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APRIL 24, 2017

A new app, JobFlare , developed by Los Angeles-based Criteria Corp. , The company said its game lets users show off their potential, and also helps employers find people who have abilities that its says predict long-term job performance--but can't be gleaned from a resume.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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JUNE 25, 2014

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. Shotgun--which was founded in 2006--was co-founded by Don Parker and Isaac Reuben. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud services firm Media Temple says it has upgraded its web hosting services, to make websites run up to six times faster. Media Temple said the company''s GRID service was originally launched back in 2006. READ MORE>>. media temple mediatemple hosting cloud'

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud services firm Media Temple says it has upgraded its web hosting services, to make websites run up to six times faster. Media Temple said the company''s GRID service was originally launched back in 2006. READ MORE>>. cloud hosting mediatemple temple media'

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JANUARY 19, 2016

Los Angeles-based private equity investor OpenGate Capital announced this morning that it has acquired Power Partners , a US-based manufacturer of power transformers. Power Partners was previously owned by manufacturing company PPI. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 1, 2013

Los Angeles-based online advertising firm SocialVibe has a new CEO this mornig: co-founder Joe Marchese. Marchese had been President of the company from 2006 until 2011, when he departed to become Senior Vice President of Marketing and Digital for Fuse Networks. READ MORE>>. socialvibe executive online advertising'

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Los Angeles-based private equity firm The Gores Group said today that it has closed a transaction to sell Enterasys Networks to Extreme Networks, via its joint venture with Siemens AG. According to Gores Group, Unify (formerly Siemens Enterprise Communications) sold Enterasys to help further focus the company on its "core mission".

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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DECEMBER 27, 2017

Today, we have a contribution from Anna Barber , the Managing Director of Techstars LA (www.techstars.org), one of three startup accelerators run by Techstars in the Los Angeles area. What was the big news for your company this year? Those three LA programs alone invested in a total of 38 companies this year.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Lissner joined Facebook as the firm's first Los Angeles salesperson in 2006, and also previously served at Yahoo, both in the Bay Area and in Los Angeles on Yahoo's entertainment efforts. MomentFeed is headed by Rob Reed.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Los Angeles-based NantWorks , the investment and umbrella company for the projects of billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, announced a deal today with Alcatel-Lucent , where Nantworks will acquire Alcatel-Lucent''s Digital Multimedia Solutions business unit. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based StyleSpot , an online fashion and social shopping site founded by Rafi Gordon and Alex Amin, has been acquired by Kaboodle , the online social shopping site owned by Hearst Corp. According to Kaboodle, Gordon and Amin will continue as co-CEOs of the company, operating as an individual website.

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MARCH 5, 2012

Los Angeles-based Nasty Gal , an online fashion retailer which focuses on vintage clothing, said Monday that it has raised $9M in a funding round. The round came from Index Ventures.

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based Evolve Media Corp. Evolve Media said that it originally acquired SheKnows.com in 2006, when it was a five person company with 600,000 unique visitors per month. said this morning that it is selling its SheKnows.com property to a private equity firm.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Anna Barber , the Managing Director of Techstars LA (www.techstars.com), one of the startup accelerators run by Techstars in the Los Angeles area. If there are burnout or communication problems on a founding team those problems can hijack a company's progress. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year? READ MORE>>.

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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. Powers joins the company from Vantage Media, where she was GM of the Education Division. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Los Angeles-based Ranker , an online web site which allows users to create their own lists, and share them with friends, said Thursday evening that the firm has raised $750,000 in a seed investment round, part of a planned $1M funding effort. The new funding brings the company's total raised to $1.75M. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 1, 2010

Attorney's Office in Los Angeles late Friday evening, the office has dropped the cases, and is no longer looking to appeal the dismissal of charges against the two, who had been charged with backdating of stock options at Broadcom. According to the U.S.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Los Angeles-based GOOD , a media firm which operates Reason Pictures, GOOD Magazine, and GOOD Digital, announced this week that it has raised a Series A funding round. Investors included angels and Nicholas Negroponte and Ben Goldhirsch, the firm's CEO and co-founder. Amount of the funding was not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based IVT , the web casting firm run by Greg Pulier , has announced that it has raised $5.5M The firm said that the new funding for the company was led by Syncom Venture Partners, and also included investors Barshop Ventures, Monitor Ventures, and Tudor Ventures. in a Series B funding. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

Michael is a bit of an honorary Southern California, spending a large chunk of his time in Los Angeles (where he's built many of his companies) although he's now officially living in Puerto Rico. What was the big news for you or your company this year? Michael is a huge early adopter and proponent of Bitcoin.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based wireless software publisher Mobile-XL reported Thursday that it is partnering with Venice-based mobile video messaging firm Mogreet. According to Mobile-XL, both companies have committed resources toward developing a mobile messaging platform. Founded in 2006, Mogreet is a privately held company.

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JULY 29, 2010

We've dug through our database of high tech companies, web sites, and startups and found four Southern California companies and web sites looking to cater to that adventure traveler in you. . This bootstrapped firm, based in Los Angeles, is the brainchild of Eric and David Bjorndahl. Adventurelink [ Profile ].

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MARCH 3, 2014

Back in 2006, the city set out to build a municipal Wi-Fi network for its citizens. Case in point: Los Angeles, which is issuing an RFP for private industry to build out a citywide Wi-Fi network. Los Angeles has the right idea, and hopefully more cities will follow its lead when embarking on similar projects.

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MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Jason Nazar

APRIL 9, 2009

This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Getting Your Internet Company Bought”. Shawn created the original concept for Demand Media and executed the simultaneous acquisitions of eNom, eHow and several domain-name portfolios which launched the company. These events are put on in conjunction with our friends at DealMaker Media.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people.

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MARCH 15, 2013

Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). We are in Los Angeles and San Diego, and I go between the two cities. Later on, I got divorced, and I'm now pursuing my dream of building a global, mobile company.

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. Bryan Cheung: We're an enterprise software company. How did the company start?

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JULY 16, 2013

Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Fun Fact: A team from OKCupid works out of the space, as well as a few of the best civic-focused tech companies in LA. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Thin Line--formed in partnership with LA's Wavemaker Partners--is hoping to take advantage of the growth in the clean technology market to find startups able to tapping into those now established markets, without the huge investment requirements of those first wave of clean technology companies. Talk about the new firm and the new fund?

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. We spoke with Jose daVeiga , the firm's CEO and co-founder, to learn more about the company.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

In 2006, Douglas Campbell started Mindshare LA out of the downtown art colony The Brewery. Campbell was new to Los Angeles, freshly inspired from a TED conference, and after attending a smattering of Barcamps and Westside Meetups he was ready to produce his own event that was a mixture of all. Tickets can purchased here.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

MARCH 11, 2008

CEO’s shoulder nearly 60% of the blame for a company crisis. North American CEO turnover increased 50% from 2006-to-2007. The AeA Los Angeles Council proudly brings Bob Fox to the table tonight to examine not only that question, but to identify the common traits and characteristics of what turns a CEO from savior to barbarian. (

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