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DECEMBER 20, 2018

The indictment , filed in the United States District Court Southern District of New York, accuses a state-backed hacking group of hacking into companies from at least 2006 until 2018. The indictment said the group "acted in association with the Chinese Ministry of State Security's Tianjin State Security Bureau" to target those attacks.

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JANUARY 12, 2018

Avvo was founded in 2006, and was venture backed by Benchmark Capital, Coatue Management, DAG Ventures, Ignition Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures, and Vulcan Capital. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. According to Internet Brands, Avvo will become part of its Legal vertical.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Blizzard said the new "Classic" edition is based on its 2006 "Drums of War" update. According to Blizzard, as part of the celebration of the game's 15th anniversary, it has released a version of its game, which is an authentic re-creation of what its popular title looked as "pre-expansion" and in its "most feature-complete state".

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APRIL 22, 2019

Wenstrup previously was Chief Medical Officer for Myriad Genetics, serving at that firm from 2006 to 2007. San Diego-based Epic Sciences , which is developing personalized medicine products for treating and managing cancer, said this morning that it has named Richard J. Wenstrup, M.D., as its new Chief Medical Officer.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Jacques had been a venture capitalists in Los Angeles from 2006 until 2011, when he joined Intuit in Mountain View. According to Jacques' LinkedIn profile, he became Vice President and Head of Visa Venturs, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, in October. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 11, 2014

Flarion had been acquired by Qualcomm in 2006 for $805M. Laroia was a VP at Qualcomm from 2006 until 2011. Light was co-founded by Dr. Rajiv Laroia, who was previously the CTO of Flarion Technologies--whose base technology became LTE. READ MORE>>. qualcomm paul jacobs light venture capital flarion photography digital photo hardware'

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

Green Dot has been managing Walmart's MoneyCard program since 2006. According to the two, Green Dot will continue to serve as the issuing bank and program manager for the Walmart MoneyCard program for an additional period of seven years.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

The site had originally been founded in 2006 by Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, covering topics around parenting and raising children. Burbank-based Disney has shut down parent blog site Babble , according to the site, which did not say why it was shutting down. Disney had owned Babble since 2011.

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APRIL 24, 2017

According to Criteria, which has been offering up pre-employment testing services to employers since 2006, its new cam allows job seekers to play a set of six, 90-second brain games, which it says are "scientifically crafted" to test key talents and cognitive abilities. A new app, JobFlare , developed by Los Angeles-based Criteria Corp. ,

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MARCH 29, 2018

CoreLogic has been helping to support Operation HOPE since 2006. Irvine-based property information provider CoreLogic has pledged $200,000 to financial literacy program operator Operation HOPE , the company said on Wednesday, which will go to support financial literacy programs and training.

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MAY 23, 2017

Drucker was previously co-founder of Social Intelligence, and also co-founded Steel Card, an enterprise software company focused on software, which was sold to ChoicePoint in August of 2006. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Neal is a veteran of Netflix, having served Vice President Talent and Talent Acquisition at the company from 2006 until 2013; she later was VP of Talent at Coursera. Neal had been Chief People Officer at Scopely in Los Angeles until earlier this year. She had joined Scopely in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Novak has been Ixia''s VP of Finance since 2006, and was appointed acting CFO of the company in March. Calabasas-based Ixia , the network testing hardware and software developer, said Tuesday that it has named Brent Novak as its new Chief Financial Officer. Novak also has served at Idealab and PricewaterhouseCoopers. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the founders of Beats Electronics , the onetime Santa Monica headphone-and-music-service, are in the midst of a lqsuit--and likely, a jury decision--over a lawsuit which claims Dr. Dre and Iovine owes royalties to a businessman work worked with the company back in 2005 and 2006.

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MAY 20, 2015

in 2006; Zhang received his a masters in 2006. Pang and Zhang allegedly transferred stolen technology from Avago Technology and Skyworks Solutions related to the development of thin-film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) technology that had originally been developed under a DARPA grant at USC. Pang and Zhang both received their Ph.D.s

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APRIL 8, 2019

billion into startups nationally during the first three months of 2019, the second largest amount for any quarter since at least 2006, according to data released overnight by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. Venture firms sent $32.6

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the first “public cloud” offering third-party data storage and compute services, launched in March 2006, and by 2012, there were multiple credible competitors. The hype was strong.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Slacker was founded in 2006, and was venture backed by Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Mission Ventures, Rho Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced, however, an SEC filing indicates the deal was worth around $50M, split between $44M in cash and $6M in stock.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Richard had been on the company's board for periods since 2006. Pasadena-based Guidance Software reports that Stephen Richards, one of the members of its board of directors, has passed away unexpectedly. Richards was COO and CFO of McAfee, and also served as CFO of E*TRADE Group, among other positions. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

capital has produced 241 impact startups since 2006, with 95 companies founded in San Francisco. At a national level, the United States received more VC funding for impact tech companies than any other country in the past five years, with investors pumping $35.8 billion into U.S. firms since 2015, double the amount invested into China ($16.8

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

LightPointe is owned by Berg & Berg Enterprises, which acquired the company in 2006. LightPointe had originally been venture backed, and was acquired after a Chaper 11 bankruptcy back in 2006. Cardon was previously at MRV Communications. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2014

Shotgun--which was founded in 2006--was co-founded by Don Parker and Isaac Reuben. Los Angeles-based Shotgun Software , a developer of cloud-based production tracking, review, and asset management software for the film, television and games industries, has been acquired by Autodesk , the two said Wednesday. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 19, 2019

From 2006 to 2012, the number of pills distributed to pharmacies increased by more than 50 percent. The opioid crisis reaches all corners of the nation, and newly released data this week revealed how the growth of the epidemic tracked with a massive increase in the production and distribution of these drugs.

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APRIL 22, 2016

The listing on the NASDAQ returns Interlink back to the NASDAQ for the first time since 2006, when it slipped from that exchange. According to Interlink, it expects to start trading on the NASDAQ next week, on April 25th, using the symbol LINK. Interlink Electronics develops force sensing and other electronics. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 27, 2018

The Forbes' list hasn't included a Southern California venture capitalist since around 2006 , when it included Jim Armstrong (then at Clearstone Venture Partners), Brad Jones (then at Redpoint Ventures), Andrew Senyei of Enterprise Partners, Bill Elkus, also of Clearstone, and James Blair of Domain Associates.

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MAY 2, 2017

The two brothers previously headed up Brand Affinity Technologies (BAT), and the Steelbergs had founded dMarc Broadcasting, which the two sold to Google in 2006 for what, at the time, was a $1.2 Veritone is backed by Newport Coast Investments and Acacia Research; Chad Steelberg and his brother, Ryan Steelberg, own the majority of the company.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Take a lesson from Ford Motor Company and their prescient CFO and President in 2006 and 2007. Waiting until it becomes clear that they need additional capital (even short term capital) would put them in competition with the rest of the business world and would be a lot pricier than it would be currently. A lesson from the recent past.

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

Advanced Mobile was founded in 2006. Irvine-based online auto information and leads site Autobytel has expanded into the mobile communications market, with the acquisition of Advanced Mobile, LLC , a provider of mobile apps, mobile websites, text messaging, and other mobile communications services for automotive manufacturers and dealers.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

KidZui had been founded in 2006 in San Diego. KidZui had most recently been owned by Saban Brands, which acquired KidZui in 2012. LeapFrog said that it is already using KidZui''s technology as part of the LeapSearch function on its LeapFrog Wi-Fi enabled children''s tablets. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Media Temple said the company''s GRID service was originally launched back in 2006. The company, which is led by Demian Sellfors, said the accelerated performance comes from such upgrades as addition of Google PageSpeed, PHP FastCGI, and use of solid state disk drives on the company''s shared database server. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

He also was founder of Massive In-Game Advertising (acquired by Microsoft in 2006), among other firms. Middleton, the founder and CEO of Nifty Games, previously served at such companies as Madefire, Pulse Entertainment, Mad Catz Interactive, and others, and was founder and CEO of Boom IN-Gme Music, which was acquired by LiveGamer in 2008.

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JULY 20, 2015

Electro Rent said that it has named Allen Sciarillo, its Vice President of Finance, as acting CFO; Sciarillo has been at the company since 2006. Jones--who is 69--has been at the company for 26 years. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Of particular note is the involvement of Laskey, who made his first fortune with another, Southern California mobile app maker--Jamdat Mobile--which he took public in 2004, and later sold to EA in 2006 for $680M. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Media Temple said the company''s GRID service was originally launched back in 2006. The company, which is led by Demian Sellfors, said the accelerated performance comes from such upgrades as addition of Google PageSpeed, PHP FastCGI, and use of solid state disk drives on the company''s shared database server. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

3PL Central, which was founded by John Watkins and Nancy Rohman in 2006, is used by third party logistics providers for their private warehouse management. Manhattan Beach-based 3PL Central , a developer of warehouse management software, announced Thursday that it has raised $17.5M in a funding round. The funding came from Mainsail Partners.

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MARCH 8, 2011

Batt co-founded BUZZmedia, originally known as Buzznet, out of his efforts photo blogging, scoring his first funding round back around 2006. The firm creates programming for television, film, and the web. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 8, 2016

Celigo said this morning that it has raised $8M in an expansion capital round, its first institutional funding since it was founded in 2006. San Diego-based software growth equity investor TVC Capital has backed Celigo , a developer of software to integrate cloud-based applications. A part of the funding, TVC Capital's Steven J.

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