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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The European Commission today announced that it has decided to close formal antitrust proceedings against San Diego-based Qualcomm , saying in a statement that "it does not consider it appropriate" to invest further resources into the case. The EC had been spurred by Broadcom, Ericcson, NEC Corp., Nokia Corp.,

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MARCH 24, 2010

San Diego-based Verimatrix , a developer of digital rights management (DRM) software for the set top box market, reported Tuesday that it has settled a patent dispute with competitor Widevine Technologies. The patent lawsuit was filed in August of 2007. Patent Nos. 7,165,175 and 7,376,831. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

San Diego-based Covario , a provider of paid search and search engine optimization software, reported this week that its analysis has found that major U.S. Covario attributed some of the gain in paid search spending to "back to school" campaigns in the consumer market. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. The company’s workforce has grown to about 270, including 80 in San Diego.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

San Diego-based Organovo (NASDAQ: ONVO ) said today it plans to use its 3D bio-printing technology to produce living human liver tissue “patches” that can be transplanted in patients with fatal liver disease. These initial areas encompass a $3 billion market opportunity, the company said. liver transplant waiting list.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

A new report released today by Next 10 , a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy group, says that Southern California--and California, as a whole--leads the green innovation, cleantech venture capital, and energy market. The report was compiled by research firm Colaborative Economics.

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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 is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. Howard Lindzon: StockTwits is a verticalized community for people to share stock ideas and market ideas, 24/7.

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MARCH 30, 2011

The firm's investor was San Diego-based TVC Capital , which invested only $4M in total in Accordent before it was acquired. The market was probably $100 million or less when we first looked at Accordent. We believed that in the pure venture market, it's hard to compete.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. When you’re researching a market you can spend a year putting your hypotheses on paper but you somehow never really have a handle on the minute details of the industry until you’ve lived in it.

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JUNE 8, 2011

However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. One of our clients, a San Diego newspaper, asked us to build a daily deal platform for them.

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APRIL 3, 2012

For San Diego-based Mob Science (www.mobscience.com), an injection of cash, some key advisors--and a deal with Zynga. Having developed games for the social game market, what do you think makes a game successful or popular in this market? What does it take to take a social gaming firm to the next level?

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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. We cater to a more specific market, and get deals specifically for those verticals.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

Locally, San Diego led the region with $182.5M Orange County also managed to pull out a year-to-year increase in venture deals, unlike most markets in the nation, with investments up over last year's $89.48M invested. Among the hot spots in Southern California's venture market was clean technology and energy deals.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. William is in San Diego, and is a longtime gaming vet, having been at Activision in the days of The Manhole and Myst. It's hard to establish a niche.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

One of the largest areas of Southern California's technology base is in the wireless and communications market. To get an idea of what one startup in the industry is doing, we spoke to San Diego-based AirHop (www.airhopcomm-web.com), a developer of software being used for small-, pico-, and femto-cell networks.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. The have to also go to market with a turnkey solution, which is cost effective.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For privately held biotechs, IPOs are the most common road to the public markets, but they’re not the only way. But they’re also much quicker and less costly to execute than IPOs, and are an alternative to traditional public offerings during a year in which the IPO market has been much more discerning of biotechs than in the recent past.

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JUNE 27, 2016

apiece, in post-market trading on Monday. Regulus was formed in September 2007 as a joint venture between Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALNY ) and Carlsbad, CA-based Ionis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IONS ). Shares plummeted almost 60 percent, to $2.15 in November 2014.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Last month, San Diego-based Advanced Telemetry (www.advancedtelemetry.com) announced that the company had scored a Series B round of funding from clean technology investor Quercus Trust and 21Ventures, for the firm's energy monitoring solutions. Gus Ezcurra: We started the company about two years ago, in August of 2007.

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MARCH 8, 2011

That nightmare happened to Jim Carol , a serial entrepreneur who was co-founder and CEO of San Diego's PacketVideo , when his son was diagnosed with cancer. Jim Carol: I first started working on the concept in 2007, and we filed for our IRS determination letter in 2008. How long has the organization been around?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. Derrick Oien: The primary market is the operator. It all depends on the carrier and their target market. So we sell into the carriers.

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MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

a few days before the wheels came off of the market). We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. But the stock market continued to tank and one of our investors who had committed $12 million pulled out. Our first big institutional round was $16.5 My family went without me.

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