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JULY 24, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on. Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report.

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MAY 22, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Advertisers. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. They include: Sponsors.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

As we go into Halloween this weekend, we want to thank all of our sponsors, advertisers, and members, who make it possible for us to exist. Without all of you, we wouldn't be able to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat might be the darling of the technology startup scene, but there are at least three, privately held startups--and maybe, more--in Southern California who recently passed $100M in revenues, according to a look through recent announcements. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Advertisers.

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APRIL 2, 2014

Santa Monica-based The Rubicon Project , which develops ad optimization technology and operates a related online advertising exchange, closed up 33.60% at $20.04 All three exits will help bolster Southern California''s reputation as a technology startup hotbed. Rubicon was venture backed by Clearstone Ventures, News Corp.,

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JULY 9, 2019

Hedges is a longtime Southern California technology veteran, who was most recently President and CEO of Velocify. Hedges served in that position until its recent acquisition by Ellie Mae. Hedges also previously has served at Bain & Company, Accenture.com, and Ogilvy & Mather.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Pandora has some Southern California connections--beyond its relationships with music studios here--including Jon Kraft , who co-founded Pandora, and Peter Gotcher , the co-founder and Chairman of Los Angeles-based TopSpin.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

Westlake Village-based online advertising company Conversant --which until recently was known as ValueClick--is now officially part of Alliance Data , after the completion of Alliance Data''s acquisition deal with the company. conversant valueclick merger acquisition alliance data alliancedata advertising online marketing'

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Acquisition. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. For anyone from California, you know there are vast differences between the northern and southern parts of the state – so vast in fact that, to us, they could just as easily stand alone as two separate states. Editor’s picks.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Advertisers. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Technology.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A quick message on a very busy funding day, to thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Advertisers. Technology.

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MAY 27, 2011

Two Southern California venture capital firms have benefited from an acquisition yesterday of Mountain View-based MerchantCircle , an online local business advertising and networking site, by fellow online advertising firm Reply!

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JANUARY 29, 2013

Rubicon Project , the online advertising technology firm headed by serial entrepreneur Frank Addante, looks like it may just be the next Southern California company to file for an IPO, based on a number of executive appointments made Tuesday.

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JANUARY 21, 2011

Pasadena-based PostUp , the Internet advertising firm spawned out of Idealab, said Friday afternoon that it has acquired UberTwitter , developer of a Twitter client that runs on the BlackBerry Platform. As part of the acquisition, the firm said it has changed its named to Ubermedia. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

The firm's net income last year in Q3 was boosted by a one-time gain related to the acquisition of its Australian subsidiary. ReachLocal is one of the newest publicly traded firms in Southern California, and also ranks among the fastest growing technology related companies in the region. to $291.5M. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 21, 2012

It appears that it's exit season in Southern California, as Internet advertising firm Adconion appears to be on the brink of an IPO filing. A report this morning says that Adconion's paperwork is ready, and that the firm is poised to file its S-1 any day now.

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MARCH 1, 2012

in 2009, and through that process I learned a lot about local businesses, and about customer acquisition pain points. One of the things I heard often when doing any marketing, was that although local businesses would get customers from their advertising efforts, the didn't know when they were coming back.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Business.com had been the latest success for Southern California entrepreneur Jake Weinbaum, who built the firm from a domain name into a firm with over $50M in revenues in 2007. At the time of the acquisition by R.H. The firm did not say how the shutdown will affect the Santa Monica operations of Business.com. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 20, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which helps small and local businesses place Internet advertising, was up 15.2 Tags: reachlocal advertising small business exit merger acquisition. percent after its IPO Thursday, closing at $14.98, up $1.98. The firm sold 4,166,667 shares of stock at $13.00 during the day. percent to 2,204.01.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

percent from last year, as its continues to have a significant piggyback of cash and investments for its acquisitions. j2 Global has been quietly become one of Southern California's largest companies in the technology sector, with a huge number of both cloud and digital media businesses under its umbrella. in Q2, up 20.3

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AUGUST 5, 2009

The sale ends Google's ill-fated foray into radio ads, which it began in January of 2006 with the acquisition of Newport Beach-based dMarc Broadcasting. The acquisition had bolstered Google's presence in Southern California, and resulted in an office in Irvine, where Google continues to employ engineers today.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. 12 major acquisitions this year putting it over 100 since 05. Following that, I think mobile advertisement technologies. Finally, Google. 7 years, 100 companies.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. Congrats on the acquisition! How did the acquisition come about? Eli Portnoy: So, we were running campaigns for a bunch of clients, and growing our business. But, do they really help?

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AUGUST 31, 2009

Hamet is now helping True Ventures look at investments in Southern California, and we thought it would be worthwhile to talk to him about the firm's new interest here, his role, plus his insights into where the advertising industry is now. Was there any specific interest in Southern California?

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. Just this year alone we have studied 3,400 North American enterprise software companies including many in SoCal and dug in deep on over 200 of these companies. What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year?

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MARCH 21, 2013

We're doing targeted advertising, including ads hypertargeted based on geolocation, and also doing local search on specific devices. With app marketing, instead of an advertisement, we're showing and application ad to mobile users. The second area I'm trying to stress is innovation. It's not strictly cost-per-click ads anymore.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

David has a unique perspective on the Southern California technology environment, having been the COO of PayPal before its acquisition by EBay, and having had the full Silicon Valley experience. Advertising might be number three. It works well for now. Can you contrast how the experience has been and the differences?

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

It's super interesting, in particular, for Southern California, where Blizzard and Riot Games have been really helping to lead that charge, both locally and internationally. Southern California companies are fundamentally part of e-sports, and both of those companies have become multi-billion dollar companies.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. Iraq a hard place to work, is not SoCal. Thanks to our advertisers.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Every so often--particularly in Southern California--you run into a serial entrepreneur, with multiple successes and great track record-- yet, who very few people are aware of. The reason was, we had built YLighting on the side, so we had to create something that was essentially running itself.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Advertise Locally on WSJ.com. Advertise Locally. Sept Real Estate Auctions. Commercial Search. Newport RI Waterfront.

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