Tech Report Tech Report (October 25, 2000)

Menlo conference

The Swedish Office of Science and Technology announced October 17 that 11 of Sweden's wireless start-up companies will present their new technologies at a "Mobile Vision Venture conference" in Menlo Park. The companies specialize in wireless communications, ranging from wireless infrastructure and software developers to mobile entertainment providers. For more information, call the Swedish Office of Science and Technology Silicon Valley office at: (650) 327-4498 or visit www.statt.se.

Venture funding

Mohr, Davidow Ventures, a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm, announced October 17 it has invested $12 million in Ottawa, Ontario-based, Quake Technologies Inc., a fabless semiconductor start-up developing physical layer chips for high-speed optical networking applications.

GetThere Inc.

Sabre Holdings Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas, announced October 17 the close of its acquisition of Menlo Park-based GetThere Inc. The transaction combines a business-to-business corporate online travel channel and a business-to-consumer e-commerce channel for airlines, travel suppliers and travel agencies, said Gadi Maier, CEO of GetThere. The combined businesses will be marketed under the GetThere name, with headquarters in Menlo Park.

Name change

Menlo Park's Intersurvey Inc., an Internet polling and market research company, recently changed its name to Knowledge Networks because it more closely relates to the information work the company does to support marketing, political campaigns and social science studies, says vice president and controller Mark Phillips.

Care2.com

Two Menlo Park companies -- Care2.com, an online site for environmentally conscious consumers, and Homestead.com, a resource for building free Web sites -- have announced an agreement that enables Care2.com members to create personalized Web sites using Homestead's drag-and-drop Web site building features and live content.

E-Trade

Menlo Park-based E-Trade Group Inc. reports it has created E-Trade Chinese (http://chinese.etrade.com), a Chinese-language online financial site supported by Chinese bilingual customer service representatives.