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June 29, 2012

AGILE EXECUTIVE FORUM ANNOUNCES 2012 PROGRAM

Agile Executive Forum brings together leaders from Fortune 100 companies to access the latest strategic thinking and best practices in Agile 

PORTLAND, Ore., June 29, 2012 – The Agile Alliance and the Agile Project Leadership Network, non-profit organizations dedicated to the advancement of Agile software development principles and practices, today announced the program for the second annual Agile Executive Forum (http://execforum2012.agilealliance.org/) to be held Aug., 13, in conjunction with the Agile2012 conference in Grapevine (Dallas area), Texas (www.agile2012.com). The Agile Executive Forum brings together senior executives to share experiences and best practices on how Agile is being implemented and scaled within an enterprise environment.

“We are thrilled at the line-up of speakers we have assembled and the overwhelming response we have received from executives willing to share best practices around agility,” said Todd Little, Executive Forum co-chair. “This year’s executive forum is designed to provide attendees with real-world examples of how organizations are adopting Agile principles to manage the complexity and uncertainty inherent to today’s software solutions. These leaders will share how they have been able to exploit and extend the benefits of agility.”

Confirmed speakers include:

• Sue Mckinney, VP Engineering, Pitney Bowes
• Robert Wiseman, CTO, Sabre
• Allen Rutzen, Senior Manager, Nokia
• Ravi Waran, Executive Director, Air Liquide
• Hendrik Esser, Head of Portfolio Management, Ericsson
• Stefan Andersson, VP Product Creation, SAAB Group
• Pete Morowski, Senior VP, Sabre Airline Solutions

The Agile Executive Forum is intended to explore enterprise agility strategies from several key perspectives:

• Large, diverse organizations with established processes, cultures and attitudes
• Powerful ways to see and control your most critical business initiatives
• How enterprise agility can enhance value delivery

“This year’s Agile Executive Forum will explore such areas as increasing speed to value, leading enterprise agility, large-scale Agile transformations, strategic innovations and managing risk,” said Lisa Shoop, Executive Forum co-chair. The executive forum promises to again be a great opportunity for leaders to assemble and share real-world examples of Agile.”

The Agile Executive Forum is structured as a combination of compelling keynotes and short presentations of experiences spotlighting innovative success stories and transformation challenges, breakout discussions with exploration and problem resolution, and group events with opportunities for networking and community-building. Offered as a convenient one-day event, attendees can tailor their agenda with carefully selected portfolio of presentations, workshops and conversations to integrate enterprise agility into future strategies that align seemingly disparate goals, teams and reserves.

Attendance at the 2012 Agile Executive Forum is limited to 80, and costs $2,400 for the event. The price includes a non-transferable admission to the Agile2012 Conference that is co-located and is being held from Aug. 13 to 17 (valued at $2,199). For more information on both events please visit: (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/).

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About the Agile Project Leadership Network

The Agile Leadership Network is dedicated to evolving leadership so that individuals, teams, and organizations thrive in an ever-changing world. We are an international network of local communities that provides opportunities to connect and engage to advance the practice of agile leadership, principles, and values. Join now! Visit our website to become a member, find a local chapter meeting, learn more about our leadership conferences, and other networking opportunities. Visit www.AgileLeadershipNetwork.org

About the Agile Alliance

The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of Agile software development, as outlined in the (http://www.agilemanifesto.org/). With nearly 6,000 members located around the globe, the Agile Alliance is driven by the principles of Agile methodologies and the value delivered to developers, organizations and end users. The Agile Alliance organizes the annual Agile Conference, the industry’s leading event that attracts practitioners, academia, business and vendor-partner community members from around the globe. The Agile2012 Conference (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/) is scheduled for August 13-17 in Grapevine (Dallas area). For more information about the organization, visit (http://www.agilealliance.org/).

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TASKTOP’S WESLEY COELHO TO SPEAK ON ECLIPSE MYLYN AT JAX CONFERENCE 2012

Coelho to demonstrate how Mylyn can boost Java coding output and unify distributed teams

WHO:             Wesley Coelho

Director of Business Development and Partner Programs

Tasktop Technologies

(www.tasktop.com)

Coelho is director of business development and partner programs at Tasktop Technologies, which leads the open source Eclipse Mylyn integration framework for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Through his strong background and understanding of the Mylyn technology and community, Coelho has dramatically grown the community of vendors leveraging existing technologies to provide integration solutions.

WHAT:           Mind-Meld Across Teams, Tools and Time Zones with Eclipse Mylyn

In this presentation, Coelho will explain why the time is now to embrace developer-centric lightweight collaboration and social coding tools to increase velocity. For many Java developers, Mylyn has become the tool of choice for connecting team communication with coding. Mylyn is now a top-level Eclipse project backed by a thriving open source community of integrations connecting developers to more than 70 tools. This talk will highlight how Mylyn can double Java coding output and unify distributed teams by reorganizing the IDE around collaborative tasks. Live demos presented by Coelho will showcase how Mylyn’s task-focused interface integrates existing open source, enterprise and Agile tools and supports knowledge capture and reuse.

WHERE:         JAX Conference 2012

Mission Bay Convention Center at UCSF
1675 Owens Street
San Francisco, CA 94142

WHEN:           Tues., July 10, 2:15 p.m. Pacific

SHARE:          #Tasktop @wesleycoelho to share thoughts on #EclipseMylyn at #JAXConference12 More info @ tasktop.com/about/events

CONTACT:    For more information on Tasktop Technologies, or to arrange an interview with Wesley Coelho, please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

COLLABNET SURVEY ON THE ‘STATE OF SUBVERSION’ SHOWS CONTINUED ADOPTION OF HYBRID SOURCE CODE MANAGEMENT AND CLOUD DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

Industry leading SCM system continues to move deeper into enterprise development

BRISBANE, Calif., June 28, 2012 – CollabNet® (www.collab.net), a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services, recently conducted a survey of more than 1,300 software developers and administrators on how the Apache Subversion® (SVN) source code management (SCM) tool is being utilized within ALM environments. Key findings show growing demand for cloud-based support services, including remote back-up, and an increase in hybrid SCM strategies that include parallel usage of Subversion and Git. It also revealed an increase in SVN repository sizes, demonstrating how development teams continue to use the tool for more than just code management, but also to support testing and release management.

For a copy of the complete “State of Subversion” survey please visit: (www.collab.net/subversionsurvey2012).

“Each year we reach out to the Subversion community to gain insights into usage trends and to uncover new directions developers would like to see the project take to address emerging challenges,” said Lothar Schubert, senior director, product marketing for CollabNet. “What we see is the continued advancement of Subversion and the role of SCM within the ALM ecosystem, and how it supports the adoption of emerging practices around DevOps and Enterprise Cloud Development.”

Key findings from the global online survey include:

• 55 percent of users would welcome online cloud backup for on-premises Subversion.
• 28 percent of users indicated that they are using Git in parallel to Subversion.
• 33 percent of users reported the use of multiple Subversion servers within their organizations.
• Subversion repository sizes are increasing, with 38 percent managing more than 1GB of data –suggesting that Subversion is being used for far more than just code, but also builds and file releases.
• There is a general preference for open source software, however more than one-half of all participants say that corporate backing by a vendor is important, for commercial and open source software alike.
• For professional support, level of expertise is most important (83 percent), followed by price (34 percent) and Service Level Agreements (28 percent).

Created by CollabNet in 2000, Apache Subversion is an open source version control system that is being used by more than 5 million developers around the globe. The project and software have seen incredible success since being launched, with continued widespread adoption in both the open source community and the enterprise world. Also provided by CollabNet, Subversion Edge offers a complete certified stack of Apache, Subversion and ViewVC, along with a browser-based interface for ease-of-use and management. It keeps all components current with auto-updates delivered straight to the web browser and ensures cohesive functionality of the integrated tool suite.

Information

To learn more about Subversion and its latest developments please visit http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/. To download Subversion Edge (bundled with Apache Subversion), please visit: (www.collab.net/svnedge).

Share this on Twitter: Learn about the latest #Subversion trends with new #CollabNet survey www.collab.net/subversionsurvey2012

About CollabNet

CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services for software-driven organizations. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a suite of platforms and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. Its CloudForge™ development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support leading third party tools. The CollabNet TeamForge® ALM, ScrumWorks® Pro project management and Subversion Edge source code management platforms can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CollabNet complements its technical offerings with industry leading consulting and training services for Agile and cloud development transformations. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).

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CollabNet, TeamForge, and ScrumWorks are registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc.  CloudForge is a trademark of CollabNet, Inc.  Subversion is a registered trademark of the Apache Software Foundation.  Other names may be trademarks of their respective holders.

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June 27, 2012

SparkFun Hosts Android Development Class with IOIO

Workshop will focus on using microcontroller to link Android devices to projects

BOULDER, Colo., June 27, 2012 – SparkFun Electronics (http://www.sparkfun.com), a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, today announced an upcoming class dedicated to teaching students how to use IOIO (pronounced “yo-yo”) to integrate an Android-based device into embedded electronics projects. The class, which will take place Saturday, June 30, from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at SparkFun’s headquarters, is aimed at intermediate-level development users.

Until recently, it was difficult to connect low-level hardware (sensors, motors, etc.) to Android devices. The IOIO (http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10748) is a microcontroller board that bridges this gap and allows users to create custom Android apps (specifically for Android 1.5 and later devices) that control external pieces of hardware. The board provides robust connectivity to an Android device via a USB or Bluetooth connection, and is fully controllable from within an Android application using a simple and intuitive Java API – so no embedded programming or external programmer is needed.

In this class, students will learn how to use their Android device to blink an LED, read a potentiometer, control a servo, and, if time permits, enjoy a stimulating open-ended session on connecting the Android device to a project that students bring with them to the workshop. The class will be led by Ytai Ben-Tsvi, the inventor of the IOIO, and is modeled after an MIT hack-a-thon Ytai taught in February of this year.

SparkFun engineers have also been working on an update for the IOIO. With the newest release of firmware 3.23, the IOIO’s features include (but are not limited to):

• Bluetooth connectivity – The Android app communicates with the IOIO wirelessly. Instead of using a USB cable, you can use BT. The usage is simple plug and play, and no modifications to the code are needed.
• USB OTG (On-The-Go) support – This is a new USB standard, which allows the IOIO to act as a USB host or device.
• Open Accessory Support – This works with Google’s new USB protocol, Open Accessory. It allows the IOIO to initiate connections, which means users don’t have to mess with the USB debugging option on the Android.
• Multi IOIO capability – Now, users can connect multiple IOIOs together through one app. Multiple IOIOs can perform different tasks, all communicating through a single app.

Space in the IOIO Development class is limited. To sign up or to read more about the course and its requirements, visit SparkFun. To learn more about SparkFun’s IOIO microcontroller board, see (http://www.sparkfun.com/news/789#projects). SparkFun has also compiled several free IOIO project tutorials for users to reference at http://www.sparkfun.com/news/789#projects.

About SparkFun Electronics

Founded in 2003, SparkFun shares its passion by providing parts, knowledge, and innovation for those looking to explore the world of embedded electronics. It helps anyone discover their inner inventor and enables individuals to create their own electronics projects.

SparkFun currently offers more than 1,800 products, ranging from simple components, like capacitors and resistors, to GPS units and Bluetooth modules. The company employs 140 people and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Find SparkFun on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and Google+.

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Catapult PR-IR
303-581-7760 ext. 16
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COLLABNET RECOGNIZED AS A LEADER IN 2012 MAGIC QUADRANT FOR APPLICATION LIFECYLE MANAGMEENT

Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute

BRISBANE, Calif., June 27, 2012 – CollabNet® (www.collab.net), a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services, today announced it has been included in the “Leaders” quadrant in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)” report (Thomas E. Murphy and Jim Duggan, June 5, 2012). A total of 16 providers were evaluated in the report with five being named a leader.

Gartner states that due to the maturity of the cloud and Agile technologies, the ALM market is evolving and expanding. The research firm believes “the ALM market, estimated at $1.5 billion for 2011, and will continue to grow at a compound annual rate of about 3.9 percent. Portions of the market will remain stronger than others. Of the products in this Magic Quadrant, much of the growth is in the Agile planning category.”

“CollabNet is proud to be named by Gartner in the leaders quadrant for our completeness of vision and ability to execute in the ALM market,” said Bill Portelli, co-founder and CEO for CollabNet. “We are in complete agreement with Gartner that ‘the ability to build applications that use cloud technologies and tools that leverage the cloud are critical to improving operational efficiency’ and innovation. We see enterprise cloud development as a growing movement to help companies adopt development and deployment strategies using hybrid technologies and cloud services. Towards that end, we have recently launched CloudForge™, the industry’s first enterprise-grade development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS).”

CollabNet’s Agile ALM solution, TeamForge®, is one of the most complete and open platforms for building and deploying mission-critical applications by distributed teams. Using TeamForge, enterprise IT organizations can leverage a mix of technology processes, commercial and open source tools, and deployment applications through both on-premise deployments or as an offering within its CloudForge public cloud dPaaS. TeamForge simplifies and manages the growing complexity of rapidly increasing iterations, global distributed teams, the hybrid use of processes, tools and clouds and the need to increase collaboration throughout the entire ALM lifecycle – plan, code, track, build and test, lab management, release and report.

“CollabNet is actively extending its cloud solution based on the acquisition of Codesion. This acquisition which enabled the public cloud hosting of a rich array of open source and commercial developer and deployment tools, complemented the company’s position in SCCM, where it already had a rich history in the collaborative development and support for developers in the Subversion®, GIT, Eclipse, Hudson, Jenkins Visual Studio and Quality Center communities. A key capability of CollabNet is the orchestration of this rich array of development capabilities leveraging its platforms’ ability to integrate with a wide variety of tools.”

Product Availability:

TeamForge is available in both CollabNet’s public CloudForge offering and in single and multi-tenant cloud. In addition, the solution is offered on-premise. For more information please visit: (http://www.collab.net/products/teamforge).

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About the Magic Quadrant

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About CollabNet

CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services for software-driven organizations. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a suite of platforms and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. Its CloudForge™ development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support leading third party tools. The CollabNet TeamForge® ALM, ScrumWorks® Pro project management and Subversion Edge source code management platforms can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CollabNet complements its technical offerings with industry leading consulting and training services for Agile and cloud development transformations. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).

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CollabNet, TeamForge, and ScrumWorks are registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc.  CloudForge is a trademark of CollabNet, Inc.  Subversion is a registered trademark of the Apache Software Foundation.  Other names may be trademarks of their respective holders.

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CATAPULT PR-IR EARNS PLACE IN TOP 100 WOMAN-OWNED COMPANIES IN COLORADO

BOULDER, Colo., June 27, 2012 — Catapult PR-IR, (http://www.catapultpr-ir.com), a leader in high tech PR was ranked 84th among  the top 100 woman-owned companies in Colorado by ColoradoBiz Magazine (http://www.cobizmag.com). ColoradoBiz ranked the woman-owned companies by gross revenue in 2011.

“ColoradoBiz is an authority on the state of business here and I am proud to be included in this ranking,” said Terri Douglas, Catapult’s co-founder and principal. “Colorado has incredible women-owned businesses and I’m honored to be included among them.”

Douglas is the co-founder and principal of Catapult PR-IR. She has been in the public relations business for more than 30 years. Catapult specializes in helping technology companies define and articulate compelling messages that result in increased brand awareness, thought leadership and building market-leading positions. Douglas plays a primary role in the strategic execution of her client’s public relations initiatives. Douglas has received many awards including the Financial World’s Annual Report Award and the PRSA’s Gold Pick Annual Report Award.

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About Catapult PR-IR
Catapult PR-IR provides strategic public relations and investor relations services exclusively for technology companies. Catapult helps its clients establish new market positions that are shared by only an elite few within their industry. The firm has won numerous awards, including PRSA’s Gold Pick Award, Holmes Report’s “Best Agency to Work For” award and the Boulder County Business Report’s Mercury 100 Fastest Growing Companies Award. Catapult’s client roster includes the Agile Alliance, CollabNet, FreeWave Technologies, Inovonics, JNBridge, SparkFun Electronics and Tasktop Technologies. For more information on Catapult, call 303-581-7760 or visit the company’s Web site at http://www.catapultpr-ir.com

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Mary Cochran
Catapult PR-IR
303-581-7760X10
mcochran@catapultpr-ir.com

June 26, 2012

SparkFun Electronics Videos – Maker Faire San Mateo 2012 & Engineering TV’s AVC Video

Well, it’s been a busy month for SparkFun, but now that the dust has settled from another great AVC, the company takes a look back on their adventures at this year’s Maker Faire San Mateo!

Just a few weeks later, SparkFun held its annual Autonomous Vehicle Competition (AVC) and Curtis Ellzey from Engineering TV showed up to take soem video of the robotics madness! Check out the video below or go directly to the site at (http://www.engineeringtv.com/video/SparkFun-AVC-2012-Autonomous-Ve;Only-Engineering-TV-Videos).

FREEWAVE TECHNOLOGIES AND PAN-TECH PARTNER TO DEPLOY I/O EXPANSION MODULES FOR A MAJOR GAS PRODUCER IN BARNETT SHALE

FreeWave’s I/O Expansion Modules provide reduced RF congestion, less hardware and overall cost savings at multiple well pad sites 

BOULDER, Colo., June 26, 2012 — FreeWave Technologies, (http://www.freewave.com), manufacturer of the most reliable, high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, today announced that together with its partner, Pan-Tech Controls (http://www.pantechcontrols.com/), it has deployed hundreds of  I/O Expansion Modules for a major natural gas producer in the Barnett Shale in Texas, one of the largest producible reserves of any on-shore natural gas field in the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Shale). For Pan-Tech Controls and its customer, FreeWave’s I/O modules serve as remote I/O and control technology for tubing pressure, casing pressure, chemical tank levels and arrival sensors. The I/O Expansion Modules increase the degree of monitoring, control and optimization, and offer the most flexible and easily expandable wired and wireless I/O solution available in the market today.

“FreeWave has been our partner in the oil and gas industry for many years and, for this particular customer, we felt that I/O expansion was the best possible solution,” said David Savells, Upstream Oil and Gas Sales Lead at Pan-Tech Controls. “There were several hundred sites that required remote data monitoring and we already were facing high Radio Frequency (RF) noise congestion from existing equipment that was in place. With FreeWave’s newest line of I/O Expansion Modules, we were able to drastically minimize the number of base radios required by installing the Expansion Modules where more I/O points were needed at well head locations. The results were so impressive that the gas producer plans to continue adding I/O Expansion Modules as needed at sites with multiple wells.”

Deploying Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) at every well is quite costly. Pan-Tech’s customer had many locations with multiple wells at the same location. Coupling the flexibility of the remote I/O and the power of the PLC, the gas producer was able to maximize the utilization of the PLC and reduce costs by deploying FreeWave’s remote I/O modules at these multi-well sites. At the time, the gas producer already was using FreeWave’s HTplus backhaul radios and was familiar with the company’s offerings. With the help of Pan-Tech, the gas producer decided to give the I/O Expansion Modules a try at multiple well pad sites. The result not only minimized the amount of hardware used, but led to an overall cost savings and has been reliably delivering data since deployment.

FreeWave is the only wireless data radio provider with expandable I/O devices that offer universally configurable I/O channels for analog input/ output, digital input/ output and sensor power. The I/O Expansion Modules provide fast access times for up to 192 I/O points and distributes data points that can be connected by hard wire or wireless connections. They also offer internal user-selectable pull up and pull down resistors for all non-isolated inputs to ease product installation and reduce the number of external components. Additionally, the I/O Expansion products offer high accuracy analog inputs, configurable I/O points at each location and can interface to FreeWave radios or connect to any other serial communication device, thereby leveraging customers’ existing hardware investments. The flexibility of I/O Expansion allows it to be used for a variety of applications.

“Pan-Tech is a valued partner and its work in the oil and gas production industry is a great example of how our I/O Expansion Modules serve these critical applications,” said Ashish Sharma chief marketing officer at FreeWave Technologies, “Our I/O expansion technologies offer ease-of-use for extremely reliable data transmission alongside today’s advanced production techniques, such as multiple well pad sites and plunger lift. We also offer a three-year warranty on our I/O Expansion Modules, which is a testament to our customer focus and an integral part of the FreeWave difference.”

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• FreeWave Technologies Newsroom
• FreeWave Technologies on Twitter
• FreeWave Technologies on Facebook

About FreeWave Technologies

Founded in 1993, FreeWave Technologies manufactures the most reliable, high performing, lowest power consumption, spread spectrum and licensed radios for mission-critical data transmission. Through engineering excellence and a relentless commitment to best-in-class manufacturing, FreeWave customers enjoy superior radio up-time, range and the lowest cost of ownership available. Based in Boulder, Colorado, FreeWave designs and manufactures radios that are the leading choice for oil and gas, utility, military and numerous other industrial applications. Organizations that count on radio data communications for operational success – where failure and down-time are not an option – trust FreeWave for custom network design, system engineering and customer support that are unparalleled in the market. For additional information, contact FreeWave directly at 866.399.4930 or at newsinfo@freewave.com. Visit the company’s website at www.freewave.com or connect with the company via Twitter: @freewavetech.

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June 25, 2012

BLOGFROG CONTINUES GROWTH, HIRES MOLLY THEDA AS NEW DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES

Theda brings extensive experience in human resources for successful high-growth technology, services and retail organizations

BOULDER, Colo., June 25, 2012 – BlogFrog, (http://www.theblogfrog.com), a provider of  an influencer marketing platform, today announced it has hired Molly Theda as its Director of Human Resources (HR). BlogFrog, who recently secured $3.2 million in VC funding, is on the fast-track for extensive growth over the next year and will utilize Theda’s strong HR expertise to accelerate hiring as the company looks to scale its business and customer base globally.

“Molly has the background and skill-set we desire as we ramp up to meet the growing needs of our brand and agency customers and blogging community,” said Rustin Banks, CEO and co-founder of BlogFrog. “We are incredibly excited about our long-term growth strategy and having Molly be a part of our company as we continue to add new team members who thrive in our dynamic growth atmosphere.”

Theda comes to BlogFrog with more than 10 years of domestic and international human resources experience in successful high-tech, services and retail organizations. The companies she has worked for range in scope from start-ups to $2 billion corporations. At BlogFrog, Theda will oversee all aspects of human resources, including talent acquisition, compensation and benefits, training and development, change management, and employee relations. Prior to BlogFrog, Theda was Director of HR at GoPro, a high growth consumer electronics company. Previously, she held the position of Director of HR for Jive Software, a global enterprise software company.

“I am thrilled to join this emerging technology company while assisting it in its growth and talent strategy,” said Theda. “By tapping into my human resources background, I will work with the BlogFrog team to identify and grow top-tier, motivated individuals who will help bring success to the company.”

Share This Story: #theblogfrog hires @mollytheda, #Director of HR. For #job opportunities visit: http://www.theblogfrog.com/about/jobs.aspx

About BlogFrog

BlogFrog is an influencer marketing platform that partners brands and digital influencers to power and amplify online conversations. The company’s technology platform lets brands engage social influencers according to niche topics and target demographics, create advocate-driven content and conversations, and measure performance with in-depth tracking and analytics. Bloggers use BlogFrog to increase readership and traffic, create interaction with readers and followers, and increase revenue through participation in brand programs. BlogFrog is a private company headquartered in Boulder, Colo. Visit http://theblogfrog.com or follow @theblogfrog on Twitter.

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COLLABNET EMBEDS BLACK DUCK CODE SIGHT INTO TEAMFORGE TO DRIVE PRODUCTIVITY AND CODE REUSE ACROSS GIT AND SUBVERSION

Combined solution drives developer productivity, simplifies discovery and sharing of code and development artifacts across code repositories, clouds and locations

BRISBANE, Calif., June 25, 2012, CollabNet® (www.collab.net), a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services, today announced it has embedded the Black Duck® Code Sight™ source code search engine into TeamForge®. Available in the new version of TeamForge that integrates Git and Subversion™ source code management (SCM) tools into a single platform, development teams now can discover and reuse code across repository boundaries. This dramatically boosts productivity for individual developers and global enterprise development organizations.

“Driving efficiency by giving developers a choice in the tools they use, and being able to reduce wasted time and re-work at the code level is vital to becoming a high-performing, agile software organization,” said Jim Ensell, chief marketing and strategy officer for CollabNet. “Embedding the Black Duck Code Sight code search engine, together with our combined offering of Git and Subversion, is a major benefit for organizations looking for a single SCM management and integration platform.”

Development organizations are under continued pressure to improve productivity and accelerate time-to-market, all while ensuring compliance. Code-reuse alone can make a significant improvement in achieving these goals. It is commonly accepted that projects created primarily from reused software take about one-fourth of the time and resources of those that are built from scratch. However, distributed code repositories and a lack of visibility into all available code assets hinder productivity improvements, particularly with Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) and the use of multiple, hybrid SCM tools.

Black Duck Code Sight is a scalable source code search engine that indexes code across an enterprise and version control systems to provide developers with fast, easy access and visibility into code resources. Deeply embedded within TeamForge through CollabNet Connect, the combined solution enables code review across multiple SCM systems, expands permission management and significantly increases code quality and efficiency. For developers, it speeds and simplifies code discovery and search, while advanced filtering improves productivity for both developers and the enterprise.

“More and more software organizations find themselves using a completely heterogeneous set of tools to manage the entire software development and deployment lifecycle,” said Dave Gruber, director of developer marketing for Black Duck Software. “For managing source code, Git and Subversion are commonly used in tandem, making the availability of Code Sight within the new release of TeamForge very powerful, as teams have both the choice of which system to use and the ability to search and re-use code within either repository.”

For more information about the latest version of TeamForge that includes Black Duck Code Sight, please visit (www.collab.net/teamforge6.2). To learn more about the benefits of the integrated TeamForge/Code Sight solution, and the latest best practices for driving value from SCM, please join CollabNet and Black Duck executives during a free webinar on July 17. To register please visit (www.collab.net/teamforge6.2).

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About Black Duck Software

Black Duck is the leading provider of strategy, products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck enables companies to shorten time-to-solution and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, compliance and security challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and Ohloh.net, the largest free public directory of open source software and a vibrant web community of free and open source software developers and users. Black Duck is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. For more information visit www.blackducksoftware.com or @black_duck_sw.

About CollabNet

CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services for software-driven organizations. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a suite of platforms and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. Its CloudForge™ development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support leading third party tools. The CollabNet TeamForge® ALM, ScrumWorks® Pro project management and Subversion Edge source code management platforms can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CollabNet complements its technical offerings with industry leading consulting and training services for Agile and cloud development transformations. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).

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