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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Marlin Equity is acquiring online ratings and reviews software provider Bazaarvoice , in a deal worth $521M in cash, the two said this mroning. The two said the price per share is an 18 percent premium to its average closing price for the 30-calendar day period ending November 24th.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a provider of internet brand protection and analytics software, said today that it has named Ryan Erickson as Vice President of Sales. TrackStreet develops technology for monitoring brand reputation, Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) agreements, customer reviews, and similar information.

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MAY 22, 2020

Santa Monica-based healthcare practice management software developer PatientPop is adding a new set of telehealth features to its software suite, saying this week that it has launched a new product called PatientPop Pro. Pricing on the new tool was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 12, 2009

Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software disclosed this morning that the firm is planning its own, e-discovery software, which it said it will launch in the third quarter of the year. E-discovery software is used by companies to store and manage documents and records in relation to legal actions. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Irvine-based cybersecurity software developer CrowdStrike said Monday that it has rolled out a new set of customer support and services options, to support the deployment of its CrowdStrike Falcon software. Pricing on its new services offerings were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

El Segundo-based iRise said Tuesday that it has rolled out a new service, which will help companies turn their ideas into software prototypes in less than 48 hours. Pricing on the new service was not announced. Pricing on the new service was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

The new, free application allows users to search for price comparisons and product reviews from Pricegrabber, including search by UPC code, MPN, or product names. Los Angeles-based comparison shopping site PriceGrabber has released its own, iPhone application on Apple's App store. The application debuted on the App store Monday.

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JULY 7, 2010

According to PriceGrabber, the new app allows users to scan barcodes, read product reviews, and make purchases from the mobile device. The device supports scanning of product UPC codes, and then pulls up pricing comparisons from retailers, allowing users to purchase that product from online merchants directly from the app.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

TrueCar--which offers up automotive pricing information and automotive configuration and quoting software--said the sales came from more than 5,500 dealer partners. According to TrueCar, its 700,000th vehicle sold was a new 2013 Mazda CX-5 purchase in Elgin, Illinois, using GEICO Car Buying Service, powered by TrueCar.

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

TrueCar , the Santa Monica-based provider of auto buying and pricing software, is powering another online vehicle purchase service with a deal with Regions Bank , the company said today. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 20, 2016

Brighter's online marketplace lets patients see ratings and reviews of dentists, differences in benefits, upfront pricing, co-pays, and more. Brighter said it will use the funding to recruit enterprise software product and engineering talent. Gabe Ling of General Catalyst join's the company's board with the funding.

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MARCH 13, 2014

Brighter.com , the online marketplace for dentists which is looking to bring upfront pricing to the dental market, said Thursday that it has expanded beyond Los Angeles and into Orange County. Brighter''s tools include dentist reviews; upfront cost estimates; and scheduling and appointment handling software for the dentists themselves.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the developer of software-as-a-service for talent and employee management, has dropped its plans for a secondary IPO, citing "current marketing prices". The firm also cited the expense of an offering. Cornerstone OnDemand had filed for a secondary offering only a few weeks ago, on July 20th.

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

X1 Discovery said today that it has launched a new, electronic discovery software called X1 Social Discovery, which is specifically aimed at helping computer forensics professionals address social media content. X1 Discovery said it will be releasing its software on October 18th, priced at $945 per seat annually.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the provider of online car buying software and pricing information, said today that it is powering the online car buying programs for VroomGirls.com , a new, Los Angeles-based website targeting automotive information for women. Financial details of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 15, 2016

Based on ratings, reviews, and price, designers are able to hire a factory or contractor from our platform. Our uusers can use ratings and reviews, to know if they are working with high quality manufacturers. The third problem we solve, is pricing and payment. We help apparel designers connect with factories.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The two said they are linking EdgeCast's CDN software, along with PeerApp's caching platform, to help operators cache all content on their networks. The companies said that currently, network operators are seeing traffic and network problems due to non-contracted content owners, who do not have CDNs caching their data from them.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Dat Do: We produce valuation software that solves a lot of complex valuation issues for privately held companies, backed by venture capital and private equity. Who would be purchasing the software? How to price it. Audit firms like PwC, potentially a client, they would use it to review it when they received the valuation.

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JANUARY 28, 2010

Carlsbad-based Dot Hill Systems said today that it has completed its acquisition of Cloverleaf Communications , a developer of storage virtualization and management software. Dot Hill said it expects the buy to help it expand beyond the storage array market, into the higher margin storage software market. cloverleaf is based in Israel.

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JUNE 5, 2013

They''re currently having to purchase dental care without any price transparency or negotiating power. We''re leveraging group buying to get pricing which is comparable to those negotiated by the large insurers. You can price a procedure, check on a dentist''s reputation, and book online. We felt that was not disruptive enough.

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JULY 13, 2009

According to the firm, its new PowerSeries Management Console (PSMC) product ties into its existing Symark PowerBroker products, and helps to automate policy creation and approval, aggregation and review of event lots, and other features of its software. Pricing on the new product was not released.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. We thought, we could put out a better product than Kaplan or Princeton Review, which would be more compelling, and also would tie in a strong social mission.

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APRIL 1, 2009

Santa Monica-based Zag.com , the online car buying software firm headed by Scott Painter, announced this morning that it has inked a deal with the AAA, to power a new service called AAA Automaker. Zag is venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, USAA, GRP Partners, Arcturus Capital, Callaway Cars and the Skoll Fund.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

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. My brother is in charge of the development team, and is very focused on development and coding. You, as an entrepreneur, are expected to go though due diligence.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

The firm said the record growth was in part a result of consumer awareness of its promotions, aggressive pricing, and the inclusion of product video content on the site. Buy.com also reported that average customer orders are up by over 20 percent due to bigger purchases.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

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APRIL 29, 2014

We were looking at it, and saw that if we could take all these off-the-shelf sensors, and put it all together, and write some code, and make a user interface, it''s basically done. Unfortunately, those providers decided the gold leads were expensive, and decided to use a Chinese vendor which would provide them at half price.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Andrew spoke to us about TrackStreet's brand protection software and artificial intelligence efforts. From there, we went into figuring out who was breaking rules around price points, and automating figure out who was selling products too cheap. What is TrackStreet? We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. Those loans are very mis-priced, in our opinion. in a funding round. Photo: Brew Johnson on left, Brett Crosby on right.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

One was simply yield management--that's an overused term, but basically it's the notion that you have to be able to have a basis for forecasting your available inventory, and adjust your prices accordingly. We're the only company with this auto-build functionality, which includes inventory forecasting and dynamic pricing.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

We didn't wanted to create new project management software--everyone uses Microsoft Project--but we wanted to make it more collaborative. So, our software takes a Microsoft.mpp file, and allows a whole team to manipulate it. Every company that did try it or buy it gave rave reviews, and said that this was what they wanted.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Thirteen percent of water in homes are lost due to leaks, which equals trillion gallons of water. We're helping to prevent huge problems with our hardware and software solution. We prevent water damage, which is the leading cause of preventable homeowners insurance claims every year. We also help prevent a lot of water waste in homes.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

For parents, if you're interested in how your kids are doing, you can find out what their schedule is like, what homework is due when, what their grades are, and how they are progressing, plus you can communicate with their teachers. In the meantime, I was getting frustrated with the software being used at my son's school.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

What's really led us to this path, is we had an a-ha moment to understand how we could use digital technology from the ad serving and marketing automation market, and apply those same strategies and technologies and software to close the loop on direct mail. I understand both of you came out of Science Inc, the startup studio/incubator?

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MAY 5, 2011

In no expert in Seattle but when I look around I see: enterprise software (Microsoft), the market leader in cloud services (Amazon AWS), games (Xbox), some of the most innovative retailers in the country (CostCo, Starbucks, REI) and what is left of Boeing (HQ moved to Chicago). In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful.

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