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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Tim Cadogan , OpenX (Pasadena, advertising). Asher Delug , Airpush (Los Angeles, advertising). Isaac Garcia , Central Desktop (Pasadena, software). Matthew Goldman , Wallaby Financial (Pasadena, financial).

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ReachLocal Up 15 Percent After IPO

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Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which helps small and local businesses place Internet advertising, was up 15.2 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. percent after its IPO Thursday, closing at $14.98, up $1.98.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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Among one of the fastest growing industries--despite what has been a stagnant economy--is Internet advertising, which has continued to grow strongly over the past two years. For today's interview, we spoke with Tim Cadogan , CEO of OpenX, to hear more about the firm's growth on the strength of Internet advertising, and what the firm is up to.

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Julie Schoenfeld On Perfect Market's New Funding

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This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. It's some of the kinds of things Demand Media does, except, for the newsroom. The first piece is identifying and packaging content around demand.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. The firm, based in Pasadena, has dozens of. Los Angeles has a strong online advertising industry, and Rubicon Project is one of the companies we heard has been doing well and. The now-public.

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Interview with Jason Lehmbeck, Datapop

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Last week, Los Angeles-based Datapop (www.datapop.com) announced a Series A funding for the startup, which is developing search advertising products which better tune ads to improve click throughs. We were at Overture Services here in Pasadena, and ultimately worked at Yahoo. Our focus is on travel, retail and local advertisers.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

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ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. June 17: Silicon Beach Fest: Pasadena Day , Hosted by Idealab.