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• Raytheon pays USD350m for BBN

  BNET - 2009-10-27

  Raytheon reportedly paid USD350m to acquire R&D innovator BBN in a deal announced in September. Investors Accel Partners and General Catalyst Partners are believed to have made more than USD100m apiece from the acquisition, suggesting each owned a third of BBN. BBN is thought to have been of particular interest...

  Tags: Raytheon Co., BBN Corp.

• Raytheon pays USD350m for BBN

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-26

  Raytheon reportedly paid USD350m to acquire R&D innovator BBN in a deal announced in September. Investors Accel Partners and General Catalyst Partners are believed to have made more than USD100m apiece from the acquisition, suggesting each owned a third of BBN. ...

  Tags: Raytheon Co., BBN Corp., Internet, Research & Development, Intellectual Property, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, BBN Technologies, Editorial

• Jim Breyer's Midas Touch. Two Acquisitions in 24 Hours (Marvel And BBN)

  BNET - 2009-09-01

  Investor Jim Breyer of Accel Partners is having a very good day. In the past 24 hours, two companies where he is an investor and board member have been acquired for big bucks: Marvel Entertainment, which was bought yesterday by Disney for $4 billion , and ...

  Tags: hour, Board, board member, BBN Corp.

• Putting the Zing Into Multimedia Search: Q&A with EveryZing

  BNET - 2008-09-10

  One of the annoying parts of trying to find video and audio on the Internet is that you are completely dependent on descriptions attached to files. Miss the right keywords and you've probably missed the chance of finding what you're seeking. Even when you've found a clip, you sit through...

  Tags: Web, Multimedia, Audio, Video, BBN Corp., Technology, TW, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Marketing, Erik Sherman

• BBN Technologies Awarded $9M to Add Disruption Tolerance to Military Networks

  - 2008-08-19

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today it has been awarded $8.9M in funding by the Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA under the third phase of its Disruption Tolerant Networking DTN program. This latest award follows BBN's successful completion of Phases...

  Tags: BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, DARPA, network, NETWORKING

• BBN Technologies Awarded $5 Million in DoD Funding to Advance Rapid Processing of Chinese

  - 2008-07-07

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today it has been awarded $5 million in additional funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA in year three of the five-year Global Autonomous Language Exploitation GALE program. The goal of GALE is to develop and apply...

  Tags: BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, DARPA, NETWORKING, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Defense

• New b2b ad network formed for online properties

  - 2008-05-01

  24/7 Real Media New York, a global digital marketing company, has formed a partnership with four major b2b publishers to create BBN, described as the largest b2b online advertising network in the country. The four partners include McGraw-Hill, Cygnus Business Media, Nielsen Business Media and Reed Business Information. The...

  Tags: 24/7 Real Media Inc., advertisement, B2B, BBN Corp., Cygnus Business Media, E-business/E-commerce, INTERNET, McGraw-Hill Companies, network, Reed Business Information

• 24/7 Real Media Partners with Four Major Publishers to Launch BBN, the Largest Business to Business Online Advertising Network

  - 2008-04-21

  Cygnus Business Media, Nielsen Business Media, Reed Business Information and McGraw-Hill Join 24/7's New Network to Give Advertisers Greater Reach Across More Vertical Markets NEW YORK -- In the first paragraph, the second sentence should read: Cygnus Business Media, Nielsen Business Media, Reed Business Information and The McGraw-Hill Companies......

  Tags: 24/7 Real Media Inc., advertisement, advertiser, B2B, BBN Corp., Cygnus Business Media, E-business/E-commerce, INTERNET, McGraw-Hill Companies, network, Reed Business Information

• BBN Technologies Awarded $5.7 Million in Defense Funding to Design Faster, More Dynamic, More Secure, More Robust Optical Network

  - 2008-03-18

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today it has been awarded $5.7 million in funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA for the Dynamic Multi-Terabit Core Optical Networks: Architecture, Protocols, Control and Management CORONET program. BBN will lead a team that includes RTI...

  Tags: BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, DARPA, network, NETWORKING

• BBN Technologies Awarded $13 Million in DoD Funding to Advance Rapid Foreign Language Processing

  - 2008-03-11

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today it has been awarded $13 million in additional funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA in year three of the five-year Global Autonomous Language Exploitation GALE program. The goal of GALE is to develop and apply...

  Tags: BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, DARPA, NETWORKING, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Defense