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OCTOBER 28, 2008

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands disclosed Tuesday as part of its earnings report that the firm has purchased two web sites, BensBargains.net, and GrooveJob.com. Separately, Internet Brands said it has secured a $35M revolving line of credit from Silicon Valley Bank, which it plans to use for acquisitions starting in mid-2009.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. www.SoCconference.com ) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. Technology.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Each of the top 25 newspapers in the United States declined in circulation in the first quarter of 2009, except for The Wall Street Journal, which had a gain of.06 06 percent. As a result, new media, and public relations in specific, is more alive with potential than ever in its history.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Los Angeles-based Social Blaze , a provider of web analytics and social media management software, has been acquired by digital agency MartinJAY Digital. Social Blaze was founded in 2009 by Cassie Rice. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Clearstone was involved in Apture's Series A in March of 2009. Apture's software was used to turn web pages into an interactive, multimedia experience through a browser add-on; the firm said its technology is going to be used to enhance Google's Chrome browser.

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JUNE 2, 2011

The Investment Group of Santa Barbara , a venture capital investment group based in Santa Barbara, has invested $4M in funding for a developer of a web-based cloud training software firm, Mindflash , Mindflash said today. The firm said that the Investment Group of Santa Barbara also led its prior $5M funding, which closed in December 2009.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

San Diego-based Websense , a developer of web security products, said Wednesday that it is seeing strong demand for the firm's new Web Security Gateway and appliances, and is also benefiting from currency exchange rates, and upped its guidance range Wednesday. Favorable currency exchange boosted its billings by $4M. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 30, 2010

in Q2 of 2009. Internet Brands--which has been an aggressive acquirer of web sites--also revealed that it acquired six websites in Q2, for a total of $8.6M. Los Angeles-based Internet Brands reported its results Thursday, saying that the firm saw record revenues in Q2. According to Internet Brands, it had net income of $4.6M

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The group says that so far, from 2009 to 2011, it accepted 23 companies, of which 19 received funding worth a total of $80M; the accelerator said that the nine companies acquired exceeds $60M in proceeds. LaunchpadLA started initially as a mentoring group, but expanded into accelerating and investing in companies in the last few years.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri: We are a digital media startup, building a next generation studio that it is focusing on creating entertainment and web media, that scales to tens of hundreds of thousands of people, and potentially millions around the world. We see the web having untapped potential for creating its own medium for artistic expression.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Irvine-based Quality Systems , which develops healthcare information systems, said today that it is in an agreement to acquire Opus Healthcare Solutions , a provider of web-based, clinical information systems. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed.

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AUGUST 31, 2009

Los Angeles-based Leads360 , which provides web-based, leads management software, announced Monday afternoon that the firm has signed its 4000th client, Jones International University. No details on the financial impact of the new client were released.

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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. Green as inventors; it appears the patent stems from M86 Security's acquisition of Avinti, a malware detection firm, in March of 2009. Patent for its malware detection technology. Marsden and David E. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

The firm later launched Compatible Partners , a same-sex matching service, in March of 2009, on pressure from the State of New Jersey.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

According to the Tech Coast Angels' Richard Sudek, Chairman of the TCA, the group is looking to hold bi-monthly mixers which will help entrepreneurs connect with its angel investors, after a successful mixer in late 2009. The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. What is Sendgrid? The analogy is like a credit score.

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APRIL 8, 2009

San Diego-based Websense , a developer of web filtering and security products, said yesterday afternoon that the firm has seen "strong cash flow" in the first quarter. The firm said that the growth for the quarter came from its new Web security products, along with growth in the number of the firm's enterprise customers.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Six Southern California firms have made Forbes.com's list of 20 of "America's Most Promising Companies 2009", which was released Wednesday.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Coming off a very successful exit with Networks in Motion at the end of 2009, 2010 has been a very exciting year for several of my companies, Socialvibe, 2tor, Leadpoint, Webvisible and Impact Radius. Using the social web to fill excess capacity that exists in nearly every business was one of the best uses of the web that I've seen.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Cleantech had an enormous rise and fall between 20006 and 2009. Lots has changed since 2009. In 2009, the finance world fell apart, and the venture world fell apart, and I returned to Pasadena. The same thing happened with algae biofuel companies in the 2006 and 2009 time frame. You then caught things like Web 2.0,

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JUNE 8, 2009

According to RotoHog, it will build free and paid online fantasy games for football, basketball, hockey, golf and motor sports for Sporting News, to be featured on the publication's web site. RotoHog said it will begin providing the games, starting with football, in late summer 2009.

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JULY 28, 2009

San Diego-based WebSense , a developer of email and web security products, announced Tuesday afternoon that it has appointed Arthur S. Locke replaces Doug Wride, who the firm said will remain as Chief Operating Officer of the firm at least through the end of 2009.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Aptera recently raised $24M from Idealab, Google, and a number of other backers for its composite, lightweight hybrid electric vehicles; Kinetix Motors is currently raising financing, according to its web site. The X PRIZE competition will begin in 2009, with winners awarded in 2010.

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MARCH 6, 2009

According to RotoHog, it will operate a fantasy game for the tour, which will be available through AVP's web site. RotoHog said that the 2009 AVP Fantasy Challenge will launch in mid-March, with prizes for both short-term contest and full seasons; AVP will cross promote the fantasy game at events, online, and in its broadcasts.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based magnify360, a provider of software for personalizing and optimizing web content, has scored a win with virtual world provider ICYou. The firms said that the virtual world is set for launch in winter of 2009. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed by the companies.

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MARCH 9, 2009

According to Topps and Total Immersion, interactive codes will be included with Topps 2009 baseball trading cards, which--when those cards are held up to a webcam--will allow baseball players to "magically" spring to life on screen. Total Immersion's technology projects interactive video and graphics, overlaid on top of live, web-cam images.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

1) Mobile web. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples. The current incarnation of the mobile web changes what the Internet IS to users, and the manner in which it is incorporated into their lives. (2) I'll list three, not necessarily in order. (1)

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APRIL 5, 2012

The luck was Taylor Swift signing up organically in late 2009, which was our first major artist. Taylor actually came in through the front door, and just signed up on our web site. Michael Schneider: It's a combination of luck and timing, and great investors, really.

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MAY 18, 2010

"It's been tough to shake people loose from companies," Stuart Macfarlane , CEO of El Segundo-based iChange , explains, saying that the firm is actively looking to hire two to three web developers. Mangers said that it appears that for companies that have survived the storm of 2009 and the economy, things are looking up.

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MARCH 24, 2010

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. Is this installed software, or web technology? Brandon Hance: It's all web-based technology, and software we've build in-house.

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MAY 7, 2012

and photographer is an online web presence and an order fulfillment partner. AS I was working my engineering job, I got obsessed with programming and building a business for the web. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. building a web site for him.

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JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. That, combined with being early on the social web, was the nexus from where MomentFeed came about. How did the company come about? Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service?

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JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. We were in closed beta for a while, and launched in August of 2009. How long has the site been up and running? Thanks, and good luck!

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JUNE 18, 2009

We do share resources, in terms of if someone needs web help at Champion, we might borrow guys from the web, or if we need something for video, we'll go over to the video folks at Champion. Around 2000, I decided I had to stop focusing on TV and start getting onto the web. How are your two companies connected?

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JANUARY 4, 2013

I took a little bit of time off, then started working on Frequency in the middle of 2009. You helped define video on the web with iFilm. We got the core iFilm engineering team in late 2010, and spent about a year and a half building out our platform, and released our first consumer product at the beginning of 2012.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers. For enterprises, some of who are spending millions in cloud spend, it's pretty compelling to look at this. How difficult is it to make those desktop PCs part of your cloud?

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MARCH 14, 2011

We started in the comedy industry, hence the name, but basically for venues, we have a website management tool so you can fire your web programmer. Scot Richardson: We started our product in the middle of 2009, and the product has been basically available since January of 2010. So, how long has the company been around?

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