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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , which develops e-commerce software for subscription-based software businesses, has been acquired by private equity investor Accel-KKR. FastSpring was founded in 2005, and is led by CEO Chris Lueck. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

Anaheim-based Willdan Group said on Thursday afternoon that it has acquired Integral Analytics , a developer of data analytics software for the utility industry. Integral Analytics was based in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was founded in 2005. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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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". READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Irvine-based property information provider CoreLogic announced this morning that it has acquired eTech Solutions Limited , a UK-based provider of mobile surveying and workflow management software. eTech was founded in 2005. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Payment giant Visa announced this morning that it has completed its acquisition of Los Angeles-based Verifi , which develops software and technology to reduce chargebacks for vendors who take credit cards. Verifi had been led by CEO Matthew Katz, and was founded in 2005. Visa said Verifi already serves more than 25,000 accounts.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

San Diego-based Inseego , the developer of mobile broadband equipment and Internet-of-Things software, said this morning that it has named Stephen Smith as its new Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

Quest Software Inc., Garn joined Quest in 1998 and has served as president since February 2005. Garn joined Quest in 1998 and has served as president since February 2005. a publisher of enterprise systems management applications, reported Thursday that its board of directors has promoted Doug Garn to chief executive officer.

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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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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. Android software now powers over 2 billion devices. On Tuesday, Miner spoke at a mobile software developer conference in Boston organized by Facebook, part of the city’s HUBweek festival.

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AUGUST 11, 2015

The Tech Coast Angels , Southern California's biggest angel investment group, said Tuesday that it has seen a successful exit in MindBody , the developer of cloud-based business management software for the wellness industry. TCA said its members first invested in MindBody in 2005, and saw a 42x return at IPO on their investment.

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JUNE 17, 2016

Sapho develops software which helps pull together information across hundreds of enterprise apps, and presents them to employees as "micro apps". ElNaggar was in Redpoint's LA offices from 2005 until 2011, and had stints on the boards of Machinima and Hark, among other companies. According to Sapho, it has raised $9.5M READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , a firm developing Java build, test, and release tools for the software development community, has uncloaked at the JavaOne conference, exposing the latest firm started by GlueCode founder Winston Damarillo. He's currently heading up Morphlabs , which shares the same address as MaestroDev. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , the developer of private cloud computing software, has officially named Doug Dennington as the firm's new President. Dennington was most recently Director, Open Source Sales at Progress Software and IONA Technologies, and was also a member of the founding team at Simula Labs, LogicBlaze, and Gluecode.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Internet giant Google said Friday that it will be shutting down web analytics service Urchin , the onetime San Diego startup which had been acquired by Google in April of 2005.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

The company says that Crosby is the founder of Google Analytics; he had been a co-founder of Urchin Software in San Diego, which eventually became Google Analytics after its acquisition in April of 2005. The company said it already has funded more than $35M in real estate loans, across 78 properties, during its pre-launch phase.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Backup software developer NovaStor has shifted its U.S. by Mike Andrews; the firm was acquired by Swiss firm Mount10 in 2005. by Mike Andrews; the firm was acquired by Swiss firm Mount10 in 2005. Tags: novastor backup software data storage. headquarters from Simi Valley to Agoura Hills, the firm announced this morning.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? Marc Averitt co-founded Okapi Venture Capital in 2005 and is a Managing Director of all three of Okapis funds and responsible for their technology investments. It is truly an amazing company with HUGE potential. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 2, 2009

Los Angeles-based Morph Labs , the latest startup of Gluecode Software founder Winston Damarillo, has launched a new product focused on private cloud management, the firm announced today. Morph said it has launched Morph CloudServer, a set of software tools to manage and provision enterprise cloud computing. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Ninness was formerly Lynda.com's Director of COntent from 2005 to 2007, and has also served at Microsoft and Extensis. Lynda.com offers instructional videos, online training, and other resources on learning software, including Adobe's suite of creative products.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Pourzanjani was CEO of Pricegrabber.com until its $485M purchase by Experian in 2005. Tags: bestcovery online experts review widget software comparison shopping. Bestcovery was started in 2008, and has 8 employees. Bestcovery launched in November of last year. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 23, 2010

Camarillo-based Surfware , a developer of computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software, said this week that it has received a patent on its technology. Surfware co-founder Alan Diehl and Robert (Pat) Patterson are named as inventors on the patent, which the firm file back in April of 2005. The firm said it was recently awarded U.S.

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JULY 14, 2010

Damarillo is best known for founding Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005, and has since been starting up firms whose basis is open source software. Tags: morph labs morphlabs winston damarillo venture capital open source software. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Amazon said the new software development kit program from the firm will be offered as a limited beta to interested developers late last night. EA Mobile came out of EA's acquisition of Los Angeles based Jamdat in 2005. No details on which titles would first appear on the Kindle. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Google did not say how it expects to apply the technology, but did say it hired at least two of the engineers from winning teams of DARPA's Grand Challenge, including the technical team leader from Carnegie Mellon University on the 2007 Urban Challenge winning team, and the software lead for Stanford's team in the 2005 Grand Challenge.

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MARCH 27, 2009

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software , reported Thursday that the firm has gained a new patent covering its compression technology. The patent was granted on March 10th, and was originally filed by the firm in January of 2005. Tags: smith micro software patent compression legal stuffit. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Patent and Trademark office, for compression technology in its StuffIt software line. Smith Micro's StuffIt software is used to compress files on Macintosh, PC, and Linux computers. Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro has received a patent from the U.S. Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP. READ MORE>>

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications.

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MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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APRIL 5, 2017

Bryan Cheung: We're an enterprise software company. Bryan Cheung: Our two software architects had worked on this for four years, before starting the company. We would provide maintenance updates for the software, and we had integrators do the implementation. What is LifeRay? How did the company start?

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? In 2005, Perdew won Season 2  The Apprentice  and worked directly for President Donald Trump in NY on multiple projects and published his book, Take Command, focused on applying military leadership principles to business.

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APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. Felipe grew up in Brazil. More red tape.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. Work on budgets, submit RFPs, answer customers support calls, work the bug-tracking software, and trying to meet the next sprint release schedule. I told him I didn’t because we planned to keep the car for more than 3 years so it was more advantageous to buy. Sell stuff.

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JULY 16, 2010

Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. Quinn Curtis: We had recently signed Webroot as a licensee of our software, as an OEM partner. Tags: startup merger acquisition webroot brightcloud security software content. Quinn, thanks for the time. What's the story behind the acquisition?

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APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. was starting.

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JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006. Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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JUNE 30, 2011

I returned to the gaming industry in 2005, when I started Acclaim Games, which we then sold to Playdom. Howard Marks: In 2005, when I started Acclaim, I believed the future of games were free to play, online games. We started the firm from scratch, basically with just ten people.

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JULY 9, 2012

According to Eichner, Google Mini has been an important part of Google’s Enterprise Search offering since its introduction in 2005 and was helpful however it will be discontinued on July 31, 2012. Another service, iGoogle launched in 2005 will be switched off on 1 st November 2013.

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