2012 will officially be the Year of the Entrepreneur in Virginia.

Airline operator Virgin Australia will begin offering passengers use of a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet during flights, starting in April.

Juniper Networks, the second-largest maker of networking equipment, purchased closely held Mykonos Software for $80 million in cash, adding products that bolster the security of Internet applications.

On Feb. 9, 2012 Dassault Systèmes, a French engineering firm best known for 3-D and computer-aided design (CAD) software, fully acquired Netvibes for an estimated $26 million. (Dassault Systèmes has had a stake in Netvibes since mid-2010.) Founded by Tariq Krim in 2005, Netvibes began as a personal start or homepage, but instead of delivering current news from the feeds, as was the case with My ...