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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. All In Media has offices in London and Sydney, and was founded in 2007; the companies said its customers include Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Bauer Media Group, Nova Entertainment, NRK, Primedia, Radioplayer, RTE Radio, Southern Cross Austereo and Wireless Group.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Mediapeers was based in Berlin, and had been founded in 2007. deluxe mediapeers post production merger acquisition cloud software asset management' Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Mediapeers serves such companies as Lionsgate, MGMG, FremantleMedia, and Global Screen. READ MORE>>.

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Burbank Screening Hollywood Acquisition 138

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

We thought it might be interesting to talk with one of the fund's managing directors, Jeb Spencer about the fund's success in technology investments, plus how it managed to raise another fund in this kind of environment, plus its unique goal of getting companies to an acquisition--and not an IPO.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Arrington and Calacanis had joined together to launch TechCrunch50, a competitor to the DEMO launch conferences, back in 2007.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

Digital Insight had been acquired by Intuit back in 2007. digital insight merger acquisition banking software digitalinsight intuit thoma bravo' NCR said the buy will help it form a "complete enterprise software platform" for the banking industry. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 20, 2013

In a demonstration that timing is everything, the huge, $604M acquisition of 3D printing maker MakerBot Wednesday probably has those who were involved in Southern California 3D printing startup Desktop Factory shaking their heads. makerbot printing desktop factory merger acquisition idealab' Makerbot wasn''t founded until 2009.

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Idealab Southern California Acquisition Startup 153

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Borrud was formerly head of Pandemic Studios, the gaming firm acquired by Electronic Arts in 2007 for $860M. Culver City-based Seismic Games announced on Thursday that it has acquired fellow, Los Angeles game development company Grue Games. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 17, 2013

The amount of capital invested in Fisker makes the company the highest profile flameout ever in Southern California''s startup history, far surpassing the mere $375M in venture capital raised of of prior record holder Amp''d Mobile from back in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Internet Brands said the acquisition will help it bolster the lineup of travel sites its owns, including FlyerTalk, Wikitravel, and CruiseMates. Ingersoll apparently founded the site after retiring as a mortgage banker and starting to travel the world with his wife.

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Internet Brands Blogging Acquisition Sites 147

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APRIL 10, 2015

Addante founded Rubicon Project in 2007. rubicon project merger acquisition nyse rubi advertising technology software exchange' Rubicon Project--which trades as RUBI on the NYSE--said CEO, Founder, and Chief Product Architect Frank Addante will ring the bell at 4:00 p.m. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Be Green Packaging was founded in 2007, and was co-founded by Ron Blitzer and Robert Richman. begreen packaging cleantech recyclable riverside merger acquisition ecofriendly recycle compost' READ MORE>>.

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Riverside Santa Barbara Company Companies 147

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MARCH 5, 2015

The company had been founded in 2007, and was venture backed by US Venture Partners and Wallington Investors. total beauty evolve media merger acquisition fashion cosmetics women female exit' Total Beauty provided online content focused on beauty, including a large database of reviews of beauty products. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 22, 2016

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Donnelly in 2007 by Jake Winebaum, turned over to Dex.com after the sale, and eventually shut down, but restarted after a purchase by JMI Equity and Resource Nation in 2011. Purch said the deal would help it expand into the SMB market. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Payne had been CEO and a member of the baord of directors of Eloqua from January 2007 until it acquisition by Oracle in 2013; he als ohad served at Qualys, iDefense, eSecurity, eGrail and MicroStrategy Incorporated.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Oracle Santa Monica Resource 138

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Rahmat was CEO of Tom's Hardware, which he sold to BestofMedia in 2007. As part of the acquisition, ELC founder Siegel joins venture capital firm Accel Partners in London, as a venture partner. Tags: technologies kamran pourzanjani bestcovery pricegrabber venture capital accel merger acquisition rubyonrails cloud computing.

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Cloud Computing Technology Santa Barbara Venture Capital 197

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Irvine-based Local.com has scored a patent out of its acquisition of Krillion , in April, the firm reported this morning, after the U.S. Local.com's new patent was filed in April of 2007; inventors named on the patent are Roger B. Patent and Trademark Office issues patent number 8,032,427 to the company. Spreen, Michael S.

Patents 174

Patents Pricing Acquisition Report 174

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

from Demand, over Demand Media' acquisition of his site in 2007. Tags: demand media lawsuit chip meyers mania merger acquisition legal. Santa Monica-based Demand Media has been sued by Chip Meyers, the founder of Mania.com, according to a report today from paidContent.org. paidContent said that Meyers is looking for at least $6.2M

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AUGUST 9, 2010

The price of two of Demand Media's acquisitions, Pluck , and The Daily Plate , have both been made public with the firm's IPO filing Friday evening. The firm also revealed that it acquired Pagewise , a provider of how-to videos and text articles, for $15.8M, back in June of 2007. According to the S-1, Demand paid $56.3M READ MORE>>.

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Demand Media Social Media Acquisition 140

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JUNE 24, 2013

sTEC was originally part of Orange County-based SimpleTech, before that firm split out its consumer facing hard drive, flash memory, and other businesses from its OEM and industrial flash business, back in 2007. western digital stec flash memory disk drive merger acquisition data storage' The deal is worth $6.85 per share for sTEC.

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Orange County .Net Acquisition Develop 138

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

However, Intuit Financial Services--which was Digital Insight until Intuit's acquisition in 2007--also said that it also discovered that half of Americans are still just using spreadsheets and checkbook registers to manage their finance.

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Westlake Village Acquisition Software Services 182

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Davis was Chairman and CEO of Fandango until its acquisition by Comcast in May of 2007, then served as EVP at Comcast Interactive Media until June of this year. Boingo said the addition of Davis will help it as its continued to grow the company. He also served as President and CEO of Shopzilla.

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Fandango Networking Media Los Angeles 145

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Velocify was led by President and CEO Nick Hedges, who took over as President and CEO at the firm in 2010; Velocify started life as Leads360, the onetime winner of the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch competition back in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Sales Competition Los Angeles 124

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APRIL 1, 2010

According to Dow Jones, those eight IPOs matched the same number of IPOs throughout all of 2009, and made it the most active quarter for venture-backed company IPOs since Q4 of 2007. Tags: merger acquisition venture capital markets. years, and $156M in venture capital for them to get liquidity.

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Venture Capital Acquisition Activity Report 160

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Bluehill was founded in 2007, and has 97 employees. Tags: microsystems hirsch electronics bluehill merger acquisition. The firms said that SCM will pay 0.52 shares of its common stock for every share of Bluehill ID. SCM Microsystems merged with Santa Ana-based Hirsch Electronics in May.

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Acquisition Report Develop Development 133

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MARCH 28, 2013

Goodreads was started in 2007. Goodreads was venture backed by True Ventures, Mike Jones (now at Science, Inc.), James Currier, Michael Birch, Chris Michel, and Stan Chudnovsky. Amazon.com says that Goodreads now has more than 16 million members. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Sites Networking Acquisition 211

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JUNE 22, 2010

Green was founder of AdECN, an ad exchange purchased by Microsoft in 2007. Tags: exchange advertising acquisition desk trade. Acquisio said it manages more than $450M in ad spending for such firms as Yellow Pages Group, SEO Inc. and other firms. READ MORE>>.

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PPC Ventura SEO Advertising 165

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Calixa was co-founded in 2007 by Dr. Eckard Weber and Dr. James Ge, and had acquired development rights to its primary compound from Astellas Pharma. Tags: calixa therapeutics cubist pharmaceuticals domain associates biotech lifescience merger acquisition. The deal was worth $92.5M

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Mail.com was re-launched by Penske back in May of 2007, but since late 2008 has been buying up Internet publishing and content sites. Tags: mail.com merger acquisition email united internet. READ MORE>>.

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Email Content Sites Acquisition 133

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MARCH 8, 2015

He joined the firm in 2007 after having previously worked with Upfront Ventures for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Before joining Upfront Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.com following its acquisition of Koral, where Mark was Founder and CEO. Mark Suster is a Partner at Upfront Ventures.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

which is based in the UK, has been working with Pentadyne since 2007. Tags: pentadyne power flywheel merger acquisition rail railroad. TGT Energy Ltd.,

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Chatsworth Training Acquisition Technology 133

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Business.com had been the latest success for Southern California entrepreneur Jake Weinbaum, who built the firm from a domain name into a firm with over $50M in revenues in 2007. At the time of the acquisition by R.H. Weinbaum eventually became president of R.H. Donnelley's interactive unit, but later left the firm.

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Santa Monica Southern California Advertising Content 236

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The firm moved here in 2007 from Denver. Tags: employment merger layoff hollywood content acquisition entertainment maniatv. The Deal said Revision3 is rumored to be a possible buyer for the firm. ManiaTV is a producer of original online content, which it distributes entirely online.

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APRIL 13, 2016

Demand Media acquired Cracked in 2007. According to Demand Media, the move will give it a "more focused portfolio of businesses", and also "significantly" strengthen its balance sheet. The sale comes as Demand Media has been seeing a steep drop in revenues from its content businesses. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

HauteLook is among the earlier firms in the industry, having started in December of 2007, and became profitable earlier this year. Tags: acquisition merger ecommerce sales fashion flash hautelook amazon buyvip. HauteLook already has lots of competition in the U.S. market from such competitors as Gilt Group, Ideeli, and Beyond the Rack.

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DECEMBER 26, 2008

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, however, Teledyne said that Demo Systems had sales of $7.3M for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. Tags: aircraft merger military teledyne equipment demo acquisition systems hardware. military and aircraft manufacturers.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The firm changed its name to Internet Brands in June of 2005, and hit the markets with its IPO in November of 2007. Tags: internet brands growth merger acquisition private. The firm's stock had held its own, having recovered so far from last year's market downturn. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

Providence Equity Partners had invested $100M in Hulu in 2007, and reportedly sold back its stake for $200M to the company this week. Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has sold its 10 percent stake in Hulu , the firm said Friday morning, getting a nice return on its investment in the online video streaming site.

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Hulu Equity Invest Report 170