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AUGUST 17, 2010

Altadena-based Perfect Market , the Idealab firm which is providing tools to help publishers surface and monetize their archive content, said Monday that it has named Guy Vidra as Vice President of Business Development. The company is run by Julie Schoenfeld, and is a spinout of Idealab. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 14, 2010

Pasadena-based TweetUp , the Twitter advertising firm started by Idealab's Bill Gross, is expanding out its network of sites this morning, saying that it has added four new publishers to its roster. Tags: tweetup twitter advertising search idealab business netvibes dictionary. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. John Delacruz: Right now, people come to our web site and tell us what they want. Tell us a bit about the involvement of Idealab here?

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MAY 24, 2010

The move does not seem to affect the fortunes of Pasadena-based TweetUp , the new startup headed by Idealab's Bill Gross, as that firm's model does not rely on in-stream ads. Tags: twitter tweet adly idealab tweetup advertising online. However, Twitter's own "Promoted Tweets" feature is direct competition to TweetUp's services.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Pasadena-based X1 Discovery , the electronic discovery offshoot of X1 and Idealab, reported Tuesday that it has launched a fully cloud-deployable version of its software. The firm said the new X1 Rapid Discovery search product can be deployed anywhere in the cloud "within minutes", including deploying through Amazon Web Services.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Engel said that the service is aimed at SaaS and Web 2.0 Engel has some prior success in the Internet area, having been VP of Marketing at Picasa when it was acquired by Google, as well as being involved in GoToMyPC and Idealab. companies, to eliminate their need for maintaining their own e-commerce infrastructure. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 15, 2012

Pasadena-based X1 Discovery , the enterprise, e-discovery spinout of X1, announced this morning that its X1 Rapid Discovery product is now available through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solution Provider program. Both firms are backed by Idealab. The firm is a spinout of X1, which develops enterprise search and indexing tools.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2010

Pasadena-based TweetUp , the Twitter advertising firm owned by Idealab, said today that it has linked its Twitter Client, Twidroyd, to the TweetPhoto media sharing service. TweetUp bought Twidroid in July. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. Alex is a member of the New Venture Group at Idealab, headed by Allen Morgan. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.

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JUNE 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based HypeMarks , the developer of a service which helps users find new places to explore on the web, has raised $350,000 in a funding round, socalTECH has learned. According to Tim Sae Koo, the firm's founder, the funding came from Idealab, with Allen Morgan of Idealab joining the company's board.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Pasadena-based Foodme , the online, real-time, restaurant deals site funded by Idealab, apparently has shut down, according to a statement on the firm's web site. The shutdown comes only a few months after Foodme launched out of Idealab's New Venture Group. The firm did not detail the reasons behind the shutdown on its site.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2010

According to MediaTrust, Bardon Advisors owns more than 1200 web properties, which get a total of 20 million monthly unique visits, and 5 million paid searches per month. Bardon Advisors was founded by Keith Cohn, who was previously President and CEO of Vendare Media, which was backed by Idealab and other venture firms.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. Alex is a member of the New Venture Group at Idealab, headed by Allen Morgan. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

We have been holding off on this announcement for quite a bit and now we can officially announce Bill Gross of Idealab as our SuperDemo presenter. Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

Pasadena-based Evolution Robotics , the developer of robotic technology backed by Idealab, is now distributing its Mint automatic floor clear through Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

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MARCH 3, 2010

The firm said the round was led by Tribune Company, and also included Trinity Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners, and Idealab. Perfect Market said that the Tribune Company has been using its product on a number of its web properties. According to Perfect Market, the new funding will go to market and deploy its solutions.

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JULY 16, 2013

One of those high profile neighborhoods here is Pasadena, home of Idealab, Caltech, OpenX, and many other high tech companies and institutions. Because of that, I formally reached out to Caltech, Idealab, the Art Center College of Design, and all the CEOs I knew running tech companies out here. Andy Wilson: Great question.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Pasadena-based Perfect Market, the Idealab startup which is looking to monetize dormant content from publishers, said this morning that the firm's CTO, Dr. Jay Budzik, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees for the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, by the Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich. READ MORE>>

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

The prize, which is looking to award $10M to a team which develops a 100 MPG, super fuel-efficient vehicle, said that among the 22 teams which have registered for the prize are Idealab-backed Aptera Motors, based in Carlsbad, and Santa Ana-based Kinetix Motors. The X PRIZE competition will begin in 2009, with winners awarded in 2010.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Pasadena-based Perfect Market, which is developing technology to help publishers monetize their archive content, said Monday that it has acquired technology from Mediariver, which can be used to match content and advertising to any web page. Perfect Market is venture backed by Idealab, Trinity Ventures and Rustic Canyon Ventures.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. After an initial round of seed funding of $500k led by Pasadena’s Idealab, Mingly saw great success as they built up their Gmail user base. Finally, some solid relief.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

robotics startup spun out of Idealab--uses cleaning cloths to tidy up your hard floors. Have an HDTV, and wish you could browse the web or stream content from the Internet? features an interface powered by Google TV, and delivers both the web and streaming. owned by iRobot. Vizio CoStar. The CoStar. Vizio is based in Irvine.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Patent 7,424,510, entitled "Methods and Systems for Web Based Incremental Searches," covering its method of displaying search results. The patent names Idealab's Bill Gross and Steven Lee Colwell as inventors, and was originally filed by the firm in September of 2003. According to the firm, it received U.S

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APRIL 17, 2012

Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space.

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MAY 4, 2010

They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. AppDynamics.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Bill founded Idealab to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet.

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JUNE 18, 2012

We have a very visual marketplace, that for the mobile and web, lets people show their closets, garages, homes, and stores. We do the same thing on the web, making selling really easy. The entire platform, both on mobile and web, is built for having one experience. What is HipSwap? It's a good group. Rob Kramer: Absolutely.

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JULY 1, 2010

Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. a fbFund winner. Current round: $4.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

and web plug-in capabilities (Yelp), Storitz definitely gave the biggest eye opener of the evening with their revelation that Storage Units is astonishingly, a $20 billion/yr industry. To close off the evening we had an especially inspirational super demo from Idealab’s Bill Gross.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). Because GoTo.com was his idea. Overture sold for $1.6 billion to Yahoo!

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

At at time where nearly all advertising was purchased on a CPM (cost per thousand) basis and not very measurable this was a huge innovation that should be credited to Bill Gross, the founder of IdeaLab. Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic.

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JULY 8, 2011

Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers. New models for improving the search experience are at the core of several companies currently growing inside of Idealab. daqri is an augmented reality and mobile web content publishing platform that utilizes QR codes to deliver content. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

I first joined the Xprize Foundation, and later got together with Bill Gross at Idealab, where I ended up working as CEO for a number of companies in energy storage, with Energy Cache, to Edison Microgrids, and also was involved in a variety of other things Idealab was doing at the time. You then caught things like Web 2.0,

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers. New models for improving the search experience are at the core of several companies currently growing inside of Idealab. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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MARCH 21, 2014

To do that, we''ve help organize our members into subject matter areas, whether they know IT, or web stuff, or engineering, or manufacturing. It''s more than showing up every two months and writing that dues check so they can say they''re an angel--it''s having them pitch in and grab the oars, and help move the group forward.

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JULY 26, 2010

Tweetup.com - An auction-based advertising system from Internet incubator Idealab, which originally came up with the idea for search advertising in the 1990s when it launched GoTo.com. Advertisers on TweetUp can bid to have their tweets displayed when users search for keywords, giving them another way to build a following.

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