Social-engagement advertising company SocialVibe Inc. announced
that co-founder Joe Marchese will return to the company as chief
executive.

 Most recently, Mr. Marchese was senior vice president of
marketing and digital for Fuse Networks LLC. He was president of SocialVibe from
2006 to 2011.

 Prior to SocialVibe, Mr. Marchese consulted and ran a practice
group specializing in digital publishing and advertising strategy. Mr. Marchese
began his career at Monster Worldwide Inc. and also was chairman of BlockBeacon,
now part of Dun& Bradstreet Corp. 

SocialVibe, based in Los Angeles and New York, has raised $44
million to date, according to VentureWire records. In 2011 it received a $20
million Series D round led by Norwest Venture Partners, joined by existing
backers Jafco Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures and Redpoint
Ventures.
http://socialvibe.com

MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aquantia, the leading developer of High Speed Ethernet connectivity solutions for cloud computing and large-scale data center deployments, announced today that George Zimmerman, a technology visionary and the founder of semiconductor developer Solarflare Communications, has been appointed to Aquantia’s Technical Advisory Board. The Technical Advisory board advises the company on issues of technology innovation and evolution.

Products on shopping site Fab.com are often so campy and overstylized that words
fail to describe them: They are … fabsurd? Colorfully described in daily e-mails
to Fab’s 12 million registered customers are items such as “In the Seam Animal
Pals” (pillows molded into shapes of pets) and the “Awmoo Red” (a spherical bong
fashioned by designers “after years of hiding their unsightly water pipes”). In
mid-March, the site’s supply of dangling, sterling silver earrings in the shape
of attacking sharks, priced at $58, sold out in an hour.
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