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Covario: Paid Search Spending Up

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San Diego-based Covario , a provider of paid search and search engine optimization software, reported this week that its analysis has found that major U.S. advertisers have upped their spending on paid search by almost 8 percent in Q3. Tags: covario paid search engine advertising. READ MORE>>.

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Bevo Media Acquired By Vize Capital

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San Diego-based Bevo Media , an online ad exchange and ad tracking platform developer, has been acquired by private equity investor Vize Capital. Bevo Media was founded in 2010, and plays in the performance marketing area. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising.

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Southern California Investments On Uptick, Totals $686.5M For Q1

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billion in investments in 681 deals in the first quarter of 2010. San Diego was not far behind, with $222.4M in investments, IT services--which includes many online advertising firms--was at $35.15M in investments. Nationally, Q4 of 2009 brought in $5.2 billion in venture deals in 832 deals. across 31 days.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. DEAL OF THE WEEK: In and of itself TweetDeck would be like any other deal. They sponsor TWiVC.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site. How long has company been around? Tell us about your backers?

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Interview with Cliff Boro, KidZui

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Last week, San Diego-based Kidzui --the kid's website and kid-friendly browser developer, announced another round of funding, and also launched Zui Studios, a new effort to create original content for the portal. Give us an overview on KidZui. That's been our mainstay.

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