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AUGUST 4, 2009

San Diego-based Sorenson Media , a provider of Internet video codecs and related software and services, is a potential beneficiary of an Internet IPO, that of Provo, Utah-based Ancestry.com. Sorenson Media invested alongside private equity firm Summit Partners in a 2007 recap, along with a few other minority investors.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

San Diego-based online radio station and music streaming service Slacker Radio has been acquired by LiveXLive , the two companies announced on Friday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced, however, an SEC filing indicates the deal was worth around $50M, split between $44M in cash and $6M in stock.

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JULY 29, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions piece, we have an article from Michael Terpin of SocialRadius , who asks: Where are all the social media IPOs? What's more remarkable is that three of them have been in Los Angeles, the oft-overlooked poor stepchild to San Francisco, Silicon Valley and even San Diego when it comes to California tech hotspots.

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Xconomy

MARCH 11, 2018

After learning that Proper Media , a San Diego specialist in programmatic digital advertising had acquired Spoutable, it took a couple weeks to catch up with Spoutable CEO Jon Belmonte and ask: What happened to Cursive Labs? million on a “venture studio” model that allows experienced entrepreneurs to run with their own ideas.

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JULY 1, 2019

Inside Secure , the French company which acquired San Diego-based Verimatrix in March, has renamed itself as Verimatrix , the company announced this morning. Inside Secure paid $147M, mostly in cash, for Verimatrix as part of the acquisition deal in March. The combined company trades on the Euronext Paris as VMX.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Two, San Diego-based software development and integration companies-- Solekai Systems and Fairway Technologies --said this morning that they have merged into a new company. Solekai's customer base is in the digital media, smart grid, and IoT areas. Financial details of the merger were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

San Diego-based Covario , the search and content marketing agency, is being acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network , the companies said late Wednesday. According to the two, Covario has over 140 professionals offering up paid and organic search, social media, and content marketing services to brands and direct marketing clients.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine). Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence).

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Southern California Technical Review SoCal San Diego 168

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MARCH 7, 2019

DivX , the streaming video software developer which was started in San Diego, has filed patent infringement lawsuits against both Netflix and Hulu , accusing the firms of usings its video streaming intellectual property. DivX has been mostly dormant since that acquisition in terms of product and company announcements.

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JULY 22, 2010

The San Diego News Network (SDNN), the local media venture run by Barbara Bry and Neil Senturia, appears to have ceased its publishing efforts, according to a note posted by the staff Wednesday. Tags: diego news network sdnn media content merger acquisition shutdown. SDNN was backed by angel investors.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

San Diego-based Plixi , the Twitter-based photo sharing site formerly known as TweetPhoto , has been acquired by Seattle-based Lockerz , the firms said today. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Plixi was founded by Sean Callaham and Rodney Rumford, and was based in San Diego's Sorrento Valley.

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JULY 21, 2010

San Diego-based Provide Commerce , the parent firm of ProFlowers, RedEnvelope, Cherry Moon, and other ecommerce operations, announced this morning that it has acquired personalized gifts company Personalized Creations. Provide Commerce is headed by Bill Strauss, and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media.

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Commerce San Diego Acquisition Media 174

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Currently, Los Angeles-based Demand Media , San Diego's Zogenix , City of Industry-based NewEgg , Los Angeles-based GameFly , San Diego-based Reva Medical , Westlake Village-based Inphi Corp , and Thousand Oaks-based Nexsan are among the local technology firms waiting to reach the public markets. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2010

Those firms include Pasadena-based Genmark Diagnostics , Westlake Village-based Inphi , San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies , Los Angeles-based GameFly , San Diego-based Trius Therapeutics , City of Industry-based NewEgg , and Thousand Oaks-based Nexsan.

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Southern California Westlake Village Woodland Hills Beverly Hills 140

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

San Diego-based DivX , a developer of media encoding and decoding software, said late Tuesday that it has acquired AnySource Media LLC , a developer of streaming media software which can be used to enable on-demand playback of video on HDTV, Blu-ray disc players, and other consumer electronics devices. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Other firms currently in registration include Santa Monica-based Demand Media ; San Diego-based Zogenix ; Inphi Corp. which has most of its employees in Westlake Village; Los Angeles-based Gamefly ; City of Industry-based NewEgg ; San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies ; and Thousand Oaks-basd Nexsan.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

San Diego-based LeaseLabs , which provides oline marketing services to the multifamily housing and apartment industry, has been acquired for $103M by real estate software developer RealPage. According to RealPage, it will $103M in cash and stock, plus up to $14M in earnout upon achieving certain financial objective. READ MORE>>.

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Social Media San Diego Software Development Design 100

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JUNE 2, 2010

San Diego-based DivX and Sonic Solutions said this morning that Sonic Solutions is acquiring DivX in a deal worth approximately $323M. As part of the deal, DivX CEO Kevin Hell, CFO Dan Halvorson, and EVP David Richter will be leaving the firm; no details on the impact on employment in San Diego was announced by the companies.

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JUNE 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm of Richard Rosenblatt, has long been rumored to be in the process of filing for an IPO, but has not done so yet, and service providers in the community suggest there may be a few more in the works. Tags: merger acquisition.

Southern California 178

Southern California Woodland Hills Thousand Oaks Marketing 178

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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MAY 20, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the Internet content publishing run by Richard Rosenblatt, also is widely expected to be in the process of filing for an IPO. Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the Internet content publishing run by Richard Rosenblatt, also is widely expected to be in the process of filing for an IPO. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

The filing comes on the heels of Demand Media 's kickoff of its roadshow to Wall Street on Wednesday, after it set an initial pricing range on its own IPO offering.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

San Diego-based Frontline Direct , which is owned by Adconian Media Group, said today that it has acquired Objective Loyalty , a provider of data management and direct marketing solutions. Frontline Direct is a provider of online marketing, and was acquired by Adconian Media in February of 2008.

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San Diego Advertising Media Networking 154

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JANUARY 16, 2013

The fund also reports that it now has 39 digital media and technology startups in its portfolio. CloudTrigger, which was based in San Diego, was acquired by Cloudsherpas over the holidays. Siemer said it added five new companies in the last quarter, and had 24 new investments in 2012. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Those include a rumor of an IPO at music service Pandora , which is based in Northern California, which was co-founded by UberTwitter's Jon Kraft, a successful IPO for Los Angeles-based Demand Media last month, not to mention companies filed like Santa Monica's Boingo Wireless , San Diego's Fallbrook Technologies , Santa Monica-based Cornerstone On (..)

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Santa Monica-based Anthem Venture Partners has scored two exits in the last week, as Los Angeles-based Demand Media hit a homerun with its IPO Wednesday, and San Diego-based Plixi was acquired by Lockerz Thursday.

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MARCH 1, 2019

San Diego-based Verimatrix , a developer of security software for video service providers, set top-box providers, and others, has been acquired by French company Inside Secure , according to Inside Secure. Inside Secure paid $138.1M in cash, plus up to $9.8M in escrow to cover potential post-closing adjustments and earnout.

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San Diego Entertainment Mobile Sales 113

Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

If you do a Google search for AAPL, the stock ticker for Apple, the top search results are typically Yahoo Finance, Twitter, Google Finance—and StockTwits, a social media communications platform for Wall Street traders and active retail investors.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. I do energy and materials investment, Internet investing, digital media investing, and financial services investing. We really believe in the market.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Attendees include startup CEOs, accelerators, VCs, investors, Hollywood movie and music studio execs, agencies, fashion, content creators, social media gurus, developers, designers, and more from LA, Silicon Valley, OC, San Diego, New York, and international.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Last month, San Diego-based venture capital firm Mission Ventures (www.missionventures.com) sold its portfolio firm, Carlsbad-based 3E , just the latest in a string of exits for the firm, which also included an IPO in Maxlinear earlier in the year. Verisk is a compliance and analytics company. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

Those investors included a company called Paradigm, which is a big talent agency, Howard Lindzon in San Diego, and up north Greylock and Adam Nash. We've got original contributors such as Vox Media, Maker Studio's POLIPOP Network, everyone from the Bad Lip Reading Guys, to Barackdubs, it spans the spectrum.

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Content News Startup Research 230

Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

It’s been a long time since tech’s biggest companies could be sorted into discrete buckets according to the products they pioneered—-Google, the search software giant; Apple, the computer and mobile device innovator; e-commerce leader Amazon; business software stalwart Microsoft; and social media engine Facebook.

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Competition Social Media Web Commerce 64

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Acquisition. Streaming media. Social media. The San Diego-based company is one of 53 California companies ranked on the Fortune 500, 22 of which are SoCal companies. Arguably the greatest research and development nexus in the United States rests in the area spanning San Diego to Los Angeles.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

The moves they’re making to get ahead in the marketplace—globalization, mergers and acquisitions, extension of third-party networks, movement to the cloud—are the same tactics that create cyber risk. Employees who overshare on social media or forget to log out at the end of the day open doors to information thieves.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

We believe there are awesome entrepreneurs everywhere, not just in the places constantly covered by the media. Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America’s returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging donors through social media. We want to help them, and will.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Hailed as the true democratizer of private investment, crowdfunding has been attracting both headlines and a fast-growing pile of cash. In May of 2016, rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission went into effect that will democratize the process even further.

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