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APRIL 24, 2012

Zui.com , the kid's website focused on providing screened content and information to kids, is expanding its services today, saying that it has launched "Facetube", which combines the best social sharing aspects of Facebook with the channels of YouTube. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 24, 2017

Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding to spin out its consulting business, and focus instead on providing its core Web content management technology as a subscription-based software-as-a-service. The company, which now has nine full-time.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging.

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JUNE 15, 2009

San Diego-based RoyaltyShare , a developer of software-as-a-service for tracking online music royalties, said today that the firm has expanded its service to handle tracking of royalties in the UK. Tags: royaltyshare royalty music tracking content online mcps ascap. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 16, 2018

CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

San Diego-based Sorenson MEdia , which develops video encoding and decoding software and online video services, announced this morning that it has added John Greene as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Greene has previously served at DivX/Sonic Solutions, most recently serving as General Manager for Content Services.

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JULY 7, 2010

San Diego-based BrightCloud , a developer of Web content classification and security services, has been acquired by Internet security software firm Webroot. According to Webroot, it will add BrightCloud's engineering team in San Diego to its Cloud Engineering team. BrightCloud was led by Quinn Curtis.

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MAY 4, 2011

San Diego-based cloud storage provider Nirvanix said today that it has tied its cloud storage services into Symantec Enterprise Vault, the enterprise archiving software. Nirvanix said it already is connecting into Symantec's NetBackup and Backup Exec software. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 23, 2010

San Diego-based Verimatrix , a developer of DRM software used in IPTV and set top boxes, said today that it has added New Zealand telecom TelstraClear Ltd. Verimatrix said that TelstraClear will be using its Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for DVB product, to secure its pay TV services. as a customer.

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MAY 1, 2012

Beverly Hills-based Mobile Roadie , the developer of tools which make it easy for artists and brands to create their own mobile apps, said today that it has launched a new native iPad app platform, along with a self-service mobile website product. The new iPad service costs $499 per month or $4,999 per year.

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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. Tags: metaplace playdom merger acquisition videogame content virtual world. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2010

San Diego-based VMIX , a developer of an online video management platform, said today that it has extended a deal with content delivery network provider Akamai, to use Akamai's HD video services. Tags: vmix online video hosting management software akamai. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

San Diego-based Zui.com , the online search engine aimed at kids, said today that it has launched a new, browser toolbar called ZUIBAR. The toolbar, which was developed by Conduit, allows Internet users to access Zui.com's games, videos, and other content directly from a browser. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

San Diego-based KidZui has upgraded the firm's web browser for children, saying yesterday that version 5.0 of the service now includes ways for children to send videos, websites, and photos to their parents, and for parents to send content to children. Tags: kidzui browser children software. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 2, 2010

San Diego-based DivX and Sonic Solutions said this morning that Sonic Solutions is acquiring DivX in a deal worth approximately $323M. Sonic said the buy would help retailers, online services, Hollywood studios, and manufacturers of CE and mobile devices to distribute premium digital video content over the Internet.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

San Diego-based Chumby , the developer of Internet-connected hardware, software widgets, and other related technology, is powering a new television from Best Buy. The new Best Buy TV also includes access to Netflix, CinemaNow, YouTube, Pandora, Napster, and other online services, using Tivo's user interface.

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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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JUNE 19, 2009

San Diego-based Verimatrix , a provider of digital content security technology and products for pay TV, said this week that the firm has gained another Latin American customer. The firm said that CANTV, which is looking to offer IPTV services in Venezuela, has integrated the firm's VCAS products. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

San Diego-based RoyaltyShare said this morning it will be developing a new system for tracking limited downloads and interactive streaming. The new tracking system is in addition to RoyaltyShare's existing software for tracking digital music purchases and royalties. The music industry inked a deal Tuesday to pay artists 10.5%

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AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. 101 West Broadway tower in downtown San Diego.

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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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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. OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers.

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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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OCTOBER 13, 2008

San Diego-based KidZui, a venture-backed startup which develops a kid-safe Internet browser, said Monday that it has added new social networking features and homework help to the firm's suite of services.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Through screen mirroring, users have greater flexibility over how they view – and share – content. Early this year, IDC predicted that worldwide spending on public cloud services will be $141 billion in 2019, while last year Amazon Web Services achieved net sales of $7.88 The Continued Growth of Cloud.

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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?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels. We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

San Diego-based RoyaltyShare has signed a set of distribution deals for the firm's digital media management and royalty tracking software. According to RoyaltyShare, it has expanded support for distribution to mobile music services LiveWire Mobile, Moderati, SendMe Mobile, Thumbplay and Zed. wireless carriers.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

San Diego-based RoyaltyShare has inked a set of distribution deals for the firm's digital media management and royalty tracking software. According to RoyaltyShare, it has expanded support for distribution to mobile music services LiveWire Mobile, Moderati, SendMe Mobile, Thumbplay and Zed. wireless carriers.

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MARCH 27, 2009

Today's interview is with Peter Csathy, President and CEO of Sorenson Media (www.sorensonmedia.com), which recently relocated its executive offices to San Diego. Csathy told us about the firm's move of its exec offices from Salt Lake City, Utah, to San Diego, as well as its hiring and expansion plans.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Last week, El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies , a developer of webcasting and presentation services and software, was acquired by Polycom, in a $50M deal. The firm's investor was San Diego-based TVC Capital , which invested only $4M in total in Accordent before it was acquired.

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MAY 2, 2018

If you’ve already liberated yourself from a cable subscription in favor of streaming video services over the Internet, you’re parcelling out your dollars to get the content you want most from services such as Netflix, Hulu, and N.B.A. Today, it launched its service for kids, which includes movies such as. League Pass.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. Using that, and a partnership model where we go into schools and partner with them to provide SAT and ACT service, we've been able to build up a private tutoring service from basically nothing. That's a big part of it.

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MARCH 27, 2019

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.

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AUGUST 2, 2013

Right now, that''s a jumble of different social services, websites, and more--which is the problem that Yapert (www.yapert.com) thinks it has solved. As you start to see what''s going on in social, who''s most active, and who is creating and sharing content, you find that it''s the entertainment industry and music. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 2, 2008

com and CEO of San Diego-based MP3tunes, an online music storage service, is claiming a win this morning in a lawsuit filed against Robertson by EMI. Michael Robertson, the former founder of MP3.com

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2013

Attendees and speakers include : Accelerator heads, start-ups, VCs, movie and music studio execs, agencies, fashion, content creators, artists, social media gurus, developers, designers, etc. from LA, Silicon Valley, OC, San Diego, New York, and international. Parties are cash bar unless otherwise indicated.

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