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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Calabasas-based audio processing technology firm DTS is expanding into the Internet-connected, whole home audio market today, saying that it has released an Android-based, whole home audio system. The new system looks to be direct competition for Santa Barbara-based Sonos, and its own wireless, whole home audio systems.

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MAY 8, 2013

Cloud storage is a competitive market, with dozens of cloud storage providers hoping to gain a big chunk of the market. IDrive/Pro SoftNet is based in Calabasas. There''s a lot of technology behind the scene, including compression of data transfers, only sending modified blocks, and the threading aspects of our backups.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. How do you create a business around the still-emerging market of electric vehicles and avoid those issues?

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JULY 9, 2012

To do that, we spoke with Vic Alston , the CEO of Calabasas-based Ixia (www.ixiacom.com), a publicly traded maker of network testing equipment and software. Vic Alston: We have strategy when we look at acquisitions, where we ultimately want to grow our addressable market. We have to acquire to get into some new markets.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. Sherry Gunther: Initially, when I entered with ZooKazoo.com, it was not a crowded market, it was a nascent market.

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JULY 23, 2009

We spoke with Therese Tucker , CEO and founder of the Calabasas firm. Therese is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and has a wealth of experience in the financial software market. The software that BlackLine builds and markets, helps people with the close process, instead of doing it in Excel.

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