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- Best Buy Snaps Up mindSHIFT
Best Buy is paying $167 million to buy mindSHIFT Technologies Inc., a venture funded managed service provider for small and mid-sized businesses. Backed by investors including Columbia Capital, Volition Capital and TD Fund, mindSHIFT provides cloud services, data center services and professional services to more than 5,400 clients. The deal is expected to close around the end of this year.

- Oracle Buys GoAhead
Oracle is buying GoAhead, a maker of packaged service availability software for the communications industry. GoAhead has reportedly raised more than $40 million in venture capital from investors including Columbia Capital, Cedar Grove Investments, Intel Capital and Voyager Capital. Terms of the acquisition were not released. The deal is expected to close before the end of the year.
- Virtustream Adds $10M Series B
Virtustream Inc., a provider of a cloud services and infrastructure technology products, has raised $10 million in Series B financing from existing investors Intel Capital, Columbia Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners, and TDFunds. The company previously raised about $49 million in an extended Series A round, including past commitments from Blue Lagoon Capital. Virtustream launched in January of 2009, and has offices in the UK and Bethesda, Maryland.
- Millennial Media Inks $27.5M
Mobile advertising technology company Millennial Media has raised $27.5 million in growth equity from Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital, Charles River Ventures and New Enterprise Associates. The latest round brings Millennial’s total funding to more than $65 million. The new money will be used to expand the Baltimore-based company.
- Access 360 Media Clinches Roughly $50 Mln Funding Round
Access 360 Media said Wednesday that it has raised a "significant" round of series C financing. Access 360 didn't disclose how much it raised. However, a source close to the company says Access 360 raised around $50 million. Columbia Capital, which led the round, injected roughly $12 million.