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With today’s acquisition of Day Software , a Swiss web content management software company, Adobe continues to fill out its enterprise software line. The two companies reached an agreement for Adobe to acquire all of the publicly held shares of Day Software. Founded in 1993 in Base, Switzerland, Day Software has 146 employees. The company reported 2009 revenues of 36.6 million Swiss Francs ($35.5 million)

(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany . This column originally appeared on his blog .) If you’ve had a great career what happens to all your knowledge and experience when you retire? My wife and I had dinner recently with a friend of hers from high school and Tom, her husband – whom I had never met before. I took one look at his suit and guessed “high-powered lawyer

Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner. Should you pay to trademark your product or service? – Trademarks protect your company’s service or product, but can cost thousands of dollars. Attorney Curtis Smolar notes, though, that you may be able to get the same protections without paying anything at all.

Here’s the latest action: Apple TV due for an upgrade — Rumor has it that the humdrum Apple TV service launched four years ago will get a fresh upgrade, including a transition to the iOS operating system that powers the iPad and iPhone. Wired has more . New funding for broadband — President Barack Obama announced today that the federal government will funnel money into 66 projects intended to extend broadband into remote and impoverished regions of the U.S. Schmidt addresses Google threats — Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at the Activate summit today, where he took a holistic look at all of the threats confronting the search engine and emphasized the importance of mobile over internet strategy

Anna Chapman, the Russian woman accused by the FBI of being part of a spy ring , had her own startup that was creating a web site aimed at helping people find apartments. Techcrunch reported today that the 28-year-old Chapman had created the company PropertyFinder and was in the midst of creating the rental web site NYCrentals.com. It has both a copy of Chapman’s business plan and a video in which Chapman describes the internet business.

Here’s the latest action: Google can’t catch up in social — Business Insider takes a closer look at why the search company will always trail behind Facebook when it comes to its social strategy. Yahoo mail for Android — Yahoo has released new versions of its mail, search and messenger applications for the Android mobile operating system . It also updated the iOS 4 versions of the same apps, making sure they work better with HTML5.

Computer giant IBM today announced it plans to acquire network and compliance company BigFix for an undisclosed amount, although Bloomberg BusinessWeek claims an inside source is saying the deal is worth about $400 million. The acquisition will bring IBM customers added compliance and security for their network of computers. BigFix gives customers visibility into their entire networks, anywhere from 1,000 to 100,000 computers. The system works with the customer’s IT standards and alerts the customer when a computer may drop out of compliance or if there’s a security threat.

Eucalyptus Systems , a startup offering open source tools to give companies the benefits of cloud computing on their own infrastructure, announced that it has raised $20 million in a second round of funding. The company uses technology developed by computer scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara. With Eucalyptus, companies can run applications in an internal environment using cloud technology while avoiding the normal concerns of security and being locked in to another company’s platform. Those internal environments can also be connected to public environments like Amazon.com’s, creating a “hybrid cloud.” The company recently named Marten Mickos (pictured), the chief executive who led MySQL to a $1 billion acquisition by Sun, as its CEO.

Update: Boy Genius Report has updated its post , most importantly saying that BGR’s original post this morning misattributed words written by “Tom” as written by Steve Jobs, including the dubious “Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone.” This makes a lot more sense. A widely-published email exchange allegedly between an upset iPhone owner and Apple CEO Steve Jobs is, according to Apple’s PR department, a fabrication. The denial is notable because Apple hasn’t denied the authenticity of several other emails supposedly sent by Jobs in recent weeks

The Nasdaq is closed, and Tesla Motors (TSLA) is ending its first day on the market at $23.89 a share, a 40.5 percent increase over the $17 pricing it announced last night. This is a rock star showing for the electric car company, which has exceeded expectations that were already sky high. As of 20 minutes before 4 p.m. EST, the stock price was hovering between $21 and $22 .

With the recent news that Groupon, the well-funded group buying site, just acquired two start-ups in Latin America , many in the region view it as a sign of things to come. Whereas, previously, only well-financed startups with strong revenues made it onto the radar of potential strategic acquirers; today, smaller startups in the region, such as Argentinean start-up, Three Melons, which was recently acquired by Playdom , are fair game. So, what has changed? For one thing, with a user base of more than 170 million and boasting the fastest growth rate in the world , the Latin American market is getting tougher to ignore.

Crowdstar is giving a big endorsement to Facebook Credits. The social gaming company has made a five-year commitment to using Facebook’s virtual currency. The introduction of Facebook Credits this summer is a big step for the social network , much like the introduction of the euro currency was for Europe. The hope is that the universal currency will grease the skids of electronic commerce on Facebook, prompting users to spend more money across a bunch of apps

On a day when the Dow and the Nasdaq were in the red, Tesla Motors, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based electric-car startup, saw shares of TSLA climb slowly but steadily. Shares in the company’s initial public offering were priced at $17 last night by the offering’s four underwriters, but the first trades today went for $19. The price just this second, at 8:30am Pacific, is hovering in the $17-18 range. Tesla’s debut marked the first IPO of an automaker in the U.S

(Editor’s note: Steve Fredrick is a general partner at Grotech Ventures. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.) Working at a startup should be a labor of love. The hours can be long and the pay can be modest, but for many people, the culture can’t be beat. Most startup founders are incredibly passionate and dedicated – and these qualities permeate the entire organization.

Breaking a barrier for storage capacity, Seagate is announcing today the world’s first 3-terabyte external hard disk drive. The desktop drive is now available under the 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk name for $249. For the geeks who keep track of such things, this drive can store 120 high-definition movies, or 1,500 video games, thousands of photos or entire libraries of digital music. Scotts Valley, Calif.-based Seagate said the desktop computer external drives will be available for both the Mac and the PC.