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Vista Equity Sells Majority Of Websense To Raytheon

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Vista Equity Partners the private equity firm which as been gobbling up San Diego high tech companies and moving them to Texas--has agreed to sell 80 percent of Websense to defense company Raytheon , the three said today. billion in net cash for majority ownership of a new company, to be made of those two parts.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA. His team--which has followed him from his past firms--has a number of successes under their belt.

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Interview with Dipanshu Sharma, Kadonk

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This morning's interview is with San Diego-based Kadonk (www.kadonk.com), a startup which is creating project management tools that work with Microsoft Project. Often times, in the world of cell phones and high tech software, you don't know the challenges throughout the process of creating a product.

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