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MARCH 14, 2011

Fountain Valley-based Kingston Technology , the provider of computer memory products, reported today that it has hit a record, $6.5 billion increase in its sales over 2009. billion in revenues in 2010. The firm said the amount is the highest ever in company history, and was a $2.4

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Calabasas-based Emergent Game Technologies , developer of the computer game development software Gamebryo LightSpeed, reported today that it had a 35 percent increase in revenues year-over-year, and a 58 percent increase in its profitability during 2009. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

According to CityGrid, Felix will operate as another independent business under CityGrid, reporting to CityGrid CEO Jason Finger. Felix provides pay-per-action phone advertising to local businesses, and has been working with CityGrid since 2009. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2012

You may not see it here in Southern California's high tech sector--which has been booming, due to a surge of startup and accelerator activity--but apparently, the technology sector has seen its highest level of layoffs in three years, according to a report today. The number of cuts is apparently the largest, midyear total since 2009.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies , a developer of continuous variable transmissions aimed at the electric vehicle market, has filed for an IPO, saying Tuesday evening in a filing that it is looking to raise up to $50M in an offering. Fallbrook reported a net loss of $11.7M For 2008, the firm had a loss of $11.9M READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

A new report released today by Next 10 , a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy group, says that Southern California--and California, as a whole--leads the green innovation, cleantech venture capital, and energy market. The report was compiled by research firm Colaborative Economics.

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APRIL 26, 2010

The monthly report, which tracks the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), said that overall employment declined by 150,800 people, or 2.9 percent between March 2009 and March 2010. Tags: information technology employment jobs satistics. percent, compared with March of last year in the region.

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JUNE 7, 2010

A report from the WSJ Monday morning says that Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies Corp. The firm--which saw a successful launch of its Falcon 9 spacecraft into orbit Friday--apparently has nearly run out of cash a number of times between mid-2007 and mid-2009, the WSJ said, citing interviews with Musk in March.

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MAY 11, 2009

Clean technology investments were not immune from the global slowdown, showing a 69 percent drop in capital and 48 percent decline in deals in Q1, according to a recent analysis by Ernst & Young. According to the firm, clean technology firms received "markedly less" investment in Q1 2009 compared with previous quarters.

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JULY 14, 2009

Calabasas-based Emergent Game Technologies , developer of the Gamebryo LightSpeed game development engine, reports today that it had a 45% increase in earnings during the first half of 2009. Tags: emergent game technologies video games software. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 -- Update on Significant Changes in Revenue Reporting. Recently, standards setters have made significant changes to the way software and other technology companies record revenue. Financial Executives Society.

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APRIL 22, 2009

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies , an aerospace and electronics firm, announced Wednesday that the firm has cut six percent of its North American workforce, eliminated salary increases, cut employee stock option awards, and will also close or relocate five of its operating sites, as it looks to cut expenses.

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JANUARY 29, 2009

Carlsbad-based MaintenanceNet, a privately held provider of contract management services and extended warranty services, joined the parade of Southern California firms reporting strong fourth quarter revenues. The firm did not report actual financial results. MaintenanceNet is backed by Express Ventures.

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JULY 20, 2009

The second quarter venture capital numbers from Dow Jones VentureSource were released over the weekend, with the firm reporting $5.27 billion in 726 deals for Q2 of last year, but up 32% over the first quarter of 2009. billion across 184 deals, ahead of Information Technology investments, which saw $1.88 billion in Q2.

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JULY 26, 2016

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Los Angeles-based RealD , the provider of 3D movie projection technology, has reported its quarterly results today, saying it had net revenues of $65.3M it saw in the six months ending September 25, 2009. it saw in the six months ending September 25, 2009. for its quarter ended September 24, 2010. in revenues.

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APRIL 15, 2010

for the quarter, up from both Q4 of last year as well as the comparable Q1 quarter in 2009, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA. According to the report, released today, Southern California investments totaled $686.5M received in the region in Q1 of 2009. Nationally, Q4 of 2009 brought in $5.2

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MAY 20, 2011

Santa Ana-based SRS Labs , which develops surround sound and other audio technology, reported today that it has named Bob Lyle as Vice President, Mobile Solutions Group. Lyle has been at the firm since 2009. Lyle was most recently managing Director of Global Business Development for the company. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

The University of Southern California is reporting today that spinouts out of the school have raised $148m in the last two calendar years (2008-2009), and that there are now at least 24 USC spinouts currently in business. USC also reported that it owns equity in 32 startups, though none of those startups were identified.

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MARCH 19, 2013

Agoura Hills-based wireless gateway developer Nomadix reported Tuesday that it has reached a settlement with Wayport, Inc., According to Nomadix, the settlement includes a license to AT&T, under Nomadix patents relating to Internet access technologies. over its patents back in 2009. Superclick, Inc., Superclick, Inc.

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MAY 6, 2015

As an active investor in the Los Angeles technology market we’re always seeking to better understand the data and trends of why our market has grown so rapidly since 2009. The report on the LA Tech Market can be found on this link. And the first report released is this one — > The State of the LA Tech Market.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Los Angeles-based RealD , the developer of 3D movie projection technology, released its results Thursday, saying its Q3 2011 revenues rose to $57.8M, up 91 percent from Q3 of of 2010, when it reported revenues of $30.2M. The firm had a net GAAP loss of $16.6M.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

Monrovia-based Xencor , a developer of antibody engineering technology, reported today that the firm has received a milestone payment from Pfizer, as part of the firm's antibody technology license agreement with Pfizer. Amount of the payment was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 27, 2010

Los Angeles-based RealD , the developer of 3D projection technology which is waiting in the wings for an IPO, revealed its latest year's result in an updated S-1 filing with the SEC last night. in gross revenues the firm reported for 2009. in gross revenues the firm reported for 2009. for the year. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

A report released this week from analyst firm Clean Edge, Inc., In the report--which evaluated current and historical job postings, early stage and public market investment activity, clean tech patents, and other factors--The LA-Riverside-OC Metro ranked just behind San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, nationwide, in clean tech jobs.

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JANUARY 7, 2009

If we are to lead the global economy, improve the quality of life for all Americans and strengthen our national security, we need to invest in science and technology. It really is shocking to me, that for all its impact on everyday life, the technology industry has had insufficient clout in Washington and throughout the United States.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Orange-based M86 Security , a developer of web security software, reported today that it has received a U.S. Patent for its malware detection technology. Green as inventors; it appears the patent stems from M86 Security's acquisition of Avinti, a malware detection firm, in March of 2009. Marsden and David E. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 18, 2009

A new study released today by the Kauffman Foundation, reports that the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity belongs to people 55-64. born, technology founders when they started their companies was 39.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Technology. Deloitte (www.deloitte.com/us/technology). Need office or Tech Space?

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JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What does Chrome River's software do? That's given us a lot of the attention in the space.

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APRIL 10, 2019

One of the hottest sectors of the technology startup market today is the use of artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning across many different sectors including finance. Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Deloitte (www.deloitte.com/us/technology). Technology. Need office or Tech Space?

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MARCH 14, 2011

Really, what it does is it allows a small venue--anyone with less than 500 seats--to handle everything from admissions, to reporting, to reporting, to accounting, to marketing, and customer relationships. Because of that, we saw problems in the industry, because the technology was not there to succeed.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. 17, 2009 and before Jan.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

According to the report, Southern California's venture capital totals slipped for the first time since 2003, down more than 18 percent annually, to $3.2 According to the report, Southern California's venture capital totals slipped for the first time since 2003, down more than 18 percent annually, to $3.2 billion in deals.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

22 replacing CFO Tim Morse, once acting CEO, hired in 2009 by then CEO Carol Bartz. s global finance functions including financial planning and analysis, controllership, tax, treasury, and investor relations and reporting directly to CEO Marissa Mayer. Ken Goldman begins work on Oct. Goldman will be responsible for Yahoo!’s

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. What's unique about us, is that there haven't been modern, commercial technology which companies could subscribe to an implement in their corporate environment.

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