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MARCH 2, 2017

Santa Monica-based Entravision , a media company which focuses on Latino audiences, announced on Thursday that it has acquired Headway , a provider of mobile, programmatic, data and performance digital marketing services and technology. Headway was based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and had 152 employees, and was founded in 2010.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Santa Monica-based The Mobile Majority , the mobile advertising technology developer led by Rob Emrich, says it has acquired Gimbal , the Qualcomm spinout focused on mobile engagement and location intelligence in the retail market. Gimbal was spun out of Qualcomm in 2014, and had started as a project within Qualcomm in 2010.

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MARCH 5, 2012

Santa Monica-based Activision Blizzard said this morning that it has hired a new CFO. Durkin takes over for interim CFO Thomas Tippl, who has held the position--in addition to Chief Operating Officer--since 2010. The firm said that Dennis Durkin has been named Chief Financial Officer, and will report to CEO Bobby Kotick.

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Activision Santa Monica Entertainment Report 190

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Santa Monica-based content delivery network (CDN) provider EdgeCast said this morning that it doubled its revenues in 2012, and now has more than 225 employees. The big growth is not the first year of blockbuster growth at the company--the firm said last year that it also doubled its revenues between 2010 and 2011.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

The Los Angeles winners of the Deloitte Fast 500 ranking of fastest growing companies was announced last night at an event at Santa Monica's Shutters on the Beach, with 26 companies recognized in the overall 2011 Technology Fast 500, and three "Technology Rising Stars" recognized in the Los Angeles area.

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JULY 6, 2010

for Los Angeles-based Hautelook , as well as various investments in Irvine-based Fisker Automotive and Santa Monica-based Coda Automotive. Among the bigger deals included in the total were $38.4M for Torrance-based Amonix , $27.75M for Westlake Village-based Row 44 , $31.0M

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MARCH 3, 2016

Santa Monica-based Pathmatics , a startup developing analytics software for analyzing the programmatic advertising market, has raised $3M in a Series A funding. Pathmatics is led by Gabe Gottlieb, and was founded in 2010. BDMI's Sim Blaustein joins the company's baord with the funding.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Santa Monica-based EdgeCast Networks , the content delivery network (CDN) provider headed by Alex Kazerani, said today that it doubled its annual revenues and headcount in 2011, over its 2010 numbers.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Viewdle, which was originally backed by Santa Monica based venture firm Anthem Venture Partners, was originally founded in Kiev, and now has operations sprinkled around the globe. Viewdle originally received funding from Anthem's Brian Mesic and Samit Varma; Viewdle had been fairly visible in the Los Angeles startup scene back in 2010.

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Google Anthem Report Santa Monica 157

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APRIL 24, 2012

Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures has had another exit in its portfolio, this time with the acquisition of Cetas , a developer of cloud data analytics software, by VMware. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Cetas was incubated in Clearstone's Palo Alto offices by Sudhakar Muddu, a Ph.D. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2011

Santa Monica-based content delivery network provider EdgeCast Networks said Friday that it now has more than 2000 customers, or more than double the number of customers from the previous year, as of the close of 2010. The firm said those customers include AdColony, Dreamstime, SlashGear, StreamCity, and Tumblr.

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JULY 21, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online content publishing empire run by Richard Rosenblatt, is targeting a blog which has been posting internal documents and criticism of the company. The site appears to have been created by an unhappy, freelance contributor to Demand Media in May of 2010. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the internet publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, reported its fourth quarter and fiscal 2010 results today, the first as a public company. for Q4 of 2010, up 33 percent from the $55.5M for all of 2010. Demand Media said it had revenues of $73.6M in a loss in Q4 of 2009.

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Demand Media Report Santa Monica 145

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Sean Percival, best known for founding Los Angeles tech blog lalawag, in addition to his work as an executive at MySpace, has booted up a new effort--Santa Monica-based Wittlebee , a new, online subscription service for baby supplies. The new effort emerged this week, revealing that it is backed by Science, Inc. ,

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

LiveFyre had been seeded by Paige Craig , Zelkova Ventures , Travis Kalanick , and Jarl Mohn back in July of 2010. Paige Craig is now heading up Santa Monica-based BetterWorks. LiveFyre said it raised $4.5M in a Series B round, led by Greycroft Partners and also including Cue Ball, HillsVen Group, and ff Venture Capital.

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JUNE 7, 2011

The firm said it grew the Irvine locations by more than 20 percent in 2010, and that this will be the firm's hiring year ever including its Southern California locations. Google is also making a big push to hire at its Santa Monica location. Google said in January that it was expecting 2011 to be its biggest hiring year ever.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the online small business documents sharing and download site headed by Jason Nazar, said Tuesday that it has now hit more than 80,000 paying subscribers to the service, and over 20 million members. per month.

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MAY 7, 2010

A new analysis of Q1, 2010 venture capital investments finds that two Southern California companies drove a 490 percent increase in Clean Technology Industrial Products & Services for the quarter.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Santa Monica-based JewelMint , the jewelry service run by former MySpace co-founder Josh Berman and Diego Berdakin, said Thursday that it is launching an online "fashion film" series featuring Kate Bosworth , along with a national television commercial campaign.

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MAY 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media reported its results Thursday, saying that it had a net loss of $5.6 in revenues the firm reported in Q1 of 2010. million on revenues of $79.5M. Revenues were up 48 percent compared to the $53.6M Demand also mentioned strong direct brand advertising sales helped its results.

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JULY 30, 2012

Rafat Ali , who founded and eventually sold Santa Monica-based online paidContent to Guardian News & Media, has returned from several years of travel on the road, and launched his latest startup, Skift. Ali had departed ContentNext and Los Angeles, back in 2010, to embark on what he called a "head-clearing trip of a lifetime."

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

In what looks to be a banner year for IPO filings for Southern California, Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand filed for an IPO this morning, saying that it is looking to raise up to $115M in an IPO. for 2009, and has seen revenues grow to $20.28M in the first six months of 2010. on revenues of $29.3M

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MAY 5, 2010

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 -- Digital Entertainment: Advertising, Distribution and the Consumer. Santa Monica College and The City of Santa Monica bring together business leaders for an insightful discussion on Digital Entertainment.

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MAY 20, 2010

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 -- B. The conference, scheduled for May 24-26, 2010 at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel will feature presentations from more than 125 publicly traded companies. Riley and Co. 11th Annual Investor Conference.

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MAY 19, 2010

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 -- B. The conference, scheduled for May 24-26, 2010 at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel will feature presentations from more than 125 publicly traded companies. Riley and Co. 11th Annual Investor Conference.

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MAY 19, 2010

Monday, May 24, 2010 -- B. The conference, scheduled for May 24-26, 2010 at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel will feature presentations from more than 125 publicly traded companies. Riley and Co. 11th Annual Investor Conference.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 -- Digital LA - Santa Monica Place Cocktails @ Xino. See [link] (more).

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Testifying to the rapid growth rate at which local startups operate, Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the online employee benefits and perks firm headed by Paige Craig, revealed Tuesday that it is expecting to expand its team to over 80 people, after inking a round of funding from Redpoint Ventures.

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JULY 26, 2010

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 -- SF AppShow comes to LA. After 5 successful AppShows in San Francisco and one in Las Vegas, the SF AppShow is excited to visit Santa Monica. SF AppShow discovers and breaks some of the hottest apps. See [link] (more).

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Santa Monica-based CODA Automotive , a startup manufacturer of electric cars, announced today that it has hired on a GM vet, Michael A. CODA said that Jackson will be responsible for building the firm's sales model for its late 2010 introduction of its automobiles. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 18, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, said Sunday that it is reaffirming its financial outlook for fiscal year 2011. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

ContentNext--which had been founded by Rafat Ali in Santa Monica, and eventually sold in July of 2008 to Guardian News and Media--publishes paidContent, mocoNews.net, paidContent:UK, and contentSutra.com. ContentNext founder Rafat Ali left the firm in May of 2010. Names of potential buyers were not discussed. million pageviews.

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MAY 20, 2010

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 -- Southern California Venture Network (SCVN). Join us for the LA Monthly Mixer at The vLounge in Santa Monica. The Mission of the Southern California Venture Network (SCVN) is to increase the entrepreneurial velocity of both start-up and emerging growth companies. See [link] (more).

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JULY 23, 2010

Thursday, July 29, 2010 -- Schmoozd 3. Back by popular demand, Schmoozd 3 is scheduled to make another go-around at the Wokcano in Santa Monica on Thursday, July 29th. The last event had over 300 people from a variety of fields: entertainment, tech, medical, marketing, venture capitalists, the press and many more. See [link].

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JULY 13, 2011

Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com is again warning people about a continuing scam where criminals are using official sounding--but fake--escrow services to swindle people out of money. Escrow services are online services which hold money until a transaction successfully occurs, and are heavily used for online automotive purchases.

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Edmunds Santa Monica Report Web 174

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MAY 14, 2010

Thursday, May 20, 2010 -- SoCal AMA Mixer. The SoCalAMA mixer in Santa Monica a few months ago turned out to be a smash hit - our best attended event of the year. With the summer blockbuster movie season just around the corner, in true Hollywood style, we're doing a sequel! See [link] (more).

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 -- Amazon Mechanical Turk Meet-Up. Hosted at the Campus Explorer offices in Santa Monica. Learn more about Mechanical Turk and discover best practices and other useful insights from the Amazon Mechanical Turk team and local companies that are using the platform. See [link] (more).

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