deputy Prim... Read more
Cisco and Netherlands-based electronics maker NXP Semiconductor have made a strategic investment in Australia-based networking firm Cohda Wireless for an undisclosed amount, NIS Magazine rep... Read more
Eric DeMarco, CEO of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, will speak Jan. 17 in New York City at a conference focused on technology stocks and investment choices. The company said Deanna... Read more
Jacobs Engineering Group has elected 40-year mining sector veteran Christopher Thompson to the board of directors, the company announced Monday. Thompson was formerly chairman and CEO of int... Read more
With automatic tax increases and spending cuts under sequestration potentially coming into effect early next year, General Electric has refinanced $5 billion in bonds set to mature early nex... Read more
In-Q-Tel is investing in 10gen, a company that develops an open source document-oriented database aiming to help enterprises deliver, scale and operate applications for big data. According t... Read more
In-Q-Tel has signed a strategic investment and technology development agreement with a Massachusetts-based maker of imaging sensors, IQT announced Wednesday. SiOnyx Inc., based in Beverly, w... Read more
Vormetric Secures $15M in New Funding; Alan Kessler, Jim Simons Comment
Vormetric has raised $15 million in fresh investments from a Split Rock Partners-led growth capital round held amid company moves to grow and expand to international markets. Previous invest... Read more