Acme Packet News

Google announced Tuesday morning that it has purchased social-mapping company Waze in an attempt to boost the real-time traffic information on its Maps app and possibly to keep other Silicon Valley tech giants from acquiring the Israeli company.

EnerNOC, Inc. , a leading provider of energy intelligence software, today announced that Matthew J. Cushing, who was most recently Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Acme Packet, will become EnerNOC's General Counsel and Vice President, effective June 11, 2013.

Last week, the session border controller pure play Sonus Networks met with Jefferies & Co.

The two key arguments for this thesis were the fact that Acme and Broadsoft had been working very closely together since around 2000, and that Broadsoft has an attractive current price after reporting soft results in the last quarter of 2012 .

APKT has experienced a decrease in activity from the world's largest hedge funds of late.

In the sector broadly known as networking technology, Boston has long been a major player - the home of past success stories including Wellfleet, 3Com and Starent Networks.