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JANUARY 10, 2013

Online e-commerce giant Amazon.com just announced a new service this morning, which looks to be one of the biggest moves the company has made in digital music recently: it is now automatically providing MP3 format tracks for CDs sold on its site, including every single CD a user has purchased since 1998. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2010

San Diego-based Metaplace , the virtual worlds software firm started by Raph Koster and John Donham, has been acquired by social gaming firm Playdom , Playdom said Thursday afternoon. Playdom said that Donham will continue to run an office in San Diego, with Jason Hable, the firm's VP of Business Operations, moving to MOuntain View.

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JUNE 12, 2012

San Diego-based online, personalized Internet radio service Slacker said Monday that it has launched a new set of ESPN stations on its service. According to the two, six new national, regional, and Spanish language ESPN stations have launched on Slacker Radio, on Slacker's web site and smartphone applications.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. Our software sorts video content relative to its importance to you, based on your social graph and social impact.

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MAY 3, 2011

San Diego-based Sony Online Entertainment has tallied the number of accounts which have been compromised by hackers on the firm's online game service, saying that it has found that personal information from approximately 24.6 million SOE accounts may have been stolen. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 16, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. How big was the team in San Diego?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

San Diego-based KidZui, a provider of a kid-friendly web browser, has inked a deal with Parents.com, the online site for the American Baby, Parents, and Family Circle magazines. According to KidZui, it is in a new partnership with Parents.com, to enhance KidZui and to introduce more companies to its services.

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MAY 2, 2011

San Diego-based Sony Online Entertainment , the developer of massively multiplayer online games, has provided details of the intrusion on the firm's systems, saying that hackers may have stolen its customer information. The revelation follows last week's hacking of Sony's PlayStation Network and other services.

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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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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

San Diego-based Eventful is gearing up its music efforts with a new relationship in the music business, with Billboard, saying Wednesday that the two are collaborating on an effort to give music acts an award for "Best Concert Tour of the Year." The firm said it now has over 50,000 performers using its services. READ MORE>>

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APRIL 14, 2011

Howard Lindzon is CEO and Co-founder of StockTwits (www.stocktwits.com), the financial micro-messaging service. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. First of all, what's the idea behind StockTwits, for people who haven't used the service? Howard Lindzon: Making content is just a dumb business.

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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 looks like you now have a search engine, a browser, and now a content studio? That's been our mainstay.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

San Diego-based Legend Films, a provider of film restoration services and owner of the web site RiffTrax.com, said Thursday that it has closed on $5M in a Series E funding. The round was led by Augustus Ventures Limited, and also included Par Investment Partners.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

San Diego-based Eventful , a provider of an online site for finding local events, and music publication Billboard said Thursday that the two have launched two new charts based on Eventful data. Demand is a service which allows Eventful users to request that specific musicians or groups perform in their cities.

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MAY 7, 2010

For people who haven't visited SciVee, what's the site about? One is software, which is very much like software-as-a-service, where we deliver that software to publications and conferences, to enable rich media on their sites. It synchronizes the timeline of the video with document content.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. What is the site all about? How did DealPerk.com come about?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. Who is using your services--retailers or manufacturers? Kim Folsom: Both.

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DECEMBER 4, 2008

San Diego-based MP3tunes , the online music storage service headed by former MP3.com EMI claims that the service--which allows users to store music online and stream them to their PC, cell phones, and other devices--violated copyrights. com founder Michael Robertson, is stepping up its legal battle against EMI.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. Mobile gifting service. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

San Diego-based Intercasting (www.intercasting.com) is one of the companies which seems to have gotten some traction, and has deployed with Boost, Virgin, Sprint, and is in the process of deploying with Verizon and ATT. The client then presents the consumer with the opportunity to have a dashboard view of social networking sites.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. We want to create the right mix of the types of activities, price points, and make sure we have high quality content and high quality activities. What's the story on how you started the company?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. I do energy and materials investment, Internet investing, digital media investing, and financial services investing. That's part one.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

What we're seeing are things like software-as-a-service, though not necessarily the same business model, but technology which enables doctors to do what they do better and more efficiently. We're starting to see some very innovative product ideas out of places like Caltech, USC, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the like.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Last week, San Diego-based OpenCandy (www.opencandy.com) announced it had raised $3.5M For example, if they're downloading a photo editing tool, we can recommend a good photo storage service or photo plug-in that works with that software. in a venture round for the firm's software recommendation startup.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. And covered we did.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

In Santa Monica, the median price of homes jumped 16% in the first eight months of 2012 compared with 2011, after a 9% decline over the same period the year before, according to Multiple Listing Service data compiled by Paul Habibi, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Subscriber Content Read Preview.

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MAY 6, 2012

Laura Brashier is the founder of 2date4love , an online dating service for singles who are unable to have sexual intercourse but still want to find love. 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.”

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