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SweetLabs Snags $13M

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San Diego-based SweetLabs , the company headed by Darrius Thompson, and which runs both the OpenCandy advertising network and the desktop Pokki app platform, said today that it has raised $13M in a Series C funding round. Pokki allows developers to create desktop apps using web technologylike HTML5.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Confident Technologies / Curtis Staker / San Diego - Staker is the former President of Websense, and has pulled together an experienced team with a depth of experience from the firm.

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Tech Industry Lobby Proposes Data Privacy Laws; Critics Call Them Weak

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The tech industry, which reaps billions of dollars by harvesting personal data and using it to sell targeted advertising and other services, opened the door to federal data privacy regulations today in a proposal by ITI, a lobbying organization for tech companies.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. Despite a huge number of companies, we found there are a number which. Rubicon Project.

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FTC Queries Internet Providers on Consumer Data Collection and Use

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The Federal Trade Commission, which has been digging into the privacy practices of tech giants Facebook and Google, is now training its sights on the internet service providers that bring us all our online content. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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. Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. MetaMarkets.

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Decoding The Science Behind The Laughs, With Daniel Altman of Laffster

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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. My background is that I was at IAC, focused on advertising solutions and advertising engagement. One of the companies there I was working with was CollegeHumor.

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