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Sumo Logic Chief Executive Looks To Challenge Splunk

Ramin Sayar appears to have a predilection for building things. The Silicon Valley executive had no misgivings joining Sumo Logic in December as its new chief executive after spending nearly five years building a cloud business for VMware (VMW), the leading global provider of virtualization software. Privately held Sumo is much smaller than VMware. But the company, named after the dog of one of its founders, is growing fast as it attempts to carve

Tetraphase Fights Drug-Resistant Bugs As M&A Heats Up

One lesson to draw from recent M&A in the pharma space: Superbug drugs are hot. Last year, Actavis (ACT) plunked down $675 million for Durata Therapeutics, whose drug Dalvance fights some of the nastiest specimens of the class known as gram-positive bacteria. And Merck (MRK) is in the midst of an $8.4 billion buyout of Cubist Pharmaceuticals, which last year got two new drugs OK’d for both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria that had

Web Robots A Growing Concern For Digital Advertisers

Online fraudsters use them to infiltrate computers that are forced to unleash floods of fake information requests on an unsuspecting website, eventually drowning the system and making the attacked website crash. Cybercrooks send them to visit faux websites that they’ve created, artificially boosting Web views for the site and tricking real-life companies to pay to place ads there that human eyes might never see. Shady businesses dispatch them to