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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

San Diego-based Nirvanix , the developer of cloud storage services, said this morning that it has named former HP-LeftHand vet Dave Barr as its Vice President of Cloud Storage Engineering. Barr had headed up HP's 130-strong, LeftHand engineering organization.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Machinima first started developing its gaming-related content back around 2008, and helped usher in a healthy investment market for multi-channel-networks, companies which aggregated multiple YouTube creators and channels into a single media company. Machinima had been acquired by Warner Bros.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

San Diego-based Quidel , a developer of diagnostic tests, said today that it is in a definitive agreement to acquired Diagnostic Hybrids , a manufacturer of in-vitro diagnostic assays, in a deal worth approximately $130M in cash. According to Quidel, the acquisition will broaden its current portfolio of diagnostic tests.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Emotive had raised over $13.95M in funding, and had itself acquired venture-backed Sennari Entertainment, a developer of loyalty programs for the mobile market, in 2008. Tags: emotive communications mobile merger acquisition ringtone phone.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Eucalpytus develops open source, cloud software used to manage cloud deployment, and is venture backed by Benchmark Capital and BV Capital. Mickos was CEO of MySQL for seven years, and headed up the firm until its acquisition by Sun Microsystems--for $1 billion--in 2008.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

From lockdown in her Northern Italy home, Cevolini shared perspective on the future of motorcycling, acquisition offers and plans to recharge her company when the COVID-19 crisis subsides. new motorcycles sales didn’t weather the last recession very well, dropping 50% in 2008 and remaining stagnant since. In the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Marshal8e6 , the Orange-based developer of web and email security products, announced today that it has renamed the firm and brand to M86 Security. The firm said the name change comes to "reflect the company's vision," and follows the recent merger of Marshal and 8e6 Technologies, as well as its acquisition of Avinti.

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JULY 11, 2016

Goleta-based radio frequency filtering technology developer Resonant has acquired a Swiss company, GVR Trade SA , which provides design and consultation on Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) and Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) devices. The company said it paid $1.1M in stock and cash for GVR Trade, which was owned by Dr. Victor Plessky. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

Orange-based M86 Security , a developer of web security products, said Thursday that it has relaunched its products from its acquisition of Finjan, under the new M86 Security Secure Web Gateway brand. M86 acquired Finjan in November. The firm said the new products will be available in the first quarter of 2010. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Calabasas-based Ixia , a developer of network testing tools, reported its fourth quarter and 2009 year end results Thursday, saying that it lost $31.3M The firm said the revenues were an increase of 37% over 2008's Q4, and were up 21% over the $46.4M Ixia is a developer of hardware and software used for testing high speed networks.

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AUGUST 19, 2013

Silicon Valley’s 9+, an accelerator founded by serial entrepreneur and company builder Peter Relan is investing $110,000 into game developers to quit developing games and shift to consumer, mobile, Big Data and wearable apps. 110,000 to quit developing games for wearable apps. 2 million raised. 2 million raised.

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MAY 26, 2009

Cell Therapeutics and Spectrum had established a joint venture in December of 2008 to develop a treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; however, Cell Therapeutics then decided to sell back its stack in the joint venture in February, as the firm looked to pare operating expenses and find operating capital.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Woodridge, Illinois-based Elevance Renewable Sciences , a developer of renewable chemicals technology which was spun off from Pasadena-based Materia , has filed for an IPO. Elevance was spun out of Materia in 2008, in a partnership with Cargill, Incorporated. The IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, J.P.

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JULY 7, 2009

Irvine-based Pegasus Biologics , a venture backed developer of collagen-based bioimplants for orthopedic, spine, and neurosurgery, has been acquired by Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. in revenues in 2008, and had employed 75. Tags: pegasus biologics synovis merger acquisition lifescience biotech.

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DECEMBER 22, 2008

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies said today that it has acquired Odom Hydrographic Systems, a Louisiana-based firm developing hydrographic survey instrumentation. for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2008. Tags: instrumentation merger teledyne equipment hydrographic odom acquisition hardware. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

The firm had all but disappeared after an acquisition in July of 2008 by competitor Microsemi, but was spun back out in August under pressure by the U.S. Semicoa develops transistors and other semiconductors which are used for the military, commercial aerospace and satellite markets. Department of Justice.

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JUNE 9, 2009

SonoSite is a developer of ultrasound products, and is based in Bothell, Washington, near Seattle. Tags: cardiodynamics cardiography lifescience merger acquisition sonosite. According to Sonosite, it will pay $1.35 per share in cash for publicly held CardioDynamics. According to SonoSite, CardioDynamics had revenues of $24.5M

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JULY 16, 2010

One of the questions we get most from entrepreneurs is how companies reach an exit event, and the thinking that goes into acquisitions. What's the story behind the acquisition? That led naturally to dialog around M&A, and we recently close the acquisition on the 6th of July. Quinn, thanks for the time. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2009

Newport Beach-based Conexant Systems , a developer of semiconductors for the video, networking, and other markets, has named two new co-Presidents for the firm today. Conexant had inked a deal to sell that business, which develops DSL and other products, to Ikanos in April. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

The long, turbulent history of the video-on-demand technology developed by former Marina Del Rey-based CinemaNow continues today, after current owner Rovi Corporation said Thursday afternoon that it plans to pursue a sale of its Rovi Entertainment Stores business--the remains of CinemaNow.

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JANUARY 21, 2009

San Diego-based Nanogen, a developer of molecular diagnostics products, said today that it has received permission to investigate alternatives to a previously announced merger with the Elitech Group. Nanogen had originally announced its merger with the Elitech Group, a French diagnostics company, in August of 2008.

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MAY 20, 2009

Accordin to Schiele, it will pay $150M to acquire Victory Pharma, which is focused on acquiring, developing, and marketing products to treat pain. Victory Pharma has 182 employees, and had net sales of $57M in 2008, Sciele said. Tags: victory pharma sciele merger acquisition lifescience.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Elevance was spun out of Materia in March of 2008, based on the research conducted by Materia, whose technology is derived from Nobel prize winning chemical technology originally developed at Caltech. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2015

Brian Garrett: The fund is really continuing what we started back in 2008. That fund started back in 2008, and those companies are now six or seven years old. We raised $5M in august of 2008, on the belief and conviction that this ecosystem was going to develop. Any change to your investment thesis from your last funds?

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APRIL 2, 2012

Thousand Oaks-based storage systems developer Nexsan has officially pulled its IPO plans, saying in a regulatory filing today with the SEC that it has decided to withdraw its IPO registration. Nexsan, which had filed for an IPO in April of 2008, cited "unfavorable market conditions" for the withdrawal.

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MAY 19, 2011

Vista-based AutoGenomics , a developer of molecular diagnostics hardware, has pulled its IPO, the firm said in a filing Wednesday evening. The firm had file for an IPo in July of 2008, looking to list on the NASDAQ as AGMX. The firm said it has "elected not to pursue the sale of securities" but did not give a reason for the withdrawal.

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MARCH 19, 2019

We got a relatively large client in 2008, after three years of chugging along, and that's when we knew that was the business we should be focusing on. We were really focused on customer acquisition. You mentioned you were just three people, how did you develop what you did with just three people at the time?

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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JULY 24, 2009

Your Software Development Partner. Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. While Senior Director of Corporate Development & Acquisitions at Salesforce.com, he grew the B2B sales division to $100M.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

Your Software Development Partner. Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com).

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JANUARY 4, 2013

The long, turbulent history of the video-on-demand technology developed by former Marina Del Rey-based CinemaNow continues today, after current owner Rovi Corporation said Thursday afternoon that it plans to pursue a sale of its Rovi Entertainment Stores business--the remains of CinemaNow.

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JULY 13, 2012

And though the terms of the deal are not yet public Microsoft has big plans with the acquisition. Kurt DelBene, president, Office Division for Microsoft in a statement said ; “The acquisition of PPI allows us to draw on our complementary strengths, and we’re excited to accelerate this market evolution”.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Once Larry and Sergey developed search’s secret sauce, PageRank, they backwards-integrated into server-side software technologies to power and scale search. Although Google doesn’t create every piece of server-side infrastructure that it needs, it has developed quite a few. Search is just another web application.

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JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. See: TechCrunch.

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MAY 1, 2014

If you already heard of the name, then you already know why the acquisition is such a big deal. Adam is the very mind behind many of the business developments and the growth of Indiegogo into one of the most premier crowdfunding platforms. Adam Chapnick founded Distribber in 2008.

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JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008.

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