TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Popular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab. It echoes the same message from Kik’s chief executive Tim Livingston last week when he rebuffed earlier reports that the company would shut down amid an ongoing battle with the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Start by reviewing current statistics, like the recent Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report 2022 , to learn which social media sites are most popular, which features drive the most impact today, and how other social media marketers have maximized their efforts and seen the greatest ROI. The best communities then become your advocate.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Venture capital activity is gradually easing from last year’s peak, according to a new quarterly report put together by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. deals (1,796 companies) during the third quarter that ended September 30, according to the inaugural “Venture Monitor” report released today.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2010

BGR was formerly known as the Boy Genius Report. Tags: content publishing gadget blog acquisition merger bgr.com mail mail.com. MMC recently acquired DeadlineHollywoodDaily, the entertainment insider's site run by Nikki Finke, and also owns OnCars.com, HollywoodLife.com, Movieline.com, and Fan.com. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

Is one of the bigger biopharma acquisitions of the year in trouble? As Reuters reports, Roche and Spark remain committed to the. This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8 billion buyout of gene therapy developer Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ). Yet the deal has now been pushed back four times.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2019

That, plus robust merger and acquisition activity, set a record for venture-backed exit value—$165.2 More than a third of the companies that went public in the first half of this year were backed by venture capital.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

That’s according to a report being released today by Connect, the local nonprofit group focused on technology and entrepreneurship. The Connect Innovation Report found that 405 software, technology, and life sciences startups were created last year in San Diego County.

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Xconomy

JULY 3, 2019

Broadcom is once, twice, three times a multi-billion-dollar dealmaker (well, basically) in the past year if it follows through on its reported talks to acquire Mountain View, CA-based cybersecurity giant Symantec.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Their report crystallized the opportunity and pathways to moving SoCal forward as one of the leading global innovation ecosystem. Just as entrepreneurs need to have thoughtful answers about business models and customer acquisition, I think they now will also need to be prepared to address issues on community impacts and equity.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The purchase was first reported by Geekwire, which cited a separate report from Reuters that the deal is valued at about $1 billion. The two biggest acquisitions were Whole Foods last year and Zappos in 2009, according to Statista.)

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

They made a number of significant acquisitions in that space, My co-founders, Sammer and Chris, worked together at Internet Brands. We would make an acquisition, and very soon after an acquisition we''d have a team of people from the company we had acquired reporting into our group. We have complementary skill sets.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Guardian News & Media , the firm behind web publisher ContentNext , is in discussions with potential buyers about a possible sale, according to a report from the firm's own site, paidContent. Ali had founded the blog after he lost a job immediately after September 11th. Names of potential buyers were not discussed. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Called Dell Technologies Capital, the investment arm plans to provide funding to about 20 startups this year, Scott Darling, president of group, told Bloomberg , which first reported the news this morning. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2017

Private equity investors have more capital at their disposal than at any time in more than a decade, which could boost prices for companies seeking acquisitions. As of Aug. 1, private equity firms in North America and Europe had secured $212.6 Dry powder levels in North American and European PE funds reached new heights of $738.7

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

An obvious place to look for help is the venture community—Bruce Booth of Atlas Ventures pointed out in a recent blog that venture capital is doing well, and is positioned to do even better in the future. Yet despite relative plenty in the bio-venture community, pharma suffers from a shortage of drug candidates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

According to a recent social media industry report , 92 percent said that social media is important to their businesses, and more than half report it helped them improve sales. Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Barr wrote in a blog post announcing the tie-up. The acquisition will instantly expand the footprint of Google Fiber, which is currently available in Atlanta, Austin, TX, Kansas City, Nashville, and Provo, UT, with another 18 locations either in the works or being considered.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2020

The company reported revenues of about $120.3 San Diego-based Ligand (NASDAQ: LGND ) generates revenue from licensing deals and royalties paid by pharmaceutical companies that use technologies it develops or acquires for their own drug research. million in 2019. He likened the.

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

Pernix Therapeutics is slashing its headcount by more than 20 percent as the specialty pharmaceutical company tries to move toward profitability after a streak of acquisitions. As of the end of 2015, Pernix reported a headcount of 274. Those acquisitions helped Pernix reach $175.8 Last year, Pernix reported a $148.3

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. The big three, which have 90 percent of everything you need, include blogging (Wordpress or Blogger), microblogging (Twitter), and social networks (Facebook or LinkedIn).

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out. Just over a year later, Jurvetson led the Series A round of venture funding for Nervana Systems.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Venture capital firms have increased their agtech investments by 80 percent since 2012, bringing total VC investment in the sector to a total of $3 billion in 2015, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group and AgFunder, an online investment marketplace for agriculture technology. They also queried 15 VC firms.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

[ Editor’s note: Ben Fidler and Sarah de Crescenzo coauthored this report.] It is here, and then it is gone. But by the time everyone staggers to the airport or back home to sleep in their own beds, the annual few days of the J.P.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2019

We reported on both those stories and a lot more, including clinical ups and downs and new fundings. Also this week: Reports from. That’s more than Alzheimer’s patients and their doctors can say about aducanumab, the latest high-profile, high-cost failure in that frustrating field.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. The big three, which have 90 percent of everything you need, include blogging (Wordpress or Blogger), microblogging (Twitter), and social networks (Facebook or LinkedIn).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks. -Real-time search engine.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

But as Xconomy reported, details about the reorganization were scant, leaving open questions whether drug regulation actually needs to move faster. —Buzzfeed ran a lengthy report Wednesday on the sexual harassment charges against University of Washington vaccine researcher Michael Katze.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2018

subsidiary, Firmenich—which reported about $3.3 But since then its stock price has fallen significantly, dropping below $1 per share multiple times in the past two years, which nearly got the listing booted from the Nasdaq exchange. Through a U.S. billion in sales in 2017—said Thursday it had had agreed to buy Senomyx for $1.50

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Xconomy

JULY 27, 2016

LabCorp reported $8.5 Despite the fanfare of Sequenom’s MaterniT21, the company has had financial struggles and its earnings reports show a history of losses. In 2013, when Sequenom reported a $107.4 The board of directors of Sequenom has approved the acquisition, but the deal still needs approval of Sequenom shareholders.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2017

Improving economic fundamentals are stoking the IPO pipeline in the United States and elsewhere, according to a report issued Tuesday by the global consultant and accounting firm EY. exchanges during the first half of 2017, according to the report EY Global IPO Trends. Eighty companies raised a total of $22 billion on U.S. markets.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

BisNow first reported the deal. DeskHub, one of San Diego’s oldest co-working companies, has about 500 members across two locations: a 23,000-square-foot space in Little Italy and about 15,000 square feet of space in Scottsdale, AZ. Cross Campus has a total of about 185,000 square feet across the Los Angeles area and about 2,500 members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. The big three, which have 90 percent of everything you need, include blogging (Wordpress or Blogger), microblogging (Twitter), and social networks (Facebook or LinkedIn).

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Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2017

The FDA reported that generic drug approvals are set to hit a record ; the agency under Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has moved this summer to increase generic competition and lower the nation’s high drug prices. Meanwhile, drug-price hawks can sharpen their talons on a report this week from The New York Times and ProPublica.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. ” I highly recommend reading it.

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

companies during the first three months of 2018—marking the strongest single quarter in at least a dozen years, according to the Venture Monitor Report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Venture capital investors poured more than $28.2 billion into U.S.

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Venture Capital Funding Capital Report 74

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

And just announced an acquisition of Meetup. Station F is led by Roxanne Varza , who’s been very actively supporting startups and the French startup ecosystem as former head of Microsoft Accelerator in France, cofounder of European blog Tech.eu. WeWork Gets Smart With Education for Adults and Kids. 3000+ desks in the startup zone.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

Frank Vinluan reports from North Carolina on a new effort to boost agtech startups and university research. Jeff Engel maps out New England’s cluster of cybersecurity companies—one of the region’s strengths (and a rich source of acquisition targets). AgTech Accelerator Aims to Sway Agriculture Investment Trends.

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