In today’s Bulldog Update of technology news: entrepreneur-focused event in Wilmington features Wedpics CEO; MLK Center in Lenoir wins Google grant; Overture, Wind River integrating technologies; Citrix looking for a buyer?

Wilmington event expects 135

Jim Roberts tells us the Pivoting from Buzzyness to Business event in Wilmington Thursday is sold out. It features four executives who managed to pivot their startups to create revenue.

Justin Miller, founder and CEO of WedPics.com, is a featured speaker. Roberts notes he Miller just started a Taco business.

Jake Finkelstein, CEO of MethodSavvy, will offer a brief digital marketing seminar to start the event. Other speakers include

Jamie Mottram founder of For the Win, a USA Today sports blog and a Wilmington citizen. Jamie helped build the traffic for Yahoo Sports beyond ESPN and is now doing the same for USA Today and For The Win.

Josh Harcus, founder of Huify, who also worked on the world class campaign for NextGlass.

MLK Center in Lenoir nabs Google grant

The Martin Luther King Center of Lenoir is the recipient of a Google Grant designed to help increase interest in computer science and aptitude in the field among African Americans and rural constituencies in Caldwell County. The Center will receive $18,500 plus equipment to develop a computer science lab that helps train K-12 students.

Owned by the City, MLK Center offers both recreational and educational opportunities for all Lenoir and Caldwell County residents. The Google Grant will help the Center realize its overarching goals to motivate youth to pursue related STEM topics in high school and beyond, to prepare them for professional careers in STEM-related fields, and to enhance learning opportunities from job search to individualized lifelong learning.

Programs funded by the grant will include research-based best practices for both youth development and science education that piques students’ interest in STEM, keeps them interested, and builds their capacity to pursue STEM-focused careers

Overture is integrating its tech with Wind River Titanium servers

Research Triangle-based Overture has integrated its Ensemble Service Orchestrator (ESO) with Wind River Titanium Server, providing carrier-class NFV management and orchestration on the Titanium Server virtualized network infrastructure solution.

Overture’s award-winning Ensemble Service Orchestrator provides big data analytics-driven orchestration that enables policy-driven automation for delivery of carrier-class services in a pure-play virtualized network environment. Wind River Titanium Server is a powerful software platform designed to support the intensive performance, reliability and security requirements of the world’s most demanding computing and communications networks.

Citrix looking for a buyer

Citrix Systems (CTXS:Nasdaq) is trying to sell the company whole before an investor can force the company to sell itself in parts, Reuter’s reports.

Hedge fund Elliott Management bought 7 percent of Citrix stock earlier this year and is pushing for a sale of assets sucha s its popular GoToMeeting teleconference tech, and its NetScaler tool that speeds up online apps.

The Sana Clara, CA-based company has 600 employees in its downtown Raleigh office. The company has dropped hundreds from the payroll, not so much in Raleigh. A corporate restructuring didn’t help its disappointing first quarter numbers. Its shares have traded in the $67-$78 range and were selling at $74.63 in mid-afternoon trading Wednesday, up about 48 cents.