ORLANDO - Bright House Networks today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire the business of Telovations, a Tampa-based Cloud Communications provider that delivers businesses hosted voice solutions, including PBX and managed SIP trunking. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in the release.

The acquisition will help Bright House Networks to meet the diverse needs of the enterprise market with cloud based and managed services, as well as continue to offer small and medium sized businesses additional services.  Telovations pioneered the delivery of “Communications-as-a-Service”, which enables businesses to deploy communications devices and applications on a pay-as-you-go, as-needed basis, eliminating the need for capital investment and ongoing overhead.

University of Florida President, Bernie Machen and Governor Rick Scott go on CNBC to talk about bringing tech jobs to Florida.

 

ORLANDO - Gainesville based RegisterPatient.com has closed on $4.1 million in Series A financing, the company announced. Harbert Venture Partners III, L.P. led the current round, and was joined by the Florida Opportunity Fund. The company has now raised a total of $5.1 million.

The current round of funding follows a $320,000 Healthcare Biomanufacturing Occupational and Technology Training grant awarded to the company by Florida Works. The grant will be used to offset the cost of training many of the new employees the company plans to hire over the next 18 to 24 months.

WINTER PARK - imediaReach announced today the company has closed its Angel Capital round of funding. Lead in the transaction by its strategic Capital Partner, NewGate Capital Partners, with their hosted Winter Park Angels. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in the release.

The funding will enable imediaReach to expand their sales and marketing team and also to increase efforts to build upon the features of its rapidly growing Connected Mobile Community.  Funding will also allow the company to provide better technology solutions which are now being co-opted to provide network wide marketing exposure to many national brands.

FORT MYERS - Search engine and big data provider, Yippy announced today the appointment of Edward Noel as the Company's new Chief Executive Officer. Richard Granville, the Company's previous Chief Executive Officer, has been appointed as the Executive Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors.

As part of the process of reforming the Company's management structure, the Board recognized the need for an industry veteran to head up the Company's day-to-day operations going forward. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Noel served as a director on the Board and will continue to serve in that capacity in addition to his duties as Chief Executive Officer.

BOCA RATON - LinguaSys, an international provider of human language technologies producing highly customized Text Analytics, Translation and Natural Language User Interface software, today announced that hi-tech billionaire, entrepreneur, sports and technology mogul, Mark Cuban, has acquired a significant position in the Company. Cuban owns the NBA World Champion Dallas Mavericks. Terms of the investment were not available in the release.

LinguaSys uniquely analyzes content in its native language, providing human language technologies to some of the world's largest mutual fund companies, commercial banks, hoteliers and government contractors. Its software contextually interprets the meaning and intent of written language in any of LinguaSys' currently supported languages, the result of its proprietary, patent-pending engine, Carabao.