Cisco and NXP encourage car communication to make driving safer

Today, Cisco and NXP announced they are making a strategic investment in Cohda Wireless, which builds hardware to make cars smarter and more connected.

With BroadHop buy-up, Cisco expands its policy portfolio

Cisco Systems announced on its blog today that it will acquire Denver-based BroadHop for an undisclosed sum. The technology will be used to shape mobile data traffic and will be folded into Cisco's service provider networking group.

With $141M Cariden buy-up, Cisco’s acquisition spree continues

Cisco will pay approximately $141 million in cash for California-based company Cariden, a network traffic-management software maker.

Cisco gets serious about cloud software with $125M acquisition of Cloupia

Networking behemoth Cisco has agreed to acquire cloud software business Cloupia for $150 million.

With support from Google & Cisco, Startup Weekend launches in Israel’s ‘Arab capital’

The organizers of Startup Weekend, the event where entrepreneurs hack a startup in 54 hours, believe that technology can be a unifying force.

Cisco helps build first U.S. “Smart+Connected” city of the future in Lake Nona, Florida

Cisco is working with a community in Orlando, Florida to create a "Smart+Connected" city in Lake Nona, one of eight global iconic cities -- and the first in the U.S. -- built with ubiquitous connectivity and interconnected building, transportation, utility, and civic systems, for a truly smart, networked city created for innovation.

US Congress, Cisco: Chinese telecom companies ‘cannot be trusted’

The U.S. Congress Intelligence Committee and telecommunications vendor Cisco are agreed on one thing: Chinese networking equipment companies can't be trusted.

Cisco gives stores more info on shopper location and habits with ThinkSmart buy

Cisco's purchase is the latest effort to help retailers learn more about how their customers are shopping in stores.

Playcast Media partners with Nvidia and cable TV set-top makers for cloud-gaming service

Playcast Media has allied itself with Nvidia and cable TV set-top box makers Cisco and others to bring cloud gaming to the masses.

Former Flip Video execs go to school with crowdsourced education site Knowmia

The founders of the successful video startup Pure Digital are moving into the education market with crowdsourced lessons.

Cisco adds outspoken Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to board

Networking giant Cisco has added Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to its board of directors, a sign that it wants to get more serious about cloud-focused services and hardware.

Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle before he founded Salesforce on the …

Mashery raises $10M to expand operations in ‘post-website’ era

API-management startup Mashery announced $10 million in new funding today to expand its part in what it calls the “post-website era.” The firm’s API Management platform is now used by Fortune 100 companies such as ABC News, ESPN, and Cisco.…

The company that powers Google Hangouts wants to radically disrupt all business videoconferencing

Video is the new audio. With more emotion, more nuance, and more effective real-time communication, videoconferencing is growing at a 20 percent annual rate in business.

But that’s not fast enough for Vidyo, the company that Google tapped for the …

Cisco snaps up stealthy security startup Virtuata

Virtuata, we hardly knew ye. Ye never publicly launched, and now ye have been folded into the megalithic monster that is Cisco.

Here’s what we did know about ye: Virtuata was a Silicon Valley startup based way the heck down …

Blue Jeans: Flipping 100 billion minutes of audio conference calls into video

Every year, 100 billion minutes are spent on traditional audio-only teleconferences, while only 200 million minutes are used for video conferencing. Blue Jeans Network thinks it’s the company that can flip those numbers around.

With $25 million in new funding, …

Internet-obsessed Gen Y is changing traditional HR practices

Those who belong to Generation Y — teens and twenty-somethings, including myself – are shaking up human resource departments, according to data from Salesforce Rypple. Young professionals born in the 80s and 90s are much more social than previous generations, …

Cisco kills its business-focused Cius tablet

Cisco plans to effectively kill off its misguided Cius enterprise tablet, the company has announced in a blog post.

“Cisco will no longer invest in the Cisco Cius tablet form factor, and no further enhancements will be made to the …

Third Point buys stake in 3 new tech companies: Apple, Google, Cisco

Dan Loeb’s Third Point is bulking up its stake in a few other technology companies besides Yahoo, according to an SEC filing. The firm, which edged Yahoo chief executive Scott Thompson out of office earlier this week, are now gobbling …