Pasadena-based FastSoft , a developer of Internet acceleration appliances based on research out of Caltech, has raised $950K in a debt funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The company's technology is based on research into optimizing the TCP/IP protocol. FastSoft has previously received funding from Miramar Venture Partners, Caltech, and angel investors. READ MORE>> According to the filing, the round came from eight investors and has a target of $1.34M. No details on the funding have been announced by the firm.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Intellectual Property for Technology and Business Development. This 2 day course will help you learn how to manage your IP portfolio as a business. Build IP portfolios that protect business unit profits, create licensing revenues, and contain costs. Learn how to generate the additional revenues that IP can provide. See [link] (mor

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Intellectual Property for Technology and Business Development. This 2 day course will help you learn how to manage your IP portfolio as a business. See [link] (mor

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 -- Caltech Executive Education: Intellectual Property for Technology and Business Development. This 2 day course will help you learn how to manage your IP portfolio as a business. See [link] (mor

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Successful Acquisition Integration. Topics include MandA conception, planning, the first 100 days post-merger/acquisition, IP, ongoing improvement. Learn how to successfully integrate the strategies and operations of merged organizations, implement the latest techniques, tools and metrics to improve performance, revitalize acquisitions that are not meeting expectations. Instructors: Dr.

FastSoft is a spinout of Caltech which is commercializing enhancements to the TCP/IP protocol, which is used to transmit Internet data. Pasadena-based FastSoft , which develops network appliances for accelerating Internet transfers, said this week that the firm has upgraded the firm's E Series devices. According to the firm, the upgraded devices accelerate small web objects, and also include performance reporting and analysis.

FastSoft is venture backed by Miramar Venture Partners, and is a spinout of Caltech. The firm's software technology is being applied to accelerating TCP/IP transfers. Pasadena-based FastSoft, which develops network acceleration technology, announced today that it has named J. Edward Synder as the firm's CEO.

Saturday, May 9, 2009 -- "New Paths Toward Convergence" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. The competition is drawing players from diverse markets��including digital media, internet services, and Telecom/IP communications companies. Sophisticated digital consumer devices such as the iPod, Xbox, Archos PMP, and Mobile Smartphones�� along with the broadband networks that connect them��have quickly moved the distribution of content to the digital world. This is driving massive demand for new digital content distribution networks, in addition to an entirely new ecosystem of business and