Austin-based Pyxis Technology announced that they have extended their B round to include a strategic investment from KT Venture Group. Existing investors Austin Ventures, CMEA Ventures and Formative Ventures also participated in this round. The new funds will be used to accelerate deployment of the Pyxis NexusRoute high-performance, yield-aware auto-router announced in September of 2007. Pyxis Technology delivers software and services to address the problems that chip designers face in the routing of nanometer-scale integrated [...]

Dell, which has been a buying spree these past couple of months, has acquired a company in its own backyard, MessageOne. MessageOne, a provider of services for e-mail management, archiving and business continuity, will be rolled into Dell’s Software-as-a-Service suite, for a price of about $155 million in cash. According to Steve Schuckenbrock, president, Dell Global Services, and chief information officer, “This is a valuable acquisition for Dell. MessageOne’s offerings add key capabilities to our [...]