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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Los Angeles-based Beats Electronics , fresh off of a big investment from The Carlyle Group , is getting set to launch its new music streaming service, according to a report Monday.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A security researcher is reporting that Pasadena-based matchmaking site Santa Monica-based eHarmony is alerting users to change their passwords, after a reported breach of customer information. The breach follows a rash of similar security issues from other web-based service providers in the last few months.

eHarmony 167

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JANUARY 30, 2014

Los Angeles-based music software startup Topspin has laid off a "significant" amount of staff, according to reports , with a majority of the company''s staff getting the pink slip. The startup offered up web-based apps to help artists and labels reach their fans. Topspin is venture backed by Foundry Group and Redpoint Ventures.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Irvine-based Local.com reports this morning that it has acquired another 10,000 web hosting customers, from LaRoss Partners, LLC. According to Local.com, the buy brings its total web hosting subscribers to 50,000. The deal was worth $1.6M READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

San Diego-based Slacker , the personalized Internet radio service backed by Mission Ventures, Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Rho Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds, reported Thursday that it has expanded its service into Canada. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

San Diego-based machine vision and fleet telematics provider Lytx reported this week that it has signed up UniGroup , the $1.6 billion company behind United Van Lines and Mayflower.

San Diego 113

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JULY 29, 2011

A report, published Friday by Wired, says that Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu has cut its use of web analytics service Kissmetrics -- a startup founded by former Orange County entrepreneur Neil Patel -- after U.C. Berkeley security researchers detected the use of undetectable cookie code by Kissmetrics.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

La Mirada-based Crazy Egg , which develops a web analytics and visualization tool for tracking web site visitors clicks, has released version 2.0 of the web site. reports will stop tracking data on November 15th.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

San Francisco-based Cloudflare , which provides a service which helps web site and web application developers manage caching and access to their websites, protecting against cyberattacks, distributed denial of service (DDoS)--and which is backed by Qualcomm--is heading towards an IPO. billion.

San Diego 113

San Diego Google Web Report 113

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

An outage at Amazon Web Services is causing major downtime across the cloud this morning, as sites which rely on the cloud storage service have been unable to reliably connect all morning. Such sites as the U.S. S3 is used by many websites for storing data, images, and video. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

San Diego-based music startup Slacker has apparently lost its CEO, according to a report from VentureWire. The firm operates a personalized Internet radio service, which is tied to both a Web-based music player and a hardware device tied to Slacker's web service. The firm has raised around $70M in funding.

Report 124

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Managed Network Service Providers (MNSPs) have the equipment, staff, expertise, and experience necessary to take on infrastructure tasks so companies can focus less on network upkeep and more on strategic business goals. MNSPs can make the initial service and technology transitions painless, minimizing the likelihood of expensive mistakes.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

Irvine-based cloud-based storage service provider Zadara reported Tuesday that it has signed up online shopping site Gilt as a customer. Zadara said that Gilt has deployed its storage-as-a-service with Amazon Web Services, rather than expanding a current on-premise HP 3PAR storage array. READ MORE>>.

Sites 100

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Irvine-based cloud storage products developer Zadara Storage reported a win on Tuesday with document archiving company CBM Archives. Zadara said that CBM Archives, which serves state and local government agencies, is using the company's VPSA Storage Array and cloud services. Financial details of the win were not disclosed.

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AUGUST 24, 2017

Los Angeles-based web hosting provider Dreamhost apparently is the latest ISP to get caught up in the game of "hot potato" with neo-Nazi, white supremacist website The Daily Stormer. According to a post by the founder of The Daily Stormer, Dreamhost booted the website earlier today citing its terms of service.

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MAY 22, 2014

Irvine-based Zadara Storage , the developer of enterprise, cloud-based storage products led by storage veteran Nelson Nahum, reports a win this morning with distance education and learning company Echo360. Zadara''s cloud-based storage products helps companies used cloud storage as if they were in-house, enterprise storage arrays.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

Huntington Beach-based AnyMeeting , which develops free web conferencing and online meeting software, reported this morning that it has released a new feature which lets users share any YouTube video into their meeting, and has also hit a milestone of 200,000 registered users.

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Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels Conference Pasadena 193

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Los Angeles-based advertising marketplace operator Rubicon Project and its partner White Ops , a provider of human verification services for the digital ad market, said their combined efforts have protected buyers on sellers on Rubicon's marketplace from a major Russian advertising fraud effort uncovered this month.

Advertising 100

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

Costa Mesa-based Experian , the provider of credit reporting services and related information, announced this morning that it has acquired 41st Parameter , a provider of device identification technology for the cyber security market. 41st Parameter''s technology uses device fingerprints to identify web fraud. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2009

Irvine-based Local.com , which operates a network of local business search sites, reported the firm's traffic numbers today, saying that during Q2, it had 63 million monthly unique visitors on its site and network. Local.com's web sites allow users to search for local businesses and services.

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MARCH 20, 2014

Irvine-based Zadara Storage , which provides cloud-based, enterprise storage technology, reports that its products are being used by a provider of farm data. Zadara said its products are being used by Farm Intelligence2 of Mankato, MN, a provider of farm data services. zadara farming farm data services storage cloud'

Web 147

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Huntington Beach-based Anymeeting , the free web conferencing and webinar service headed by Costin Tuculescu, and backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels and Maverick Angels, reports today that it has added a new, ad-free version of the software aimed at small business users. per month for up to 200 attendees.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

by Amazon Web Services. Los Angeles-based venture investment firm Moonshots Capital , which is led by Kelly Perdew, has seen a big exit via the acquisition of San Diego's Harvest.ai The deal, which has not yet been formally announced, was reportedly worth around $20M.

San Diego 100

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Tech.Co

MAY 16, 2024

In addition to the regular pressures of running a business in this climate, Black business owners have to contend with discriminatory lending practices from banking institutions and racial prejudices from buyers – with a recent report revealing that 76% of Black business owners claim they’ve experienced racism from a customer.

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JUNE 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based content delivery network provider NetDNA reports this morning that it has scored a customer win with news website The Next Web. NetDNA said that TheNextWeb has selected its MaxCDN subsidiary to provide content deliver network (CDN) services to handle its more than six million monthly visitors.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Online dating site eHarmony is reporting that it's seeing an increasing number of users using its mobile apps to access its dating service, and also said that conversions of those users is up nearly 40 percent year to year.

eHarmony 153

eHarmony Mobile Santa Monica Report 153

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Los Angeles-based TeleSign , the provider of phone authentication services used to reduce fraud and spam with web services, said Tuesday that it has named Max Powers as its Vice President, Client Services. The firm reported 15,558% revenue growth between 2006 and 2010 at those awards.

Commerce 140

Commerce Web Education Los Angeles 140

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JULY 13, 2011

Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com is again warning people about a continuing scam where criminals are using official sounding--but fake--escrow services to swindle people out of money. Escrow services are online services which hold money until a transaction successfully occurs, and are heavily used for online automotive purchases.

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Edmunds Santa Monica Report Web 174

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

According to the report , Eucalyptus is benefiting from its focus on the Amazon Web Services ecosystem, plus having former MySQL head Marten Mickos as its CEO. The article did not say what kind of revenues Eucalyptus actually is delivering, however.

Cloud Computing 147

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Web Software 147

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

.” The most recent was 18 months ago or so called The Kauffman Report. It had an influence on the people who fund our industry in a negative way as many asset managers who fund our industry read this flawed report. That’s a shame because many of these people missed out on what will be a few great VC vintages.

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MARCH 2, 2012

Los Angeles-based hosting provider DreamHost , the provider of web hosting and managed hosting services, is planning a new, open source software spinout, the firm revealed this week, as it looks to leverage its work on the Ceph open source project for distributed storage.

Software 157

Software Report Web Los Angeles 157

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MARCH 27, 2012

Redlands-based Esri , the developer of mapping and geospatial information systems technology, reported today that it is powering a new local foo dmap effort by the U.S Esri said its software is being used as part of the USDA's KYF2 Compass Map, an interactive, web-based map for learning about local and regional food systems.

Web 140

Web Report Software Services 140

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JULY 31, 2012

Los Angeles-based content delivery network (CDN) provider NetDNA reported today that it has been selected by online tag management company Ubertags. UberTags' cloud-based service is used to manage third party "tags"--those snippets of code used on websites to manage advertising, web analytics, retargeting, and many other services.

Content 140

Content Advertising Networking Web 140

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Pasadena-based Central Desktop , the provider of online collaboration and project management software headed by Isaac Garcia, reported today that it has signed three marketing agency customers. Central Desktop's tools are being used for project management, Gantt charts, web conferencing, and other activities for those firms.

Marketing 133

Marketing Pasadena Report Web 133

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2015

After releasing its first ever report, Amazon has left many consumers and users wondering about a number of things. The company also reported receiving 25 search warrants and has already responded to 13 of them fully, but point out four of the search warrants couldn’t be responded to. Amazon and PRISM surveillance program.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer OpenX reported this morning that it has named Jason C. OpenX developers advertising serving software and related advertising network services, aimed at web publishers. White as its General Manager, Publisher Business - West. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 27, 2009

Santa Monica-based ExpenseBay has opened up a public beta release of the firm's expense report automation service, the firm is announcing this morning. ExpenseBay has a software-as-a-service product which helps employees to automate the process of submitting expense reports to their employers. READ MORE>>.

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