CULVER CITY, Calif. -- APIC Corp. subsidiary PhotonIC has opened an office in Boston. The office will be headed by Italian physicist Marco Romagnoli, who has recently taken a position as a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- Bitstream Inc. has released a mobile browser that fully supports nine Indic languages. The browser is built on the publicly traded company's BOLT cloud computing browsing platform. It includes Indic language user interfaces, the ability to render Indic text on a Web page and the ability to allow users to input Indic text into the browser.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Dish Network has announced it will offer an all-access pass to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, ensuring that cricket fans across the country won’t miss a second of the action. Plus for the first time, the company said it will offer coverage of the tournament in high definition.
DANBURY, Conn. -- An Indian-American executive convicted for embezzling $34 million from Wisconsin stereo headphone manufacturer Koss Corp. has begun serving her 11-year prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Intel Corp. has joined President Barack Obama’s Startup America campaign to strengthen entrepreneurship in the United States. As part of this partnership, and in conjunction with its ongoing Invest in America initiative, Intel Capital, Intel Corp.’s global investment organization has pledged to invest another $200 million in American technology companies and joined the campaign’s board of advisors.
RICHARDSON, Texas -- Mavenir Systems, a provider of mobile convergence products, and RadiSys Corp., a provider of hardware and software platforms for Internet-based wireless, wireline and video networks, has joined forces to develop an integrated 3G/4G/LTE mobile services platform.
SEATTLE, Wash. -- Pacific Biomarkers Inc., a provider of biomarker laboratory services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostics industries, has been awarded two major research contracts with two multinational pharmaceutical companies to provide clinical biomarker services. The studies involve analysis of biomarkers associated with cardiovascular, metabolic and inflammatory diseases and hepatic and renal injury.
FARMINGTON, Conn. -- SCIOinspire Corp., a provider of analytics-driven business process services for health plans and hospitals, has acquired National Audit, a health-care claims audit and payment integrity services provider. The acquisition elevates SCIOinspire to a top-tier, independent cost-management and care quality-improvement company with the most comprehensive set of solutions in the health-care industry, the company said.
WILMINGTON, Mass. -- Wilmington’s Textron Defense Systems has received a $257 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to produce 512 CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapon units for the Government of India.
STRATHAM, N.H. -- The Timberland Co., an outdoor footwear and apparel company based in Stratham, N.H., has opened its first store in South India at Express Avenue Mall in Chennai.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke is currently in the middle of a five day business development mission to India with 24 U.S. businesses. The businesses taking part of the trade mission are based in 13 states across the country and more than half of them are small- and medium-sized companies. The mission is the first visit to India by a cabinet secretary since the President Barack Obama’s November 2010 trip to the country.
WOBURN, Mass. -- XIUS has signed a deal with Movistar Colombia, Colombia’s second-largest wireless carrier serving more than nine million customers across the country. Movistar will use XIUS’s Payment Manager Solution for its electronic prepaid recharge program.
NEW YORK — While only 35 percent of all Americans expected their personal financial situation to improve in 2010 from 2009, more than half (57 percent) of South Asian Americans expect their personal situation to improve this year, according to the 2010 MetLife Study of the American Dream.
Startup vet vows to help entrepreneurs find success
SILICON VALLEY, Calif. — Sramana Mitra remembers her early days in the startup world and the painful lessons she learned running her own business – and she has dedicated her life now to sharing this knowledge with other fledging entrepreneurs.
WASHINGTON, DC. — A recent customer satisfaction survey validates what U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has long asserted — that President Barack Obama’s commitment to building the E-verify system is the right investment in building a viable tool to ensure a legal workforce in the United States.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that is has hit the H-1B visas cap for 2011.
On Jan. 27, the bureau said that Jan. 26 was the final receipt date for new H-1B specialty occupation petitions requesting an employment start date in 2011.
ATLANTA — Asian American Hotel Owners Association Chairman ChandraKant Patel has been named to the Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, which consists of 30 leading travel and tourism business leaders who are appointed by the Secretary of Commerce to advise on industry-related programs and policies.
ATLANTA — America's Best Franchising Inc. has signed a deal to launch its "3 Palms" brand of hotels and resorts in India.
According to the Atlanta-based America's Best, SRM Spa and Resorts Pvt. Ltd., headquartered in Mumbai, will open seven 3 Palms Hotel and Resort properties in six Indian states.
Deal with WeP Peripherals to focus on color printing
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Memjet, a provider of high-speed color printing technologies, has joined forces with WeP Peripherals Ltd., a print service provider, to offer color office printers in India.
MADISON, N.J. — EnVision Systems Inc. has been acquired by GSE Systems Inc. for $1.2 million in cash, with the possibility of an additional payment of up to $3.05 million.
BURLINGTON, Mass. — S4 Inc., a professional services company specializing in IT and cyber domain services, advisory and assistance services, engineering support, strategy and planning services, has opened a new office in Colorado Springs, Colo. to support opportunities at North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Northern Command and Air Force Space Command.
Astrophysicist makes ground-breaking find concerning new planet
PRINCETON, N.J. — Astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan spends much of his time researching planets far beyond Earth's solar system. He recently made a unique discovery about a planet called WASP 12b that has the scientific community rethinking the way it — and the rest of us — should be looking at planets outside of our own solar system.
What is unique about WASP 12b is that its carbon-to-oxygen ratio is greater than one, higher than that of any other known planet, said Madhusudhan. "When you discover a planet the first thing you want to do is look at its atmosphere," he added. He said that using spectroscopy, a method of measuring a planet's dispersed light in accordance to its wavelength, proves the planet's unique atmospheric condition.
Technology entreprenuer offers $5M over five years
STONEHAM Mass. — Startup veteran Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande’s Deshpande Foundation has joined forces with a coalition of nonprofit organizations and colleges to launch the Merrimack Valley Sandbox, a group of initiatives aimed at helping the Massachusetts’ Merrimack Valley make the leap from industrial city to a city at the forefront of entrepreneurship. This sandbox is no child’s play.
MOLINE, Ill. — Agriculture equipment maker Deere & Co. is upping its efforts in India. Last month, the company signed a five-year deal to work with Gujarat to help rural farmers and also said it will invest $100 million to build a new tractor factor India and expand its current facility in Pune.
Kony Solutions inc. has raised $19.1 million in first round funding from Insight Venture Partners.
The funding will be used for research and development related to the Kony Mobile Application Platform and to expand sales and marketing, according to the company.
WALTHAM, Mass. — The India-New England Business Council celebrated its birth with a successful first event on Jan. 14 — the "India-U.S. Trade & Investment Conference 2011." The group had more attendees than it anticipated and the feedback was very strong, according to organizers.
STANFORD, Calif. — Economists and researchers at Stanford University have released a study that used India as a testing ground to examine the differences in the productivity of companies in the same industries or countries.
NEW YORK — While only 35 percent of all Americans expected their personal financial situation to improve in 2010 from 2009, more than half (57 percent) of South Asian Americans expect their personal situation to improve this year, according to the 2010 MetLife Study of the American Dream. 
Startup vet vows to help entrepreneurs find success
ATLANTA — Asian American Hotel Owners Association Chairman ChandraKant Patel has been named to the Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, which consists of 30 leading travel and tourism business leaders who are appointed by the Secretary of Commerce to advise on industry-related programs and policies. 
COLUMBIA, Md. — Koteswara Aluri has signed a development with Boardwalk Fresh Burgers & Fries for Fairfax County, Va.
ATLANTA — America's Best Franchising Inc. has signed a deal to launch its "3 Palms" brand of hotels and resorts in India.
Deal with WeP Peripherals to focus on color printing
Technology entreprenuer offers $5M over five years
New England groups aims to promote biz with India
