Business Briefs Business Briefs (July 01, 2005)

EMC moves local sites to Santa Clara

The EMC Corporation, a leading developer of high-capacity data storage systems, is consolidating its Bay Area software operations and moving many of them to a new site on Mission College Boulevard in Santa Clara.

Many employees, including those of Mountain View's former Legato Systems and Allocity Inc., will now be transferred to the large Santa Clara facility, the company announced. -- Jenny Baer

Big plans for online shopping

A Mountain View company hopes Bay Area residents will use its specialized search engine to change the way they shop on the Internet.

FatLens is able to search the Internet using a computer program called a "spider" to find multiple products that match a user's query -- so that the buyer, instead of the store owner, chooses the kinds of products he sees.

"Other sites are sort of like a department store," states co-founder Siva Kumar. "FatLens is like going to the mall." Currently the search engine is configured only to find event and concert tickets, but Kumar plans to expand the site this fall to compete with other online shopping sites such as Froogle and Yahoo! -- Jenny Baer

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