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AUGUST 22, 2011

San Diego-based Active.com , the online site geared towards the sports enthusiast community run by Active Network, reported this morning that it has added Sony Electronics as a client. Financial details of the win were not disclosed.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Entering an already crowded market for daily deals in Los Angeles, Google Offers , the daily deals site run by the Internet giant Google, launched today in the city, offering up a $14.00 Google expanded the service into San Diego on October 26th. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 7, 2010

Rumored to be prepping for an IPO, just inked a deal to launch a new beauty and fashion site with Tyra Banks. 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. which he sold to AOL.

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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. 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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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. So, what are you working now and where are you going next?

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. Howard Lindzon: StockTwits is a verticalized community for people to share stock ideas and market ideas, 24/7. I think the financial vertical offers lots of native ideas, that aren't just display advertised based, because of all of our information and data.

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JUNE 3, 2010

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. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. They sponsor TWiVC.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site. Tell us about your backers?

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MARCH 31, 2014

That data--if you could just find the right piece--could be useful in a number of areas, particularly in the financial markets. Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

We spoke with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of the firm, earlier this week to get a better look at the company and the dynamics behind the virtual world market nowadays--as well as why Sherry decided to make the jump from the world of entertainment media to online. There seem to now be a slew on kids-focused virtual worlds.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

In this interview, we catch up with an amazing TechZulu Spotlight alumnus, Joey Flores, CEO of Earbits , a hand-curated music discovery engine that allows its bands and artists to advertise and promote their own material, events, announcements, contests, whatever. Plenty of companies have helped solve the problem of distribution for artists.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund is just celebrated its first year in business, so we thought we'd catch up with Brian to hear more about what the firm is investing in, the challenges of raising a venture fund in this market, plus his view on the Los Angeles venture market. Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Last week, San Diego-based OpenCandy (www.opencandy.com) announced it had raised $3.5M But, due to lack of visibility or lack of resources, or lack of know-how around marketing, they lack distribution and monetization. We saw that marketing prowess can override the goodness of products. What's the idea behind OpenCandy?

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Last week, San Diego-based Kidzui --the kid's website and kid-friendly browser developer, announced another round of funding, and also launched Zui Studios, a new effort to create original content for the portal. It sounds like you're trying to spur a little bit of crowdsourcing content for the site? Cliff Boro: Yes.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 Another client of Mr. Rappaports, Mich Mathews, formerly the head of marketing for Microsoft. The units, asking $500,000 to $2 million, hit the market in about a month.

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