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MARCH 5, 2009

According to the FBI indictment, the employee, John Scheifer, infected 250,000 computers with malware to create a "botnet"--a network of hacked computers used to steal account data. Schiefer had been nabbed by the FBI in 2007 as part of a larger sting, called "Operation Bot Roast II", which also snagged seven other defendants.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

More Visible Networking? My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. this time with Vince Thompson. I run a lot.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Such solutions combine the power of a video’s capacity to inform with a direct response ad’s ability to facilitate a desired action. <Break I know Coull intimately, as it recently purchased RevUpNet , an online media agency which I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007. <Break here> Skimlinks For The Video Age. .

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. How do you use LinkedIn?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

I’m not providing actual financial information or predicting a number or a date but I will tell you that the revenue growth to date has been astounding. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! You don’t “Bing” information or “Hulu and chill.” Forget the valuation?—?I There is nothing viral! Not really. Brand matters.

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JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

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 Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments.

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JULY 20, 2015

Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. It would allow anyone to connect into information and add annotations anywhere. It was too head of its time.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. It would allow anyone to connect into information and add annotations anywhere. It was too head of its time.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. What is Sidebar all about? By using our analytics platform, they learn about what consumers want.

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JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. How did the company come about?

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OCTOBER 1, 2008

invested in Q3 of 2007, and down slightly from venture numbers in Q2, when there was approximately $966M in venture deals. The totals reported may differ from other venture capital surveys, due to sources of information, timing of funding events, and classification of data.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 7, 2012

A little bit about the author Chris Camillo…When the stock market was at it’s worst and our economy was failing us from 2007-2010 his private self-managed portfolio outperformed the big fancy dogs of Wall Street. Using Facebook to learn from his personal network. To entertain us and/or inform. How was this possible?

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

We're applying that same platform and are now using it for information, commerce, and advertising in vehicles. We had a new tablet we had developed back in 2007, and we were asked to come up with concepts to drive cellular usage. How did you end up working in the whole area of automotive AI? That makes it very hard.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2009

That touch panel communicates with the Internet, and wirelessly collects real-time information on the energy consumption details. We can also provide additional services, above and beyond information about energy consumption. Gus Ezcurra: We started the company about two years ago, in August of 2007.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

The firm recently relocated its headquarters from Hawaii, and we talked with Rob about why someone might need the service, how it's different from the scores of social networking sites on the web, and what problem it's trying to solve. In late 2007, we had a group of guys were creating concepts about social identity. networking.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

Our interview this morning is with Babette Pepaj , CEO and founder of BakeSpace (www.bakespace.com), a local Los Angeles startup focused on social networking around food. Babette Pepaj: BakeSpace is a food social network and recipe swap. So very much a social network involved? What is BakeSpace? I scratched my own itch.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Do you believe non-native Internet users (ages 35 and up) will migrate toward such a tradeoff, or do you think the unwillingness of older users to share private information is relatively intractable? “I Jeff and Brian are informal and very generous with ideas, input and feedback when they have time. AddVisors can be formal or informal.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

I know lots of people think they don't have time for that, but there are those moments when you're in a coffee shop with twenty minutes of free time, or when you're plane delayed, or even if you're at a networking event or conference, and you are curious who is around you. And who knows, they might be a really good fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!,

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. You can slice and dice information and pivot on almost anything, if that data is well-linked.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. What you enter goes out to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and internally to our own social network.

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MAY 19, 2010

An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Founded in 2007. Huddle allows users to maintain an interconnected network of secure online workspaces for file sharing, ideation, project management and virtual meetings. Time will tell.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I realize that I am privileged to have the time and professional network to provide meaningful favors. For instance, if a Donor makes a potential partnership introduction on your behalf, you should inform the Donor when the deal is either consummated or abandoned. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Meredith Publishing.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Share No Sensitive Information – You will gain tremendous industry insights by listening and learning from your members. If you share sensitive information learned from an alliance member, you risk losing your position as a trusted arms dealer, which could jeopardize the very existence of your alliance. Copyright © 2007-10 by J.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections. PIM offers comprehensive coverage in 500+ cities in the US, Canada, and Europe by providing rates, hours, entrance points, and occupancy information. RSVP: Parking Information. 9:00 – 10:30pm – cocktail reception and networking.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

This might sound a bit off, but I actually thought the movie “The Social Network,” did a phenomenal job at depicting the essence a startup. Money was less an issue then having both consumer expertise and a network of portfolio companies we could learn from. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

This detailed information will help your Referencer identify specific anecdotes and accomplishments relevant to the prospective position you are seeking. Such reciprocal references are worthless, especially when they are published on a social networking platform. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Meredith Publishing.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 1, 2008

“California is the birthplace of the information technology revolution and the home of the companies that are creating the future course of our information rich society. Taki was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on December 6, 2007. Click to register ) Ms.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

Jose daVeiga: In a nugget, we started Klicksports to empower sports fans with the ability to interact with sports they like, and with each other, in an interactive way which also provides them with information, on the fly. In 2007, we did five bowl team venues the same way. We actually have a four pronged strategy.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

Funk initiated the study last fall to create an historical statistical analysis of the financial outcomes for the region's venture-backed information technology companies. The region has produced 95 exits over $100 million (13%), 50 over $250 million (7%) and 23 over $500 million (3%) during the period analyzed. IPO in 1996).

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