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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

San Diego-based Qualcomm is joining Google and Microsoft in a big, $110M funding round for Cloudflare , the provider of web site security and caching services. The company is based in San Francisco. Qualcomm made the investment through Qualcomm Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2008

San Diego-based BrightQube, an angel-backed stock photo search site, has updated its web services to make it easier for photo buyers to find images. BrightQube rolled out its new web site earlier this week, adding such features as pop-up search tips, new navigation options, filtering, and other features.

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MAY 2, 2011

The web site of San Diego-based Sony Online Entertainment , the developer of massively multiplayer online games, was shut down today, along with Station.com, another Sony site, due to continued issues with hacking of the firm's systems. The firm has not disclosed other details on the issues. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

San Diego-based DivX , which is now owned by Sonic Solutions, said today that it has launched DivX TV, a new entertainment service, on Blue-ray Disc players and home theater systems from LG. DivX said it is offering up content from such sites as Howcast, Funny or Die, Video Detective, and other online sites via its service.

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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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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Sony reported last night that it has detected another, massive hacking attack on its Sony Entertainment Network, PlayStation Network, and Sony Online Entertainment, which it said affected approximately 93,000 accounts on the services. million accounts and shut down its online services for several months. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 2, 2012

It was a rough weekend for the cloud, with an outage over at Amazon Web Services disrupting access to such popular services as LinkedIn, Instagram, and many others. Not to mention, a leap second bug throwing off sites like Reddit and others Sunday.

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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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JANUARY 30, 2013

San Diego-based StockTwits , the stock and finance focused micro-messaging service headed by Howard Lindzon, looks like it has a new challenge on its hands: how to deal with a rule change by Twitter which makes it so that users can no longer directly post to Twitter with a ticker symbol, and have that reflected in their StockTwits account.

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MARCH 5, 2010

San Diego-based personalized Internet radio service Slacker announced yesterday that it has linked with The Source Magazine, to launch an online, Hip-Hop radio station. Slacker said it would power The Source Digital Radio, a hip-hop station linked with The Source's print magazine and online web site. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 14, 2010

San Diego-based Confident Technologies , the new startup which is using image authentication technology originally developed by Vidoop, has rolled out its image-based CAPTCHA tools, the firm said this week. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 23, 2019

HireAHelper.com, an online marketplace that links people who are moving to a new home with local movers and related services, has been acquired by Porch, which operates a marketplace that connects people with a variety of home repair and improvement services. Financial terms of.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

San Diego-based Covario , a developer of search advertising and web site optimization software and services, said today that it has acquired Netconcepts, LLC , a website search engine optimization firm based in Madison, Wisconsin. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Andrew Connell is the CEO of DinnerDate.com , a startup which has been in beta in San Diego for the last few months, and is just now expanding out to new markets. People complete a short profile when they register on DinnerDate.com, where they can express interest in other people on the site. It's a one stop shop.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

San Diego-based The Active Network , which operates a network of web sites and related products for community service and sports organizations, said today that it has launched a new program focused on "eco-friendly" practices in endurance racing. READ MORE>>.

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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 20, 2009

San Diego-based personalized radio service Slacker has inked a deal with T-Mobile, where T-Mobile will include the application directly on a smart phone. Previously, customers had to go to T-Mobile or Slacker's web site to download the application.

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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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DECEMBER 19, 2008

Los Angeles-based PixelFish, which develops video advertising for small and medium sized businesses, said this morning that it has acquired Eyespot, a provider of video hosting services for web sites. Eyespot was based in San Diego, and was venture backed by Express Ventures and Gabriel Venture Partners.

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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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DECEMBER 10, 2008

Newport Beach-based CircleUp, which provides Web 2.0-style style group messaging services, said today that it has launched a new platform to help groups communicate with their members. The new platform--billed SmartMessage--helps groups send messages among members and others. Bass Associates.

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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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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. Instead of 20 comedies on one site, now you have 5000 on one site. Aaron, thanks for the interview.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

San Diego-based Metaplace said this morning that it has raised $6.7M Metaplace operates a service which allows users to create their own virtual worlds, which they can embed on their own web pages and sites. in a financing round for the firm's virtual worlds platform. READ MORE>>

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MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. There are so many social networking sites, how do you define what's relevant? Meebo is another powerful site. In late 2007, Chi.mp

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

San Diego-based Nirvanix said this morning that the firm's network attached storage (NAS) product, CloudNAS, is now available. According to Nirvanix, the software now allows companies to turn a 1U server into a NAS filer, while actually storing its data on the Nirvanix cloud computing service.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

When it comes to disrupting an industry, Raken founder and CEO Kyle Slager says it would be hard to find a sector that is more resistant to spending money on new technologies than the construction business. As Slager puts it, even bankers and insurers spend more on technology as a percentage of revenue than building contractors.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The booth for San Diego based Tweetphoto was a happening spot at the 140 Characters Conference. The service is free to use and focuses on creating the best possible user-experience among the applications developed around the Twitter Application Programming Interface (API).

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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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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

San Diego-based The Active Network, which operates a network of sports- and other online registration services and marketing web sites, said today that it has acquired three companies which provide hunting and fishing licensing technology.

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MAY 7, 2010

For people who haven't visited SciVee, what's the site about? The next major change that we see, is now that they're online, they're becoming more web based, and adding things like rich media. They got an NSF grant, and basically started up the original web site, as a video web site.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Howard Lindzon is CEO and Co-founder of StockTwits (www.stocktwits.com), the financial micro-messaging service. He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits.

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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. Idris Manley: It's interesting.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

We spoke with Jonathan about the advantages of SwoopThat over existing sites. Jonathan Simkin: What makes us unique from other sites, is we're here to help students save time, in addition to money, when they buy books. How did you come up with the web site? What's SwoopThat? Jonathan Simkin: We're all recent graduates.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Mobile gifting service. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. They sponsor TWiVC. LibreDigital.

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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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APRIL 11, 2013

There are now a large number of online, peer-to-peer marketplaces which all aim at one thing; helping connecting people with others, so that they can offer their services or goods (a room for rent, a ride, a vacation timeshare, a dog sitter, etc.) Over time, that service provider gets a quality score.

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