Blue Jeans: We’re 20-25% of the videoconferencing market (and we just got much cheaper)

Blue Jeans unveiled a massive update to its standard pricing today, adding a new licensing model that offers companies unlimited "all you can meet" videoconferencing plans for as low as $10 per user, per month.

41 of the Fortune 500 companies are tech companies (and here they are)

Apple’s in the top 10 for the first time ever, Facebook hits the list, and Dell sells more than Google as Fortune Magazine released its Fortune 500 companies today, ranking the top 500 companies by global income.

Notable this year …

Video is the new audio, as videoconferencing contender Vidyo grows 68% and raises $17M to grow even faster

"We want to price equivalent to a voice call," Shapiro says. "Our competitors offer an inferior product for more money: Blue Jeans 15 time more, and other competitors 300 times more."

Funding daily: Money, money, money, as no fewer than 13 companies get funded or acquired

Femtocells, human organs, and space: funding daily for April 3 is full as 13 companies raised money, financing, or were sold.

Facebook, Google, Groupon, and Twitter led all companies in private acquisitions in 2012

In 2012, 2,357 private technology companies were bought for a combined total of $84 billion, according to a new report from research firm PrivCo. That's slightly up 22 percent from 2011, but the real surprise is who is doing the acquiring.

Samsung and Apple bought $45.3 billion in semiconductor chips in 2012, cornering 15% of the market

Both grew spectacularly, with Samsung up 28.9 percent, and Apple up 13.6 percent, while HP and Dell dropped 12.7 and 13.4 percent, respectively.

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.

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.

Cisco to axe 6,500 employees in massive restructuring

Networking giant Cisco Systems plans to lay off 6,500 employees as part of a massive restructuring plan, the company announced Monday.

The layoffs, which are one of the largest single layoffs this year and appear to be the largest single …