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JANUARY 22, 2020

Sonos told its users on Tuesday that it is discontinuing support for its older products, saying that its legacy products--built between 2005 and 2011, "do not have enough memory or processing power to sustain future innovation".

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Before becoming a venture capitalist, Demetriades founded SeeBeyond, which he took to an IPO, and later sold to Sun Microsystems in 2005 for $386M. According to the firm, it seeks to take leading scientific discoveries and commercialize them into viable businesses as quickly as possible, making investments between $150,000 and $20M.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

before leaving in 2005 to found Might Oak Entertainment. Mighty Oak Entertainment is best known for its "Whacked Out Sports" clips. Might Oak said its founder, O'Brien, previously was a development and content sales executives for Warner Bros., READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

FastSpring was founded in 2005, and is led by CEO Chris Lueck. According to FastSpring, Accel-KKR has made a majority equity investment in the firm, to provide capital and resources for its technology and go-to-market initiatives. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. FastSpring was advised by Raymond James in the deal.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

Integral Analytics was based in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was founded in 2005. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Willdan said it expects the acquisition to add $10M in revenues in 2018. The company develops software used by utility managers to evaluate, plan, and dispatch electricity resources. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Verifi had been led by CEO Matthew Katz, and was founded in 2005. Verifi's tools connect consumers, merchants, and others in the dispute management process before they become chargebacks, according to the companies. Visa said Verifi already serves more than 25,000 accounts. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

Smith also was President of XiTron Tehnologies, and was SVP and Chief Finance and Accounting Officer for Applied Micro Circuits Corporation from 1999 to 2005, among other experience. Smith was previously interim CFO of TetraVue, and also was hief Financial Officer and Head of Operations for Micropower Technologies. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

XCOR first received seed funding in 2005. XCOR filed for bankruptcy in 2017 , after failing to both gain additional investors to fund its development, and also failing to ever launch a single vehicle into space. The Times report says that there are 282 ticket holders hoping for something back from the failed firm. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the founders of Beats Electronics , the onetime Santa Monica headphone-and-music-service, are in the midst of a lqsuit--and likely, a jury decision--over a lawsuit which claims Dr. Dre and Iovine owes royalties to a businessman work worked with the company back in 2005 and 2006.

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JULY 5, 2016

AIS was founded in 2005. Ennoconn is a subsidiary of Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group. Nelson Tsay is the founder and CEO of American Industrial Systems, which will become part of Foxconn's IPC Business Group.

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DECEMBER 9, 2015

Journee was founded by Clayton Alexander in 2005. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Journee Lighting, which was based in Westlake Village, developed downlight and track lighting. EcoSense Lighting is led by Mark Reynoso. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 5, 2017

The firm's founder and Managing Partner is Jim Demetriades, an entrepreneur who founded SeeBeyond, took public, and which he sold to Sun Microsystems in 2005. Kairos says it makes investments of between $150,000 and $5 Million.

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APRIL 22, 2013

Upcoming.org , an online service which was started in Los Angeles, and acquired by Yahoo in 2005, is shutting down, according to Yahoo in an announcement over the weekend. Deals, SMS alerts, Yahoo Kids, and more.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

Snap Inc), and cites a number of patents which were granted to Vaporstream in July of 2005 for Vaporstream's secure messaging products. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in the Ninth Circuit of the California Central District Court (Vaporstream Inc v.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Harrison previously founded FasTV, and headed up iFILM, which he sold to Viacom back in 2005. Financial details of the content licensing deal were not disclosed. Frequency aggregates and distributes video content to mobile and other devices. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Peixoto has been in the position since 2005, having previously been President and CEO of United Cinemas International. Los Angeles-based RealD , the developer of 3D movie projection technology, said Wednesday that Joe Peixoto, the company''s President, Worldwide Cinema, is retiring in March. The company said it will not replace Peixoto.

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DECEMBER 19, 2014

XCOR has been working on its vehicle since at least 2005. XCOR said it is making "rapid progress" towards final assembly of it spacecraft, and has attached what it says is a key part of its aircraft--the carry-through spar--to the rear-end of the Lynx fuselage. READ MORE>>. spacecraft vehicle subrobital space aerospace xcor'

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

Kurion said its technology has been used for the treatment of asbestos, PCBs, dioxins, and other persistent organic pollutants sicne 2005 in Japan. The company said the deal calls for the companies to collaborate more closely on treatment of nuclear waste in Japan. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 6, 2017

XCOR--which has been working on developing a "space plane" since at least 2005--said the layoffs came due to "adverse financial conditions", although it apparently is still looking for funding. XCOR has apparently laid off all of its employees , due to the inability of the company to raise money.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Zucker became President at j2 in 2005, and has been CEO for the last eight years. According to j2 Global, Shah grew Ziff Davis from approximatley $50M in annual revenues to more than $500M--and is now more than half of j2's total revenues. The shift is a major one for j2 Global, which became a ravenous acquirer of companies under his shift.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

Stickam had been founded in 2005. Reason for the shutdown was not disclosed. The Los Angeles-based company said that it "did everything we could to keep this dream alive", but was "sad to have to say goodbye." Last August, the company had announced a VIP membership program, which charged users $39.99

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MAY 21, 2019

Sebastian Thrun first made his mark on autonomous vehicle development at the dawn of that industry, when he led a Stanford team whose robot car Stanley won the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 by racing driverless through the Mojave Desert for 132 miles.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The last time the company actually discussed revenue numbers was back in 2005, when it had around $29.9M SOA Software is led by Paul Gigg. The company said in 2013 that it had revenue growth of 52% in 2012. in revenues. READ MORE>>. revenues software middleware enterprise'

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APRIL 29, 2019

In 2005, Japan’s big drug firm Takeda acquired a company in North America for the first time. That company was Syrrx, a private San Diego-based biotech that used X-ray crystallography to help determine the structures of disease-related molecules so drugs could be designed to target them.

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APRIL 20, 2017

The acquisition comes just over 12 years after Xirrus was founded by Dirk Gates in 2005. The company had counted Microsoft, University of Mississippi, Liverpool Football Club and Paul Hastings Law Firm as major customers.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

MindTouch, which was founded by Steve Bjorg and Aaron Fulkerson back in 2005, said the funding will go to increase its integration with software such as Salesforce, SAP, and Oracle, and grow its marketing, business development, sales, and engineering teams. The funding came from PeakSpan Capital, along with SK Ventures and SAP SE.

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JULY 26, 2016

Standing Dog was founded in 2005, and was based in Texas. Wpromote says it has hired on senior management and more than 70 employees from Standing Dog, which will help boost the company's annual run rate to $35M this year.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

acquired IGN in September of 2005, for $650M. Those numbers--and the story--seems to be almost an exact repeat of the story behind MySpace , which--also in 2005, in July--was acquired by News Corp. That deals loooks to be worth around $100M, based on reports from the WSJ. in a $580M deal.

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MARCH 16, 2016

Volicon was based in Massachusetts, and had been founded in 2005. Verizon Digital Media Services, which is now part of AOL, said it will use the acquisition to help it bolster its servies in the area of broadcast and online video. Verizon Digital Media Services--which has a big building in Playa Del Rey--is led by Bob Toohey. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 6, 2016

Goldin became head of NASA in 1992, and started KnuEdge in 2005; he also spent 25 years at TRW, and had started his career at NASA in 1962. The company said its technology can recognize a human voice, even in extremely noisy environments, and even in a room full of people talking nearby. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Since joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers in 2005, Beth has incubated five companies and was the founding CEO of two.

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AUGUST 7, 2015

Painter has been CEO of the company since he founded TrueCar in 2005. Painter will remain as Chairman of the board, and will continue as CEO as the company searches for a new chief executive.

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APRIL 29, 2013

The company has been working since 2005 to commercialize technology in SpaceShipOne for space tourism. In an actual flight, the SpaceShipTwo will power itself into space, and later return by gliding back to earth. Virgin Galactic''s design is based on the first, commercial vehicle to reach space, the SpaceShipOne. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Oppegard was previously Corporate Controller at the company, and has been at the firm since 2005. Santa Ana-based SRS Labs , the developer of surround sound and other audio technology, said this morning that it has named Maria Oppegard its Chief Accounting Officer. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 24, 2012

Emrani has been at Logicube since 2005, and was most recently EVP and COO. Chatsworth-based Logicube , which develops hard drive duplication technology, announced this morning that it has named Farid Emrani as its new President and CEO. Emrani replaces Jack Schuster, the firm's Chairman, President, and CEO, who is retiring.

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MARCH 10, 2015

The name change is actually the second for the company, which changed its name to SOA Software in March of 2005 from its original name, Digital Evolution. READ MORE>>. devops rename cloud enterprise software akana'

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MARCH 25, 2013

The firm, which was then based in Calabasas, moved out of the area in 2005, taking with it hundreds of jobs. Tekelec had started in Southern California back in 1978, and had been a onetime technology darling when it had its IPO back in 1986. The firm has since been in Morrisville, North Carolina.

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